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I used to buy their shareware game diskettes (in Germany). They were in smallish colorful paper packaging, hanging in displays a bit like Lego polybags today, and they were everywhere. In every supermarket, in paper shops etc.

Data Becker also had lots of serious software, shareware and full versions. There were shelves full of it in electronics markets.

Also, some of the best PC books for amateurs were from Data Becker. I got one for Christmas that explained everything, from the hardware components to using MS DOS.

We've had localized programming languages: Visual Basic for Applications in Germany had "prüfe" instead of "select" (yes, with Umlaut): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_for_Applications?...

Today German Excel still doesn't accept "XLOOKUP", but insists on "XVERWEIS". On input, that is, it silently converts languages when opening .xlsx files.

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Toggle won't work, because people will see different variants of the discussion and reference it ("the sibling comment", "two above").

I was net-socialized in Usenet, strongly believe that threaded is much superior, but would choose flat every time for a project today.

nearlyfreespeech.net

As a direct consequence I have two alternative app stores on my iPhone. Something Americans cannot have.

Listed at https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

> Permissive licenses sometimes allow sublicensing, which allows changing of the license

No! Sublicensing simply means that there can be a chain of licensing, e.g. author —— Linux distribution —— end user. Not that the middleman can change the license.

(It's actually irrelevant in Germany, because consensus in our legal community seems to be that there is a direct licensing relationship between author and end user, even if they don't know each other and never interact)

> where our late co-founder is underperforming badly

That's hilarious. :-)

Sorry, carry on.

With the FS-1010 it was a constant clicking while in standby, every few seconds, day-in and day-out.

Do they still have the noisy, loud, nerve-wracking power supply clicking?

Years ago researching laser printers I chose a Kyocera. "All those people in the reviews whining about the sounds must be real snowflakes."

No. They were right. I got a Brother soon after.

Don't make assumptions about what parts must have been combed through so much that there is no chance of finding annerror.

I found one and got my cheque on page Arabic one in one of his books. Paragraph one. First sentence. The very first word.

Huh, I'm pretty sure I submitted the anchor to the relevant comment. Either HN stripped that or I fat-fingered it.

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> And then I asked The Question. And after I asked The Question, his face changed. He looked sick. “I didn’t think of that.” After The Question, he wished he’d been more explicit – gone to the course director. Been there more for Luminous. The good intentions that he wanted to assume, the passes he was willing to give the other man, evaporated, completely. They had evaporated for me, halfway through the story.

> When I tell this story to women, they spot The Question right away. The men don’t; they think that Dr Glass behaved like a gentleman, neither doing too much nor too little. They are feminist men, and good people. They have read “The Gift of Fear” and they talk about privilege and the patriarchy, and they don’t spot it.

Here: https://github.com/susam/susam.net/blob/main/site.lisp

Show HNs are for things that can be tried out, not for signup forms.

When I'm reading an article like this (and the follow-up), I need to remind myself that (Free)BSD cannot be blamed for its most rabid "evangelists".

So the license "scan" is just what the package manager's metadata says? That's not even close to being enough in practice. And we already have many of those tools that do the insufficient data collection, but nice dashboard thing.

See fossology or scancode for what's really being done in a professional context.

You don't need blame necessarily, just git log. You look at the latest version under your preferred license. That's the one you take your snippets from.

You probably still want to exclude Emacs directories from Windows Defender. That speed boost is massive.

> What makes you believe that?

Probably the sublicense wording that many techies confuse with relicensing.

Also sloppy wording in discussions like HN where "relicense" is sometimes used as a shortcut for "combined with a compatibly-licensed work in a larger work that can be used under the whole-work license".

No, it cannot. You can incorporate an MIT licensed work into a work that is licensed differently, but compatibly (not a real problem with MIT), but now you have three works that are under different licenses: the MIT part, the "other" part and the whole. The MIT part stays MIT. Someone can cherry-pick just that file (or file snippet) and use it under MIT, without caring about the license of the whole.

At work: one big text file with Notepad++.

At home: Apple Notes.

XML has robust tooling. JSON is created and used haphazardly.

No. It has practically nothing to do with Zettelkasten. For starters, Johnny Decimal says nothing about links.

> To be sure, all racial minorities have something in common, which is that they directly or indirectly deal with racial bias, or the consequence of it, from white people. However, the type, scope and impact — and each group’s understanding of intention — varies widely. And using the term “people of color” glosses over those differences, suggesting that all racial and ethnic groups will be primed to react similarly to the same messaging about racism.

javac does very, very few things. It intentionally emits byte code close to the source program. The HotSpot compiler in the JVM does the heavy lifting.

You can simply put it on a web site (and maybe sign it) so that everybody can mirror and archive the data.

The blockchain is irrelevant here.