Just Javascript & recent Firefox/Chrome.

the cards power up the pawns in this game so advancing two squares to speed up the game is unnecessary (it gets hectic pretty quickly)

be evil

Come on, who bumped this shit? Or was it several of you, in collusion?

Some say the downvoters all died under mysterious circumstances.

too similar to python

Not enough if you ask me. As other commenter said, too many JS-WTFs remain.

Not at all. I love Python and I don't like CoffeeScript. I think CS superficially looks like Python, but conceptually is more like Ruby/Perl.

1. By reading the source code of tape programs and magazine source listings. The BBC Micro boots to a command prompt and has Basic in ROM, so that was fairly helpful... and from then on for other languages, self-taught by viewing source code. 2. As soon as i could! (aged about 7) 3. My second job, after 3 months of hell in telesales.

no such thing as a free email account

"Free Is The Most Expensive Price" or another popular expression on these days: "If You're Not Paying for It, You're the Product"

Popular but wrong

Wrong as not ethic or wrong like false?

Wrong like false, you are not the product, the product is ad space

I feel like you have something more you want to say that makes you point more clear. I think this audience would say ad space is not far removed from the eyeballs that make the ad space valuable.

So he was wrong then? NS6/firefox seems to be doing alright today... Rewriting your OWN codebase from scratch certainly makes it get better with each iteration - as long as "from scratch" implies constantly referring to the old code.

In 2000 Netscape had 19.25% market share, it took 8 years to get back to that position with Firefox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#The...

that explains my issues with <10ms setTimeouts, thanks!