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cnowacek··on AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
While I agree with your point, conflating the effort to install apps outside of the Google Play Store with the effort to immigrate to a different country is wildly incomparable.
cnowacek··on We Use Blockchain Technology Behind the Scenes
Your pricing says 5 sites (and 1GB) on the $9/mo plan. For a simple use-case, I create static sites for artists and art museums. As you can imagine, their assets can be quite large and numerous.

Just knowing that there’s such a small limit for $9 is a concern right at the top of the funnel. When there are cloud options for pennies per GB there needs to be a clearer value prop for the additional cost.

cnowacek··on We Use Blockchain Technology Behind the Scenes
The pricing, $9/mo for 1GB, is way too high for me. The file/folder upload limit at the first paid tier is also questionable.

Maybe I don’t understand the value for such a high premium compared to more ubiquitous providers such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.

cnowacek··on Show HN: Burner – A low cost wallet to gift crypto
Gifting dollars on gift cards today is only supported by 99.9% of retailers. How many retailers accept USD II?
cnowacek··on 'Terminating Internet Access over Piracy Claims Is Drastic and Overbroad'
Why do you think copyright should be abolished?
cnowacek··on “I’m selling data of 400M Twitter users that was scraped via a vulnerability”
That’s the time zone offset and year of the “created at” timestamps.
cnowacek··on Snapchat Source Code GitHub Leak Caused by Bad iOS Update
I'm guessing that somehow a chunk of their source code got marked as "copy to the bundle" from within the project's build phase. One scenario I could think of this happening is a bug in a custom build script that was intended to copy other resources (images, sounds, etc.) to the bundle and copied an unintended directory containing the leaked source code as well.
cnowacek··on Understanding contravariance
Conveniently, this link: https://www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep14-contravariance was also on the front page of HN. It explores contravariance a bit more and provides some practical examples in Swift.
cnowacek··on The power of Result types in Swift
Not necessarily. The way that the enumerated type is declared, the associated types of the success and failure values are declared to be normal (not optional). This restricts nil from being passed in as the data or the error.
cnowacek··on Go Is a Great Fit for Lambda
Sounds like this person explains what you're asking for: http://blog.rowanudell.com/database-connections-in-lambda/
cnowacek··on Show HN: A Hacker News Reader in Vanilla JavaScript
Super fast – that's really impressive! There may be an off-by-one bug. The next page of results seems to be missing the first element (e.g. 30, 60, etc). The results go from 29 to 31, 59 to 61.
cnowacek··on Stop writing PHP like it's 2009
It's not just a question about style. ?int can be enforced at compile-time while the null and type check would be caught at runtime.
cnowacek··on HackMIT 2017 Admissions Puzzle
'Login' can be used as a noun or a verb. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/login
cnowacek··on Stream Video to Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram at Once with Vertic
Stream or upload recorded video?
cnowacek··on Show HN: The Crowdtilt Mobile App
Collection takes place through our payment service provider, not IAP. There is no 30% cut.