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It saves a lot of developer time, you would just have to write the docs in markdown, not have to worry about the layout, hosting or building another app just to manage your docs. IMO it provides a lot of value for money. You could always just use the free plan and then upgrade later. With markdown files, you wouldn't really get locked into the platform.

I can relate.

Around the age of 10 my family moved to UK. Few weeks after being enrolled in the primary school, the teachers were extremely impressed by my mathematical/studying ability and asked me to take a Mensa test, my parents agreed and I somehow managed to get in. That was year (grade) 6. After that I managed to a secondary grammar school solely on mental ability. I hated memorizing content, in fact, to this day I still don't remember studying at all after moving to the UK.

The secondary school was boring, I strolled through the first 5 years by simply turning up to the lessons, I didn't have to do any work at home. In my spare time I concentrated on programming and building things. I almost feel fortunate that I had so much time to be creative because I got to build websites reaching 40M pageviews per year, I got the chance to play national level basketball and everything else in between.

But that all changed when I started my a-levels. I picked random subjects like psychology, economics and computing along with mathematics with no thought and oh boy was that a mistake. For the first time ever I got a D on a maths test, it was horrible, I though I could just manage my a grades by simply turning up to the lesson. What was I doing wrong? "I've always been good at maths!!"

I was too late to realise that I couldn't just "turn up to the lesson" and get the grades I wanted. I ended up messing up my entire year and decided to take it again. Not having studied properly over the last 6 years probably also brought my studying skills and time management down. It's kinda funny, last year I was e-mailing the google security team about vulnerabilities but somehow failing an a-level computing test! Maybe it had something to do with the boring content?

This year I dropped psychology and picked up Physics instead and I've been doing pretty well, getting A and B grades in all my subjects. I also realised I prefer STEM subjects since there is less memorization involved and it's more about understanding the content. In hindsight, I could I have saved some time if I had just tried.

Interesting read, but I'm kinda confused. Some questions:

- Why does the application have to be web based? Why don't you build a desktop application where the user has to use their own API key? This will also help bypass the IP limit.

- Aren't you already breaking their terms? [1]

"Using [third party applications to “Get More Followers Fast!”] is not allowed according to the Twitter Rules."

- How many favorites can an account do every day? Is it unlimited?

[1] https://support.twitter.com/articles/68916-following-rules-a...

Some basic analysis of the binary:

Creates the following directories:

    %UserProfile%\537214
    %UserProfile%\684544
    %AppData%\dclogs

Creates a new registry value (so that it runs every time on startup)

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
    537214 = "%UserProfile%\537214\svhost.exe"

Tries to connect to:

    tamere123.no-ip.org on ports 80 and 1604

The subdomain above leads to the following IP:

    198.203.29.120

Which, according to iplocation.net is located in:

    Los Angeles
    California
    ISP: Hugeserver Networks Llc

It's very unusual for malware to be hosted in USA so I would assume that either it is a compromised computer/bot or it is some script kiddie using his home connection, the latter is more likely since there were no exploits used just social engineering and luck.

File hashes:

    MD5: 0x81F8E4C33ADECE6BF89EF171D9930282
    SHA-1: 0xF540BA6C5F1C2AA50B81A440E7D74F8CF588B4D7

This is how I use HN: http://i.imgur.com/IRzF5LQ.png

Browser: Chromium, Extension: "HipsterNews" -> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hipsternews/midncc...

It's a copy of news.layervault.com, which copied news.yc in the first place. I'm sure there is some sort of joke in there somewhere.