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I wrote a tampermonkey script that automates this: https://blog.bench.co/blog/how-to-hack-priceline
It’s only fair that someone uses this trick against them and defeats their bullshit business model.
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I agree. I’ve both seen it and read the book.
Ok, so you are trolling. Sometimes is hard to tell. Good movie indeed, I will make some room for the book.
After 20+ years in the business, I'd be more surprised if a consulting company didn't bill for extra hours and screw over their clients. haha.
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Reminds me of int main(int args, char ** argv) { static int foo[640*1024]; return 0; } This compiled into a valid MS-DOS .exe, but spit out "Out of memory" and exited when attempted to run. Was quite handy for getting an extra day to work on lab assignments back at school.
You got an extra day for an out of memory exception? I wish I was that lucky
I may have infected my classmates with RATs in school with another partner and uncovered a large number of class romances.
I may have been an asshole as a kid. I'm just glad I grew up.
I helped build Grindr, which of course I don't think was unethical. But I've been surprised by some people's reaction to it. It generally comes up in some conversation where someone asks "what have you worked on that I might have heard of?" Occasionally they follow up with (paraphrasing) "how do you sleep at night?"
Know anything about that or the extent of it?
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Ha, I write telemarketing support systems for a living and feel your pain. It might not be sexy work but sure helps to grease the wheels of commerce and put food on the table.
Telemarketing does not help grease the wheels of commerce . It helps grease the wheels of scamming. Commerce is when people buy stuff they do need and that provides value to them. Telemarketing is conning people by pushing them to buy shit they never needed and that won’t provide any value to them. It is not commerce, it is scamming. I’m not criticizing you for doing the necessary things to put food on the table, but…
In another occasion, I cracked the copy protection on one of their applications. They had a full license, but the protection relied on a magic 5¼ floppy disk and their new machine only had a 3½ drive.
I promised myself I'd never work on accounting software again. Later, I ignored the owner's questions about what kind of internet businesses to invest in. He was dangling some of his money in front of me, but I didn't fall for it. Which was a good call, because a few years afterwards, he got in trouble for aiding his sketchy clients I mentioned above.