I would almost blame whoever abuses the API rather than him for not protecting something made purely for others enjoyment. It getting messed with is almost part of the experience.
If you've never experienced any of that, it is very easily dismissed or flat out never even considered.
Still bottable but takes tons more CPU power than the server needs.
The code that got him wasn't a "bot" it was just a script that spawned a couple children and had them all hit the API on loop.
The author intentionally released the app on one of the most-viewed sites on the internet (Reddit) on one of the biggest days for high school graduates (Ivy Day). How, in this hyper viral time, did he not consider the possibility of high traffic?
(you might be surprised that people would pay to punch their own college, either out of wanting it to be exclusive or being annoyed at it even though they're going there)
It is funny how every school has a saying like that for rivals, though.
Something harder like stem? ok so lets say your average person at 18 wants to learn to learn electrical engineering. they can either spend 10-20k per semester at a university for the next 4 years.
for the price of one semester, you can get yourself a all the books for your subject and...
mathacademy.com -> 500 bucks/yr
laptop -> 4000
oscillopscope -> $500-1000
power supply -> $400
prusa core one 3d printer + mms (makign enclosures etc) -> $1800
various other smaller stuff (multimeter, wires, components) (1000-2000)
That still leaves plenty of cash to just pay an engineer or tutor by the hour to give you personalized attention and answer any questions you might have.
It's just objectively not. A college degree increases earning potential so much, and the median student loan debt is only $20k. Even if the earning potential increased only $5k/year it would easily pay for itself over the course of even a fleeting professional career.
Paying a tutor to teach you whatever isn't going to qualify you for a job like a degree will and won't connect you to employers like a fully staffed university recruiting office will
But, your (aprilthird2021's) sentiment is right. College is (generally) worth it. A lot of the lessons are more than what comes from a book and self-directed teaching.
1970-01-01•9mo ago
(https://web.archive.org/web/20050602024057/http://www.ratemy...)
nottorp•9mo ago
Yeah, my first thought was which college is going to file a complaint for "terrorism" first...