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Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by Eliezer »

gjm11 wrote: post #247
Eliezer wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you under the impression that a random key fits a random lock?

No, of course not. I am , however, under the impression that if what you want to do (as here) is to minimize the probability that you get completely shafted by having had the test-setter choose answers complementary to yours, you should choose yours in a way that makes that probability low. Random choices are a very effective way of achieving that. [EDITED to add: not because "a random key fits a random lock" but rat…

Okay, you're right.

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Post by wallflower »

iloveyouocean wrote: post #224

Free airport long-term parking hack. Upon returning from your trip, walk through the long-term parking gate and grab a new ticket from the machine. As you are leaving the lot, hand the attendant the new ticket. Tada, free parking.

Be careful, in the larger lots they scan the license plates every day. I only know this because we forgot where our car was and they looked it up in seconds. So, potentially, they could map your license to your ticket on checking out.

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Post by jasonkester »

tpz wrote: post #198
jasonkester wrote: post #42

I used to work as a salaried employee for a consulting firm. I'd record my hours on a timesheet so that they could bill the right clients, but anything over 40 hours a week was ignored on my paycheck. The understanding was that if ever your hours dropped below 40, you could bill an overhead number to make up for the difference, thus the fairness of not getting paid for overtime. So a year in, I only managed to find 3…

Don't kid yourself. You were called into those meetings because, like at many companies, there was a promise of time in return for extra time put in but, like at many companies, that promise was never intended to go both ways. The first meeting was because you dared to utilize their promise and get some time in return. The second meeting was because their usual course of action in such first meetings backfired on the…

Thanks for paraphrasing, but all that was implied in what I wrote. It was company policy to promote the illusion of paid undertime at the expense of no paid overtime. The only problem was that they'd written the policy in a way that it could be exploited.

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Post by runjake »

stakent wrote: post #245
Mz wrote: post #141

Surfed the zero percent interest rate promos on credit cards: rolled debt onto a zero percent card (thus not really making a payment that month because you just moved the debt around) and had lower payments until the promo ran out. Repeat with new promo on a different card. One I'm proud of but might not be counted as a hack here (not exactly naughty, but good for blowing people's minds, so similarly satisfying to me…

You can have great product idea here. Ebook - how I ... etc.

Sorry, my comment is going to be relatively content-free, but I thought it important to emphasize stakent's suggestion.

You should really do an ebook/book on this. Your subsequent post was very well-written, and it have a good income/effort ratio.

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Post by Mz »

stakent wrote: post #258
Mz wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty burnt out on trying to help people. It really goes over very poorly and I get lambasted for it and, so far, there has really been no money in it. :-/ But when I start that webcomic I keep swearing I will start, it might be good material. :-D

I'm talking about showing people that it is possible and in best interest of both parties to divorce without fight and lawyers. Of course not in every case. Showing not by talking, writing to each one of potentially interested one by one. Showing in ebook. And sell it. Not cheaply. This kind of information has its worth. To help some people to save stress, time and money and earn money by yourself. Hmm, poor lawyers.…

I've also figured out how to get myself well while living with Cystic Fibrosis. That should be worth something too and is way cheaper than the drugs and stuff I got off of. But it's mostly been worth a kick in the teeth (I just left yet another health list yesterday on less than amicable terms).

The lesson I have learned: When people used to accuse me of being egomaniacal, they meant "I think it can be done, just not by you (bitch)". Now they accuse me of being a liar, charlatan and snake oil salesman, which apparently means they don't think it can be done by anyone at all, not even with the help of the right scientists, doctors, research facilities and hospitals, much less by some loudmouthed brassy broad, former homemaker and financially challenged divorcee. They just can't wrap their brain around it. A webcomic may be the only hope I have of actually educating people and has some hope of paying my bills as well, which is pretty darn important to me.

"Know thyself". The whole save-the-world, goodie-two-shoes, I-just-want-to-HELP schtick is really so not working for me. It's not like I haven't tried.

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Post by ig1 »

In my university they gave sequential IP addresses and phone numbers to all the room, I combined this data with our uni LDAP system, so I could go from any identifier (photo, email, name, room number, telephone number, ip address) to any other identifier.

It's was more for a fun hack than anything else, but it raised the issue that from someones IP address you could figure out who they were and where they lived, so my uni ended up changing IP allocation procedure sometime after that.

Also as a side effect I found a number of "black holes" in the LDAP system that queries for certain users returned a null result, after going through the list by hand I figured out that they were "VIP" students (typically sons/daughters of the powerful/famous) - it turned out that by merging the data sets in the way I had, I'd also built a system that highlighted the personal details of the "secret" students, the exact opposite of what the university had intended.

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Post by runjake »

Mz wrote: post #249
stakent wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can have great product idea here. Ebook - how I ... etc.

I'm pretty burnt out on trying to help people. It really goes over very poorly and I get lambasted for it and, so far, there has really been no money in it. :-/ But when I start that webcomic I keep swearing I will start, it might be good material. :-D

Then don't think of it as helping people, but as providing a useful product for cash and prizes. Backsearching HN will give you ideas on how to generate income for your insight here.

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Post by garrettgillas »

TheSOB88 wrote: post #119
garrettgillas wrote: post #62

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Ok, one more hack from college although it probably won't work these days. All of the professors in the science department at my university would tape lists of their student's IDs and their test grades outside their office through out the semester including finals. When looking for classes for the following semester, I just had to look at which professors gave better grades on average and sign up for their classes. T…

So you actually took the 75% A classes? Did you learn a lot from those profs, or were they just giving the As away? I would figure that, knowing nothing else about the prof, the one with grades in the middle would be the most effective teacher.

Heck yes did I take them. At the time I had little interest in biology and I felt that it was interfering with my real education, which it was. Nothing against biology, but most of the things that I learned in college that I would call "valuable" (professionally and otherwise) I did not learn in class.

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zaphar wrote: post #167

hrmmm... In college I worked in housekeeping. Every summer we would refinish the floors of various sections of the campus. Invariably someone would get past the signs and barriers and walk on the freshly waxed floors. So one summer I'd had enough and decided to do something about it. We set all the barriers up as usual with one small change. We posted an additional sign up somewhere where they could only see it if th…

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zaphar wrote: post #167

hrmmm... In college I worked in housekeeping. Every summer we would refinish the floors of various sections of the campus. Invariably someone would get past the signs and barriers and walk on the freshly waxed floors. So one summer I'd had enough and decided to do something about it. We set all the barriers up as usual with one small change. We posted an additional sign up somewhere where they could only see it if th…

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