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30,000 active users. Android. Health app that was coded in 2 hours. Ads were great at $14-19 a day. Using the app myself, I noticed the ads interfered with the experience. I removed them. $0 for 4 years.

I'm stopping smoking today. I plan to create an Android app every three days. Hopefully, I can get a little side revenue coming in.

For my pharmacology class, I had to attend multiple AA sessions. From my experience, in two separate regions, AA replaces the addiction with an addiction to social responsibility and moral responsibility (through a deity). In my honest opinion, judges are prescribing religion (or Kohlberg?) as a replacement addiction. My outside observation was cult behaviors with a climbable hierarchy of social power and control.

Whether you spend three years in continuous integration and test suites, service oriented design, embedded assembly, high/low level network stack, Javascript, Python, or even a PaaS, you just have to keep challenging yourself. Never settle and keep expanding your views. Bridge the gap by learning and engaging in things that interest you.

Just the amount of understanding required to comprehend the keyboard press to the letter appearing on the monitor is insane.

Remember, you're not useless and inexperienced. The stigma from those words alone are holding you back. I have a feeling you are bored. You have a thirst!

Also, recall that articles and comments are much like Facebook, a peek into someone's good life that makes you feel bad about yourself. The good always seems great, and the bad goes untold. I'm on revision 744 of a 10 page website/service layer right now with only 30% of the requirements met.

I see the committee on the horizon. The SOA musings have been spreading like an infection for two years. The erasers being thrown over inheriting a Person that just has a name attribute vs building it right into the supposed child class. I see more time being spent in meetings and coworkers gathering in niches than actual productivity.

There's only one important part to the processes and applications we built: data. Protecting, serving, logging and preserving data. Nothing else matters.

As a democracy and regardless of citizenship, doesn't _everyone_ deserve due process? The first thought that crosses my mind are Canadian terrorist mounties with snow wolves, snow mobiles, alcohol and aboots. Would they be droned by the US or captured and trialed?

I feel the same way. This is a display of the veil of ignorance that shrouds war and citizens. US citizens are OK slaughtering 'others' (the faceless and nameless) with drones. When it comes to 'it could be me', it turns into a great outcry against the force. 'It can only be them.' The thought really needs to be 'if XYZ occurs, anyone deserves to be droned.' Perhaps, we would be more sympathetic for the others.

I was a participant for a month. I realized that my problem was time rather than motivation. Other than that, it is an excellent community and well worth the fee! The instructor's path and the community's expansion is a really great thing to be a part of. I almost kept paying to just watch the community grow, but felt guilt in eating up a spot.

There is a significant relationship between internet points and effort.

I enjoyed 'hours surfing the internet' for those 'currently looking for a job.' If you have enough time to stay employed and surf the internet: you probably just feel like you're employed to receive a paycheck. Not challenged at all and seeking adventure in a new shiny grass field. Let's read about those greener fields (or burn time) instead of acting on it.

This is true. The bank told me that _any_ debit card, if you report fraud within 2 business days, should have zero liability. I have never found a reference for that information.

Someone spent $2,000 at Comcast and Neiman Marcus on my card in one night. I reported it the following day and it was reversed and I was given a new card the same day.

I would love more information from a banker on how the fraud disputes are won. Sometimes the merchant pays, sometimes the bank pays, sometimes it split in percentages. I know it has to do with how the merchant processed the payment or if a pin number was used for the transaction.

With the fruitless/mindless attacks from the comments, I can see the crowd is still about the same. Lots of low hanging fruit with a few guys getting rich (like most schemes).

It is funny how this business has not changed since 1998. The communication channels changed, but the ideas and market is still the same. My first introduction to this was with the Windows RPC remote exploit vulnerabilities. I setup some honeypots to determine what the botnets were up to (most were manual B/C class scans at that time, the good old days before decentralized command). I ended up following the trail of controllers up to a random efnet IRC chatroom and finally to a more private area. That's where they sold/traded data from the botnets. This was prior to the 'rent a botnet to DDoS' era.

Back then, credit cards without CVV2s (from Windows IIS Servers exploited with that long string bug leaking out plain text documents) were worth about 50 cents a piece. CVV2 brought it up to around $2-3 for US, $4-6 for UK/CA. Address information was around $15. It seems the market has deflated a lot, the credit cards are probably from targeted companies rather than scripted botnets looking for vulnerable boxes, and the data can just be bought from a website rather than having to get a third party to moderate the exchange.

Once again,the comments reminded me the most of that community. Someone mentioned about entering CC info on a CC theft site. There used to be a RTF document exploit where you could execute something or another from them, the dump sellers would infect their dump files (RTF docs) and steal the client's data. These communities are cutthroat.

"Facebook Ads Are OK, but supporting them on HN is great!" You have just followed suit and created backlinks, conversions, ad views, etc. Don't worry, we all do it! It's the cycle of internet flow these days.

I'm with you. There are far too many variables ranging from audience, timing, ad setup, money, etc to even begin measuring in any scenario. The million dollar per month investment may see a better conversion rate than the ten million dollar per month investment. There are just far too many variables at play.

While American Idol was becoming a thing, I acquired #1 ad placement on the keyword 'dance' for 2 cents per click through Adwords. I was getting 100,000 impressions an hour. For me, Adwords was the greatest thing known to humans. Then, I attacked more keywords for other sites. Horrid conversion/CTR. Just different sides of the spectrum. You win some, you lose some.

We still use python2.0-2.5. Various versions for various libraries. It is hell.

Was probably a program running beep codes, haha. I have also had servers executing beep codes that brought great anxiety to me for endless hours. Turns out it was just some debug alert calling the motherboard speaker beep.

For those who don't know, solaris uses tmpfs for /tmp. It is a virtual memory/swap based file system. Anything in /tmp is actually temporary if the machine reboots/powers off.

