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For anyone who comes here without clicking the link, it's linking to a comment of the intern that actually wrote it. He provides some neat context as well. Worth the read if you don't mind being on Reddit at work.

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Or if you want to hide the fact that you are on reddit at work, here is the link displayed as "code".

http://codereddit.com/?topic=3zfadv

Blocked by the firewall as a Games website :) But hopefully it helps someone else!

Find out what type of firewall you're using. Find the vendor's website on how to request a url/domain re-categorization, and submit a change request. Most firewalls subscribe to a live database hosted by the vendor, and its request forms are public most of the time.

It has 'reddit' in the url. It won't be re-categorized.

Here's a (giant) png screenshot of the whole reddit thread: http://mirror.xwl.me/solitaire_history.png

Screenshot captured with phantomjs/rasterize.js and shrunk with pngquant.

huh. 2.4 Mb for 1920x31028px color png? Nice.

Doing God's work.

You can just add a .json at the end of any url on Reddit to get a JSON object of the page.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3zfadv/til_t...

Maybe this will help?

Which also reminds me that Wes itself mentioned a "boss key" that was removed before the game was released. Hopefully things are better nowadays.

Or you can just browse the web in lynx or w3 mode in emacs.

Oh god, why would anyone code with a white background? The contrast hurts my eyes.

I used to, for years! Visual Studio and Borland's C++ Builder always had white backgrounds.

I found the dark screens fashionable in Linuxland and themes very hard to look at for a long time. Weirdly, now I code with Monokai theme in OSX and it is very enjoyable.

Perhaps the white background was easier when you weren't typing on two 24" screens and only had a 12" screen to peep into.

Bright backgrounds behind the screen require bright content on the screen to be easy on the eyes. A typical office needs a light theme, a shaded bedroom needs a dark theme.

I feel the same about coding on dark backgrounds. Code is text and I find it much easier to read on a white background.

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