fromalex
Re:Show HN: I made a site that lets you stream any torrent
on Saturday March 02, 2019 @08:11AM (#19289086)
What I meant: nowadays, there is such a huge and great offering for your media consumption needs and all of the above are competing for your airtime. All are so good that it got quite tough for all the market players. The urge to watch some stellar movie as a torrent is not that big anymore as years ago because of the good competition.
Re:Show HN: I made a site that lets you stream any torrent
on Saturday March 02, 2019 @08:06AM (#19289072)
In some countries, torrent consumers' IPs are tracked and they get sued => hassle.
Besides, I have all Netflix, Amazon Prime, Twitch Prime. The last time I watched any of them is months ago, I am too busy with life to watch some random torrents I have to download hours before.
Re:Show HN: I made a site that lets you stream any torrent
on Saturday March 02, 2019 @07:59AM (#19289042)
Yeah I know but is it really all the hassle? There's tons of great stuff on Netflix. If you are really into video then all those monthly subs won't kill you. Plus amenities like where did I stop watching, great clients for any platform, always top-notch quality up to 4K, multiple languages incl. subtitles.
A decade ago torrents made sense. Then, official offerings were rare/poor/expensive but now? The current most expensive productions come from Netflix and Amazon and cost you few bucks a month...
Edit: You changed your post, so my reply above doesn't fit anymore. However, in which countries is Netflix not available?
Re:Show HN: I made a site that lets you stream any torrent
on Saturday March 02, 2019 @07:48AM (#19289011)
OT: Guess I am missing something but who is actually watching torrents (or has the time) in times of Netflix, Twitch, Youtube, Fortnite?
Re:Database schema changes are hard (2017)
on Saturday March 02, 2019 @07:43AM (#19288992)
OT: Wondering if DB admins are the highest paid contracters among tech professinals. Discussions around DB tech are always the most emotional and heated up ones, like if they lost something significant if their world view on DBs is wrong.
Re:Alternatives to JSX
on Monday February 25, 2019 @01:07PM (#19247801)
There is also a babel-transform for pug[1]. It works quite well as JSX replacement. Not having any endig tags can be quite beneficial when reformatting stuff.
Paired with Tachyons (best atomic CSS lib) you get superpowers and can write code like
const someComponent = ()
=> pug`
ul.p2.f3 Some list
li.red Some text
li.pink Some more`