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Re:Htmx changes license to Zero-Clause BSD on Monday January 15, 2024 @01:13PM (#39004059)
If I contribute code to an open source project under the BSD 2-Clause license and don't sign any contributor license agreement, can the maintainer relicense the code without getting my permission?
Re:Building Cloud Storage from Scratch on Monday December 07, 2020 @02:28PM (#25336062)
Great article! Very interesting to find out how something I use every day works. Your post is easy to follow and understand, excellent work!

I see it didn't gain any traction, you should try submitting it again later.

Re:Htop 3.0 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @11:47AM (#24343049)
It's Google AdSense with Auto ads (In-page ads, Matched content, Anchor, Ad load: max). I reduced the Ad load to min just now.
Re:Ask HN: What are your motivational quotes? on Sunday March 19, 2017 @03:05PM (#13908973)
"Yeah, I too used to be a perfectionist. Now I ship."
Re:Htop explained on Friday December 02, 2016 @04:56PM (#13092685)
Thanks for catching that.
Re:Htop explained on Friday December 02, 2016 @10:55AM (#13089601)
I am getting feedback that I should not be using the terms CPU usage and utilization when talking about load averages. I will update the post later.
Re:Htop explained on Friday December 02, 2016 @10:14AM (#13089169)
Thanks for catching that. You are right. Here is the source code: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/proc/uptime...

My source (first result in Google) was this link https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/s2-p... which looks like an older version of the documentation that does not have that last sentence.

Re:Investing for Geeks on Saturday September 17, 2016 @03:32AM (#12519552)
mintos.com and twino.eu
Re:Investing for Geeks on Friday September 16, 2016 @05:11PM (#12517389)
I am in the EU and I am investing my money in peer-to-peer lending.

You lend your money to other people through the marketplace and they pay it back with interest. The ROI is about 10% to 15% per year. I think it is low risk since you can choose the type of the loans you want to invest in (loans secured by real estate or short term loans with buy back guarantees). You can also diversify since the minimum investment is €10.

I don't think you can invest hundreds of thousands or millions of euros (the market is not so big) but the market can definitely support tens of thousands of euros.

Re:iPhone 7 on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:53PM (#12446873)
Do you have one? What's your experience with it?

I got a regular Dell XPS 15 (but the keyboard and everything else I think is the same) and while the laptop looks great I was expecting better quality for this price range.

My review was on Hacker News recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12289479

Re:iPhone 7 on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:49PM (#12446811)
Does it mean you're just renting the phone?
Re:Extracting city blocks from OpenStreetMap data on Thursday August 11, 2016 @04:36PM (#12271390)
Yes, to detect them I would also have to include pedestrian paths, service roads and other smaller roads. The solution is not perfect but good enough for the most part.
Re:Extracting city blocks from OpenStreetMap data on Thursday August 11, 2016 @11:26AM (#12268979)
Data from https://mapzen.com/data/metro-extracts/metro/brooklyn_new-yo...

I followed my instructions in the post (except I had to use encoding='iso-8859-1' instead of utf-8)

I cropped the map a little.

Generated file https://gist.github.com/pdonald/223e42b491eb42ba99b8e10ef1ae...

Interactive and clickable http://bl.ocks.org/anonymous/raw/d62bfd592234ed71d24bfd6f264...

You can also go to http://geojson.io and load the generated file for more interactivity (select, delete, add your own polygons, etc.) or open it in QGIS.

In the Results section I had a screenshot of the generated polygons in both QGIS and geojson.io (polygons are separated by thick black lines and their area is colored gray).

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