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Introducing Battle Hack

44 pointsby cbettaalmost 12 years ago

12 comments

androidbalmost 12 years ago
'We have a tradition at PayPal of supporting hackers' Yepp, just like you've given the deserved prize to this teen <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5779719" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5779719</a> when he found a serious bug in your site.
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mattmanseralmost 12 years ago
Looks like a fun idea to start, but it's being pitched so badly given paypal's history and the site is actually shockingly bad. The major branding is Twitter's! The links don't work! The design is horrible! It's hosted on Github!<p>This seems to be some muddle of an organization that previously organized something called Charity Hack and Paypals dev evangelists, probably why the whole message is coming across so jarringly at odds with the reality of developing with paypal.<p>At first I thought they had a cool, if out-dated, easter egg, but they seem to have lifted the code without any credit:<p>(enter the konami code or open your console and enter goApeshit(), warning, loud)<p><a href="http://battlehack.org/javascript/ie5.js" rel="nofollow">http://battlehack.org/javascript/ie5.js</a><p><a href="https://github.com/moovweb/harlem_shaker" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/moovweb/harlem_shaker</a>
juandopazoalmost 12 years ago
The Twitter logo at the top left is very disconcerting. It looks as if the website was made by Twitter, but it only points to the BattleHack Twitter account.
acheron-fossaealmost 12 years ago
Who cares about a trip to Silicon Valley and $100,000 USD - I'm after the shiny axe!
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speederalmost 12 years ago
No southern hemisphere city? :(<p>Why we down here are always forgotten?
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nascroalmost 12 years ago
Wufoo held an API contest in August 2010. First prize won a battle axe. <a href="http://www.wufoo.com/2010/08/02/win-a-real-battle-axe-in-the-wufoo-api-contest/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wufoo.com/2010/08/02/win-a-real-battle-axe-in-the...</a>
changdizzlealmost 12 years ago
Try to bring that battle axe on the plane after you win...
michaelmioralmost 12 years ago
Good luck flying home with that trophy!
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hhukalmost 12 years ago
"We have a tradition at PayPal of supporting hackers. " Really?
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makeropsalmost 12 years ago
The comments on the page are pretty funny.
mattbarriealmost 12 years ago
"world series"
serfalmost 12 years ago
that's quite the axe-tropy.<p>What a cat-axe-tropy.