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alafazam commented on Show HN: Magic links – Get video and dev logs without installing anything    · Posted by u/irtefa
alafazam · 4 months ago
browserstack's free extension can do this.
alafazam commented on I Know What You Download on BitTorrent   iknowwhatyoudownload.com... · Posted by u/easterncalculus
flak48 · 5 years ago
An intern once thought it was a good idea to torrent a couple of Game of Thrones episodes using my startup's Digital Ocean box.

We found out after Digital Ocean forwarded us an email from HBO (who presumably tracked Digital Ocean down via the IP) that we were engaging in piracy. We sent an email to everyone with access, saying whoever was doing it to stop. Then we got a second email (a final warning).

Everyone denied doing it, so I had to find the offender via checking the bash history of the box for all users.

Sure enough a couple of mkv files had been downloaded and deleted by an intern :( Making the mistake of downloading it was forgiveable once, since we lived in a culture where piracy was rampant / normal (this was before Netflix et al were available in my country). But repeating the offense, failing to come clean and making us waste our time to locate who did it was not. (This was a small 7 person startup so trust was super important).

As for why the intern needed to ssh into a digital ocean box to run a torrent? The college internet (where he was working from) blocked torrent connections and he wanted to be the first one to download and release the episodes on the college intranet. Smh.

alafazam · 5 years ago
My collage had similar restrictions for many website and torrents. I tried something similar by renting a server and then trying to download torrent in it but obviously got instantly blocked from Service provider.

Somehow 1-2 months later I got a request from my college's computer center to make some changes in the college intranet landing page. Then I became good friends with them. and later I got an account from them, where everything was open. I was a good time ;)

Hmm but doing that in a 7 person startup, and then repeating the offense, and then failing to come clean !! seriously man..

alafazam commented on The case of the 500 mile email   ibiblio.org/harris/500mil... · Posted by u/tosh
alafazam · 7 years ago
Not my article. I am just posting it here.
alafazam commented on Letting go of the GPS to learn the art of natural navigation   theguardian.com/lifeandst... · Posted by u/mislankanova
kerng · 8 years ago
Interesting, I occasionally use GPS in areas I have not been to. My general philosophy is navigation by approximation, slowly closing in on a destination by finding big landmarks first. Its not the most efficient but it makes for great tours and trips when not in a rush.
alafazam · 8 years ago
This is exactly me and my friends are doing these days. When we have enough time and we want to go someplace on the other side of the city. Instead of using maps to navigate we follow a general direction to reach a landmark first then look at the map once to see our route from there.
alafazam commented on Adrian Lamo has died   zdnet.com/article/adrian-... · Posted by u/ad_hominem
alafazam · 8 years ago
I have read almost all his answers on quora. And from all that, one thing is there which i know for sure, that he was a good man. Rip.
alafazam commented on The Army is eyeing a personal hoverboard that can reach 10,000 feet   businessinsider.com/the-a... · Posted by u/skellertor
alafazam · 8 years ago
Page is removed. 404 is coming.
alafazam commented on DevDocs API Documentation   devdocs.io/... · Posted by u/nieksa
alafazam · 8 years ago
They also have a chrome extension. Devdocs.io is awesome.
alafazam commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2017)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
alafazam · 8 years ago

  Location: Banglore
  Remote: No preference
  Willing to relocate: Maybe
  Technologies: Nodejs Python java git Linux sql mongodb HTML CSS MEAN stack 
  Résumé/CV: alafazam.com
  Email: alafazam@gmail.com
1 year of experience in mnc 6 months in bootstraping an e-commerce startup

alafazam commented on A Method for Password-Less Authentication   h4ck.guru/passwordless.ht... · Posted by u/hackguru
alafazam · 9 years ago
Everything looks great, except for bluetooth. Can't we use internet instead.?

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