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I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon
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Re: I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon
#302I like how this list is zero-indexed.
Liking zero indexed lists is such a dumb programmer meme. Lists are for humans to read and therefore should use the natural numbers, which start at one. Arrays are zero indexed because the first item of the array starts with zero offset.
I like it even more now.
Re: I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon
#303oh hey, I work on a team that should prevent this kind of thing. This should be fun to fix.
[I'm not allowed to say more on the topic, nor do I speak for Amazon, as per the current Amazon guidelines on what we're allowed to talk about on social media. We're hiring though, and it's a fun adversarial engineering job]
Re: I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon
#304Earlier quoted context omitted.
And it's because of dumb non-programmers that we have 12am immediately following 11pm. If we were to, instead, recognize the beginning/middle of the day as 0, the am/pm transitions would be sensible. Starting at 0 is almost always correct, teaching people to start counting at 1 isn't. Why do we continually come up with convoluted workarounds simply because we educate children incorrectly?
I believe that hours going up to 12 instead of going 0 .. 11 is because you can't quite hear a bell strike zero times, no?
Although that's kind of a clever response, most bells have a chime to alert you to the hour change so it would just be the chime without the counted bell strikes. Better yet, since 0 would always be the start of a new day, make the strikes do some kind of awesome song.
Re: I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon
#305Earlier quoted context omitted.
And it's because of dumb non-programmers that we have 12am immediately following 11pm. If we were to, instead, recognize the beginning/middle of the day as 0, the am/pm transitions would be sensible. Starting at 0 is almost always correct, teaching people to start counting at 1 isn't. Why do we continually come up with convoluted workarounds simply because we educate children incorrectly?
Wat? There are 24 hours in a day 1-24 or 0-23, pick your poison. But 100% Fuck halfday, 1-12 bullshit. P.S. Also fuckoff non-UTC time.
Fuck hours. There's only 1440 minutes a day. No time for hour conversions.
Re: I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon
#306I like how this list is zero-indexed.
Liking zero indexed lists is such a dumb programmer meme. Lists are for humans to read and therefore should use the natural numbers, which start at one. Arrays are zero indexed because the first item of the array starts with zero offset.
I found it interesting to see that building floors in Australia are zero indexed. The first floor there is what Americans would call the second. Not sure why they chose to do it that way but it works fine in the real world.
Re: I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon
#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
Liking zero indexed lists is such a dumb programmer meme. Lists are for humans to read and therefore should use the natural numbers, which start at one. Arrays are zero indexed because the first item of the array starts with zero offset.
I found it interesting to see that building floors in Australia are zero indexed. The first floor there is what Americans would call the second. Not sure why they chose to do it that way but it works fine in the real world.
The U.K. does the same. Starts with ground floor, then first
Re: I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon
#308Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's probably true, though I'm not sure that's enough to assume the gender of the offending party. Tangentially related, and not white collar, I once had a car stolen by a female. No damage was done and, being a silly old man, I didn't press charges. I was kinda surprised that it was done by a female.
Sorry, I never meant to imply the offender was male or female. On the contrary, due to the value of using a female name, it should not be regarded as evidence of the offender's actual sex or gender at all.
It's all good. It just seemed a bit odd as we're usually pretty good about not assuming gender at HN. I'm not sure why someone would vote me down, but what good is karma if you don't spend it? ;-)
Re: I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon
#309I generally reach out to third party sellers before placing an order. Only if they respond, do I place my order. In general it's better to avoid them though. Another scam and actually more hurting to buyer is the sale of stolen goods (again camera items like in the article).
Re: I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon
#310The A-Z guarantee is actually pretty biased towards the costumer. Something went wrong here obviously, but in part it is a side effect of too much information. There was no need to go visit your neighbors--once the wrong address is confirmed, A-Z should come into effect. Get someone on the phone if you can. The larger problem is the integrity of the package. For example, as a seller, I've had multiple chargebacks fro…
> In once case, the returned materials were clearly counterfeit (where I sold the originals)!
Do you use FBA? If so, do you allow inventory intermingling on your items?