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Go gets preliminary WebAssembly support
Ask HN: Has Open Source ever saved a company?
There was another Ask HN thread here on the topic if releasing the source of something has ever killed a company; but what about the other way around where releasing the source is actually the saving grace and/or foundation of the company?
Re:Ask HN: Do we still need native apps?
on Friday April 13, 2018 @05:43PM (#16834148)
If you ask me it should be the other way around, do we need web apps at all?
1. Most web "apps" actually only work on Chrome, so there's that. So much for the open, standardized web.
2. Most web apps track the heck out of everything you do.
3. Most web apps are sluggish and use more resources than they should.
4. Most web apps are like Juicero, expensive solutions to non existent problems.
Re:Apple Sued an iPhone Repair Shop Owner in Norway and Lost
on Friday April 13, 2018 @04:50PM (#16833790)
IANAL but the appeal isn't going to fly. In the states this guy would probably be homeless by now tho :o
Re:Ask HN: FOSS projects with bad UX?
on Thursday April 12, 2018 @11:05PM (#16826864)
One word, Blender.
Re:Two Years of Functional Programming in JavaScript: Lessons Learned
on Thursday April 12, 2018 @10:56PM (#16826838)
Functional in JavaScript never made sense to me, we don't have immutability in the language. While V8 has made optimisations for short lived objects this doesn't hold true across the board so perf can be quite terrible with "pure" style FP.
Theoretically "pure" code is beautiful, in practice it tends to perform badly especially in languages that don't have value types and copy mechanisms.
Re:The NES Homebrew Scene
on Thursday April 12, 2018 @10:53PM (#16826825)
Fascinating that these scenes are still thriving, just recently saw "8-Bit Guy"'s postmortem video on writing and shipping a game for C64.