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by abhinav22 6y ago
Thanks for your kind words. Would you be able to expand on what you mean by “report generation libraries”? For example, I am building (in Common Lisp, but it’s trivial and can be done in any software) a tool to read content from a database
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by abhinav22 6y ago
Thank you! Paged.js is really such an awesome tool. I was searching for many weeks for something like this, so I really think the word needs to get out there more. It could significantly improve the workflows of many people who are self wri
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by abhinav22 6y ago
I think it is okay in this instance as it relates to an output generator (and beautiful output should be a key functionality of such a tool)
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Show HN: PDFs from HTML(pdf.math.dev)
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by abhinav22 6y ago
I agree. In fact it’s much worse because of the fee structure and lack of disclosure / transparency. Surprised the SEC haven’t jumped in on it as it’s blatantly aimed at avoiding the IPO regulatory process
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by abhinav22 6y ago
One of the biggest scams I can see currently - hide the terms behind financial instruments, but take a 20 to 25% fee for making an investment!! When the usual fees are 1.5% plus a performance fee I really don’t understand why the SEC allows
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by abhinav22 6y ago
Nice. Same in Australia
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by abhinav22 6y ago
Indeed! That would be amazing.. Very tempting, must resist going down that rabbit hole :-)
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by abhinav22 6y ago
Either that or building a lisp parser in rust I kid, I kid - these projects are all good because they are simple and can be achieved by “hackers”, using the original meaning of the term as curious programmers Unfortunately the big projects
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by abhinav22 6y ago
Sounds like a good idea!
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by abhinav22 6y ago
> I'd much prefer no censorship and let people decide for themselves. What we should be doing is trying to raise everyone's critical thinking game. Indeed, raising everyone’s critical abilities is a great idea. Hopefully it get
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by abhinav22 6y ago
Not sure about this - I don’t think government leaders or anybody should be censored. Better to have public health messages as part of the platform than to censor It’s a fine line between hate and misinformation and dissent (Clearly the con
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by abhinav22 6y ago
Nice! Will check it out - I was trying to build a electron word processor app that would use html and then convert to pdf, maybe I will start it again with this. Can this handle svg or JavaScript libraries like Charts.js? I’ll check the det
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by abhinav22 6y ago
I’m trying it now - didn’t know about it until someone else mentioned it in this thread
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by abhinav22 6y ago
Unfortunately not, I didn’t accomplish much of value in the end
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by abhinav22 6y ago
Try this: https://apps.apple.com/ae/app/rpn-30/id1451413517
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by abhinav22 6y ago
Thanks!! This looks super interesting. I couldn’t find any decent solutions except princexml but I will give this a whirl The fact that they are achieving it via poly fill sounds like a genius approach!
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by abhinav22 6y ago
There is a cheap alternative to Prince called DocRaptor which uses the prince engine but is pay per use Basically prince adds a watermark on the first page - so you do all your revisions and then only pay for the final copy to remove the wa
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by abhinav22 6y ago
Pdf standard I believe is open now, or at least there is a very, very detailed guide by Adobe (I’ve read parts of it). Considering there are competing pdf readers to Adobe, this makes sense Browser pdf styling is quite good actually, I just
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by abhinav22 6y ago
Prince is amazing, I’m thinking of buying a license at work soon. All the other solutions have some big flaws and are hard to use
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by abhinav22 6y ago
In CSS we can set media settings to hide many items from the print page and also change the styling of content in it. Not many people do it I guess
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by abhinav22 6y ago
Thank you, this expressed everything perfectly
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by abhinav22 6y ago
Yes, I’m based in the Middle East so my view is more negative as a result. It’s really bad here - riders risk death to make deliveries while Deliveroo and other aggregators put all the blame on them and pay very bad. Many people here are an
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by abhinav22 6y ago
One of the most unethical companies that I know. Pushes restaurants to the brink of bankruptcy and pays their riders close to nothing. Abusive human rights in third world countries (much worse than how they treat riders in UK and other mark
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by abhinav22 6y ago
Yes it’s a very difficult balancing act, (I assume CAC means Customer Acquisition Cost) and there are a lot of overheads they need to cover. Figuring what the right price is to be competitive but also cover all marketing and other costs is
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by abhinav22 6y ago
That’s the type of pricing I like! Hopefully users push more towards that. Might take a while
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by abhinav22 6y ago
Thanks - great to have the perspective on the other side, you have to do what you have to do to survive and as you said, if you don’t play the SaaS game, then you are at significantly more risk because your competitors will.
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by abhinav22 6y ago
As an end user of SaaS, I hate having to pay per license and would prefer firm wide licenses without too many contrived restrictions. It’s super annoying when vendors try to price gouge you by restricting number of products / databases
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by abhinav22 6y ago
The business side of things - very difficult to pull off, I agree. The pure technical side of things? I honestly could replicate within 3 months of full time work and I’m sure a fair few others could. Thing is in theory, SaaS / Cloud s
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by abhinav22 6y ago
I guess how different will that be to the current subscription model for premium newspapers like WSJ, NYT, FT etc? Perhaps it could result in the rise of “micro magazines” where a few writers combine and create their own joined content vs b

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