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aabbccsmith
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Comment #48029614
The framing of this is far nicer/warmer/positive compared to OP's position of being "above" money. With that said, nonograph does look cool.
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Comment #45171399
npm's recent provenance feature fixes this, and it's pretty easy to setup. It will seriously help prevent things like this from ever happening again, and I'm really glad that big p…
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Comment #36310789
My favourite part of the README is: # Is there a use case? no
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Comment #33210054
had so much fun working on it :)
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Comment #32947658
thank you for the kind words :) things are going well for us so far, so fingers crossed it stays like this! You've put a big smile on my face :)
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Comment #32947632
This is the sort of thing I'd leave on an unused monitor all the time or have on display somewhere. Really cool aesthetic
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Comment #32947319
We never really thought about documenting progress, so the photo of the email was taken from a phone camera of a teacher's computer (they had sent the email). We managed to find it…
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Comment #32947075
It was part of the homework, we had to watch a video and write down notes in a physical notebook. The notebook was never checked because they assumed that a video watched >=1x mean…
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Comment #32946897
I didn't really get that vibe, especially when we called Colin. He was super friendly. But then again, we didn't want to test it and we complied immediately =)
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Comment #32946870
It's always a game of cat and mouse... if a human can use a website then it's theoretically possible that a robot can too. I used to do a lot of sneaker botting a few years prior, …
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Comment #32946687
That's a good point, you're definitely on to something I think. Reversing classes at a young age would be super engaging for kids as it's "not something you're supposed to do" My m…
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Comment #32946659
They were champs! We even connected on LinkedIn with Colin afterwards and he actually offered us summer work but that fell through unfortunately.
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Comment #32946651
Burner account was really just a friend of ours, it wasn't something you could just sign up for and join a class. The teacher had to create your user account for you and give you a…
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Comment #32946495
Hahaha true, and that's really not even a terrible idea to give 24 hours. We definitely ended things on a good note with Hegarty & Educake. They were really friendly to us and also…
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Comment #32945908
Between 2018 and 2020, I wrote a website that cloned the databases of a couple online learning platforms, and used it to skip lots of homework I should have done. I wrote this at t…
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Comment #30154687
It's more for the SPA age of web apps, where we want to GET a resource from an API, but have a body in the request. For example fetching the user who is currently logged in and get…
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Comment #25849685
I wouldn't use this for Discord, as it requires you to insert a user token (aka self botting – which is against the terms of service). Bar that, the app looks quite promising, but …
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Comment #25445087
This is really well deserved — vercel is a brilliant company + an amazing product.