Hacker News: cnowacek

New comment by cnowacek in "AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link"

cnowacek — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:36:44 +0000

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.

New comment by cnowacek in "We Use Blockchain Technology Behind the Scenes"

cnowacek — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 14:02:10 +0000

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.

New comment by cnowacek in "We Use Blockchain Technology Behind the Scenes"

cnowacek — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:00:40 +0000

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.

New comment by cnowacek in "Show HN: Burner – A low cost wallet to gift crypto"

cnowacek — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 13:10:42 +0000

Gifting dollars on gift cards today is only supported by 99.9% of retailers. How many retailers accept USD II?

New comment by cnowacek in "'Terminating Internet Access over Piracy Claims Is Drastic and Overbroad'"

cnowacek — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 13:41:13 +0000

Why do you think copyright should be abolished?

New comment by cnowacek in "“I’m selling data of 400M Twitter users that was scraped via a vulnerability”"

cnowacek — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 11:49:37 +0000

That’s the time zone offset and year of the “created at” timestamps.

New comment by cnowacek in "Snapchat Source Code GitHub Leak Caused by Bad iOS Update"

cnowacek — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 15:10:44 +0000

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.

New comment by cnowacek in "Understanding contravariance"

cnowacek — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:25:59 +0000

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.

New comment by cnowacek in "The power of Result types in Swift"

cnowacek — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 22:50:02 +0000

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.

New comment by cnowacek in "Go Is a Great Fit for Lambda"

cnowacek — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:50:23 +0000

Sounds like this person explains what you're asking for: http://blog.rowanudell.com/database-connections-in-lambda/

New comment by cnowacek in "Show HN: A Hacker News Reader in Vanilla JavaScript"

cnowacek — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 13:53:09 +0000

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.

New comment by cnowacek in "Stop writing PHP like it's 2009"

cnowacek — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 18:25:17 +0000

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.

New comment by cnowacek in "HackMIT 2017 Admissions Puzzle"

cnowacek — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 18:30:12 +0000

'Login' can be used as a noun or a verb. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/login

New comment by cnowacek in "Stream Video to Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram at Once with Vertic"

cnowacek — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 15:29:09 +0000

Stream or upload recorded video?

New comment by cnowacek in "Show HN: The Crowdtilt Mobile App"

cnowacek — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 08:06:24 +0000

Collection takes place through our payment service provider, not IAP. There is no 30% cut.