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boyter
17y ago
Looked at it... and while it shows how to break one practically, it dosnt go into details. If you want to see how to actually break a CAPTCHA using python have a look at the tutorial I wrote some time ago, http://www.wausita.com/captcha/
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boyter
17y ago
I that case I apolagise. It seems you were asking a technical question (which you already knew the answer too) but seemed to phrase it as a policy question. The other alturnative is to check out using SVN, check that into GIT, do your chang
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boyter
17y ago
Yes I have. If you think circumventing the procedures your workplace follows because you dont like them is going to endear you to your employeers then go ahead. Part of being in a workplace is following the rules. Dont like them? Then chang
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boyter
17y ago
Perhaps. But think of it this way, if he wastes any time figuring out how to do something using GIT or corrupts the repository, or breaks something and has to spend time fixing it, the time is on his hands. If you are using SVN like everyon
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boyter
17y ago
This is going to sound rude, but how about you do what the people paying you tell you to do? Thats why they give you money, to provide them value which you will not be doing while trying to circumvent their procedures and rules. Maybe they
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boyter
17y ago
Ah I see. Remember that the course is designed that way so that everyone is on an equal footing (which makes marking easier). In your case I would say stick with the course. University/College isn't about learning things from the subjects (
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boyter
17y ago
You do realise that college/university isnt so much about being spoon fed information but learning how to figure it out for yourself. Keep up your grades (they will be worth more to you then you think later on) and start reading the papers
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17y ago
I would do what I have always wanted to do. Write a small scale search engine as a hobby. I have run crawlers before but always ran out of bandwidth long before I could get any sizeable portion of the web. Huge amounts of bandwidth would so