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pookybear223on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024)

probably not

pookybear223on DraftKings fined for online slot incapable of generating a win

yes, the lack of transparency seems to me to be the largest problem. i think their lack of transparency is a cover up in this case!

pookybear223on DraftKings fined for online slot incapable of generating a win

granted, the article says the bug lasted about a week, making $23,000 on the bug, and refunding all players before any intervention.

it is a bit sketchy they did not inform any players of the reason for the refund, but im not sure how they could have handled this better. what are your thoughts

pookybear223on Amazon is trying to trick me into signing up for Prime services

I miss the times when retaining customers meant providing really good value and customer service. I think there was at least a time in which Amazon would’ve agreed. Maybe not…

pookybear223on Fighting for fair competition, consumer choice, and a more helpful Google search

yeah, that was my first thought too. or the racketeering with making businesses pay up or else!!

pookybear223on Is AI eating all the energy?

I’m feeling the upside with being given the opportunity to talk to chatbots on every site possible. I didn’t think we’d be here in my lifetime to see the AI uprising, so I would give all of the energy possible to talk to Amazon Rufus to better learn about myself and products.

pookybear223on Show HN: VirtualStorageLibrary – .NET Tree solutions for items, dirs, symlinks

can u give examples of these anticipated use cases in natural language processing and also in education?

pookybear223on Ordinals aren't much worse than Quaternions

true, but if targeting backdooring, then small drop is the entire bucket

pookybear223on Leaked Microsoft pay data shows how much software engineers report making

I don’t think I saw anywhere in the article about Msft pay for program managers and the other positions you mention. Curious about these numbers, can u share?

pookybear223on Google Play will no longer pay to discover vulnerabilities in Android apps

wow, $30,000 relative to how much google was paying seems incredulous. curious where you all allocate this funding from internally. we consider such thing soon on our site.

pookybear223on Wardriving for a place to Live

sounds like OP TFA just drove around! sounds like how everyone and my grandma finds their house. it’s like tptacek says: ‘talk to me when you get deep in 801.11!’ -tptacek via armondo

pookybear223on Distributed Locks with Redis (2014)

time have changed though. there are better implementations of these, and many companies have built successful startups based around these ideas. look around, it’s the age of distributed locking!

pookybear223on Distributed Locks with Redis (2014)

i think this type of ‘just tacking on’ to projects, since it is so low friction to do so, is part of how we got to where we are today

pookybear223on I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it

i remember we had similar issues at my 2nd to last job a bit ago. we would often times try to reduce the friction, but it built up and built up until, one day, there was zero chance of reaching anyone worthwhile. i wish we had gone back and really focused on providing as much support as we provide in product!!

pookybear223on Proof of P ≠ NP (2nd attempt)

Congrats sir!! What comes next? Do you view this as the end of this line of research or just the start of something new?? What consequences are there from this?? Hacker news is fantastic in that we get to rub shoulders with the greats like here and tptacek. -Armond