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sauerbraten | 3 years ago | on: iPhone 14: Cheapest Country to Buy in 37 Countries

Not sure if the site was updated, but there are multiple comments here about sales tax missing for the US price. The site clearly states it added that tax for Canada and the US, and shows two prices for each country reflecting the lowest and highest tax applicable based on where you buy the phone.

sauerbraten | 5 years ago | on: OVH Cloud shuts down Guerrilla Mail

Funny, I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mobile-wikipe... because I generally prefer the mobile site, even on desktop. (Same with Twitter by the way.)

sauerbraten | 5 years ago | on: Why we’re changing to the AGPL license

Okay I get what you mean now, I looked at it from a legality POV. I agree with you that plagiarism might not be illegal but still unethical.

Why do you not just pick a license that forbids uses not compatible with your ethical standpoint, and chose to just not enforce the terms should they be violated? This way, companies are likely to respect your intent and preference and you don't have to make use of a legal system you don't support.

sauerbraten | 5 years ago | on: Why we’re changing to the AGPL license

Is it really plagiarism if you explicitly allow them to use and even sell your code, though? Also, plagiarism implies they don't give you credit and instead put their own name on it.

sauerbraten | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: My notes on Working with Go

I checked out the example code for arrays (https://github.com/betty200744/ultimate-go/blob/3de8a053d9f7...) and noticed that OP seems to misunderstand a few things about Go arrays:

- the cheat sheet differentiates between 'declaring' and 'declaring and initializing', but in Go there are no uninitialized arrays (or slices) - a lot of times in this file, a slice is created instead of an array (lines 18, 21, 25, 31) - arrays in Go don't really have a capacity (it's always the same as the array's length) - the built-ins append and copy as well as the sort functions don't accept arrays (I assume this is why slices are created?)

sauerbraten | 6 years ago | on: Don’t bail out the cruise industry

I don't know much about this, but I assume the advances in renewables and carbon neutral ships is driven mostly by regulation aimed to reduce pollution. Can we really give the cruise companies a lot of credit for that?

> The demand for cruises is not going to go away.

Good, then there will still be cruise ships after the industry felt the consequences, and perhaps they will have learned something.

sauerbraten | 6 years ago | on: Why Cloudflare Chose AMD EPYC for Gen X Servers

*BND, from Bundesnachrichtendienst

sauerbraten | 6 years ago | on: Destroying C with 20 lines of Haskell: wc

isspace is defined as a macro at the top of the file, and it's definitely not locale sensitive ;)

sauerbraten | 6 years ago | on: Finding the real first post on Instagram

I have my doubts about the timestamps on these first posts. How did Kevin get from Pier 38, where Mike supposedly photographed him at exactly noon, to Todos Santos at ~2:30pm, when it's 28 hours away?

sauerbraten | 6 years ago | on: An algorithm wipes clean the criminal pasts of thousands

The code in the screenshot is valid Go (switching on strings, no parentheses around the if condition, incrementing a map value using ++) and could even be the output of go fmt (with the { on the same line as the if).

The app itself appears to be written in Ruby (the github link is posted elsewhere in the comments), and looking at the image included in the article further down I assume the code is from a Go app that takes the Ruby app's logs and generates some statistics.

sauerbraten | 8 years ago | on: Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society

Don Jon, for those wondering. (At least I think that's the one sjg007 is talking about.)

sauerbraten | 9 years ago | on: System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house

> So where is the option for an XPS with Linux, any flavor (or even Freedos or no OS) pre-installed?

The XPS 13 is available as a developer edition with Ubuntu instead of Windows preinstalled: http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/productdetails/xps-13-93...

sauerbraten | 9 years ago | on: Germany's New Crowdfunded Train

Your BahnCard 100 is only for DB trains, and their partners like regional transport associations. Not sure why you suspect it to be valid for a competitor's service. And I doubt Locomore will ever partner with DB...

sauerbraten | 9 years ago | on: Macbook Pro Touch Bar runs watchOS

Here you go: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd?3x_n...

You have to use the normal XPS 13 page and choose Ubuntu from the OS filter.

sauerbraten | 9 years ago | on: Users You Don’t Want

The user(s) you might not want are the parents, not the disabled child. Proper care for the child represents their quite unique problem that they want you to solve so they can use your product. The child having special needs is what sets these patents/users apart from the parents/users you made the product for.

sauerbraten | 12 years ago | on: How not to write an API

Correction: an API account can see all users that registered through the API with that account's key.

Still, WTF!?

sauerbraten | 12 years ago | on: German freemail sites trick Firefox and Chrome users into removing AdBlock

Just to clear one thing up: the fake warning message doesn't say the security is "compromised", but rather "limited" or "constrained": http://pda.leo.org/ende/index_de.html#/search=eingeschr%C3%A...

What they pull is still shady, but the text seemed a bit sensationalist at that point.

sauerbraten | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Goatee – Redis, WebSocket notifications in Go

What a coincidence, I see you use JSON config files: I wrote a tiny package to parse commented JSON files not long ago, maybe it would be a good fit for Goatee?

https://github.com/sauerbraten/jsonconf

sauerbraten | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's your speciality, and what's your "FizzBuzz" equivalent?

When !E(y,z), then also !E(z,y) (because symmetry). Also, E(y,x).

Thus !E(x,z), because E(y,x) and E(x,z) would imply E(y,z), which is false.

sauerbraten | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: I built this website to help people with hashtags. Hope you'll enjoy it

I thought this would look for words in your text that make for a good hashtag, e.g. converting "you only live once" to "#yolo", and make hashtags from nouns but not verbs and commonly used words. Unfortunately it seems to just put a "#" in front of every word, which (for me) isn't even worth it to go to that website, type my text, copy it over to twitter/instagram, paste it, then send it.