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Re:Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @03:20PM (#49365999)
But why do you need an alternative to node in the first place?
I wish there was a serious conversation on how a browser can be productivized and make actual profits. I think that model has the best chances of working out over the long-term in guarding user's privacy - at least for those users willing to pay for it.

Most (all?) companies which developed a browser have lax policies on data privacy. At most those are inline with major directives like GDPR. However, it's not in their best interest to protect / not leverage user data. So the real discussion should've been about the set of features that would attract a sufficiently large user base who would pay ~10$ per month subscription in order to make the model sustainable on the long-term.

Re:Created a free website that simplifies stock analysis on Monday December 11, 2023 @04:27AM (#38598986)
I see, I never understood why quote data are so costly (read - aren't free).

So how does stocknear differentiate to others in the market - eg. Yahoo finance?

Re:Created a free website that simplifies stock analysis on Sunday December 10, 2023 @12:10PM (#38593033)
Last time I tried building a software around stocks, the major pain I had was the lack of affordable APIs that would give quotes in almost real time.

Almost all APIs I checked had a significant pricing. I'm wondering where does this website takes the data from and what's the price for it.

Ask HN: How do you maintain balance between all the things you want to do?

I often find myself trying to do many things and often times I end up just procrastinating. This creates a negative feedback loop and I'm wondering how do you manage your time to achieve things.As a list of things I'm trying to constantly do:1. Write a personal journal / meditate / exercise. 2. Read (as per on a reading list of books) 3. Work 5. Study (learning / improving my general CS skills,...

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I think that this website gives a great study roadmap for computer science: https://teachyourselfcs.com

You should definitely consider choosing some topics from the and study them.

Re:Google to drop chrome apps in favor of progressive web apps on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @02:03PM (#15863881)
Yeah, that's a very good point imo!
Re:Prettier 1.0 on Thursday April 13, 2017 @02:43PM (#14109781)
How is prettier compared to vscode autoformat feature?
Re:The broken promise of Web Components on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @03:41PM (#13879113)
I think your native web components example is wrong, or more probably outdated.

Here's an example with the latest wc spec: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/sl...

But as far as I understand from the spec, sadly, you would still need a separate DSL that would leverage iterations, conditionals and other templating operations on top of web components.

Re:The most popular programming languages in 2017 on Monday January 09, 2017 @05:10AM (#13355273)
I'm not sure if there's a bias in the results. But it seems that there shouldn't be any bias towards a particular programming language since they have an algorithm for computing the scores based on search queries on popular search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo! etc.

> Go moving from 54th to 13th most popular is pretty astonishing. I second that and although I've done a number of side projects using golang, if I want to make a presentation of the language , I wouldn't quite know for sure what are the best selling points.

I know it puts a great emphasis on concurrency and their model is rock solid and easy to reason about, but still, given that most of our work is web related and 95% of the time we have to manipulate various resources that persist to some database, I don't have a clear reason on why to choose go over php for example.