Hacker News: rabbidruster

PSA Google billing and not refunding RMA hold

rabbidruster — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 17:31:59 +0000

I have 3 Google RMAs this year. I thought I had resolved these changes before with google but they haven't been resolved yet. I have spent hours on the phone with google over the last 4 months and I've been told it'll be resolved numerous times in the next month.

This is more than $1000 from google that hasn't been refunded and I don't seem to have a course of action to get the money back without losing my account.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34039974

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New comment by rabbidruster in "Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services"

rabbidruster — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 16:15:58 +0000

I have the pixel 6 Pro. By far the worse phone I've ever had. It's unable to hold a consistent phone conversation and I'll often cut out so the person on the other end can't hear me. Did a RMA and the new phone has the same problem. Support is also difficult to deal with. Ive been a loyal pixel owner until now, but can no longer recommend anyone buy a pixel phone.

New comment by rabbidruster in "Why do arrays start at 0?"

rabbidruster — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 18:32:39 +0000

I hope you haven't done this anywhere.

Makes my brain hurt, but I think this will only run through the loop one time looking at the last element of the array.

New comment by rabbidruster in "Google proposes moving ad business to Alphabet to keep regulators at bay"

rabbidruster — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 02:12:36 +0000

Thats quite a straw man. There's a pretty big difference between using a benefit as intended and taking advantages of loopholes in tax law by creating multiple shell entities around the globe. You can argue they have a duty to shareholders to optimize profits, but let's not pretend it's the same thing as paying your taxes as the law intended.

New comment by rabbidruster in "Lost around 150k of stock from my fidelity brokerage account (ACATS Transfer)"

rabbidruster — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 00:31:47 +0000

Fidelity 401ks are already much more strict in how you can withdraw

New comment by rabbidruster in "The Google home page is 500K"

rabbidruster — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 05:04:05 +0000

Doing anything too complex there would be pretty surprising to me. if they are it seems they didn't do too good a job since the test is emulating a old phone that should probably get a simple/smaller page

New comment by rabbidruster in "Crossbar.io – an open source platform for distributed and microservice apps"

rabbidruster — Sat, 08 May 2021 02:46:55 +0000

Websockets seems strictly more efficient than this strange attempt to create your own protocol. Not sure what challenges you've had with websockets, but I can't see how SSE is more efficient. Especially when creating protocols like client -> server where you'd need really custom edge proxy configuratings.

New comment by rabbidruster in "DreamWorld (YC W21) MMO raises all red flags"

rabbidruster — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 04:51:09 +0000

I think you misread that. It says you could spend your money on something better. like a juicero. Hard to know exactly how the author views juicero in terms of being a good product but I think the point is it's a much better kickstarter than this game. Seems you agree on that.

New comment by rabbidruster in "OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana"

rabbidruster — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:22:38 +0000

This just isn't true. A large number of companies are building new applications with MongoDB atlas

New comment by rabbidruster in "OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana"

rabbidruster — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 22:41:40 +0000

Where do you get the impression MongoDB is trending towards death? Seems to be growing by some metrics; the stock price has more than doubled in the last year. Not a fan myself, but still seems a long way from death to me and seem to be doing something right in enterprise market.

New comment by rabbidruster in "Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused"

rabbidruster — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 05:44:37 +0000

If they did step two it wouldn't be nearly as bad.

New comment by rabbidruster in "Ask HN: What's the best way to get a remote position"

rabbidruster — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 18:30:25 +0000

I think a lot of companies would choose the 50% higher salary if given that choice.

New comment by rabbidruster in "Amazon Hub"

rabbidruster — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 22:07:32 +0000

The video says receive packages from anyone, so sounds like it might be a direct competitor to luxerone.

New comment by rabbidruster in "Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003)"

rabbidruster — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 19:48:36 +0000

Do you use an external display? Mine crashes about once a week after I've unplugged it from the thunderbolt display

New comment by rabbidruster in "Uber blocks employees at work from chatting on Blind App"

rabbidruster — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 18:37:33 +0000

Hmm I downloaded it just to try yesterday and I was not able to access it from uGuest. Not sure if it's Uber or blind blocking it though.

New comment by rabbidruster in "The Invisible Catastrophe: Record Methane Leak in CA"

rabbidruster — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 22:45:20 +0000

Not directly related, but another interesting potential catastrophe in St. Louis.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-st...

Data Is a Mine and a Minefield

rabbidruster — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 01:10:10 +0000

Article URL: http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/03/data-is-a-mine-and-a-minefield/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10326002

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Google Nexus 6P

rabbidruster — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:26:40 +0000

Article URL: https://store.google.com/product/nexus_6p

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10297855

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New comment by rabbidruster in "St. Petersburg paradox"

rabbidruster — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 23:33:26 +0000

I think if you get tails on the first flip you still get the $2 payout.

New comment by rabbidruster in "Ghost: $411k Annual Revenue with a team of 6"

rabbidruster — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 06:47:37 +0000

I assume they're figuring this revenue would continue for a while even if they all quit tomorrow. From their August numbers their churn rate is down to 6%. Even at this rate it seems like they could make pretty good passive income if they all decided to stop working on this today and pick up a new day job tomorrow.