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Small world! That's awesome that Aardwolf was part of what helped you get into programming. I hear you on areas, I'm far better at the core game engine than I am coming up with goo…

This article really hit home for me. On Aardwolf MUD we replaced "mobprog" scripting with Lua based progs back in 2007/2008 and it has been the single best change we ever made in 2…

On Aardwolf (a MUD), Lua is our main scripting language and it is amazing what people who come into the game not knowing how to program have been able to create with it, way beyond…

I'm a paying member of Medium although, due to time constraints, I only really read the articles in the Weekly Digest emails at the weekend. I have noticed a lot of these articles …

Anyone who has ever tried to cancel Sirius-XM knows how desperately we need this law.

Reminds me of a situation I encountered with Salesforce code many years ago. Salesforce had a requirement that their test platform had to cover some percentage of the lines of code…

Mods on WSB are catching a lot of flack for closing a thread asking for alternative brokers (no idea why) and for commenting in another sticky not to go and write bad reviews for t…

Everything written in this article would have made perfect sense 5 years ago too, now look at the stock charts over the last 5 years. I don't disagree with it, possibly even want i…

I bought Quickbooks from Amazon a couple of years ago and what actually showed up was a very clearly burned DVD with "Quickbooks" hand-written on it. Best case was I'd received a p…

As someone who does have dual citizenship (UK and USA) and has been a BOA customer for over 20 years, my big question is what happens if you say "yes"? I didn't see this mentioned …

Feels like a fairly immature response to me. Not a Microsoft fan by a long shot but they have really embraced open source these last few years. Give it a chance, see what they do, …

Zune HD really was a good player. I switched to it after 3 Ipod Nanos in a row had trouble holding a charge about five minutes after the warranty period expired. Cheaper price, lon…

There are many devs making plenty maintaining old legacy systems in languages long since considered dead on sites like Stack Overflow. The biggest missing qualifier on that survey …

As someone who has been shopping on Amazon since the late 1990s I have recently stopped buying anything branded on there anyway, or at least anything branded where I care about rec…

I passed this on to a friend of mine who has been doing virtual currency in online games since the mid 1990s (MUDs) and has been called as an expert witness in the past to defeat s…

How can it be the biggest bubble in human history when it peaked around 200bn and had nowhere near that much actual cash pumped into it? Minuscule compared to the dotcom and housin…

Are these private apps based on Ethereum or public facing apps? I'm curious at this early stage of the ecosystem what an "Ethereum Developer" does in terms of active projects.

"Why buy something when you can buy more somethings tomorrow": In anything technology related, this has already been true for a couple of decades now. I can buy a phone, TV, comput…

I had to look up "venery" :)

This is fantastic, thanks for posting it. I'd forgotten about the Rendezvous Houston concert. The studio version of Rendezvous was also my first ever CD.

I totally get your point, my concern is someone deciding that Quickbooks Pro (or whatever product) is not a good product because I was shipped something that doesn't even resemble …

Right, I make a point of avoiding 'FBA' sellers on Amazon, this one was listed 'Sold by Intuit' but what I received was (I hope) a co-mingled inventory item that was counterfeit an…

You get to review the product but when the sourcing is all thrown together all you're really doing is dragging down the rating for the overall product (Quickbooks 2017 in this case…

I purchased Quickbooks Pro 2017 (PC) on Amazon last week, said it was "sold by Intuit" so wasn't even supposed to be an FBA (fulfilled by Amazon). Figured if it costs no more I mig…

Aren't radioactive wild boars (or rats) the first enemy you encounter on pretty much every post apocalyptic video game ever? Funny how things turn out...