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by szastamasta 28d ago
I’m not so sure about the self checkout. I would rather say this was engineered by stores. From what I remember stores have on purpose replaced cashiers with self checkout machines, leaving only one or two. This resulted with long queues an
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by szastamasta 9mo ago
Article has so much fluff and only some very coarse information like (we sharded writes, yay!). Almost no detail just keywords for SEO, or whatever they’re aiming for. There’s also a lot of repetition. Maybe it was AI generated…?
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by szastamasta 1y ago
I think that we cannot separate it from amount of free cash people have. Inflation, layoffs, etc. People simply want to limit their spending on less important things. It just has to be cheap enough and you have to have enough free time to p
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by szastamasta 2y ago
I just mean you won’t write a video codec or a 3d renderer in JS. It will never get there. Just leave these things to WebAssembly where needed and leave JS as a slow, dynamic language we use for web apps.
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by szastamasta 2y ago
Nobody needs classes nor prototypes in JS. Objects + functions is more than enough. I stopped using these few years ago and miss nothing.
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by szastamasta 2y ago
Please stop. What a nonsense. JS is a dynamic language where everything is a Hashtable. It will never be really fast as your structs won’t be in single cacheline, you won’t be able to calculate field address during compile time by pointer o
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by szastamasta 2y ago
It’s just like with cookies. I believe that lawmakers were honest and really wanted for companies to limit amount of tracking in the web. What we did get instead is a lot of „we value your privacy” popups and 5 pages of checkboxes to check
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by szastamasta 2y ago
You see, I just don’t think more honest wins us anything. I’ve seen too many „We value your privacy” popups already.
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by szastamasta 2y ago
Maybe I have misunderstood the article, but for me it looks like another „cookies” law. They are not proposing to force media companies to make sure you have access to your media forever. Or force them to give you a downloadable copy when t
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by szastamasta 2y ago
Yeah, maybe I've got too old-school thinking. Or maybe just worked on too many failed startups :). But the overall cheapness of our industry is driving me crazy. I happily use proprietary software - IntelliJ, Sublime, Affinity, MacOS,
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by szastamasta 2y ago
Of course money != value, but don't pretend that REST client is charity or fight for freedom or something. It's a wrench. And wrench should have its price on the shelf. Unfortunately most business models around free software are a
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by szastamasta 2y ago
Yeah, exactly because of that we have no nice tools for devs. All is built either to get a better job (and then abandoned) or you cannot sell it (and then you abandon it). If we were not that cheap maybe we would have more Jetbrains like co
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by szastamasta 2y ago
I still wonder why people do this. Build an end-user product and give it away for free. It’s just making our work look worthless and kills small software companies. Cool, share your library or web server, as it allows others to build produc
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by szastamasta 2y ago
Exactly. The most eco product is the one you don’t produce. Longevity and reuse is what we really should strive for.
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by szastamasta 2y ago
Yeah, I mean they are all different when it comes to tools around web page itself, but compatibility & web performance will be similar to the rendering/js engine.
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by szastamasta 2y ago
It’s JSC + Webkit => so it’s just Safari in disguise
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by szastamasta 2y ago
I just wanted to say that I love you man. We are so crazy as devs. We’re outraged when someone wants few dollars for their app. Especially when it’s a one guy trying to make a living from building small apps like this. In the meantime we dr
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by szastamasta 2y ago
I just thought that people moved to Electron for cross-platform and to native otherwise. Java was not particularly fast nor native-looking on desktop. I’ve spent quite a few years in Swing, and am not sure it’s much better than Electron. Bu
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by szastamasta 2y ago
I’m not sure about that. I think the OpenAI deals the cards here. They have the model and the data. If these media outlets fire creative people there’s nothing they have that OpenAI hasn’t got.
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by szastamasta 2y ago
I hope that these media companies realize sooner than later, that if their content is AI generated, there’s no reason to go there. We’ll just skip the middlemen and go straight to OpenAI or whatever. No need to go to their site.
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by szastamasta 2y ago
Hmm, I thought that JavaFX is effectively dead, after it was removed from JDK. Haven’t seen any app made with it for ages. But maybe now, that we have GraalVM Java will make a comeback to desktop?
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Show HN: Queue/Cron as a service built on Postgres(lambdaqueue.com)
1 points by szastamasta 2y ago|0 comments
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by szastamasta 2y ago
I love Firefox. And still use it from time to time. But I think that the only reason they are still alive is that Google needs Firefox to cover up its monopoly in browser market. Hope they start to innovate again and give us some new ways t
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by szastamasta 2y ago
I agree. That's actually one of few problems with having just canvas - accessibility. Most libraries would not have it, and it would be a disaster for disabled users, but... That's one of few things current state AI could solve. W
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by szastamasta 2y ago
We needed them because platform was too high level, not because we had not enough web APIs. If we could have a canvas and means to render efficiently, there would be no plugins necessary. And they were nightmare because you had to install t
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Ask HN: Why do we have the "hide" button in HN
5 points by szastamasta 2y ago|15 comments
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by szastamasta 2y ago
Yes, we have done it to ourselves in the 90' when every browser had some custom extensions and small differences. And everyone was playing catch-up game. Then we got a bit of normality in 2000' when we standardised things. And now
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by szastamasta 2y ago
You already have this anyway. I’m not sure you have seen the size of average page js bundle. It’s many MBs of JS. All this while expanding browser APIs like crazy during last few years. Simplify the platform and let people brew.
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by szastamasta 2y ago
As much as I would love to see this succeeded, I simply cannot believe that you can sustain a browser development without millions of dollars. Web got so complicated. And it's perfect for all these huge ads companies owning browser eng
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by szastamasta 2y ago
Oh man, sorry to hear about the dev burnout. But what do you expect? We made software worthless by giving away ready products for free. It’s not a library for other devs to use, so we can all „stand on the shoulder of giants”. Stuff like th

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