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Re:My website is ugly because I made it on Thursday May 29, 2025 @10:36AM (#44126546)
Self-important - sure, the author says as much themselves.

But how is it misguided? OP is having fun on their personal site. Where would you guide them instead?

Re:Map with public fruit trees on Sunday September 29, 2024 @02:32PM (#41689356)
This reminds me of the Stanford Gleaning Project

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=15Z25z2IyTYSzH0...

Okay let's charitably assume this PR for an Audit feature is completely unrelated to the Enterprise Audit feature introduced several months later.

The reviewers of the OSS code are still heavily incentivized to block this PR. Worse, if they knew a similar feature was being built for enterprise and this would never be merged into the free version, they be wasting months of contributors' time and effort.

You're missing the point, if this was just an unmerged PR no one would care.

But it's likely the paid Enterprise edition has merged this already, and now the same entity has an incentive to block this from the OSS version.

Hypothetically, if they never finish reviewing the PR, isn't that the same as "blocking"? Ghosting is still considered a rejection and arguably a much worse one.
Re:StreetComplete OSM Contribution App Begins iOS Port on Sunday April 21, 2024 @09:56PM (#40110862)
StreetComplete is outstanding app, and an iOS port will bring more contributors to places like the US. So happy to see this.
Re:Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop on Sunday January 21, 2024 @11:14AM (#39079775)
You took the libre bait, rookie mistake.
Re:Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager on Friday September 22, 2023 @12:15PM (#37613910)
Makes sense - great work so far! This is easily the best looking PTA app I've seen.
Re:Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager on Friday September 22, 2023 @12:10PM (#37613850)
> Do people who use this kind of software manually enter every transaction they do every day, or something?

Yes, exactly that. You can do automatic imports of your bank statements but that's arguably more hassle.

It takes 10 minutes at the end of my day to record all my transactions and it gives me a complete understanding of where my money is going.

Re:Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager on Friday September 22, 2023 @12:05PM (#37613780)
Awesome! I've been using Beancount/Fava for over 2 years now and this looks really slick.

One thing off the bat I noticed, it doesn't look like custom Tags are supported? I use tags all the time in beancount, say to filter for a trip #trip-europe-2022 which would break down my cash flow and balances (and the rest of the fava UI) for a subset of transactions.

Re:Fast Machines, Slow Machines on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @04:04PM (#36511831)
Fully agree. When I was younger I used to care more about privacy, and would use nothing but FOSS apps and OSes no matter how much it inconvenienced me.

There's a significant opportunity cost for zealotry.

Re:GPT-4 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:31PM (#35161889)
My AI career disaster plan is to immigrate to a country with a UBI
Eh, from the rest of the thread I don't think these 133t HN readers are the target audience anyway.
Re:The Disappearance of the Ashtray on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @10:18AM (#34504611)
Not because of how violent and graphic, but because there's a chance the death is immediate. Cancer is always a long, long time away.

It's like saying if you put $100 in your 401k every month, there's a chance (equal to the number of new retirees) you instantly get $2M dollars.

Many more people would understand the immediate gain instead of the 30 year slog.

Re:South Korea's middle aged men are dying 'lonely deaths' on Saturday December 31, 2022 @10:43AM (#34197376)
DAE, LEFT=BAD all of the times?
Re:Mac OS 9 on Monday December 05, 2022 @01:27PM (#33869595)
Warcraft II actually plays, I wasn't expecting that.
Re:Almost Everything on Amazon Is Becoming an Ad on Thursday November 24, 2022 @10:49AM (#33732657)
I suspect it's more about value of returned items than the quantity. I have returned ~half of the items I purchased in the last year
Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:11PM (#33338901)
Thanks, I like reading this stuff. But that link was 3.5 years ago
Re:We’re adding barcodes to our regular stamps on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @11:58PM (#33104227)
Yeah, I prefer talking about the many illegal drugs you can fit into a stamped envelope.
Re:DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open on Thursday August 25, 2022 @09:17PM (#32602200)
Email is inherently insecure, I don't see how this is worse.
I'm referring to the international sales. We only sell within the US, state taxes are relatively easy
Thanks for the explanation, I missed the tax and other benefits at first glance. I don't have those tax complications personally but I do see the value now.

Having a checkout bundled with paypal/apple pay/card is pretty compelling however.

That's pretty funny in hindsight.

> If/when we switch, we'll probably just go to a bare bones payment processor that is much cheaper than Stripe with less support.

Also what we're considering right about now

From @koopajah on discord: "We don't really drop nines if one specific feature is having issues". Pretty convenient payment processing is just a "feature" of a payment infrastructure SaaS
Looks expensive, though. 5% + 50¢
Are processors like Square any better?
Same issue, customers notify us before hearing anything from Stripe. 4 hours of no payment processing really hurts
Re:I regret my website redesign on Thursday July 21, 2022 @11:43AM (#32180738)
Professional, nice.
I've seen that video, the takeaway was the difference in price is so miniscule you might as well use what you're comfortable with.
Re:On the Weaponisation of Open Source on Saturday March 19, 2022 @08:39AM (#30733287)
This is when the "no warranty, expressed or implied" kicks in, no?

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