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How to Hack an Expensive Camera

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Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

#11

Post by jimmaswell »

"My wife and I always wanted a Leica camera and suddenly we realized that if we didn’t buy it now, we will not be able to for a while."

Is this the mindset of "better buy the expensive thing before we can't afford it"? I've seen this expressed before and it's not sound reasoning. If you wouldn't be able to keep that money in a savings account because you know you'd later find other uses of the money to provide better value then you shouldn't be comfortable spending it on a depreciating asset immediately. The only way it makes sense is if you trust your future self's reasoning less than you trust your present self's.

Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

#12

Post by sho »

ackbar03 wrote: post #10

This is crazy, how on earth do you have the patience and persistence to work on something like this??? It took five - six years?

This comment is kinda snarky and borderline facetious but man, I can't help but agree. After 10 years hanging around this site if there's anything I've learned it's that I am nowhere fucking near "max geekiness". I couldn't stick with a project like this for 6 hours, let alone 6 years. And yet literally in the last week I've been (gently) ribbed for being nerdy enough to think reading books for pleasure is an acceptable leisure activity.

This is orders of magnitude of geekiness beyond anything I could possibly accomplish, and I mean that in the best possible way. Kudos to the author and thank god for the real nerds.

Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

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Post by ackbar03 »

sho wrote: post #12
ackbar03 wrote: post #10

This is crazy, how on earth do you have the patience and persistence to work on something like this??? It took five - six years?

This comment is kinda snarky and borderline facetious but man, I can't help but agree. After 10 years hanging around this site if there's anything I've learned it's that I am nowhere fucking near "max geekiness". I couldn't stick with a project like this for 6 hours, let alone 6 years. And yet literally in the last week I've been (gently) ribbed for being nerdy enough to think reading books for pleasure is an accepta…

Dude it wasn't meant to be snarky at all. It was literally like wtf how is this even possible.

Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

#15

Post by aaron695 »

Did the title on HN really have to be changed from the original correct title that the author and OP chose -

"How to Hack an Expensive Camera and Not Get Killed by Your Wife"

to the current iteration -

"How to Hack an Expensive Camera"

WTF have we become. Living in fear is standard now? Can't talk about the fact some men have wives? Can't talk about relationships have conflict. Can't use humor to discuss these issues cause we are doing so well on twitter....

The title is a clear indication of the writing style as well, compared to "How to Hack an Expensive Camera" sounds like a AI spam bot.

Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

#16

Post by codetrotter »

omeid2 wrote: post #3

A little of topic but the reference as a huge list at the bottom is forgivable for print media, but for interactive media, there is no reason for such inefficient method that requires one to click on the reference only to find yourself skimming through a list trying to remember what the number was and once you have found it, great, now you have to find your way back to where you were reading! Wikipedia's recent refer…

In Safari on iOS you can use the back button of the browser to jump back to where you were on the page before you clicked the link to the reference. You should see if the browser you are using does that as well.

Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

#17

Post by avhon1 »

codetrotter wrote: post #16
omeid2 wrote: post #3

A little of topic but the reference as a huge list at the bottom is forgivable for print media, but for interactive media, there is no reason for such inefficient method that requires one to click on the reference only to find yourself skimming through a list trying to remember what the number was and once you have found it, great, now you have to find your way back to where you were reading! Wikipedia's recent refer…

In Safari on iOS you can use the back button of the browser to jump back to where you were on the page before you clicked the link to the reference. You should see if the browser you are using does that as well.

This also works in pretty much every other browser I know of.

Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

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Post by bestham »

jimmaswell wrote: post #11

"My wife and I always wanted a Leica camera and suddenly we realized that if we didn’t buy it now, we will not be able to for a while." Is this the mindset of "better buy the expensive thing before we can't afford it"? I've seen this expressed before and it's not sound reasoning. If you wouldn't be able to keep that money in a savings account because you know you'd later find other uses of the money to provide better…

I don’t think that this is about not having the money at a later stage, but about spending that kind of money when you have other responsibilities (kids) being irresponsible.

Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

#19

Post by Jonnax »

jimmaswell wrote: post #11

"My wife and I always wanted a Leica camera and suddenly we realized that if we didn’t buy it now, we will not be able to for a while." Is this the mindset of "better buy the expensive thing before we can't afford it"? I've seen this expressed before and it's not sound reasoning. If you wouldn't be able to keep that money in a savings account because you know you'd later find other uses of the money to provide better…

That's likely not the reasoning.

More the idea it's easier to justify spending the money when there aren't other priorities.

Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

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Post by patrickg_zill »

jimmaswell wrote: post #11

"My wife and I always wanted a Leica camera and suddenly we realized that if we didn’t buy it now, we will not be able to for a while." Is this the mindset of "better buy the expensive thing before we can't afford it"? I've seen this expressed before and it's not sound reasoning. If you wouldn't be able to keep that money in a savings account because you know you'd later find other uses of the money to provide better…

In the specific case of Leica, the company did raise their prices rather steeply. If he bought before then, his camera might have increased in value.
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