Lasher

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by Lasher 1y ago
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 good ideas and story lines for areas and quests. I do
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by Lasher 1y ago
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 25+ years of our game. The experiences that ar
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by Lasher 2y ago
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 anything we envisioned. It is lightweight when not in use a
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by Lasher 2y ago
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 that just make no sense at all starting to appear in my
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by Lasher 2y ago
Anyone who has ever tried to cancel Sirius-XM knows how desperately we need this law.
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by Lasher 3y ago
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 in the Sandbox before you could deploy something to product
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by Lasher 6y ago
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 the brokers limiting trades. I fear they are about to get a h
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by Lasher 6y ago
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 it to be right, but I sure would have hated to hold a sh
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by Lasher 8y ago
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 pirated version of the software. Worst case is
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by Lasher 8y ago
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 or discussed yet in the comments so far.
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by Lasher 8y ago
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, there will be plenty of time to get out if we don't lik
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by Lasher 8y ago
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, longer battery life, better (imo) interface, just poor marketin
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by Lasher 9y ago
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 is the obvious "developers who are likely to answer a s
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by Lasher 9y ago
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 receiving real OEM products. Still a fan overall but one too ma
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by Lasher 9y ago
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 some of these "virtual currency" patents.
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by Lasher 9y ago
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 housing bubbles. A bubble, sure, but biggest ever doesn't mak
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by Lasher 9y ago
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.
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by Lasher 9y ago
"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, computer, tablet etc today, or I can wait a year and get
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by Lasher 9y ago
I had to look up "venery" :)
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by Lasher 9y ago
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.
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by Lasher 9y ago
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 the product. No love lost for Intuit here for other rea
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by Lasher 9y ago
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 and, in the case of software, possibly dow
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by Lasher 9y ago
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) and not the source of the specific item you were ship
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by Lasher 9y ago
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 might as well get the physical disk. What showed
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by Lasher 10y ago
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...
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by Lasher 10y ago
The Roger Water's album titled 'Amused to Death' is also a perfect predication of where we've ended up, particularly the title track on the album.
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by Lasher 10y ago
Oh that would be awesome, maintain a list of previous spammer emails then generate the responses from a random one of those.
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by Lasher 10y ago
Is this article for real? I start a website and it becomes insanely popular then someone suggests it is wrong that I "wasn't elected" to be the leader of it. Only in Europe... Facebook has its issues and is ready to be replac
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by Lasher 10y ago
Meanwhile, someone has already registered BoatyMcBoatface.com
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by Lasher 11y ago
It's been over 6 years now since my father passed away and still, every year, Facebook sends me a notification that it's his birthday. How many years without someone logging in before Facebook stops considering them a "user&q

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