100% off is free, no matter what the base price is, so that's clearly not true. (Though, oddly, it's not uncommon online, with a “just pay (inflated) shipping and handling charge” proviso.)

The guy meant 100% of the new price off from the old price. It's a bit of a reverse temporal brain fart, but it is a valid statement. For some reason I just instinctively knew that this is what he meant.

Hey, any reason to downvote someone into oblivion is a cause worth fighting for.

- Someone with too much time and too much karma.

I mean, if you go into a jewelry store with a gun and declare that everything is free you can get everything for 100% off (probably just the one time, though).

Can't do that with jewelry on Amazon.

> I mean, if you go into a jewelry store with a gun and declare that everything is free you can get everything for 100% off (probably just the one time, though).

Maybe not even that; they are obvious targets, and as such precautions are common.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2001-05-08/news/010508027...

> Can't do that with jewelry on Amazon.

You can try, once you learn where the fulfillment warehouse is.

And OSX keeps nagging me in various ways to use iCloud.. is that an "ad" also?

iCloud is at least also an Apple product. The last time I installed Win10 (fresh, legal install media direct from Microsoft), on the first boot there was an ad for Candy Crush in the start menu. That's just unacceptable.

After seeing URL string parsing in application code I would have expected to see at least some sort of discussion about third-party web frameworks.

Even a web framework isn't necessary. Most people get around that nastiness using gorilla/mux: https://github.com/gorilla/mux

Don't you worry, it's not done like that.

Either you use query params, or you use a library like gorilla, where you just insert pattern variables into the url.

Seriously as I am typing this right now, on Mac OSX, the "kernel_task" is using 50% CPU for no apparent reason and fans have been running for > 20 minutes

Unless this has a decent eGPU instead of 2 year old technology it's still not "pro"

Care to elaborate please?

Really? The last time I checked out Paint.NET it didn't even support alpha channels and masks; or at least it required a janky plugin to do it and a sort of pre-made channel bitmap. It was awful. Has this improved?

They only have been doing that for the past few years? Android did that in 2009

You probably could mention where "here" is.

The link points to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Sorry if that wasn't clear.

They did mention: .au

Australia, judging by TLD

I cannot keep up with random javasscript frameworks... therefore I use [random framework in some other language]...

It's not that I cant, I don't want to do it anymore, sorry I didn't express myself correctly above. And there aren't that many client side framework choices in Clojurescript, which I see as an advantage. But not everyone will see it that way, I can understand. Whatever makes you happy.

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