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I know the title references the code’s age, but I didn’t post it because of that. I was busy reading the full 3 part article, and found it fascinating.

Looking at the Apache 2 license, it seems like they want to take ownership of your trademark and monetise it. Otherwise they would simply fork it and get on with making their changes. I would point them to the license and ask them what issues they have with it. Expecting you to simply give them control over your copyrighted work is outrageous, especially if you didn’t do it on company time. It’s probably best to get a lawyer to look at your employment contract if it’s unclear how far they think their control and ownership extend.

I personally think a 10% annual price increase on .org domains is outrageous, considering the current price of a .org domain is $10. I know it's not a lot of money to an organisation, but it's a huge chuck of cash to the company that is getting paid across the millions of .org sites out there. It'll be interesting to see what they do with this windfall.

re: https://www.keypointsabout.org

I don't like dark mode.

So he's saying you have to have OCD to get anywhere, because that's what collecting bus tickets, or spotting trains is. It's a disorder. Calling it a theory is quite a stretch. And tacking on a bunch of "things" the theory says, is just stabbing at the dark.

"An obsessive interest will even bring you luck, to the extent anything can." - how I'd categorise the entire article. Ironically it's also an accurate categorisation of one's involvement in the Y Combinator Seed project: "to the extent anything can".

Let's encourage everyone to develop OCD for things that matter. Good luck with that.

What annoys me about Apple, is that clearly their time is valuable to them, but us paying Developer Program members are forced to waste days worth of business hours hunting through their appallingly maintained "documentation". And that really pisses me off.

The Art of Unix Programming looks interesting, thanks!

Mac Keyboard Shortcuts for a comprehensive list: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201236

The author attempts to contrast web scraping and web crawling and gets it very wrong. This is what it actually is: web scraping - I download the content of a webpage or select webpages, web crawling - I download the content of the entire internet (or part thereof). How he can say that someone who's crawling the internet and building a search index with the contents of the downloaded data isn't also scraping the web, makes no sense.

I've been looking for e-mail hosting to go along with a domain name purchase, without the file and site hosting I'll just use other services like GitHub for. Does anyone know any better or comparable offers?

Call it Sh*tFaced.

I’ve read that! It’s excellent.

I like it, but I would ditch the super heavy fonts. They are needlessly difficult to read. You only have to look at the Governance page to see that you’ve gone a few weights to far with the font choice.

https://beta.rust-lang.org/governance

Overwhelming is good. One or two points. I’ll DM you on Twitter with a list of RSS feeds that are no longer responsive (I think one has switched to feed burner).

Also, for an improved experience when importing an OPML, please consider nesting all outline elements inside another outline element that is treated as a folder when importing. I imported an OPML to Feedly, and have to manually move them individually into a “iOS Developer Blogs” folder.

Coincidentally I do something similar for Rust, but in not nearly as grand a fashion... https://github.com/rayascott/fearless-rust-bloggers

Ohhhh the motherload :-) (bows with hands in a prayer position)

Thanks for the recommendations and it’s encouraging to hear things have settled down in Swift 4.

You could get a cloudhosted 10 user XWiki service for 10€/month. I run a copy locally on my laptop for all my technical notes. It’s described as Enterprise but it’s really easy to use, or I wouldn’t use it just for taking notes.

https://www.xwiki.com/en/products/pricing

Yes. unqlite.h/c in the root at https://github.com/symisc/unqlite

Thanks! :-)

My idea is inspired by the way IDEs keep track of a system of associated files. If browsers could manage a project file that stores tab and window data that can be saved and restored, without using any built in bookmark feature so that the project file can be saved and stored in git, then I’d be deliriously happy about this.

That would be great if I could then open that file using a browser which would then load up those URLs.

Was hoping to save to a file, (call it a project file) that can then be subject to git versioning, retrieved later and suddenly it’s all back where it was, without using bookmarks.

Thanks for the extensions but my idea is more around browsers treating our activity more as multiple projects that we’re working on. Like associated files, they’re associated URLs. Extensions are fool, but you’d think the browser wars would spur greater innovation in this area.

What software is that on the right in the screenshots with the graphs? Anyone know?

Can any browser out there, Vivaldi or otherwise, take the tabs of a window and save the corresponding list of URLs so I can reopen that window of tabs at a later date?

That’s one essential feature I want from a browser, I’ve grown to desire more over the years, but for some strange reason, no browser I’ve seen out there allows you to treat sets of URLs as such.

I don’t understand how this link got posted again, when I posted it 11 days ago. What am I missing? URLs look identical to me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17953516

Not for me in the UK.

What's tragic and shocking is that RMS actually believes the joke is now more important than before when asking that the joke not be removed.

"The point of this joke is even more important now than it was when I first wrote it. Please do not remove it."

What's next? GnuJoke?

Nope, no backups were even created when Dorsey was in charge: “Oh, and while he was in charge, there was no backup of Twitter’s database.”

From the Fortune article “Let's remember why Jack Dorsey was fired as Twitter's CEO”

http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/jack-dorsey-twitter-ceo-fired/