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gesman··on I asked an online tracking company for all of my data (2018)
Someone should come up with a site with specific regulatory-approved form to request ALL information from ALL tracking companies.

Let flood them with never ending, millions of requests and make sure they comply with the each of these according to regulation.

gesman··on Guide to Python Debugging
pudb / pudb3
gesman··on Shhh: The Undocumented DOS Commands (1999)
After being frustrated with limitations of xcopy i wrote my own program on C++ (bxcopy) which became my business for a few years paying my mortgage :)

These were some creative times!

gesman··on Ownership of IP for Rejected Ideas?
If you mentioned it in writing (emails, presentation) they can always can come back and claim ownership in case this idea will succeed elsewhere.
gesman··on Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms
Maybe. However cellmapper.net shows few cell towers where they actually exists and this map doesn't show them.

Credibility?

gesman··on Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms
It plots cell towers in the middle of my residential neighborhood where i absolutely sure there aren't any
gesman··on Calculating Pi: My Attempt at Breaking the Pi World Record
>> As luck would have it, a transformer next to my house blew and the power went out yet again. This means I had to restart from the last checkpoint yet again, losing another 2 weeks worth of work.

Ouch!!!

gesman··on RCMP arrest 'money mules' tied to scam calls from India
+1

If you facilitated criminal to directly connect with me - you’re liable.

Telcos should be liable for “call laundering” similar as banks as for money laundering.

If you don’t know identity of person calling me - you’re responsible for damages.

Problem solved.

gesman··on Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?
Splunk University. Happens once a year in Oct.

In 3 days you learn to build scalable business applications to work with any data. Gold.

And tons more.

gesman··on Costco Capitalism
BH doesn't charge sales tax (via Payboo card) and has 30 days returns. On $2K TV it is ~$200 savings.
gesman··on Hard Drive Stats for 2019
Thank you!
gesman··on Hard Drive Stats for 2019
So what does these mean:

smart_177_raw

smart_177_normalized

smart_233_raw

smart_235_normalized

???

gesman··on Costco Capitalism
That said - it's hard to beat BHPhoto - another trusted brand for electronics and photography specifically.
gesman··on Costco Capitalism
Costco == Trust.

Trust in quality, Trust is service, Trust in prices.

To the point that when I need to buy quality stuff at good prices and avoid doing lenghty research to filter out scam, fakes and crap (aka: Amazon, Ebay and their little siblings) - Cosco wins.

There is no other business where people come in with an intention to buy $50 worth of stuff and then consistently spending 5-10 times more each and every time.

Fun fact: It took me 10 years to stop calling it "Price club"

gesman··on How to detect web bots?
We detecting web bots by analyzing behavior of all web traffic and via clustering we finding entities that are behaving unusually similar to each other. This way we detect "clusters" or families of bots.
gesman··on The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets
Buffets are making money on impatient customers who are piling up on fries and mac-n-cheese and other super cheap "fillers" and junk foods before discovering and allocating space for more delicious and expensive dishes that are typically placed at the far end of a food isles.

This way they compensate the losses caused by my visit. I don't touch any food until i do complete walkaround and learn about everything they have to offer.

Then i typically pigout on lobster legs, tenderloin cuts, fish-rich sushi and other high end proteins, carefully avoiding any cheaper "fillers". My visit to buffet would cost me the equivalent of ~$200 visit in a-la-carte restaurant.

gesman··on AirPods Pro owners complain of worse noise cancellation after firmware updates
Bose can't get over inflicting the annoying beeps or voice prompts on customers when earphones connect or disconnect from source.

It's impossible to turn this stupidity off. If you turn off voice prompts, it get replaced by beeps. And vice versa. If you have few devices - earphones either beeps or talks to you non stop.

gesman··on Ask HN: Secret messages in public forums
Absolutely.

The best way to hide the secret is to make adversary believe that secret does not exist

gesman··on Ask HN: Secret messages in public forums
Actually i had a better version of this:

Person A: says "hello Joe" Person B: answers: "Great to see you again buddy!"

After posting message, sender hashes his message with secret salt: "hello Joe" -> 2959D03A72B897C and then posts secret, real text to https://secret-share/#2959D03A72B897C

Receiver does the same to read the actual message.

Fun part?

Sender and receiver can actually piggyback on other people's conversations, twitter feeds, newpaper headlines this way to hide secret messages.

gesman··on Ask HN: True Apartment Costs in SF?
Renting $4,500/mo, 3 bedroom (upper part) of house in San Mateo + 1 car garage + backyard. Close to Hwy 101 and 92 (and 280). 30-40 minutes drive to SF and/or SJ.

Will be moving out soon, so if anyone interested - ping me.

gesman··on Ask HN: How do you manage logs for your backend services?
How much data is being generated by your logs?

If it’s less than 500MB/day you may use Splunk for free forever.

gesman··on Ask HN: What are your best shell scripts that you use?
...or ZeroTier
gesman··on Ask HN: Does Google manually alter search results?
For expensive $50+/click keywords i am sure there is a whole team tweaking SERPs in favor of "good" customers.
gesman··on Ask HN: 200k of cloud credits expiring soon. What do I do?
against TOS
gesman··on Ask HN: Best place to sell domain names?
I put "for sale" message on domain's first page.

Sold few like that.

Listing currently another one for $10k.

gesman··on Show HN: I built a FOSS service to protect against link shorteners tracking us
I wanted to make something like this with my C.GG domain but couldn't refuse an offer to sell the name for $10k
gesman··on Show HN: I built a FOSS service to protect against link shorteners tracking us
Add: Replacement of affiliate or referral links with your user' affiliate link and you can charge for this service.
gesman··on Asking questions is a skill: Lessons from 10 years of Stack Overflow
Add to skill set:

Staying under the radar of nazi-moderators that are trigger happy to close relevant, valuable and interesting questions under lame excuses.

gesman··on Facebook Pledges $130M to Fund “Supreme Court” for Content
Wolfs are funding supreme court over fate of sheep.
gesman··on Ask HN: Simple solutions to backup personal data
Yes sorry for mistype
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