{"id":8096,"date":"2016-07-05T12:57:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T16:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=8096"},"modified":"2016-07-05T13:10:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T17:10:25","slug":"the-one-thing-super-majority-of-cs-majors-do-not-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/the-one-thing-super-majority-of-cs-majors-do-not-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The One Thing Super Majority of CS Majors Do NOT Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Code kiddies. Look inside your wallet. Are you using a debit card.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you are, punch yourself in the face.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>If the debit card is in your name, take the other fist that isn&#8217;t sore from cranial contact and punch your nagen.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Look, a semi pro CS major <span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">can just take Experian&#8217;s, Trans Union&#8217;s and Equifax&#8217;s credit reports and write on them like you write on paper. This should be obvious, but let us review if this is not obvious.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/750363327704948737?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">7\/5\/16, 9:18 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Credit code, &#8220;1&#8221;. Like computer science, the credit bureaus use 1&#8217;s for ontime, 2&#8217;s for 30-days late.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Duck9&amp;src=hash\">#Duck9<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>So, given this truth <i>what would you want your credit report to exactly say<\/i>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">So when you use a debit card, you are exposed to &#8220;Gotcha Capitalism&#8221; where junk fees abound and counterintuitive calculations extract fees from YOU. For example, <i><b>authorization holds<\/b><\/i>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image1-1.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" id=\"824D4815-6232-47B2-84DD-F8D8AC2FE1F9\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>Associate 1&#8217;s to your credit report.&nbsp;credit bureaus use 1&#8217;s for on-time payment of an amount owed between $15.oo-$2000 paid-on-time, 2&#8217;s for 30-days late, etc.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Duck9&amp;src=hash\">#Duck9<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/750363983677456386?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">7\/5\/16, 9:21 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">When you have an uncollected debt, it&#8217;s credit code 9. Thus, 100% of your credit score reads &#8220;screwed bc of one item in arrears&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Duck9&amp;src=hash\">#Duck9<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Avoid credit code 9. Duck, 9&#8217;s.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Duck9&amp;src=hash\">#Duck9<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/larrychiang\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/larrychiang<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<table style=\"border:1px solid black;padding:8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;padding-right:8px;\"><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/596735423298211840?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">5\/8\/15, 10:56 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>A Jedi can just take Experian&#8217;s credit report and write on it like you write on paper using <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23PObox105281&amp;src=hash\">#PObox105281<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>So, what are you going to &#8220;write&#8221;<br \/>Tell me in the comments what exactly you&#8217;re going to do<\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\">\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang Code kiddies. Look inside your wallet. Are you using a debit card. If you are, punch yourself in the face.&nbsp; If the debit card is in your name, take the other fist that isn&#8217;t sore from cranial contact and punch your nagen.&nbsp; Look, a semi pro CS major can just take Experian&#8217;s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}