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Screenshots say Sporify. Probably a human made typo in the mockups - refreshing!

Am I reading this right, there are interns and engineers running PHP in a debugger on production data? How else would he be able to memorialize his own account and trigger the email?

broddon YC startup accused of stealing design from CBInsights

They both look like Bootstrap sites to me.

broddon Show HN: Find bugs before your users do

When trying to crawl a URL that sends a 302 with a relative URI reference in Location, it fails. E.g. if http://www.example.com sends a 302 with "Location: /en/".

broddon Like someone? Crushify helps you find out if they like you too.

Take a look at this guys submission history. Flagged.

broddon Show HN: IP Lookup

Maxmind, probably. (http://www.maxmind.com/)

broddon Coinbase Merchant Data Leak?

There's a google chart on the page. Wouldn't surprise me if they collect the referrer address and indexes it.

broddon Mark Zuckerberg's Angelfire Site (Circa 1999)

No need for archive.org, it's still up and running: http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/

broddon BitBucket down with guru mediation notice

They've been down for at least two hours now.

broddon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2012)

SEEKING WORK - Stockholm, Sweden/Remote

Full stack web developer.

* HTML/CSS/JavaScript

* Python/Java/PHP/Ruby

* MySQL/PostgreSQL

* SOLR/Elastic Search/Sphinx

* Nginx/lighttpd/Apache

Experience from working with (extremely) high load environments.

Email in my profile.

broddon PhalconPHP - High Perf PHP Framework as a C Extension

Then you hit the database and the time spent in the framework is all of a sudden a rounding error.

broddon Morgan Stanley bought 63M Facebook shares ($2.3B) to create a floor around $38

Single page: http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCABRE84I0162012...

broddon The frequent fliers who flew too much

There's always Eurail (http://www.eurail.com/)

broddon Forget Today’s Drama, Dustin Curtis’ Svbtle Is About Pushing Blogging Forward

Scoble did actually say that: http://scobleizer.com/2010/12/26/is-quora-the-biggest-bloggi...

But when people started to downvote his Quora answers he took it back: http://scobleizer.com/2011/01/30/why-i-was-wrong-about-quora...

broddon How Badly Do We Want a New Java Date/Time API?

I've given up on the native Date/Time stuff in favour for Joda Time (http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/)

broddon How Three Germans Are Cloning the Web

Also http://www.pinspire.com/ (http://pinterest.com/)

broddon Linus Torvalds on C++

I'd say life's too short to beat around the bush.

broddon YouPorn passwords available for download, thousands of users exposed

Marco Arment (marco.org) has written a nice wrapper for it.

https://gist.github.com/1053158

broddon Apple will require apps to ask users for permission to address books

One of the worst things I know of is "news" ending with "<someone> wasn't immediately available for comment".

broddon Show HN: My weekend hack project, Appload.io, get your app's first 1k users

Don't upvote submissions like this. Since when is it OK to collect personal information before I've had a chance to evaluate the site? Flagged.

broddon URI.js is a facility for working with URLs

The select box almost gave me a heart attack when I opened it.

broddon Googler: "we pushed a bad version of our iOS app for Gmail"

Apple isn't doing code reviews or regression testing, that's for sure.

The process is in place to make sure that your app is doing what it is supposed to do and is not using any private APIs and stuff like that.

broddon Facebook To Build New Server Farm Near Arctic Circle

A better article on the same subject: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/27/us-facebook-sweden...

broddon Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search

Or that IP could mean anything in languages other than english.

broddon Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search

Looks like it's only active on .com

broddon The Friendster Story (2006)

I'd love to read that.

broddon Hover.com: we store & email passwords in plaintext for usability

That very thread convinced me to switch to name.com six months ago. They're great.

broddon Show HN: JavaScript implementation of Spotify client (Chrome only)

Why would anyone post their credentials to a site like this? It doesn't matter what the disclaimer says, I've got my credit card connected to my account. Also, the domain name (spotifyontheweb.com) is registered trough privacyprotect.org.

broddon Show HN: Hacker Typer [joke]

that's actually valid C through a GCC extension: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.5.0/gcc/Conditionals.htm...

broddon Programmer salary in mainland Europe?

Around $55K I guess, maybe a little less.