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Re:Choosing Between Rust or Go? on Monday March 30, 2020 @12:55PM (#22729704)
tl;dr Go, of course. rust it just too fugly and has no worthy support on windows and in IDEs. sure, you may love it but if you check out jobs, it's like 100:1 for Go. rust is and will be an exotic language for very niche use cases.

let the downvotes begin :)

Re:Ask HN: Building YouTube Alternative on Thursday March 12, 2020 @01:58PM (#22559705)
i think that AV1 will take over the h264/h265 due to licensing.

Ask HN: Building YouTube Alternative

If you would be tasked with creating youtube alternative(not at that scale, of course), how would you approach it from technical point off view? Which technologies, patterns, designs.. would you go with and why?As a side note - would you consider a sort of distributed pattern, like bitchute is doing with bit torrent?

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Re:I Don't Use Classes on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:03AM (#22557582)
classes only encapsulate context. nothing else. you don't have to use them if you don't want to.
Re:Dressing for the Surveillance Age on Thursday March 12, 2020 @07:13AM (#22555574)
cashless society and soylent green coming soon. one step at a time.

Ask HN: Why did programmers forfeited their intellectual license?

I was always wondering about this. If you look at the film and music industry, the "artists" are treated like their work is something special. Not only they get money from licensing their works over and over again, but also they are getting residuals - indefinitely! Even their heirs can continue to receive them.Whereas programmers, whose work literally makes the entire world go round these...

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Re:Firefox 74 on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @09:21AM (#22535190)
does it still come with google tracking on the welcome screen and a ton of unapproved communication to mozilla servers?