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New comment by erjjones in "Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?"

erjjones — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 16:42:11 +0000

Making promises.

When my child would ask to do something or desire something I might have said, "Not today but I promise in the future ...". Often I would never follow up on those.

Now, I am more inclined to say, "I will do my best to make that happen" or something along those lines but no promises.

New comment by erjjones in "Facebook-owned sites were down"

erjjones — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 20:52:43 +0000

Does everyone just buy in that this is just a network change gone wrong? OR could they be mitigating a breach/hack? OR could it be some other theory?

New comment by erjjones in "Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B"

erjjones — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 20:21:47 +0000

You know Prosus will get all their money back and then some . time to build a new one [thinking face...]

New comment by erjjones in "How I remember what I learn"

erjjones — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 21:01:35 +0000

As I "favorite" this thread, so I can reference it later to learn how to remember better ;)

New comment by erjjones in "Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?"

erjjones — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 17:07:29 +0000

"Inch is a sinch, yard is hard"

New comment by erjjones in "Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?"

erjjones — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 14:35:46 +0000

"When normal sense makes good sense, seek no other sense."

New comment by erjjones in "It's Time to Build for Good"

erjjones — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:54:10 +0000

.. and there was a time to not build for good??

New comment by erjjones in "“Just walk out” technology by Amazon"

erjjones — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 20:51:56 +0000

It will be interesting to see what other types of new technology (good & bad) emerge from this.

Such as: New rfid (or image) spoofing tech, etc.

-or-

Stories "Just walk out" store forgot to activate rfid tags on some product and customers walked out w/ (x) number of items for free.

This will be interesting to see how it plays out.

New comment by erjjones in "Microsoft REST API Guidelines"

erjjones — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 21:44:13 +0000

Ideally, they wouldn't re-invent the wheel again and just stick with the ODATA protocol. They already have the platform to do so - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/odata/resources/roadmap

Ask HN: iPhone no service shortly after paying off Sprint lease

erjjones — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 02:11:44 +0000

A week after paying off Sprint for my iPhone 7 it stopped working, "No Service". I happen to know a repair man at Sprint so I took the phone in and he asked "Did you just pay this off?" which I replied "Yes". He sighed and said this happens all the time only when he sent the phone off to Apple to have it repaired they responded that the phone couldn't be repaired and now Sprint says I have to lease/buy a new iPhone.

I am asking the community because I think there is a larger "scam" going on with the network providers in which they don't want us to pay off our devices.

Has anyone else had any similar experiences? or is this just a device specific issue?

Thanks in advance - erjjones

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19102326

Points: 1

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New comment by erjjones in "Instagram Has a Massive Harassment Problem"

erjjones — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 17:57:07 +0000

> I don't necessarily have a perfect solution all lined up

The "metaverse" . Where you can be what you want people to see w/o others knowing what you are. #highfidelity

New comment by erjjones in "Multiple gas explosions and fires in Massachusetts"

erjjones — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 13:56:33 +0000

Does anyone know how you could go about installing your own regulator at your house on your gas line?

Would it even be able to mitigate something like this?

Curious..

New comment by erjjones in "Nation’s top three most expensive places for renters: all in Bay Area"

erjjones — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:01:27 +0000

> At what point do we collectively decide, you know what, this is ridiculous.

I would say things are at that point. So move to a different city. Success != The Valley

New comment by erjjones in "Facebook confirms that it tracks mouse movements"

erjjones — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 12:03:26 +0000

I could see using this for fraud detection and then kick off a 2FA flow if it couldn't verify.

However, most biometrics aren't the best single line of verification. You still have to add a backup verification of some kind.

Examples, I was working on my car all weekend and my hands have new calluses on them and my finger print is off. I got a new keyboard and my typing pattern is different, etc.

New comment by erjjones in "Gitlab is not the only GitHub alternative"

erjjones — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:00:23 +0000

GitLab has taken a good amount of funding. Which means they will sell out eventually and the ones concerned about big brother taking over will be right back in this discussion again.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gitlab-com

Some type of crowd funded federation needs to be created and owned by all of us if we truly want out from under this type of concern.

New comment by erjjones in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

erjjones — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 12:41:42 +0000

Right click and publish to Azure. For the win!!

New comment by erjjones in "How to get rich without getting lucky"

erjjones — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 13:46:03 +0000

If you were to take a random room of people. Reset all of their incomes to square one. In a few years the same people that were rich to start would emerge "rich" again.

Some people are willing to be disciplined and motivated to change. While others talk without the walk.

New comment by erjjones in "Ask HN: What tools do you use to automate your business?"

erjjones — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:18:25 +0000

I did something similar to this in my startup days, it was called "FORMS". This is where you take a particular focus for each day of the week.

- Monday: Finances - Tuesday: Operations - Wednesday: Research & Development - Thursday: Marketing - Friday: Sales

This allowed me to focus ON the business vs. IN the business.

New comment by erjjones in "Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app"

erjjones — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 13:14:26 +0000

There is always elder law! #saulgoodman

New comment by erjjones in "Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics?"

erjjones — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 19:10:43 +0000

Sparkfun.com is a great spot to buy and learn. They have several YouTube channels, one in particular "According To Pete" is a great set of videos to learn the ins and outs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9EF3C374FD903ACE