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Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

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Post by Joel_Mckay »

Knowing when to say "no" to a project is an important skill.

One always must define a one sentence goal or purpose, before teams think about how to build something.

Cell processors, because most coders can't do parallelism well

Altera consumer FPGA, as they chose behavioral rather than declarative best practices... then the Intel merger... metastability in complex systems is hard, and most engineers can't do parallelism well...

World Wide Web, because social-media and Marketers

Dozens of personal projects, because sometimes things stop being fun. =3

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Post by cube00 »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #345
cube00 wrote: post #293

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With more of Firefox's rendering migrating to Rust, there's got to be a market for a memory safe alternative to Electron now.

https://v2.tauri.app/start/

I referred to secure rendering.

Tauri apps take advantage of the web view already available on every user’s system. A Tauri app only contains the code and assets specific for that app and doesn’t need to bundle a browser engine with every app.

Rendering will still use Edge/Chromium on a generic Windows machine.

Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

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Post by mrec »

FergusArgyll wrote: post #399
kesor wrote: post #306

Geocities ; It was a "put your html here" Free web hosting back when people barely knew what html was. Today you have to be a rocket scientist to find a way to host a free static "simple" page online.

Github pages

Valid option - I used it myself for a very brief toe-dip into blogging earlier this year - but maybe worth noting that Google seems to flat-out refuse to crawl anything you put there. Won't pick it up by itself, won't read a sitemap you explicitly tell it about. It'll grudgingly index specific page URLs you tell it about, but that's kind of absurd. I don't know if it's because it's on a subdomain, or a Microsoft property, or because I was 100% ad- and tracker-free or what.

I tried DDG (Bing-backed, I believe) and it happily found everything with no manual intervention at all. That was the point where I ditched Google Search after 30 years.

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Post by pessimizer »

JimDabell wrote: post #451
eviks wrote: post #254

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You understand it just fine, you're just trying to pass you fantasy pod immutable safe future as rational while painting the obvious objections based on the real world as meaningless noise.

Your point did not come across. It still isn’t. I don’t know what you mean by “pass you fantasy pod immutable safe future as rational” . You aren’t making sense to me. I absolutely do not “understand it just fine” .

If they are running safe mandatory scans on your phones for this, you seem shocked and angry that anyone would imply that this would lead to safe mandatory scans on your phones for that and the other, and open the door for unsafe mandatory scans for whatever.

If you can't acknowledge this, it puts you in a position where you can't be convincing to people who need you to deflect obvious, well-known criticisms before beginning a discussion. It gives you crazy person or salesman vibes. These are arguments that someone with a serious interest in the technology would be aware of already and should be included as a prerequisite to being taken seriously. Doing this shows that you value other people's time and effort.

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Post by michaelcampbell »

daxfohl wrote: post #45

Heroku? I know it's still around, though IDK who uses it, but I miss those days when it was thriving. One language, one deployment platform, one database, a couple plugins to choose from, everything simple and straightforward, no decision fatigue. I often wonder, if AI had come 15 years earlier, would it have been a ton better because there weren't a billion different ways to do things? Would we have ever bothered to…

I talked to some Heroku reps at a local tech conference a year or so ago; it was clear that they were instructed to not have any personal opinions of the shredding of the free tier, but they did admit in a roundabout way that it lost them a lot of customers - some they were glad to get rid of as they were gaming the goodwill and costing Heroku lots of money, but weren't sure if it was a good long term idea or not.

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Post by bdangubic »

kirubakaran wrote: post #484
bdangubic wrote: post #78

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yup, losing 0.000087% year-over-year so in 865 billion years it’ll be dead :)

How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly. - Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

I guess I’ve heard it all now… Google going bankrupt would not have made Top-1 Million list of likely things to read on Sunday morning…

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Post by alganet »

znpy wrote: post #327
bitwize wrote: post #175

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> ReactOS, the effort to create a free and open source Windows NT reimplementation. Some projects creep along slowly until something triggers an interest and suddenly they leap ahead. MAME's Tandy 2000 implementation was unusable, until someone found a copy of Windows 1.0 for the Tandy 2000, then the emulation caught up until Windows ran. Maybe ReactOS will get a big influx of activity after Windows 10 support goes o…

Not so long ago there was a leak of windows’ source code, up to xp and 2003 server… the leak was so complete there are videos on YouTube about people building and booting (!!!) windows from there. And yet, no big leap in ReactOS (at least for now).

Leaks like this actually slow down ReactOS development.

The project is supposed to be a clean-room reverse engineering effort. If you even see Windows code, you are compromised, and should not work on ReactOS.

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Post by jFriedensreich »

netflix falcor. the graphql hype killed a much better alternative for many usecases. there were only a few missing pieces and improvements such as a proxy based adapter layer for popular frontend frameworks. Im now the lonely last user hoping to find a way to reboot development
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