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picklepete

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picklepete··on Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting
This is so cool! I used to love playing around with RunUO back ~2003, it's great to see the community stay alive.
picklepete··on The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unreported F-35 problems
I hope you’re joking.
picklepete··on HUVr Board
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.

picklepete··on Pinterest Raises $225 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation
See the title of this post, the $225 million they raised.
picklepete··on Show HN: Simple Web service for fetching HTML page title
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.

picklepete··on ARM-based Xbox ‘lite’ coming in 2013, Xbox 360 successor later, insider claims
"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.

picklepete··on Inception Explained: a really cool scrolling animation of the plot
It's powered by John Polacek's Scrollorama (http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrollorama) jQuery plugin.
picklepete··on DuckDuckGo included in Opera
Not quite - "is now in the default search engine list". It's still an incredible achievement. :-)
picklepete··on A search engine for developers
It now throws a real "global name 'abc' is not defined" exception. This is getting pretty meta!
picklepete··on A search engine for developers
Damn. I thought this was an easter egg: http://gigglebang.com/?q=exception

(In case it's fixed, it'll actually throw an exception)