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picklepete

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About picklepete

Python developer

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47275790

    This is so cool! I used to love playing around with RunUO back ~2003, it's great to see the community stay alive.

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    Comment #20172869

    I hope you’re joking.

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    Comment #7341828

    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…

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    Comment #6604418

    See the title of this post, the $225 million they raised.

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    Comment #4008786

    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 tho…

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    Comment #3740295

    "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.

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    Comment #3735555

    It's powered by John Polacek's Scrollorama ( http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrollorama ) jQuery plugin.

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    Comment #3133851

    Not quite - "is now in the default search engine list". It's still an incredible achievement. :-)

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    Comment #3074723

    It now throws a real "global name 'abc' is not defined" exception. This is getting pretty meta!

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    Comment #3071641

    Damn. I thought this was an easter egg: http://gigglebang.com/?q=exception (In case it's fixed, it'll actually throw an exception)