See also: IsUserAGoat()

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30541473

I got reached out multiple times and got hired twice based on my public repos and contributions. While I’d like to enable this option for privacy purposes, seems that the only way I’d use this if my employer requires me to do so.

I did a similar thing back in college at [insert fast food franchise name].

One branch I went had a poster that roughly says "enter our mobile app survey and get a free meal", so I connect to their public wifi, downloaded it, enter the survey, and got a text message that can be exchanged on the cashier for some decent fries and other stuff. Later I learned that the app limits one submission per device per day, so few days later I start bringing friends to submit on their phones and got ourselves a free lunch. We did this once or twice a week so the manager doesn't get suspicious.

Then one time I accidentally got disconnected to the wifi after submitting, tried reopening the app and to my surprise, it allowed me to submit again. I guessed that they limit submission per IP address, so I tried reconnecting to the wifi and the app limits me like before. Me being curious, tried using a VPN and it didn't limit me both on wifi and mobile data, so that means I can do four submissions per day per device. Imagine how many meals I can get.

Few months later, the poster was removed, then later I learned that it was also removed on every branch in the city. The app just shows a blank white screen. Today I tried downloading the app and it still shows nothing.

> Imagine how many meals I can get.

Over the medium term, not significantly more than the (stupid, but apparently intended) limit of 1/day, rate limited not by technical but by biological means.

Recently Coil sent an email to customers related to their privacy policy update, and apparently the email is sent by CC-in to 600+ addresses. There is also a follow up email from them aplogizing that “ due to a human error related to how we interface with our mailing list provider, a number of users' email addresses were populated alongside yours”.

Here’s the HN entry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24846887

Love the app! Straightforward with no extra stuff here and there. I’d like to share some suggestions after using it for a while:

- adding an option to partially omit or edit the address would be great since not every part of the world shows the exact address accurately

- inform what datas are stored (i did wonder why they show the latitude and longitude, because privacy reasons)

- add prompts for isp/carrier provider, subscription/plan type, and other granular details so people know what to pick or expect

- minor improvements on the user interaction, like autofocusing on the input so users can instantly type, or tap an entry to view more details

Overall, looking forward to share the app to my fellow iOS 14 users!

Here's the repo for obtaining the tweets, if anyone's interested: https://github.com/mathdroid/twitter-dev-salaries-scraper

Other day related bugs: OpenOffice can’t print on Tuesdays

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8171956

For a lark someone should curate a collection of these kinds of errors, even if fixed, and make a calendar of what days we can't do certain things.

There's the classic 'Wednesday bug': http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Lieberary/Softviz/CACM-Debu... [Story 'B']

(I'm sure I've read a longer version of this one somewhere else on the internet.)

Error establishing a database connection

It looks like they missed load testing?

They didn't bother user testing either, the page disappears behind a full-page takeover ad for something pretty quickly. Not sure what it was an ad for, I closed the tab when that happened.

No Man's Sky, anyone?