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Re:Ask HN: How is your startup doing? on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:04AM (#37996039)
Not the author, but yep, I think there is a typo here.

Should be https://vokabeln.io/ (vokabeln is German for “vocabulary”)

One thing it could have been is the “brushing” scam

Creating fake orders to enable fake reviews for a product to be posted, boosting the product listing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushing_(e-commerce)

On https://account.jetbrains.com/licenses if you click "Renew" for the appropriate product then on the next page, under the Subscription dropdown there should also be a "Purchase Period" dropdown. It's probably set to "Default" rather than "1 year", but can be changed to "2 years" or "3 years". Does that option not appear for you?
Nicely communicated. Everything that JetBrains does around their pricing and subscription model always feels really fair and classy to me. (perpetual fallback licensing, continuity discounts).

In this case, being completely upfront in the post title that this is a price increase, no "Updated pricing" or "Revised pricing" etc. Reasonable notice period with an option to renew for multiple years at the current pricing before the change comes into effect.

If anyone is looking to export a list of their saved pages the links for this are on the Settings page: https://www.instapaper.com/user

A list of all saved pages in all folders can be downloaded in CSV or HTML.

Re:Subscription Hell on Sunday May 06, 2018 @04:24PM (#17008298)
> some way cross-apply the license purchase price to a subscription

They did do this. From the footnote to to their original announcement[1]

Recent purchases of the Mac app will unlock up to 12 months of free use, and purchases of the iOS app will unlock up to 6 months of free use. Your individual free-use duration is calculated from your actual purchase date, respectively, and if you bought Ulysses on both platforms, we will add together both periods.

[1] https://ulyssesapp.com/blog/2017/08/ulysses-switches-to-subs...

Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s on Saturday March 03, 2018 @04:54PM (#16511858)
I'd be interested in this, please do drop me an email if you do put this on GitHub. Thanks.
Virtual assistant[0] is an accepted term for a human assistant, but agree that with the increase it chatbots it is confusing. Definitely worth clarifying as having a real person answering the questions is a lot more valuable.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_assistant_(occupation)

Not certain, but the built in setting may only be for Macs with the Touch Bar, where it's available under System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts and choosing the "Function Keys" category.
For machines with the Touch Bar, this can be achieved using System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts and choosing "Function Keys" from the list of categories. You can then specify apps that should show function keys instead of app controls by default. (i.e. inverts the behaviour of the fn key in the listed apps.)
The post you're thinking of:

Strategy Letter III: Let Me Go Back! http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000052.html

Re:Ask HN: Heroku Replacement? on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @06:18PM (#11818694)
What part of the change means that it's no longer suitable? The free dyno hours can be shared across several infrequently used apps, and apps will sleep after inactivity to prevent them using up the free hours.
Either of SuperDuper! http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription... or Carbon Copy Cloner https://bombich.com/ is great for making a complete, bootable copy of a drive.
Re:BBS the Documentary (2013) [video] on Monday May 11, 2015 @03:04AM (#9523151)
Also available for download and streaming on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/BBS.The.Documentary (the documentary is released under Creative Commons BY-SA)
Re:I would have hired Doug, but... on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @04:49PM (#9501695)
see the Mozilla JavaScript docs here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

a Date can be constructed with either a number of milliseconds since the epoch or a string in a format recognised by the Date.parse() method (IETF-compliant RFC 2822 timestamps and also a version of ISO8601)

Re:The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever on Sunday April 19, 2015 @08:57AM (#9402960)
I don't think there's any conflict between these. The first just means that you only get a response from a single god of your choosing for each of your three questions, as opposed to receiving a response from each god for each question. It doesn't mean that each god is asked exactly one question.
Re:NYC taxi visualization on Monday July 14, 2014 @02:14PM (#8032318)
I was seeing the same a few minutes ago (also in Chrome) but it's working for me now so it's worth giving it another try.
Re:Vesper 2.0 and Vesper Sync on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @05:59PM (#7807146)
No OS X version yet, but it's what they're working on next according to the last part of http://vesperapp.co/blog/vesper-2-0-and-vesper-sync/
Re:Show HN: Job board designed for freelancers on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @11:42AM (#6096797)
Side point, but '.'s in gmail addresses are not significant so email to [email protected] will still reach you.

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