Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming

Re:Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming by rgrmrts on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:37AM (#28087750)

Interesting reading about RuneScape in your post. I got into programming because of RuneScape and writing bots! Great memories.

I enjoyed reading this post. Cheers!

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Re:Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming by AQuantized on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:18AM (#28088321)

Writing increasingly sophisticated bots and trying to figure out what exactly would earn you a ban was my own first practical experience with coding.

I mostly managed to dodge bans on my most used accounts at the time, but interestingly when I checked back a year or two ago the majority had been permanently suspended. I wonder if they have some method of retroactively determining if someone was botting?

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Re:Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming by rckrd on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:45AM (#28087854)

Thanks! Likewise. Truly a great sandbox for budding programmers.

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Re:Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming by mastersummoner on Friday August 06, 2021 @12:43PM (#28089652)

I got into programming at 14 because of writing scripts in Gemstone, a text based MMOMUD. Didn't even realize what I was doing was programming until college though...

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Re:Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming by calrizien on Friday August 06, 2021 @03:02PM (#28091498)

Gemstone! That game changed everything for me

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