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bvdbijl··on Show HN: Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and honest by sharing yours
I'm getting a MySQL connection PHP exception, which includes most of the database password... You probably want to change it
bvdbijl··on Hacking a $9 Remote Control Car with Arduino
That sounds super cool, I'd love a write up
bvdbijl··on Russian Proton Rocket crashes Seconds after Launch
Yeah I thought that was just disrespectful. Thousands of hours were put into those satellites by scientists and the only thing they can say is that there's a neat explosion...
bvdbijl··on Game On Ladies - A man logs in as his wife's character in a videogame
The difference is that it's not required and you can play the game still. Also, most of the vile people on XBL are just little kids whose parents pay for their subscription
bvdbijl··on HTML5 Genetic Cars
No, because it combines cars to generate new ones. Better performing cars have a larger chance to become a 'parent'. You should check out the source, it's suprisingly readable
bvdbijl··on Apple Updates The Mac Pro
I agree and you'll have to pry my self-built pc from my cold dead hands but my computer is super huge and hard to take with me, the design of the new Mac Pro is super neat
bvdbijl··on Apple Updates The Mac Pro
Please show me a device that's comparable to the new Mac Pro... So much performance in this small of a form factor is pretty innovative
bvdbijl··on Nintendo grabs money, control from fans promoting its games on Youtube
I wouldn't really call that a great analogy, a better analogy would be if you record a video of you showing the insides of the car and going on a trip where you describe how the car drives. But still, dumb dumb move by Nintendo
bvdbijl··on Show HN: Whit - Access any kind of data through SMS
Please note that the keys will not be truly deleted, because they are still in the GIT history
bvdbijl··on CSRF Tool
Maybe you should do something other than alert() the CSRF exploit, I can't copy it under Windows
bvdbijl··on Reddit’s Pitch deck to Advertisers
I don't think you could actually change the layout, you would have to be moderator of that subreddit to do it
bvdbijl··on Pebble Raises $15 Million as Wave of Smart Watches Arrives
They are however the first the ship, and that's what counts
bvdbijl··on How mitmproxy works
Mitm=man in the middle
bvdbijl··on Gmail: Introducing Actions in the Inbox
Yeah. There are so many positive possibilities yet a large group of people still choose to focus on the negative side. I hope this can change one day
bvdbijl··on The Reliability of Go
Yes, unless your code is very I/O bound using threads won't speed up your Python application
bvdbijl··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)
Do you have a link to that interview?
bvdbijl··on Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy
one explanation might be that the posts were deleted because piracy isn't tolerated on those forums
bvdbijl··on Ruby is too slow for programming competitions
Different ways for different people, I'm just talking about my own experience
bvdbijl··on Ruby is too slow for programming competitions
Well it's just that to support another language they need to make solutions for every problem in that language to test that it's actually possible and they don't want to do that.

and on that page it says:

    Each submitted source program must be written in C, C++ or Pascal, it must be smaller than 100 KB, the evaluation server must be able to compile it in less than 10 seconds and at most 256 MB of memory. No other extensions different than the ones listed above will be run.
They put Python and Ruby on the machines so you can write a script to generate testcases, you can't submit programs written in those languages
bvdbijl··on Ruby is too slow for programming competitions
It's why IOI (http://www.ioi2012.org/competition/rules/) doesn't allow interpreted languages, because they are (or at least when the competition was first held were) just too slow.

If you have only 1-5 seconds of computations time you're going to choose for a compiled language every time

bvdbijl··on Ruby is too slow for programming competitions
Yeah sure.

It's just that for performance reasons some languages really are better than others.

bvdbijl··on Ruby is too slow for programming competitions
Yep, in a competition you want a language that had as little magic as possible. Languages like Ruby (not necessarily dynamic languages!) are just not really suitable for it
bvdbijl··on Ruby is too slow for programming competitions
In my experience the speed decrease isn't worth it during competitions.

I heard some talk about allowing Python at the International Olympiad in Informatics http://www.ioinformatics.org/index.shtml (in addition to Pascal and C(++)) but that's probably far off

bvdbijl··on Ruby is too slow for programming competitions
nope, iterating up to the square root of finish covers that
bvdbijl··on Free Raspberry Pi co-location in Sweden
publicity probably
bvdbijl··on How We Bootstrapped a $20K Website into a $4M/year Business
The images on your website seem to be broken

I get this:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <Error><Code>PermanentRedirect</Code><Message>The bucket you are attempting to access must be addressed using the specified endpoint. Please send all future requests to this endpoint.</Message><RequestId>FE87E335979D5055</RequestId><Bucket>img1.massagejoyspa.com</Bucket><HostId>ujDOp9FCaaUyMPoEnqXzd3OwIZK05x8CPa8vJOGKMmjdCbtk76pNeSfI0/Xw8Y3d</HostId><Endpoint>img1.massagejoyspa.com.s3.amazonaws.com</Endpoint></Error>
bvdbijl··on Security incident update
Youtube pre-Google was PHP
bvdbijl··on Git koans
Hg having kinks is not an excuse for git to have kinks too
bvdbijl··on Wikileaks release "PlusD": Database of 1.7 million diplomatic cables
There's a nice British comedy sketch about naming everything -gate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB9JgxhXW5w
bvdbijl··on GoPy – Extend CPython by writing Go
Because Go is way more pleasant to write and is still very performant
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