Hacker News: gabrielrdz

New comment by gabrielrdz in "Sorry, I'm in a meeting"

gabrielrdz — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:46:42 +0000

Great idea, but the voice or rhythm of the conversation still does not feel authentic. Might fool someone if it's in the background though.

New comment by gabrielrdz in "Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)"

gabrielrdz — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:18:08 +0000

they just made Global Entry free for kids under a certain age, I think, as long as their parent(s) have GE.

New comment by gabrielrdz in "Ask HN: Do you track how your email address is used?"

gabrielrdz — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 18:19:19 +0000

while they might block the plus, they likely do not block the dot. It's not exactly the same but can help for at least a few scenarios.

New comment by gabrielrdz in "Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models"

gabrielrdz — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 01:42:01 +0000

hah, this takes me back. There used to be a game called Jezzball, I think, back in the late 90's or early 00's. Had a lot of fun with that one.

Structured Concurrency for C#

gabrielrdz — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 14:59:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/StephenCleary/StructuredConcurrency

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35601788

Points: 3

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New comment by gabrielrdz in "Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?"

gabrielrdz — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:23:32 +0000

can you share how much you make a year?

New comment by gabrielrdz in "Free for Developers"

gabrielrdz — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 02:32:08 +0000

If you search for Scott Hanselman's Penny Pinching blog post series, he details how he runs a couple of his high volume sites for as cheap as possible in Azure.

New comment by gabrielrdz in "Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S."

gabrielrdz — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 19:16:01 +0000

That is a great analogy. I hope lawmakers patch all those holes, because you are right.

New comment by gabrielrdz in "Google users locked out after 15 years' use"

gabrielrdz — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:40:06 +0000

This. It is very comfortable to use Google OAuth sign in, even if you have a custom domain, but I've run into a few services that will not let you log on with user/password if you created the account via Single Sign On with Google, regardless if you use the same email.

New comment by gabrielrdz in "Google users locked out after 15 years' use"

gabrielrdz — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:38:12 +0000

Are there cases where users have taken Google to court to get their data back in this case?

I've had my Gmail account since 2004 and I am also terrified about this. I ended up re-registering my custom domain and putting it on M365 but still... it feels like, as another commenter suggested, there should be laws to allow any customers that were banned or terminated from at least getting their data via Takeout

New comment by gabrielrdz in "Google users locked out after 15 years' use"

gabrielrdz — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:36:42 +0000

Do you really think that they have no way to tell that it's you between all those accounts? I mean, there's no really a concept of account linking between Google Accounts, but between your IP being on all the accounts, and browser or device fingerprinting, I'm not sure this is really a reliable fail safe. It should be, but I doubt it.

New comment by gabrielrdz in "Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?"

gabrielrdz — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 21:34:23 +0000

I think I recognize your name. You had a motivational website or blog, Impossible things or something like that?

New comment by gabrielrdz in "A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub"

gabrielrdz — Fri, 15 May 2020 18:30:23 +0000

It's so ironic that Google's original motto was "Don't be evil".

New comment by gabrielrdz in "Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?"

gabrielrdz — Fri, 15 May 2020 17:02:35 +0000

I saw this on Reddit so I guess that's why you're getting double hugged to death

New comment by gabrielrdz in "Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?"

gabrielrdz — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 15:06:42 +0000

I really like the format of your blog and it seems your posts are very high quality. Will have fun for a few weeks! thanks for sharing

New comment by gabrielrdz in "Ask HN: How Sound Is the “Teach Yourself CS” Learning Resource?"

gabrielrdz — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 20:15:59 +0000

Posting this since I don't see it mentioned yet.

Scott Hanselman and Rob Conery created the Imposters Handbook. I believe both of these guys are self-taught, and they are incredibly good at what they do.

They put it together precisely for self taught developers with no formal CS background.

https://bigmachine.io/products/the-imposters-handbook/ https://bigmachine.io/products/the-imposters-handbook-season...

New comment by gabrielrdz in "DirecTV races to decommission broken satellite before it explodes"

gabrielrdz — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:53:08 +0000

just call Walter White. Sure he'd be able to pull something off with Magnets..

New comment by gabrielrdz in "Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books"

gabrielrdz — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 16:19:45 +0000

This is why I love Manning Books. I actually ordered a book off of Amazon that I forgot was produced by Manning, and I went to cancel the order and get it from Manning instead. That way I got the print version, the digital version and even free digital of the older editions of it. They've won me as a customer in that I'll always order off them if they have a book I want even if it's available on AMZ.

New comment by gabrielrdz in "Tell HN: I grew Visa List to $5k per month in a year"

gabrielrdz — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 05:02:28 +0000

Congrats! I just glanced at the site for a few minutes but it looks nice and I really enjoy hearing about people finding success from hobby projects. Best of luck!

New comment by gabrielrdz in "Costco's Thanksgiving Day Website Crash Cost It Nearly $11M"

gabrielrdz — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 04:13:00 +0000

It should not. StackOverflow.com, for example, runs on ASP.NET MVC and is one of the websites with most traffic in the world. Also blazing fast and rarely goes down. Even in Black Friday!