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How I got the turntable.fm gorilla in less than 48 hours

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Re: How I got the turntable.fm gorilla in less than 48 hours

#6
Thumbs up for the hacking part! Regarding your karma - 1001 and 4 fans seems suspicious, but is a normal consequence by getting the gorilla too quickly, because then you don't interact enough with fellow DJs / listeners and build your "network". I got it in 4 days without cheating.. but I spent way too much time in coding soundtrack (just repeating what everyone else was playing) and felt that way after:

1000 : the gorilla is ridiculous.. I take the geeky red ape!

Re: How I got the turntable.fm gorilla in less than 48 hours

#7
it sounds like they could avoid user code accessing the room manager by wrapping it in an anonymous function, so their code wouldn't be accessible to other javascript.

however, this analysis isn't really complete without looking at the http traffic that accompanied these script calls.

Re: How I got the turntable.fm gorilla in less than 48 hours

#10
post #6

Thumbs up for the hacking part! Regarding your karma - 1001 and 4 fans seems suspicious, but is a normal consequence by getting the gorilla too quickly, because then you don't interact enough with fellow DJs / listeners and build your "network". I got it in 4 days without cheating.. but I spent way too much time in coding soundtrack (just repeating what everyone else was playing) and felt that way after: 1000 : the g…

Wow, great job on getting the gorilla legitimately in 5 days! Now I've got the gorilla I think I like the ape with the Fez a little more too! :)
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