Hacker News: satanic_pope

New comment by satanic_pope in "Gift card gang extracts cash from 100k inboxes daily"

satanic_pope — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 17:07:32 +0000

That made me chuckle.

New comment by satanic_pope in "How r/WallStreetBets gamed the stock of GameStop"

satanic_pope — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 17:55:55 +0000

Someone educate me but why are hedge funds not limiting the loss by covering the short and closing their short position. Wouldn't that stop pumping from WSB crowd?

The only exceptions I could think of is :

- There isn't enough volume to cover shorts due to incessant buying spree from retail side

- Lending freeze initiated by brokers on client request

New comment by satanic_pope in "Notion encourages busy-work"

satanic_pope — Sat, 02 May 2020 17:14:03 +0000

Couldn't agree more.

As a pilot run - tried migrating small amount of knowledge base from Evernote to Notion but it just feels too overwhelming. Upending existing information architecture (with umpteen possibilities re: templates) quickly gets exhausting.

This is when I realized, I need an opinionated tool. Gave up and went back to Evernote.

New comment by satanic_pope in "'Expert Twitter' Only Goes So Far – Bring Back Blogs"

satanic_pope — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 03:04:12 +0000

My experience w/ twitter has been diametrically opposite - the fact that ideas represented are easily digestible ideas (especially from fields I wouldn't bother about otherwise) have usually driven me towards exploring it further if it piques my interests.

Ofcourse, its about how you're interpreting this information - by inquiry or face value (which can be dangerous).

I was skeptical about feed quality getting diluted when twitter increased character limit to 280 -- fortunately, for me, it hasn't (as much as I expected) with few exceptions.

New comment by satanic_pope in "Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases"

satanic_pope — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 21:48:41 +0000

Seconded!

New comment by satanic_pope in "Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases"

satanic_pope — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 18:32:11 +0000

Looks clean.

Would love to try some time but can't imagine porting all my notes (and knowledge base) from Evernote that I've accumulated over the years. Too exhaustive.

New comment by satanic_pope in "Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?"

satanic_pope — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 18:15:14 +0000

Good lord, just reading it can cause panic attack.

New comment by satanic_pope in "Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper program"

satanic_pope — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 18:14:26 +0000

Given how frequently they ran out of 65,000 tickets for within seconds (which would pop up under resale with > 200% markup minutes later), glad this is out in the open.

Also, Fenway Park is the worst. Had a terrible experience earlier this year while trying to book Pearl Jam tickets. Presale went live at 10:00 AM on February 10th (for shows in Sept) and they ran out of tickets at 10:01 AM, are you kidding me? Suddenly I see spike on StubHub an hour later with ridiculous markups.

Fortunately my Uber driver pointed out and suggested that I wait until day of the event (as fenway park puts up unsold scalper tickets back online at market price). I followed his advice and snagged couple of tickets on day of the event at market price as he suggested.

The whole experience was mind numbing.Can't wait for Amazon tickets to disrupt this space and drive 'em out.

Edit : When I said 65,000 tickets - I'm counting Pre-sale tickets as well including Verified Fan scheme they had going this year.

New comment by satanic_pope in "Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?"

satanic_pope — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 18:13:20 +0000

Thanks for pointing towards Slatestarcodex. Loved it.

New comment by satanic_pope in "Show HN: Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch"

satanic_pope — Tue, 29 May 2018 17:42:06 +0000

That was fun!

I know I'm nitpicking here but I see that some elements have not been broken down ( ex : cocoa powder in cookies) even on absurdly longer time scale. Regardless, good work.

Intuitively, it can serve as a good resource to understand food composition for cooked items.

New comment by satanic_pope in "Visualizing Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration"

satanic_pope — Wed, 23 May 2018 16:32:24 +0000

Pardon my ignorance but why do you need to leave the US again?

Based on my limited understanding - if you already have a EB-2 petition approved, you should be able to continue working on H1 as long as your employer is sponsoring you unless you're moving out of frustration due to long wait times.

New comment by satanic_pope in "Ask HN: What software is so good you are surprised it is free?"

satanic_pope — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 08:03:14 +0000

Pycharm (community edition) - you gotta use it to believe it. Incredible piece of software.

Dropbox (basic) - Support across platforms with cli.

New comment by satanic_pope in "Show HN: Monthly subscription airline with SFO-LAX flights starting at $78"

satanic_pope — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 03:55:41 +0000

For folks seeking some context on why LAX-SFO route, here's a list of busiest air routes in the world based on passenger volume :-

1.Jeju-Seoul

2.Melbourne-Sydney

3.Mumbai-Delhi

4.Fukuoka-Tokyo

5.Rio de Janeiro-Sao Paulo

6.Sapporo-Tokyo

7.Los Angeles-San Francisco

8.Brisbane-Sydney

LAX-SFO is the 7th most busiest.

Source : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-08/world-s-b...

New comment by satanic_pope in "Ask HN: What are your favorite browser extensions/add-ons for Firefox or chrome?"

satanic_pope — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:43:51 +0000

Firefox Extensions:

uBlock Origin : https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

Privacy Badger : https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

Tab Memory Usage (legacy mode as not supported on v57) : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-memory-us...

WhatRuns : https://www.whatruns.com/

Boomerang for Gmail : https://www.boomeranggmail.com/

about:addons-memory (legacy mode as not supported on v57) : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/about-addons-...

New comment by satanic_pope in "TransferWise announces $280M investment"

satanic_pope — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 19:51:39 +0000

I generally goto remitrate to check best rates offered today : http://www.remitrate.com/best-exchange-rates/compare-USD-to-...

In my experience, Transferwise has been one of the most expensive ones if not the most expensive. Folks at remitly, ria almost always offer better rates compared to Transferwise (atleast on two occasions when I was sending it)

I would at some point want to give them a try though.

New comment by satanic_pope in "Saying Goodbye to Firebug"

satanic_pope — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 20:15:40 +0000

When I started out as a web developer 5 years ago, one of the prime reasons for choosing FF over chrome was Firebug.

As a beginner, it made debugging so much easier. Five years later, I still cant fathom using anything but Firefox, alas, without firebug.

New comment by satanic_pope in "Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?"

satanic_pope — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 22:33:51 +0000

I havent finished yet, but I'm currently working on creating NAT using Raspi for :

1) Creating time machine backups 2) Accessing external hard drive anywhere

Will create a gist when I do finish.

New comment by satanic_pope in "Please take care of my plant"

satanic_pope — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 22:31:07 +0000

Coolest thing I've seen in a while :)

New comment by satanic_pope in "Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes"

satanic_pope — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 21:05:15 +0000

^ Sharp rebuttal that.

New comment by satanic_pope in "Amazon Is Testing Its Own Delivery Service to Rival FedEx and UPS"

satanic_pope — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 15:50:28 +0000

Here in midtown Boston, my experience has been a stark contrast compared to yours.

It seemed much more reliable than USPS at all times.