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You can only do this if the payment is not for digital goods obtained and used in the app. Otherwise, it's a violation of TOS.

As a on and off tobacco addict with an addiction-prone brain/personality: Unlike coffee, video games, etc, tobacco addiction is terrible and you can really feel your health declining over a decade and more. It's not so much about dying 10 years earlier that's worrisome, it's about not having much quality of life.

As to being addicted to nicotine itself and consume it in the form of vapour: much less worrisome. Still, it's not great: withdrawal feels awful and is psychologically debilitating.

As to being addicted to nicotine as a high schooler: this is quite bad because the brain is still in heavy development and drug habits picked up in this timeframe tend to stay with you forever. Quite a compromise.

In my experience, this might be:

1. normal, up to a point. A lot of work is mostly not enjoyable, that's just a fact. 2. depression or ADHD or something related. If you suspect that, pay a visit to a psychiatrist or a general physician. 3. you don't want to do YOUR kind of work anymore. Maybe you should experiment a little with something different? I switched recently - I was extremelly bored at web programming and switched to Android programming some years ago. Now I have a lot of more fun. 4. your nature (meaning something innate and mostly unfixable (or not?))

Personally, I usually operate in cycles: bouts of excitement and motivation where I'm very productive, then I get tired and start to struggle and half-ass some things.

I generally agree.

I didn't know you couldn't install apps from unofficial sources on iOS!

Still, I think that getting your app banned from Play Store 99.9% of the times will mean an effectively dead app.

As an Android app developer, I try to publish on as many stores as possible, but traffic from alternate stores is unfortunatelly almost non-existent.

Also true for Android, but the king in this case is a bit more easy going.

Intel valued speed optimizations that are inherently insecure.

I live in Brazil and generics for drugs which patents are expired are widely available, accounting for 30~40% of all drug market. If I'm not mistaken, we even broke patents in some cases (HIV drugs), which is cool.

Wouldn't it be preferable to write only a forward declaration of the struct in the header files, and define the structs themselves at the .c files? In other words, wouldn't it be better to define them as Abstract Data Types (ADT) ?

That way, users of the library would have no direct access to the fields of the struct (e.g. hashtable->num_buckets;), they'd have to use a function declared at the correspondent header file. (e.g. get_num_buckets(hashtable);).

Direct access to member fields could break the data structure because data structures always needs to follow certain rules in insertion and deletion.

I will generalize and answer about all main technologies involved:

1. Hot Apps Nearby uses Firebase as a Backend,

2. Kotlin & Android Studio 3 (Native Android App),

3. Github Pages for the landing page (http://hotappsnearby.download), tracking pixels with Facebook and events with Analytics to optimize advertising

4. Namecheap for buying the domain.

5. Adwords, Facebook Ads.

The app Hot Apps Nearby collects a list of installed applications on the phones that have it installed. Then, _anonymously_, it saves that information with a location and shares these with people around.

Then you know every app's popularity in phones (users) nearby - of course, users that also have Hot Apps Nearby installed.

Wow.

I've been advised by a dental surgeon to not take off my wisdom teeth because of this.

Did you receive warnings about it before surgery?

"The workplace is no place for politics like this."

That's ironic. Because the politics that he criticizes are without a doubt left wing policies that ARE applied in Google, from top-down. I'm not saying they are bad policies, but they are political in nature.

A slight cognitive function decline is not at all that severe of a consequence, even if it is true. I'm pretty sure "brain damage" is true in some level for almost all recreational drugs. Amongst them, I'd say cannabis is a very forgiving drug of (ab)use.

This is my first Android App. Feedback is very much appreciated!

I never really did.

It's always 'later', and 'later' it never happens as promised.

Look at Uruguay. It is legalized - but no pharmacy sells, it's incredibly hard to find legal marijuana, and so the illegal market still thrives.

The medicinal model of the USA is still probably the most successful legalizaton case worldwide.

The information might be useful nevertheless.

>>> Why is nearly every culture against it

> Sobriety and self-control are essential to a functioning society and especially a liberal democracy. Freedom, to the extent we have it, requires that we can govern ourselves.

Yes, but we tolerate alcohol. We tolerate getting high - but we are selective about which drugs you can get high on. If we tolerate alcohol, so why don't we tolerate cannabis, psychedelics and other "soft drugs"? It's because of misinformation, fear, taboo and stigma.

>>> People are always going to take drugs, and by and large, they are harmless

> This is an argument that has never made much sense to me. People are always going to commit every crime. Laws exist because people will break them. And laws are effective deterents if the penalties are appropriately harsh. Consider that alcohol consumption took almost a generation to return to its pre-prohibition levels (around the 60's-70s').

But if you criminalise behavior that does not really harm anyone else but yourself (at most), you're inventing a victimless crime. Victimless crimes do nothing to help society - in fact, it degrades society, marginalizes and criminalizes otherwise respectable citizens, and in case of drug prohibition, guarantees that drug money goes to black market, which in turn potentially increase violent, real crime.

I like to get in here through the URL 'hackerne.ws'. It's shorter and easier to remember than 'news.ycombinator.com'.

As I see it, the change is minor and doesn't have any practical consequences, except for:

(1) the extra work for Arch packagers, who will need to change, in all packages, every Python2.x code that expects /usr/bin/python to be a Python2.x interpreter.

(2) making Python 3.x feel like the de facto standard in the distribution sphere.

I have just installed Tree Style Tabs. My impressions so far is that it's way cleaner and more organized than the traditional tab style.

I don't understand. You use all popular Chrome extension?

My intention is to find out the extensions that hackernewsers use, not the popular extensions. Of course there will always be some intersections, but I doubt everyone here uses all popular extensions, and I doubt no-one here uses some good but unknown, unpopular extensions.

You can't really compare them. Eclipse is a full-featured, lots-of-megabytes IDE. BPython is just steroids for the Python interpreter.

Rarely, yes. Mostly, no.

I am willing to pay for every proprietary software that:

- Has no good free alternative

- Pricing is not abusive

If there's no good free or even paid alternative and pricing is abusive, I don't hesitate to pirate it.

I also proudly share other copyrighted media (music, videos...).

And this is the reason the abolishment of Intellectual Property won't make the world any more chaotic or unfair.

Ideas are meant to be shared, and the market competitiveness will reward the ones that best execute them.

I agree completely. Taping and photographing policemen actions during service is a GOOD thing. Helps to control police abuse.

I guess i read it in Code Complete. Yes, it looks ugly; yes, it avoids many bugs.

That depends on the location. I think that in the USA people are still being locked up for marijuana use, although I guess that trend is thankfully going down. Can anyone confirm that?

Here where I live, in Brazil, you will get a lot of hassle if you're caught for marijuana possession. If you're black or poor, you're probably going to get a lot more hassle (being beaten up and being locked up for some time are almost certain to happen).

Generally, you can get away with 10 grams or something like that, but not without hassle. You better pray to Jah to not get caught :)

No, I have never been to Amsterdam. I am aware of the shrinking in the number of coffee shops. This is mainly because of international pressure: they are hardening the rules for the coffee shops, trying to limit tourist's access to them. I don't agree with that, but I understand it: international pressure is not easy to manage.