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Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

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Post by aleign »

cedilla wrote: post #369
aleign wrote: post #367

The spelling mistake in the first sentence really throws me off. I'm not trying to be overly picky or pedantic but after reading only 7 words into a multiple-thousand word long post and seeing an error, I begin to think that this may be a tough read. I also subconsciously begin to assume that the browser this person wrote must be riddled with bugs. Whether that's fair or not. "This blogpost starts with me switching o…

Considering the .nl domain, the author probably isn't a native speaker. Homophones can easily trip us up.

Fair enough :)

Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

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Post by stavros »

matwood wrote: post #101
jaytaph wrote: post #59

OP here. Thanks for the pos/neg/neutral comments everybody. Some remarks: Yes, there are a lot of browsers out there where I can contribute to which would be more efficient. But that would result in just a few browsers instead of a lot of browsers. I'm all for the last one, as this would give people options. This IS a pet project. I never told anyone otherwise. I would start writing it even when I wasn't fed up with…

You shouldn't have to write this response on 'hacker' news, but good for you. Work on what you want. Some people do wood working, fix cars, or play video games. Others like coding. I have tons of partial projects I've started for various reasons, and enjoyed them all. Good luck and have fun. And, maybe your project does turn into something bigger.

Agreed. This community has a tacit assumption that everything must make money or some other kind of return, otherwise it's useless, and that's not true. I love hanging out here, but I've posted projects for fun where people couldn't believe I didn't want to make money on them.

Money is great, but it's not everything. Good luck, OP!

Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

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Post by darkclouds »

jaytaph wrote: post #59

OP here. Thanks for the pos/neg/neutral comments everybody. Some remarks: Yes, there are a lot of browsers out there where I can contribute to which would be more efficient. But that would result in just a few browsers instead of a lot of browsers. I'm all for the last one, as this would give people options. This IS a pet project. I never told anyone otherwise. I would start writing it even when I wasn't fed up with…

What I've found when you become a nuisance but read that as successful, you'll find all sorts of problems suddenly plague you in your off line world.

So I wish you the best of the luck, but keep an eye out, the world but in my experience the US and UK, is nothing like its "public persona".

Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

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Post by PumpkinSpice »

jaytaph wrote: post #59

OP here. Thanks for the pos/neg/neutral comments everybody. Some remarks: Yes, there are a lot of browsers out there where I can contribute to which would be more efficient. But that would result in just a few browsers instead of a lot of browsers. I'm all for the last one, as this would give people options. This IS a pet project. I never told anyone otherwise. I would start writing it even when I wasn't fed up with…

On any tech forum, there's always a lot of "why are you writing your own Hello World program instead of contributing to an existing one?" energy.

As you note, the learning process itself is worth it. I'd encourage you to keep a blog / journal for others to follow.

Most innovation doesn't involve the most qualified expert in the field taking on a project that is a sure bet. In fact, qualified experts are often too cautious to try something crazy or shake up the status quo. Back in 1991, Linus wasn't the right guy to write an operating system either, and most experts probably felt we didn't need another OS to begin with. He probably should've contributed to GNU Hurd or Minix instead.

Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

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Post by tehjoker »

It's good to have a project, more power to you if you can make a useful browser on your own these days. It's like an advanced OS at this point.

Didn't like the doomerism about the news in this post. Yea, you as an individual can't do much, but joining a social movement organization would make you not an individual. I think a lot of people here just don't want to take that step or were never invited to do so and so write off things as impossible.

Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

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Post by MYEUHD »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #305
binary132 wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't that kind of the point? The purpose of GPL and Free Software (which it has actually had resounding success in) is to develop a free commons which will stay free and not be exploited. It's not for you to exploit to make a buck, and if that excludes your project, that's fine. There are lots of things I would never consider free-licensing, but I think people badly miss the point of free software because they are s…

The GPL is not required for such a commons to flourish. Most Rust projects are published under a permissive license, and that scene is flourishing just fine. I think that open source software as a whole, not the GPL specifically, is what has enabled the flourishing you mention. It seems to me that in the counterfactual world where Linus chose to use the BSD license for his kernel, Linux would thrive just as much as i…

The reason we have custom roms on android phones, is because of Linux's copyleft license: Phone vendors are required to publish their kernel modifications shipped with their devices. This already reduces e-waste by lowering the purchases of new phones, when old ones are perfectly functional. Thus, copyleft helped the environment

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Post by edrxty »

_moof wrote: post #346
gumby wrote: post #171

> I do not expect ANYTHING to come from this project. I do not expect to finish this project. And I do expect that - if nobody will follow me into helping the project - the project will be dead quite soon. I do not expect this project to become the dominant browser that will topple all the big players in the market. This sounds like Linus' original announcement of Linux on comp.os.minix: > Hello everybody out there u…

> it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks *installs Linux on literal spacecraft* You never know where a project will go. And in a way it doesn't matter, if you're doing it for your own reasons.

Also busy installing Linux on a spacecraft. Turns out you don't need things to be perfect, just very well documented and easy to adapt to random people's needs. Not commercialized to all fuck helps too.

Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

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Post by wowgoldfarmer »

I want to write a browser that unifies all webpages to one single layout, one single interface that looks the same on all webpages. Minimal design, high performance, low latency, the only thing that changes is the images, text and videos on each web page Everything else is filtered and removed No animation No fancy graphics No emojis No additional symbols other than the text carrying the content.

Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

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Post by 93po »

foobarian wrote: post #275
mgbmtl wrote: post #265

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I didn't flag/mod the comment, but I think it errs towards conspiracy theories. I'm not American, and I understand the American government does evil things sometimes, but it also does a lot of good things for its citizens. It builds roads, keeps the skies clear, funds education, health systems, sues tech giants when they go too far, tries to manage the speculation/money markets, etc. To say "undeniably often working…

Think about what kind of life our grand- or grand-grandparents had. They went from horse-drawn carriages and muddy streets, to modern cars on roads in their lifetime. Even us older neckbeards went from 8-bit computers to modern PCs on modern networks. But I feel like this progress has reached the end of the S-curve and there is a feeling of bitterness and disappointment slowly seeping into our collective conscious, w…

Looking at progress can't be attributed to the system of government. It's possible something like communism would have had us even further along.
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