My advice to everyone: if an altcoin pops up, mine it for a day or two. Place the funds in a private wallet. Backup the wallet on a USB key and two hard drives. Do not access it for 2-3 years. Early on, farming a block takes no effort at all. Later on, if the altcoin succeeds, you hit a random lotto. Otherwise, you have a few encrypted wallets and probably wasted 15 minutes setting up the miner per altcoin. Be wary of the altcoins.

Emacs uses lisp and loads of recursive functions. I imagine the spiral has something to do with recursion.

I'm currently working with ActiveMQ. I try to think of it as multiple IRC networks. Channels as topics for users by users, servers as gateways to isolated materials/users, server global messages as topics for users by servers, server local messages as queues for users by servers and private messages as queues for users by users.

It is absolutely fascinating offloading a message to the queue and letting the back-end handle workflow and shuffling it to another queue for micro-tasking (such as in the article). In fact, the topic/queue paradigm has really shifted my whole view on services.

Forgot to mention the queue added a layer of security. Our front-end is now the same as spawning a shell in the server (as far as data access). If you can spawn a shell on the webserver, the server is isolated from everything except the MQ ip/port combo. This means that what was possible on the front end is the only thing possible on the back end (as far as penetrating data). I'm sure a clever person could get figure out a way, but for your average person, that will be a show stopper.

Out of nothing to the absurd. (Take that with a grain of salt, we're on the same level.)

I suppose this is an excellent example of testing prior to moving to production. I have 'ex nihilo ad absurdum' tattooed on my right forearm. It was more a reminder of the dark depression that spawns from philosophy and to distance myself from the subject. I would undo that decision if I had the choice.

I also have 'backdoor' symbols in my proprietary code. It is a means to bypass certain functionality in a test environment. The test symbols do not get excluded in the production build due to laziness.

I dropped out of school due to some legal reasons regarding computers and such. I recommend Pell grants and 2-3 years at a community college. Siphon every single general credit you can. Aim for an A in every class. Transfer to a university that will take 60~ hours from a community college. Siphon out every scholarship in the book for being a transfer student, community college student, GPA, you name it. If its out of district, apply for in-district housing after a year. Also, start internships in school. Final advice, once you get that job, if you can, put 9%-15% into your 401k!

Does anyone correlate the 'luck surface area' with that recent discussion on being a sociopath in the workplace. Something along the lines of convincing your coworkers that you're doing more work than you're actually doing. No one can really pinpoint what you do. You just communicate so much that it seems that you're 'in everything'. Just subtract the doing and exponentiate the telling to result in more luck.

Interestingly enough, having a beard has made people deem me as more socially approachable in the past two to three weeks. The underlying truth is if I have a beard: I'm depressed and lazy. Even at nearly 30, shaved, I still look in my late teens or early 20s. People do not treat me the same when I look younger.

Correct. My computer pulls ~250 watts idling. It can easily go into 750 watts mining with a video card. I would imagine it can pull 320-375 watts at max cpu load.

I had the same thought back in 2012. The lab had just upgraded to the most expensive i7s available at the time. After reviewing my lab agreement, I quickly realized they could sue me for my organs.

A saner choice would have been to set one miner off, look at the results after 24 hours, and finally multiply that by 100. In retrospect, looking back at the benefit/risk analysis, you gained very little and risked too much!

Sometimes, especially in computing, sanity is asphyxiated by adrenaline. Just remember, you walked a dangerous line and to be more careful in your actions. The new acts/laws treating simple computational offenses as criminal charges are very extreme.

My lineup was: Intro1/2: C++. Systems: Assembly. Data Structures: C++. Unix Systems: C/perl. Algorithms: C++. Software Engineering 1/2: Java. Networking: Java. Architecture: C/Assembly. OS: C.

SEng1/2 was introduction to Java/design patterns. That's it. It was the largest waste of time. Then, the holy grail, networking! That professor really threw us into the dark sides of APIs and tortured us. Very little direction and ridiculous projects. That's where I 'learned' Java.

Three years later, I cannot remember Java. I do not recall how to handle the Arrays or anything of that nature. I can still rehearse C++ code off the top of my head! There was no functional programming at my uni in _any_ course.

Ask about disaster recovery, backups, penetration testing, what to do if a database/webserver breach occurs, or any form of generic networking/routing.

My monitor was supposed to be delivered on the 24th. It will not arrive until the 27th. Huge let down by UPS, because I had to spend the holidays with my family instead of staring at 144hz of beauty! </sarcasm>

I would imagine a spike in the amount of Amazon Prime memberships increased this week due to console purchases. My first experience with Amazon Prime's Instant Video automatically got me to shell out my credit card information for movies on my child's Wii U. I have now completely cut the cord on my cable broadcasting. $40/yr Amazon, $95.88/yr Netflix, $95.88/yr Hulu Plus, totaling $231.76 vs my yearly cable television bill of $900/yr (with an extra unmentioned $120 in random fees/taxes).

SSD prices down to 25c/GB by 14Q3.

The advent of the Steam cube will probably increase sales for microatx/itx (I want to shove $2,400 in hardware in a portable computer too).

Academics will still rely on Perl instead of GPUs.

Potentially the rebirth of engines. There has been a large amount of media revolving around electric vehicles and conventional engine waste. Sometimes, media can get the cogs flowing for the right person.

A large amount of misinformed HR reps during the reenrollment period!

144hz monitors utilizing Nvidia's GSYNC will be a huge game changer for gamers (aha). Variable refresh will probably get us extremely close of the beauty of the good ole 22inch CRT monitors.

Rift will hopefully be the iPhone of VR. Not the 'everyone needs one', but the 'this is something you have to see to believe' factor. We have been stale for a bit on the electronic wow factor.