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jordancolburn

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    Comment #15257579

    LinkedIn: All the creepiness of a social network, with the addition of all the pushiness of a recruiter.

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    Comment #15223870

    I appreciate the thorough response. It did make me stop and think about my assumptions. You present some convincing points,but I still come to the same conclusion because: 1. The s…

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    Comment #15223668

    They are showing tickets that recently sold. Just regardless of whether or not they fit in your searches and whether or not they knew they were already sold at the time you loaded …

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    Comment #15223605

    I did think that might be the case. However, after deleting the IDs multiple times, the same sold tickets kept popping up, even minutes later (didn't time it exactly, but it was a …

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    Comment #15223486

    Company responded and said they removed the "feature". They confirmed to me that it was part of an AB test (which I had seen in the code), but did not confirm or deny my suspicion …

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    Comment #15222244

    Maybe, they had some other junk about AB test flags and I didn't dig far enough to see how that was set or if it was random from the server. My wild guess is that they turn it on f…

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    Comment #15222224

    I was pretty surprised, but maybe they were hoping for security by obscurity as it was buried a little in the sources. I don't think devs as a whole have really grasped a lot of th…

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    Comment #15222188

    Good point. Races (5k, marathon, etc) do that also to encourage people to sign up early. I think it's dumb, but at least the festival tier thing is honest. It's the dishonesty that…

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    Comment #15221994

    I actually didn't catch that typo they made the first time as I was so shocked at how easy it was to force it to keep reloading already sold tickets.

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    Comment #15221929

    Yeah, but to stick with the analogy, isn't this more like putting out empty boxes of TVs that have already been sold and having employees dressed as customers frantically buying th…