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greatjack613

429 karma · joined July 9, 2019

Senior Software Engineer. Architects and builds high performance backends. Builds high quality native android apps as well with numerous production apps in the play store! Hobbies include coding and cooking.

Java expert, but loves kotlin.

In my past job:

AOSP expert, built and customized android for various clients. Currently in a role at meta. Want a puzzle?

var solution : String = 3 -x "VjFjNU1VbElUblppU0Zwc1drTkNjR1JEZDJkWk1qbDFXak5LYUdSSVRXZz0="

Hey there, I am not looking for a new job, but always on the lookout for a good oppurtunity. Reach out to me if you think we are a match.

What I am looking for?

TC > 600k Full benefits Values results over hours

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greatjack613··on Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians
@dang This is a patently false article written by well known anti semites and designed to induce a flamewar on any platform.

This does not fit with our values

greatjack613··on Show HN: I reverse engineered and documented United Airlines in flight API
I actually used it for my Zmanim App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wyre.zmani...

This app provides jewish prayer times. I use these apis to get the users precise current location so that we can tell them the prayer times even while flying in a super accurate way.

Fun fact: I hooked into the captain announcements SSE feed and a popup shows up that blocks users from using the app while the captain is talking.

greatjack613··on The New York Times buys Wordle
Oh man, another great game eaten by the big guys. Alternative - https://wordlle.app

Anyone here care to speculate on the reason why we are seeing so many acquisitions in the game space?

greatjack613··on Google scrapping FLoC, introduces tropic for ad tracking
https://webreader.app/?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/2...
greatjack613··on The New York Times Is Just Fucking With Us Now
For all those having trouble reading the actual article - https://webreader.app/?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/2...
greatjack613··on Tesla Now Runs the Most Productive Auto Factory in America
Paywall Free Version - https://webreader.app/?url=https://www.bloomberg.com/graphic...
greatjack613··on Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid
For all those that need to get around the paywall.

https://webreader.app/?url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar...

greatjack613··on Bolt founder on Stripe/YC
Honestly the fact you felt the need to try to answer up the claims by throwing dirt at one single point that they made makes it clearer to me then ever that the claims are true.

Everyone knows that the best pr strategy when your being attacked by someone who's claims appear true to anyone who has their eyes open is to keep quiet and let it pass, instead you blew this up.

I now believe them. Congratulations.

greatjack613··on Deta Cloud – Developer-friendly cloud platform
There is no free lunch, I would assume the plan is to either first take over the market and then introduce pro plans and make the free plans have usage limits due to "abuse".

Or the plan is to sell user data or something shady like that.

There is no way a company can offer a free unlimited cloud service, it is to ripe for abuse.

greatjack613··on Google Ads needs to be regulated over their account suspension practices
We need a small website publishers union.
greatjack613··on Ask HN: How do I protect myself against SIM swap attacks?
I use google voice locked with 2fa like the rest of my google account.

And yes, I have never been rejected from a service for using a google voice number as my 2fa source. Heck, even my google account uses 2fa through the google voice number - as one option :)

greatjack613··on Consider SQLite
That's a really interesting questions, I have not even considered that. Just using my providers automated backup system. Never had to restore yet
greatjack613··on Consider SQLite
I use SQLite exclusively on a high performance crypto sniper project - https://bsctrader.app and I could not be happier with it.

Performs much better then postgres in terms of query latency which is ultra important for the domain we operate in.

I take machine level backups every 2 hours, so in the event of an outage, just boot the disk image on a new vm and it's off.

I would never do this on my professional job due to the stigma, but for this side project, it has been incredible

greatjack613··on Help HN: Stripe shutting us down with 48 hours notice on a holiday skeleton crew
Agreed, I had to use paddle once for a subscription and the experience was absolutely horrific.

Events are delayed, no customer support, sucky sdk.

Don't touch them with a 10 foot pole.

greatjack613··on Apple to Apple Comparison: M1 Max vs. Intel
There is a lot more in single core performance then just clock speed, in fact ipc is even more important then clock speed when it comes to single core computing
greatjack613··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2021)
Location: NYC

Remote: Yes

Willing To Relocate: No

Technologies: Professionally I use Spring Boot, Java, AWS, Kotlin, and Native Android. Also dabble in Django, React, Web3, Solidity, and a bunch of other random tech for my hobby projects.

Github - https://github.com/greatjack1

Stack Overflow - https://stackoverflow.com/users/7025250/steeltoe

Email: steeltoejava@gmail.com Please put 0x59e in the subject line so that I can filter.

greatjack613··on Crypto Wash Trading
I have used sniper software such as https://cmcsnipe.com/ and the ease of use of web3 has allowed automated trading to be taken to the next level. Not surprised that so much fake volume exists when it is so easy to create.
greatjack613··on Crypto Wash Trading
I use https://cmcsnipe.com/honeypot to check for scams, easily detects if a token is a honeypot.
greatjack613··on Crypto Wash Trading
That's not true, the gas fees which are the largest part still go to the miners.
greatjack613··on 'Useless specks of dust' turn out to be building blocks of vertebrate genomes
Ha, I though this was an article on useless crypto - https://uselesscrypto.com since my skim reading of the title came up with Useless + building blocks.

Little did I know.......

greatjack613··on Ask Delphi
It is terrible, just tried this "Is it wrong to help someone out who was in a car crash" and it said it is wrong.
greatjack613··on NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on previous hacking attempts
@dang This comment is negative, and doesn't contribute anything productive to the conversation. Please remove
greatjack613··on Decreasing service fees on subscriptions to 15%
This will put a lot of pressure on apple to lower there fees.

Overall this is a good thing as long as it doesn't take away from the anti trust cases made against these companies.

greatjack613··on Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
https://www.unihertz.com/collections/all-products/products/t...
greatjack613··on Uber prices seem to increase when phone battery is low
This has been going on for years. Nothing new to see here. Uber is evil
greatjack613··on Useless Token – Worlds first honest pump n burn token
The team is very transparent and clearly talented. The community is light-hearted and welcoming. Not to mention the projects in the pipeline are very promising and solve current issues in the crypto market and are set to take over some unoccupied niches.
greatjack613··on Zoom cancels another academic event with Palestinian activist
She is a known terrorist. End of discussion. If you support twitter banning trump then your better support this ban.
greatjack613··on Securing a Postgres Database
Did not catch that. Sneaky self promotion there :)

Not sure what there reverse tunnel product is, but a bastion host is super easy to implement, just spin up an ec2 and walla.

Curious as to what value they are providing

greatjack613··on Securing a Postgres Database
I personally secure my postgres instances by putting them in a silod vpc without internet access. I then limit incoming connections to only be allowed from the separate vpc containing the application server

I then use a bastion host when I need to access ssh on the instance. The bastion host remains off and inaccessible except for when I need to perform maintenance.

The advantages of this is that there is no "always-open" access to the instance.

Not sure why the author does not advocate this.

greatjack613··on Ask HN: Paid/free lightweight solutions to host tech blog/site easily
Hugo + Github + Netlify - Exactly what you are looking for
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