Merlyn Morgan-Graham

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bio	website	thehappypath.net
	location	Seattle, WA
	age	32
visits	member for	3 years, 1 month
	seen	May 22 at 21:38
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C# • Graphics • Games
Web Development • Automation (of everything)

256^th Generalist badge. It really should be gold :)

I love AI, psychology, spirituality, philosophy, mathematics, food, art, brain teasers, board games, and telling people they're doing it wrong.

I love music - Bjork, Patrick Wolf, Radiohead, The Knife, The Decemberists, Squarepusher, Dalek, The Smashing Pumpkins, Lemon Demon, MF Doom, Blonde Redhead, David Bowie, Stone Temple Pilots, Battles - I love music. Grooveshark is my friend :)

I am a Strange Loop.
Wound like there's no tomorrow.
I forget there is.

I have written a whole bunch of automation for all sorts of programming tasks (CI, deployment infrastructure, code generation, test case generation, test lab/deployment automation infrastructure, and a whole boat load of automated E2E, integration, and unit tests).

I've programmed mostly in C# for the last 7 years, though occasionally in a myriad of other tongues (C++, C, JavaScript, VB.Net, Java, batch scripts, Lua, Lisp, various DSLs and Python).

I've done a bunch of web programming lately, though I also like API design, and I like programming desktop applications and Windows daemons even better. As boring as desktop apps and services may sound, they're easy to write, and have a nice robust feel to them, much like crunchy peanut butter.

I dig Open Source Software.

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Jul 4	comment	Computer randomly goes into hibernation and won't come out Maybe your lid switch or power button is broken. Try turning off the options that make Windows hibernate when the lid switch/power button is triggered.
Jul 4	accepted	gVim - Omni completion preview window doesn't go away?
Jul 4	comment	gVim - Omni completion preview window doesn't go away? +1; This is great :) Out of curiosity, is there any other autocmd I could bind it to that would get it to close even sooner (yet not kill perf)? If not, this is plenty good enough.
Jul 4	asked	gVim - Omni completion preview window doesn't go away?
Jul 2	awarded	Scholar
Jul 2	accepted	gVim - What is ctags, and how do I use it?
Jul 2	answered	gVim - What is ctags, and how do I use it?
Jul 2	comment	gVim - What is ctags, and how do I use it? errr I mean "source file" not "gVim source file" :) Yes, I'm trying to use it as an IDE...
Jul 2	revised	gVim - What is ctags, and how do I use it? added 28 characters in body
Jul 2	comment	gVim - What is ctags, and how do I use it? Helpful answer, but the question I'm having the most trouble with is the last one: "how do I install it?" :) The Windows archive includes a bunch of source, makefiles, and a couple executables, and help documents. But the help documents seem linux focused, and don't offer much help with gVim on Windows. Do I have to run ctags manually on each gVim source file?
Jul 2	answered	Pc boots after turning on power supply
Jul 2	comment	How can I get a virus by just visiting a website? @M. Night Shyamalan: Just a random comment, or did that have to do with my post? :) If so, which part.
Jul 2	asked	gVim - What is ctags, and how do I use it?
Jun 29	awarded	Yearling
Jun 28	comment	How can I get a virus by just visiting a website? You haven't answered "Do these viruses attack Windows, Mac and Linux users, or are Mac/Linux users immune?" or fully "I understand that I obviously can get a virus by downloading and executing a .exe in Windows but how can I get a virus just by accessing a website?". You said "a bug", but haven't explained anything about what types of bugs, why they exist, how they result in code execution, EoP, etc. You also haven't explained anything about attack surface, or how to reduce it (you've vaguely glossed over layers of security, sandboxes etc, but that doesn't really address attack surface).
Jun 28	comment	“Access denied” to C:\Documents and Settings after removing malware? @KCotreau: We all make mistakes, sorry to be assertive. You'll admit it was bad advice ;)
Jun 28	answered	“Access denied” to C:\Documents and Settings after removing malware?
Jun 28	revised	How can I get a virus by just visiting a website? added 197 characters in body
Jun 28	comment	How can I get a virus by just visiting a website? @Breakthrough: Oh, yes that is a good point. I'll fix that, although again, it depends on what sort of exploit it is. If it is a buffer overflow, then the payload code would be processor dependent to have a useful effect.
Jun 27	revised	How can I get a virus by just visiting a website? added 309 characters in body