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Comment on Moving in another country with a XBox 360 by Kenjy

Kenjy — Tue, 03 May 2011 17:07:25 +0000

Hi,To my surprise!! You are also getting hurdles?
I’m one of the victims complaining about the same issue. Did anyone get the solution? I was wondering if this issue would ever be solved.Can anyone tell a possible solution to the prob.. to change the region?

Comment on The new “Domain Registry of America”: “Domain Renewal Group” by A Anonymous Website Owner

A Anonymous Website Owner — Mon, 02 May 2011 10:18:43 +0000

i had a letter recently of the Domain Renewal Group trying to trick me into transfering my site’s doming to them by claming it was expiering within a month even though i renewed it with the company i host my website on

Comment on SimpleDNSd: new features & bugfix by deltab

deltab — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:22:34 +0000

There’s support for PZC in the tinydns server in djbdns; I’d not heard of it anywhere else until now.

It’s a nice feature, and I hope it’ll be more widely implemented in the future: thanks for giving it a name!

Comment on PHP can do anything, what about some ssh? by Rafe Kettler

Rafe Kettler — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:38:58 +0000

PHP can do anything but make sense.

Why is it strstr($haystack, $needle) and array_search($needle, $haystack)? Even seasoned experts have to consult the manual because of inconsistent naming, ordering of arguments, etc.

And no namespaces.

I admire your resolve for accomplishing anything substantial in PHP.

Comment on PHP can do anything, what about some ssh? by Chetan

Chetan — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:17:21 +0000

What’s so special about SSH…? PHP can do a lot…

PHP isn’t really the best choice for something like this though…
And why should you create a server when there are plenty already… They maintain their code and provide many more features?

Develop a better protocol, and I’ll call you creative.

I agree: “the fact that something is possible doesn’t make it a good idea.”

Comment on Facebook Hacker Cup 3/3: Studious Student by buch

buch — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:29:23 +0000

Wouldn’t it be simpler to fill the arrays of words with 0s before entering strings(actually words) in it so at the end of ji it will compare ’0′(ie ji000..) with ‘b’ of jibw and the def said that given string will only contain alphabets…

Comment on Facebook Hacker Cup 1/3: Double Squares by PEZ

PEZ — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:49:22 +0000

My implementation in Python needs less than 1 millionths of a second with this approach and the values from Facebook’s input. I measured by running it with timeit.Timer a couple of million times and averaging the results. I think your 200 ms might include 99.999% of PHP loading times or something.

Comment on Facebook Hacker Cup 1/3: Double Squares by Doni

Doni — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:11:22 +0000

if a mod 4 =3 , then double square is 0

Comment on PHP can do anything, what about some ssh? by Montreal Web Design

Montreal Web Design — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:52:11 +0000

re: pd
Not useless, I can see me using it in some scenarios.

Comment on Facebook Hacker Cup 3/3: Studious Student by root

root — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 05:59:38 +0000

My one-line brute-force Haskell-solution:

main = interact $ (unlines . map ((\x -> foldl1′ min (map concat $ permutations x)) . tail . words)) . tail . lines

I also had a solution that picked out the words that was an infix of another word and brute-forced their position later, which was a lot quicker. The plain brute-force solution runs in less than a second, though, so it didn’t matter much.