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Re: Introducing Battle Hack

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Post by cbetta » Thu, May 30, 2013, 1:40 PM UTC

jacques_chester wrote: post #27

cbetta wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd love to do Perth. Good tech scene there?

Small but enthusiastic. We have a sprinkling of tech service / consulting firms and startups, two VCs and some meetup groups, but that's about it. Realistically, any such contest held in the Southern hemisphere would be held in Sydney, maybe Auckland or Wellington and maybe, maybe , Cape Town.

Again would love to do it. Will keep it in mind for next year. I mainly was wondering re Perth as I have family there :)

Re: Introducing Battle Hack

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Post by makerops » Thu, May 30, 2013, 1:58 PM UTC

The comments on the page are pretty funny.

Re: Introducing Battle Hack

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Post by tetha » Thu, May 30, 2013, 2:16 PM UTC

androidb wrote: post #5

'We have a tradition at PayPal of supporting hackers' Yepp, just like you've given the deserved prize to this teen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5779719 when he found a serious bug in your site.

Last 3 or 4 paypal related mails on the full disclosure mailing list also report that paypal is either not responding, not cooperating or weaseling their way out of paying bounties all the time. I'm not sure how seriously I can take this.

Re: Introducing Battle Hack

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Post by changdizzle » Thu, May 30, 2013, 2:21 PM UTC

Try to bring that battle axe on the plane after you win...

Re: Introducing Battle Hack

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Post by youngerdryas » Thu, May 30, 2013, 7:02 PM UTC

jacques_chester wrote: post #22

youngerdryas wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Earth's northern hemisphere contains most of the planet's land, and roughly 90% of its human population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Hemisphere‎

Oh, good point. There's only twice as many of us as there are Americans.

You can't blame your location on the planet on the Americans.