HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

blindfly

44 karma · joined March 2, 2011

submissionscomments
blindfly··on End of the line finally coming for BlackBerry devices
To add some more detail from when I worked there: We had two users which were BES and BIS. Not all devices were connected to an enterprise. Consumer-owned devices were almost always provisioned using BIS. They tried to later push Black Berry ID as a way to get users to take over some half-baked control but that was a total flop. The support overhead was simply too much.
blindfly··on Amazon to stop accepting UK Visa credit cards
To complicate it even more, in Canada they will accept a Costco-issued Visa. As well all US debit cards I've tried with Visa Debit cause all kinds of confusion. Drives me nuts sometimes, especially during that period which my local warehouses were refusing to accept cash. Even if you're a US Costco member.

You can pay with Visa online, but if you return to a store they hand you cash. It's really weird how anti-Visa Costco is in Canada.

blindfly··on OBS Studio 27.0
Anyone care to speculate why this isn't available on Linux? Is it NVIDIA holding us back?
blindfly··on Any recommendation for good engineering blogs
EEVblog
blindfly··on Employee Scheduling
It's the pandemic thing everyone's working overtime
blindfly··on Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
eNom (although prices have been slowly climbing over the years but I don't think that's unique to them specifically)
blindfly··on Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
eNom
blindfly··on Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect
Did I miss something? It's $379 on the site. Was the kinect actually only $18.95-37.90?! Now I wish I had picked one up. I thought they were north of $100.
blindfly··on My Raspberry Pi cluster
Those cheap eBay items you reference are likely just sending power over an unused pair. Actual standardized PoE has all sorts of other cool perks. I haven't studied it heavily but I wouldn't say they're quite the same as the little dongles with a plug off the side.
blindfly··on Dropbox: Going Deeper with Project Infinite
Well if he didn't want to talk to me, he might rethink sending messages to people blindly asking them to get in touch.
blindfly··on Dropbox: Going Deeper with Project Infinite
Looking back that's the e-mail one of the messages went to. It was actually a reply to your seemingly automated messages saying "...please don't hesitate to shoot me an email..." and my reply didn't seem to generate any response. But poof, into thin air it all went. I'm a bit biased here because it just drives me nuts when all these companies pretend to play nice publicly by answering comments (like mine! thank you, first time I've heard from you even if it is just brushing my comment off as "sorry if I've missed an email..."), responding to tweets and everything else but then behind closed doors it's a totally different setup. Perhaps you were just busy who knows. I just feel like this is a trend in the industry and it drives me a little nuts.
blindfly··on Dropbox: Going Deeper with Project Infinite
I've looked at your software a few times before. I've also tried to reach out to you before. To date I've never seen a response from you and I've moved on. I'm not stoked to see you're available to drop your product name in a thread about another company but inquiries to your own go unanswered.
blindfly··on Pebble 2, Time 2 + All-New Pebble Core
Well that's great but let's talk about the previous Time, it also has some exposed pins. I don't recall anything ever happening with these except for vapor-product talk online. I'm a second time backer but since the previous stuff seemed to just get lost and forgotten about I've given up on wanting to chase this.
blindfly··on Credit-Card Debt Nears $1 Trillion as Banks Push Plastic
Not affiliated either but I love privacy.com! I've been using them since I saw it on HN a few weeks back and no looking back. I regularly get to exchange messages with the team and they've fixed many bug reports in record time (nothing serious, just finicky stuff).

Unlike my credit card companies who refuse to get with the program and show me auths and captures in somewhat real time. Having to wait days to find out what went through is such a joke. I thought cards were supposed to be easier... if I spent $10 in cash I know I've spent $10, with a CC I wait 3 days and find out butterfingers misplaced the decimal and I'm left trying to hunt down $1000.00 that's now on my account while I'm miles away.

blindfly··on Vysor is no longer available – H.264 licensing
You got it! Thanks for the tip. I just found my way over there and the whole thing is 100x better than I expected to find. Not an ad in sight and not even a message asking for donations. I'm thirsty for more now!
blindfly··on Vysor is no longer available – H.264 licensing
Disregard, we're good! It's really awesome actually and it's a pity such a thing would ever be pulled :(
blindfly··on Vysor is no longer available – H.264 licensing
Do you happen to still have the extension installed you could pack...? I'd love to get my hands on it.
blindfly··on Vysor is no longer available – H.264 licensing
I didn't even know this existed, and now it's gone! I've been looking for something like this for awhile and would gladly pay for it. The few similar things out there are all clunky, slow, and just not up to the task. I'd throw in $50 or so just for this if it worked :)
blindfly··on Ask HN: Do any VPS at sub $5/month exist?
https://www.ramnode.com/vps.php has a few
blindfly··on Ask HN: How to open a business bank account in US as an non-US person?
Hopefully someone will be able to share their experience. I myself am in Canada and it was a pretty simple process but I have zero experience trying to do the same thing from India.
blindfly··on Ask HN: How to open a business bank account in US as an non-US person?
Unfortunately I must disagree with your comment as someone who has US accounts but isn't in (and didn't visit) the US to arrange them.
blindfly··on Ask HN: How to open a business bank account in US as an non-US person?
Where are you located?
blindfly··on Sublime Text Build 3101
I just purchased a license moments after in support of this. Hurrah!
blindfly··on DiY Fiber Optic Light Using ESP8266
That's exactly what it is. His previous ESP8266 related posts didn't get any love, and presumably because of all the recent Hue chatter decided to take advantage of the name by hinting of a cool new accessory joining the Hue lineup. I must admit it caught my attention but I knew something was off immediate after seeing ESP8266 and Hue in the same title.
blindfly··on Google is Forcing Routebuilder to Shut Down
I can't tell how this Routebuilder thing is any better than just right clicking and 'distance to here'?
blindfly··on Latest Android phones hijacked with one-shot Chrome exploit
Will this impact NodeJS which is built on the V8 engine?
blindfly··on Hard Drive Data Sets
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/crowdsourcing-hard-drives/
blindfly··on All About ATM Skimmers
Couldn't they just avoid all this fuss if you insert your card horizontally?
blindfly··on Mysterious Phony Cell Towers Could Be Intercepting Your Calls
That entire article reads like an advertisement for a renamed Android rom.
blindfly··on I will pay $1,000 to the person who finds me a better job
So you're asking for someone to essentially land you the perfect job, and at best you're offering 2.5% the first 40K. Good luck with that.
Page 1 of 2Next →