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Their “About” site is (just slightly) more insightful: > Using AI-powered web search, we continuously monitor your questions and send you an email notification when the status flips to what you…

Not OP, but I’ve referenced the time stamps in my sibling comment. Also, “Be kind. Don't be snarky.” ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html )…

> First question after Moxie Marlinspike talk at the CCC conference was: "When will Signal not base itself on a mobile phone number, I am an activist from Iran" Not meant to be pedantic, …

Can you give an example? E.g., the MIT license wasn’t motivated by collaborative considerations, but it was mostly about the effectiveness and practicality of software distribution.

I don’t know much about the MinIO project specifically, but to me it seems to be a common misconception that just because a maintainer provides their software project under a permissive license (such …

Disagreeing with the “sour everyone's view of you” aspect is one thing, but you called out parent comment for a potential conclusion that they neither made nor intimated.

> intimating that if you have dementia you better kill yourself [...] is not ok. Parent comment doesn’t say this, does it?

Have you agreed on terms of payment with your client?

> In particular, by not allowing the user to change indentation style Prettier makes JavaScript much more difficult to read. Prettier allows configuring the indentation style (tabs/spaces) and…

> I'm sorry but this reads like AI slop. Or maybe it's not AI slop, it's just regular human-generated slop, but regardless: it's useless. > For one: it's intentionally c…

Yeah, sorry if my terminology was unclear here: by “relicense” I colloquially meant to say “assign a different license to the project that is applicable for any work from that point onwards”. > Any…

Why would this be surprising? The MIT license explicitly allows to relicense a project at any point. In this case, the Bear maintainer decided to start off with a permissive license and now exercised …

+1 for GoatCounter. I’ve been using it as well for a few years now, and I find it to be a good middle-ground between useful level of insight and respect for privacy. It’s very straightforward to self-…

I think there is some nuance to this: to me, it makes a difference whether you are counting page views in a coarse-grained, anonymous fashion, or whether you are going through all the hoops to find ou…

I think it’s important to acknowledge that peoples’ brains function differently. Only because whiteboard sessions are best for one person to exchange ideas, there may be other ways to do so that work …

Just a brief feedback on usage of the website: I’m not sure I understand what clicking on one of the projects on the homepage does. It always takes me to the same profile site of some “Anonymous Lurke…

Fun fact: “Das Mädchen” (“little girl”, neuter) is diminutive form for “Die Mad” (“girl”, female). All diminutives in German are neuter, for whatever reason. You could do the same for “Der Knabe” (“bo…

I forgot to mention that the price ranges I cited refer to DB (German railway company); I’ve edited my initial post to clarify. I don’t know the pricing at SNCF (French railway company).

> One-way fares from €59.99 second class or €69.99 first class. The “from” bit is worth to stress here: with DB (German railway company), one-way fares may be up to €233.00 for second class or €384…

I agree. While it’s probably not possible to settle on defaults that work for each and every scenario, my personal preference is that factory defaults should tend to optimise for safety primarily. (Bo…

2022; previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30428602

While that may be a cute pun (but probably also only if you know the “like tinder but for meal planning” backstory), I think their current name is a much better choice overall, as it’s clear and conci…

> Oh God it’s even got a subscription for it. This app is literally garbage. Can you elaborate on why you think it’s “garbage” when an indie dev is trying to make money off something they created? …

That was covered in the article, but as the author was already older than 30 years, it wouldn’t have been applicable for them. It also seems the Working Holiday visa is intended for “employment as an …