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You dont have to use Ruby. I actually did it in Python because I dont know Ruby. Just had to change the !# and fiddle around a little with the input reading.

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Thank you for your advice, I'm really new to this game and I even don't know how to use github. Don't laugh at me, because I have enough experience on coding by myself and reading/modifying other people's code. I don't have time to play coding on CTF, but I'm curious about how other people are thinking about it, especially about distributed system.

Coding is the last thing we need to concern since various languages are available to implement. System architecture design, data modeling, application performance, security and algorithms are more important.

Regarding the language itself, I understand that Ruby and Python are quick and easy, but that's not for real production systems. Lots of teenagers are using it now. Maybe you are not happy to hear like that. Here are two blog articles regarding it:

http://bingobo.info/blog/contents/do-not-rely-on-other-platf...

http://bingobo.info/blog/contents/having-a-solid-foundation-...

LOL @ "don't let other people control your tools" and then going straight into "how to set up your Windows environment" in the next post after one of your links.

Thanks for reading. Is there any conflict between the two?

The original words was "You're giving them a throat to choke". The minimum set of tools is always necessary either on Windows or Linux, especially from Open Source. Just make sure don't take the risk of your application to do re-implementation later.

Lots of teenagers are using it now.

I'm curious how people can put down vote on my comments. According to the guide line from HN, down vote is only available for people who have enough karmas.

BTW, if you are not happy to hear that, I'd like to know your opinion.

I didn't downvote, but I'm guessing it's the jab that "Ruby and Python are quick and easy, but that's not for real production systems."

There are tons of high-profile sites using ruby or python in production. Reddit is written in Python, Twitter got quite a bit of mileage out of Ruby...

There is a lot of teenagers with high enough karma around :)

I don't look down on teenagers if they are able to build websites using those languages. Maybe this type of exercise is really good or suit for them. And definitely coding is the no. 1 skill they occupy.

What I'm talking to are the hackers who are aiming for running startup companies and those who are going to grow to be software engineers.

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