CZ-18's comments

On: All the hacks from HackNY Spring 2012 Hackathon

[CZ-18]

I saw the video of their presentation, and couldn't believe it won. It seemed really simple

[theyCallMeSwift → CZ-18]

Sometimes the simplest hacks are the best ones.

[mike-bartnett → theyCallMeSwift]

And we don't really know what they had to do to make it work. The <audio> api is not known for its robustness and accuracy.

Our hack from October was really simple (two small python modules), but we spent all day compiling midi libraries to use with python. That was definitely not easy work.

On: Tell HN: Come learn how to solve Stripe's Capture ...

[CZ-18]

I sent an email after I beat it, but never got a response =(

[gdb → CZ-18]

We'll be sending out replies within the next week or two. Don't worry, there will be T-shirts for all!

[CZ-18 → gdb]

Awesome, thanks for the update. I was starting to get worried, but I guess it makes sense you're swamped with requests.

On: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

[CZ-18]

Any tips for level05 (the python one)?

[CZ-18 → CZ-18]

nvm, got it

On: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

[CZ-18]

EDIT: doh, didn't know we had write access to /tmp, that makes it easy

[farnsworth → CZ-18]

When you first connect, you are in a /tmp/tmp.something directory which you can edit.

[pvsnp → farnsworth]

You can also do cd $(mktemp -d) and get a new one if you need another one.

[dmuino → CZ-18]

You can write to /tmp. But since most people are also doing that, /tmp/date gets overriden frequently. I'd recommend mkdir /tmp/CZ-18; PATH=/tmp/CZ-18:$PATH; And then you can figure it out :)

[aw3c2 → dmuino]

I now feel like the most awesome tutorial following script kiddie ever.

[sim0n → CZ-18]

Remember that you have write access to /tmp(/date) ;)