picklepete
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Python developer
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Comment · 8 months ago
This is so cool! I used to love playing around with RunUO back ~2003, it's great to see the community stay alive.
Comment · 7 years ago
I hope you’re joking.
Comment · 12 years ago
From their T&Cs (
http://huvrtech.com/legal.html):
"The inclusion of any products or services on this website at a particular time does not imply or warrant that these products or services will be available at any time."
Just in case anyone thinks this is a real product.
Comment · 13 years ago
See the title of this post, the $225 million they raised.
Comment · 14 years ago
Parsing HTML with a RegEx pattern is considered very bad practice, there are other more robust ways of scraping. For example, in Python, BeautifulSoup.
You do have a fair point though, this functionality does exist in most major programming languages.
Comment · 14 years ago
"an insider with a good track record of leaking unannounced information regarding Microsoft’s plans"
It sounds like he/she has successfully leaked information before.
Comment · 14 years ago
It's powered by John Polacek's Scrollorama (http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrollorama) jQuery plugin.
Comment · 15 years ago
Not quite - "is now in the default search engine list". It's still an incredible achievement. :-)
Comment · 15 years ago
It now throws a real "global name 'abc' is not defined" exception. This is getting pretty meta!
Comment · 15 years ago
Damn. I thought this was an easter egg:
http://gigglebang.com/?q=exception
(In case it's fixed, it'll actually throw an exception)