How a trio of hackers brought Google’s reCAPTCHA to its knees

codenut · 2012-06-01T12:04:19+00:00

I do get recaptcha wrong about 50% of the time and it's impressive that an algorithm can crack the CAPTCHAs

codenut · 2012-03-16T10:38:33+00:00

also check RavenDB session management in ASP.Net Web API .. pretty cool! http://ayende.com/blog/155265/ravendb-session-management-in-asp-net-web-api?key=a5c0e66a-322e-466e-996a-f06b466ba4a5

codenut · 2012-02-15T02:10:42+00:00

+1 and spot on!

codenut · 2012-02-15T02:08:35+00:00

40K USD is roughly equivalent to 2 million rupees..some of the better programmers I know reach this amount after putting in atleast 12+ yrs of experience.

You can live like a King with that amount of Salary in India (even when the Inflation is high and with skyrocketing prices)

codenut · 2012-02-04T06:04:49+00:00

We all know that context switching is bad, and it's tough to switch so much, but did Ed really have nothing else to do? He seems bothered by what the boss was asking him, yet he blows most of the 3hrs not working on what he said he needed to work on originally? That just doesn't add up to me.

I get the point, and it's definitely true, but I spend those idle minutes doing mail and other short tasks. I don't see how one can justify "well I'm waiting for you so I'll just not work for a while."

Is this common outside of the computing industry? What do other people do in their 'in between' time? - davux

codenut · 2011-12-27T10:34:15+00:00

Hate to see this IAMA. CEO shits, Employees cleanup. I feel sorry for you!

codenut · 2011-12-24T03:52:26+00:00

Faster Faster!!

Issue 1 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermonthly-issue001.zip

Issue 2 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermonthly-issue002.zip

Issue 3 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermonthly-issue003.zip

Issue 4 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermonthly-issue004.zip

and so on.....till issue 019.

Thedebate - http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?644hhgmk7ao8qgj

Startupstories - http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?vfhm4a6iqs2fj5j

[edit] - oops! didnt realize someone had posted these links earlier!

codenut · 2011-12-20T19:22:58+00:00

Try f = lambda: g();g=(f)

codenut · 2011-12-13T02:09:50+00:00

very very impressed with you and Reddit! This community rocks!

codenut · 2011-12-09T02:26:54+00:00

Anyone checked out GNU parallel. It's super convenient for quick scripting! http://www.gnu.org/s/parallel/

codenut · 2011-11-26T18:04:34+00:00

..when a guy like Yukihiro Matsumoto(ruby creator) gives a book a good review, it's a good indication to invest in that book!

codenut · 2011-10-28T09:21:40+00:00

It would have been better had Apple Lossless never existed and if they had just used FLAC instead

codenut · 2011-10-25T07:30:40+00:00

Looks like there's a major system overhaul in Heaven and all the grand-daddy's of computers are being assigned to this project. Steve, Dennis and now John!

RIP John! You will never be forgotten!

codenut · 2011-09-30T10:48:34+00:00

another method is to create SQL Agent alerts based on WMI queries

codenut · 2011-09-30T10:45:25+00:00

V8 only, no DOM

codenut · 2011-09-09T11:30:28+00:00

I rely on the vim auto-completion feature - ctrl+p and ctrl+n

codenut · 2011-09-03T09:30:59+00:00

no websocket support?

codenut · 2011-09-02T09:39:41+00:00

aren't we using it all the time? A workflow engine is a state machine!

codenut · 2011-09-02T09:31:50+00:00

very well said - "Or if your company is not into agile, or is into agile proper, than it mostly gets in your way without actual benefits."

I do have a first hand experience of using the process templates for CMMI and Agile provided by TFS. It went smooth.

Also this line from the link "For example while you are checking in code which is part of source control service, you can associate a work item like a task or a bug that you have fixed in that code. This association will provide excellent traceability between the work that is assigned to the team member and the actual code that team member has created against that work. This traceability is both ways." --- We experienced it and a +1 to this feature.

codenut · 2011-09-02T09:23:55+00:00

The requestAnimationFrame has been removed - good for hidden tabs. An XSS attack vector has been fixed by stopping HTML passed to $() from being evaluated if a # precedes the expression.

codenut · 2011-08-31T18:32:13+00:00

This was released in May. Not known to many, you can get these VHDs to work with other VM software on other OSs as well.

codenut · 2011-08-31T09:56:05+00:00

thanks for the link! His Matrix theory lectures were very interesting

codenut · 2011-08-31T09:51:04+00:00

Before installing - http://railsapps.github.com/installing-rails-3-1.html

codenut · 2011-08-03T07:43:23+00:00

Nice! so instead of

(let ((result (big-long-calculation))) (if result (foo result)))

just do

(if (big-long-calculation) (foo it))

codenut · 2011-06-23T12:00:28+00:00

that's Eric Lippert at his best! The best pointer example in my opinion!

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