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This tool reminds me of a feature in the Vivaldi browser called Web Panels: https://vivaldi.net/en-US/blogs/teamblog/item/50-snapshot-1-... You can have a sidebar in your browser with it's own webpage displayed, so you can have Hacker News open no matter what tab you're viewing.
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Maybe, just maybe, we should just bundle Node and Electron into a package, install that as a shared library (similar to the way .NET and Java are installed) and then just ship, in the installer, a tool that downloads those if not already installed? Would save a lot of memory and time for everyone.
Electron is moving pretty quickly (and breaking APIs) at this point so you'd end up with just as many versions of the shared library as you would copies in applications.
But if a single newsreader contains more code than a full PlayStation game, you know something’s wrong.
This is just Wirth’s Law in action.
I would bet that my newsreader uses booth less RAM and less disk space. This is what feeds were invented for. Why should I install that much bloat just for reading HN?
If OP gave you free beer would you spit it out over him and say it's too bitter?
I would bet that my newsreader uses booth less RAM and less disk space. This is what feeds were invented for. Why should I install that much bloat just for reading HN?
Why should you? Okay, don't. If OP gave you free beer would you spit it out over him and say it's too bitter?
Anyway, keep up the good work ;)
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Electron is moving pretty quickly (and breaking APIs) at this point so you'd end up with just as many versions of the shared library as you would copies in applications.
Breaking APIs is not generally good either. But if a single newsreader contains more code than a full PlayStation game, you know something’s wrong. This is just Wirth’s Law in action.
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Breaking APIs is not generally good either. But if a single newsreader contains more code than a full PlayStation game, you know something’s wrong. This is just Wirth’s Law in action.
The very fact that we 'do not break APIs' is one of the reasons that this newsreader is 100+ MB. If Google Chrome wasn't 4,490,488 lines of code designed across years of development to, well, _support old web APIs_ -- then it would likely be much smaller. :)
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Why should you? Okay, don't. If OP gave you free beer would you spit it out over him and say it's too bitter?
That's a pretty bad metaphor. I am refusing OP's free beer, because I don't drink beer. I also question the need of giving away free alcohol. Instead, I take the free glass of water from the next guy.