As a FYI, you removed the original author's name from your license information. Per the MIT license, you need to preserve their copyright in your fork
Genuinely curious. Do you actually open the license file on all repos posted to HN?
Readit Newsporridgeraisin commented on Show HN: Gotui – a modern Go terminal dashboard library github.com/metaspartan/go... · Posted by u/carsenk
porridgeraisin commented on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri reuters.com/world/us/rubi... · Posted by u/italophil
Previously:
Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department, replaced by Calibri
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HN commentors on this font change harp on about how it's a waste of time (which it of course is), but that font change seemed to receive a more bland reaction. Funny.
This is the first time I've seen an ad presented as a bullet point in a list of otherwise-salient bullet points. Nefarious.
Yeah that's insane.
porridgeraisin commented on Duplication Isn't Always an Anti-Pattern medium.com/@HobokenDays/r... · Posted by u/birdculture
If you have only one copy of the code then you only have to fix the bug in one place, as opposed to a dozen. So there is significant cost savings. But there is a problem: when you make a bug fix you have to test all the different places it is used. If you don't then you could be breaking something while fixing something. If you have comprehensive automated tests then you can have just one copy of the code--if you introduce a bug while fixing a bug the automated tests will catch it.
If you don't have comprehensive test automation then you have to consider whether you can manually test all the places it is used. If the code is used in multiple products at your company--and you aren't even familiar with some of those products then you can't manually test all the places it is used. Under such circumstances it may be preferable for each team to have duplicate copies of some code. Not ideal, but practical.
Yep. This is the actual reason behind duplication I've seen 99% of the time.
It does support YYYY/mm/dd which is the international standard.
Curious - in Europe, do you do dd/mm/YYYY or dd.mm.YYYY? The latter should be straightforward to support, but former would conflict with mm/dd/YYYY that's already included.
In india we dd/mm/yyyy too
porridgeraisin commented on Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch thoughtbot.com/blog/git-3... · Posted by u/ingve
Huh. I always visualized "trunk" as some kind of chest where all the code was stored. Somehow it never occurred to me to think about trees. What a weird feeling.
Interesting perspective
porridgeraisin commented on A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure sacbear.com/xfinity-wont-... · Posted by u/vedmed
Nice thing in India is that all the major providers grey-legally put optical fiber everywhere, so you get FTTH or fiber to the street no matter what. In cities where the development authority is competent, it's slower as they actually have to get approvals and stuff. And in some places they use the 26Ghz band (technically part of 5G) for "air fiber" which is basically a wireless link from the roof of an apartment to a nearby line-of-sight base station. It gives good bandwidth as there is no interference with usual mobile data as that band never ended up working in practice without clean LOS.
porridgeraisin commented on Homeschooling hits record numbers reason.com/2025/11/19/hom... · Posted by u/bilsbie
Didn't homeschool here but started a charter school instead. Some of our neighbors did homeschool and I have mixed feelings about it. Some did very well, some not so well; but of course the same can be said of all of the kids in the area no matter which way they went.
A few things I'll note:
- educational spending has almost zero correlation with outcomes
- the number one indicator of educational success is parental involvement
- homeschooling and charter schools tend to attract the outliers from both ends. The smart who are underserved where they are and the kids with problems whose parents are involved enough to search for solutions.
- the real losers are those whose parents can't or won't get involved and who aren't succeeding on their own
> parental involvement
This is the _most_ important thing. Parents keeping a laser eye on their kids' performance in school, and having their own standards that the school must live up to, regardless of what commitees and boards and suits and academics and "experts" say. Even if it's just a standard for math competence. If the school isn't up to the mark, either pull up the school for it, or switch schools, or after school classes if it's an isolated problem. Many would be surprised at how many parents either can't(common in first generation educated) or won't do this.
> Spending has no correlation with success
In a setting where more spending is for more labour (when the labour is not done by parents/family) this is not true. Primary schools giving individual attention to students for example will do better than those with 100 students a class. But in most cases, more spending leads to more unnecessary flashy stuff. So in the real world, what you are saying is true.
Charter schools like yours are also sorely needed in america where math standards are absolutely woeful compared to RoW.
porridgeraisin commented on McDonald's is losing its low-income customers latimes.com/business/stor... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
Yeah, the McD app is ridiculous. For some items it gives me an add to order dialog and then an add to bag dialog (I might have the order of those two swapped). I'm not sure what the distinction is between adding to the order and adding to the bag.
It also has some ridiculous restrictions. Nearly every week I take advantage of their in-app deal for free medium fries on Friday if you spend at least $1 on other stuff. I make a sandwich at home, order a couple cookies plus the free fries in the app, then go pick them at the McD that is about half a mile from my home.
Occasionally though instead of making a sandwich I decide I'd like to use my McD reward points to get a free burger. But you can't get both a rewards points item and a deal item on the same order.
I end up doing a rewards points order for a free burger, picking that up at the drive through, parking, then doing a cookies plus free fries deal order, and going through the drive through again to get that.
What's the point of not allowing both a rewards item and a deal item on the same order? If the rule was you could only use one reward or deal per day, then it would make some sense.
That's funny
I have no first hand experience outside of North America so I won’t speculate. There is a cost of entry so you need to be moving enough volume in a market already working on razor thin margins. I’d expect that this means it’s only for the regional/national players here.
Ah ok so just to confirm the providers charge the store per user entry? That gives me a good idea of who would go for it. Thanks