Hacker News: pg_is_a_butt

New comment by pg_is_a_butt in "Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads"

pg_is_a_butt — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:52:48 +0000

Account manager and support contract are sold together... $150,000/yr paid up front + 4% of yearly spend.

Seems insanely high, especially compared to the next step down which is only $250/mo per user... you could get by with a separate account with a single master user that controlled all the deployments and billing and only pay $3,000/yr. What you get for that extra $147,000+/year is that you talk directly with the lowest level engineer actually working on the problem rather than relaying messages that lose context... but you'll still need to know what you're talking about and be able to actually help the engineer rather than spin them in circles, or you'll be kept at bay.

New comment by pg_is_a_butt in "Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads"

pg_is_a_butt — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 20:54:24 +0000

Not true... you just have to pay for it. I worked for A fortune 100 company that was moving some things to Google App Engine, and paid for the highest level of support. We had a list of guys we could get on the phone whenever we needed, including the main guy in charge of everything.

I helped them fix a lot of bugs and broken processes, but I'm better than most at making reports. If they had to deal with bad developers blaming Google for problems that had nothing to do with Google, that would waste a lot of time. But on the other hand, if we didn't pay for support, those problems probably never would have been fixed, and I don't think we were ever compensated or given discount support for helping.

New comment by pg_is_a_butt in "The US Secret Service mistook a cyberpunk RPG for a hacker's handbook"

pg_is_a_butt — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 23:32:39 +0000

I ran an online multiplayer drug dealing game in the 90s similar to dope wars. The DEA contacted me to let me know they spent a month investigating me, and that it was probably not smart for me to do something like that, but that a lot of the agents were playing the game and enjoying it and I was cleared.

New comment by pg_is_a_butt in "Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux"

pg_is_a_butt — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 02:39:50 +0000

Have you ever used desktop solaris? it was terrible. I'll vouch. resize a window in the file manager, and every single item would need to be reprocessed and the entire system would lock until 1 by 1 they re-spawned. It was infuriating.

New comment by pg_is_a_butt in "Eiffel programming language"

pg_is_a_butt — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 19:44:04 +0000

My first 2 years of university were using Eiffel in a NeXT lab. The professors had built up their own standard libraries. Some of the preconditions and postconditions got a little annoying, but probably staved off a lot of bugs.

Junior year they switched everything to Java. The CS lab switched to macs, but the main computer labs were mostly all windows, but CS students could finally work on their CS programs there if they didn't have their own computer (but everyone did anyways)

New comment by pg_is_a_butt in "5-MeO-DMT: 20-minute psychoactive experience that’s transforming lives"

pg_is_a_butt — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 02:42:28 +0000

Seems like an obvious advantage to have your predator busy enjoying themselves.

New comment by pg_is_a_butt in "How Much Does a Mile of Road Cost?"

pg_is_a_butt — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 03:48:31 +0000

Driver education doesn't matter when it stops at 16 years old. I've been in cars with these bad drivers doing less than the speed limit in the left lane... I told them they should get over... they said they prefer to drive "in the fast lane"... like they'll get there faster. They stayed in the left lane until the exit, and then exit across 2 lanes. I don't see how you can help these people.

New comment by pg_is_a_butt in "Xinu Is Not Unix"

pg_is_a_butt — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 01:46:02 +0000

We focused on it in undergrad too. If I remember right the entire kernel was like 8 pages in the textbook, including commentary.

New comment by pg_is_a_butt in "Grumpy Website – a blog about everything wrong with modern web & tech"

pg_is_a_butt — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 14:40:00 +0000

It's just free advertising. After the public is sold on the fact that a certain NEW! feature represents a fix to the thing everyone hates, the manufacturers will have already embedded something new that will keep you idiots buying the next NEW! thing forever.

You're all sheep.

New comment by pg_is_a_butt in "NSA Backdoors and Bitcoin (2013)"

pg_is_a_butt — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 01:10:11 +0000

> It seems the entire decision of using secp256k1 was made to avoid secp256r1. This is another piece of evidence that Satoshi Nakamoto must have beee active in the 1990-2000 cypherpunk community, so that he was well-aware of those discussions. This should shed some light on his possible identity.

I was well aware of all that, at the time and now, without being active in the cypherpunk community. Granted, I was in college for a CS and math degree, but the cypherpunk community was pretty loud if you were listening at all.

New comment by pg_is_a_butt in "PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for $4B"

pg_is_a_butt — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 05:01:34 +0000

I paid for a semester of college at least thanks to that paypal program... I think it started out at $75 referral... then $50 to you and $50 to them, then 50/25, 25/25, 10/25, etc.

Within a month everyone on campus had an account.

New comment by pg_is_a_butt in "The FBI Is Tracking Our Faces in Secret, and We’re Suing"

pg_is_a_butt — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 20:45:51 +0000

But they aren't black. You really don't get this.

New comment by pg_is_a_butt in "Cache Attacks on CTR_DRBG"

pg_is_a_butt — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 01:41:22 +0000

seed the whole system with live bitstream of a video feed trained on a wall full of lava lamps

New comment by pg_is_a_butt in "How ACH works: A developer perspective (2014)"

pg_is_a_butt — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 05:07:00 +0000

i wrote the X12 EDI stuff for a major clearwater distributor... also wrote the ACH stuff that dumped someone a file and their job was to upload it via SFTP to the bank. so many badges.

New comment by pg_is_a_butt in "Server Side TLS"

pg_is_a_butt — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 06:15:46 +0000

i use let's encrypt on google app engine... it took less than 5 minutes. google could very easily automate it for everyone, but that removes the direct verification between domain owners and certificate authorities.

granted, you're already giving up this control when you host with any 3rd party, but the CAs are being reckless if they encourage it.

New comment by pg_is_a_butt in "To Compete Better, States Are Trying to Curb Noncompete Pacts"

pg_is_a_butt — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 00:23:12 +0000

uh... isn't the whole point of "States" because a larger controlling body is a bad thing, and many groups want to make deals in their own ways? so then a Company WANTS to make deals their own way "Noncompete Pact" deals, and now you're telling them they can't do that... and you think by driving away these companies by not letting them do what they want, that you will somehow compete better? for what? the 50th spot on the economic rankings list?

idiots.

New comment by pg_is_a_butt in "How to find the biggest prime numbers"

pg_is_a_butt — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 00:36:55 +0000

2^n + 1

New comment by pg_is_a_butt in "FBI raids dental software researcher who discovered patient data on FTP server"

pg_is_a_butt — Fri, 27 May 2016 18:51:18 +0000

he made the "people in charge" look like fools... (granted, they were idiots acting like fools, and if anything he was trying to help)

"people in charge" only stay in charge when they don't look like fools. so anyone pointing out the king isn't wearing any clothes must be tied to a stake and burned for all to see.

also, your dog must die.

New comment by pg_is_a_butt in "USB/IP Project"

pg_is_a_butt — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 23:26:06 +0000

seems the network latency would break the realtime expectations of high data rate USB 3.0 hardware on the USB bus.

and using a still image from a webcam seems like the worst use case... there are much better protocols for serving video streams.

New comment by pg_is_a_butt in "The future of PHP, at a distance"

pg_is_a_butt — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 17:23:27 +0000

PHP deprecates features all the time... you're an idiot.