Originally Posted by
Fly2Where
Thanks for sharing. Can you talk more about the topic "$2000 To Top Elite Status" ?
That's what people were doing last year when there was DBEQM. Double elite qualifying miles. Right now it'd cost you somewhat more.
Originally Posted by
sunspotzsz
From the great slides, I can imagine the talk must be awesome too.
I am eager to watch it.
I just bought myself a fancy new bluemic yeti, i'll record a 'screencast' version of the talk.
Originally Posted by
Gamecock
How many people looked at you like you lost your mind?
Some people thought i was crazy. But it was a conference of people who do both are programmers, and fly to conferences a lot. So i think a lot of people got the idea. I know i wasn't the only person who'd done mileruns the room.
Larry Wall, the inventor of the Perl programming language, was there and seemed to really enjoy it.
Originally Posted by
aktchi
Yes the slides look very interesting and I look forward to the video itself whenever it becomes available.
Not sure why you call it hacking. That got me hoping you had found a technique for getting into AA's computers and setting my lifetime miles at a number suggested by me.
Would be great if you could do an AA MR seminar sometime. We seem to be lost in an ocean of UA stuff.
In the context of the conference, OSCON, it was clear to everybody there that hacking meant figuring out trick's in the system, rather than cracking in to servers.
It never occurred to me do a MR seminar. Perhaps i could do one online. See if anybody was interested. I do know that the limitations of a 5 minute talk meant that i had to leave a lot out. The one thing i'd like to include, but didn't, was challenges and matches. Undocumented ways to get status quickly.
If i did do an hour online workshop on MR's and status on AA. Would anybody be interested? Would you be willing to pay for it? How much?
-evan