I had a heart attack because I talked about Java's @Override annotation in my Git commit comments, but GitHub displays them as the user @OverRide. e.g. https://github.com/nayuki/DEFLATE-library-Java/commit/ee01de... , https://github.com/OverRide
Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
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Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
There use to be a site called batcave.net that gave free space and a subdomain. I had the name search.. search.batcave.net until one day when they decided to take back the search subdomain name and use it for themselves. From that point I've avoid great common usernames that one day might be too great
I think it was Vodafone who once let a user register the username root@ and then later had to take it back. ;)
We had a similar problem when I worked at Belgacom Skynet from 1998 to 2001. We didn't separate our customer user aliases from our employee user aliases -- customer and employees alike were all "user@skynet.be".
The customer who had previously owned "brad@skynet.be" was real pissed when I got hired and his alias went away. And I don't blame him. But there wasn't anything I could do about it.
This mixing of employee and customer addresses on the same server really bit the company hard one day when a certain VP of the company felt that he had to mail out a 50MB PowerPoint presentation to every single employee in the company -- all 500+ of us under the alias all@skynet.be.
And no, at that time, the mail server did not have 25GB of disk space for the mail queue. He broke all mail across the company and all customers, until I went in and fixed his mess. Allowed mail message sizes went down to 5MB, and all mailing list type aliases went away and were replaced with a separate mailing list server. That VP was super pissed that he couldn't send out 50MB PowerPoint presentations any more, but I didn't suffer any repercussions due to what I did to fix the mess he had created.
Soon thereafter we bought new servers to use for customer-only traffic (matched pair of Sun 420Rs with a dishwasher-size external RAID array that they were connected to over fiberchannel), and we kept the old mail server (Sun E250 with eight internal hard drives with software RAID) for employee purposes.
Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#253Earlier quoted context omitted.
In many email systems there is an undo send feature. Outside of those closed contexts where yanking a message out of the recipient’s inbox is possible, it is generally implemented by waiting a few seconds between when the UI says the message has been sent and when the message is actually sent. During that interval, an undo send option is offered which simply cancels the upcoming send action.
Nothing calls attention to an email better than those messages saying that the sender wishes to retract a message you have already downloaded.
Yes, and those recall messages only exist in the closed systems where such retraction is possible, or in the open systems which send those messages that are more designed for the closed systems.
The implementation I described with a slightly delayed send doesn’t use those recall messages, since the email being sent doesn’t actually get sent until after the delay. I believe this is how Gmail’s version of the feature works, for example.
Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#254@dave here. The struggle is real!
Actually I only get a couple of random mentions per week, no not exactly soul crushing to unsubscribe.
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It's been 41 years since the song came out. Assuming that Jenny was 21 when the song was written, (since there is a chance the number was written on a bar's bathroom wall) she would be at least 62 years old now. Statistically, there's at least a 1 in 4 chance that Jenny is dead now, and there is no chance that she didn't change her number after receiving 800 million horny crank calls.
It was about 5 years ago when I realized that 8675309 is hitting all of the numbers on the keypad diagonally in stripes from the upper left to the lower right, skipping 1 for some reason. Probably so he could rhyme 'mine' with 'nine'
When the song came out, almost all phones would have been rotary dial, so this is probably just coincidental.
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There's a prank call podcast called The Snow Plow Show, and the guy set up a bot at a phone number that will automatically reply to callers with voice clips from a lady who yelled at him in a prank call one time. So fans of the show will put the number on windshields or craigslist ads so people will call the number and get yelled at, and the calls are all recorded so he can listen back to them later and pull out the…
Hahaha! Never thought I'd see BeverlyBot and Sorry I Dinged Your Car mentioned on HN. Been listening to RBCP (The guy who does Snow Plow Show and Phone Losers of America) for a long time now. Great to throw on in the background for some laughs at the end of the day while reading.
Cactus cactus!
Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#257At my previous job, I decided to make a Slack channel named after one of the C preprocessor directives (#define I think, or maybe #endif). A handful of people found it and appreciated the joke. But then, a few months later, one of the admins contacted me to ask if it would be okay to delete the channel. You see, in large organisations, Slack knows which channels are not meant to be visible to other parts of the org,…
That'll teach 'em to put it in a code block!
One of my biggest pet peeves is people dumping whitespace-sensitive plain text without any kind of code blocks, rendering it completely unreadable.
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#258I once changed my mobile phone number so the last 8 digits were 69696969. I thought this was hilarious. Then I found out that people have randomly scrawled that number on every toilet cubicle "For a good time call XYZ69696969" and I would get calls all the way through the night, every night.
Steve Wozniak had 888-8888 for a while. Which is a très cool number to have, but he was getting hundreds of calls with nothing but random sounds in the background. Eventually he figured out that babies were pushing the buttons on their parent's phones, and all-eights were apparently easy for them to press. https://www.wired.com/1998/09/woz/
Helluva good read! The early days of personal computing were wild, super interesting time :)
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I am unsure how society is "made worse" On the contrary, this is playful, it is not evil or abusive. also helps keep companies on their toes. Changing someone's username without notifying them AND consent should be frowned on. Taking a large company to small claims will not make the company worse or hurt anyone. Most of the time it is helpful and sometimes brings about the creation of needed regulations. It is feedba…
Civil courts are a service. They have significant delays and backlogs in many places, to the detriment of people with legitimate reasons to use them. Probably in no small part due to frivolous and nuisance suits.
Abuse of the court system is a criminal offence in many jurisdictions.
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#260@reset here. Always reply when I get @‘d because I love the laugh and also genuinely find the joy in looking at what people are building afterwards. Never stop, it’s a great part of my day
Mine was @username and GitHub just suddenly changed it to usernamex.
> Mine was @username
It's not bad.