This was the first game I was really obsessed with. I remember having one floppy disc and I wanted to copy the game from a friend, so we split the game to ~10 parts, and for a whole weekend I was going back and forth between our houses, "downloading" those 10mb.
Readit Newsyoavm commented on 30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness jorsys.org/archive/decemb... · Posted by u/sjoblomj
yoavm commented on Syncthing-Android have had a change of owner/maintainer github.com/researchxxl/sy... · Posted by u/embedding-shape
For those curious:
https://foldersync.io/
10 euros for an Android license for or $28 (yes they use two currencies on one page) for a desktop license. The free ad supported version on the play store has over a million downloads.
FWIW, I see EUR for both offerings.
yoavm commented on Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction (2019) [pdf] andrewoswald.com/docs/Adv... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
Yet how many of our jobs wouldn't exist without advertising ... I'm not saying it's right or wrong just a fact. Advertising is foundational to many modern industries, especially digital ones. Social platforms, media companies, search engines, news, free apps, podcasts, streaming tiers. A ton of your daily internet exists because ads bankroll the whole mess. Without advertising, half the tech economy collapses into subscription-only fiefdoms. Unfortunately if advertising vanished tomorrow, lots of companies would die, tons of jobs would evaporate, and the economy would contort into something unrecognizable.
You're saying that like it was a bad thing...
Show of hands for backend web services development -
Who uses Django, Rails, or similar full-featured frameworks?
Who uses micro-frameworks like Flask?
Who uses enterprise Java, Jetty, Dot Net, etc.?
Who uses an entirely Javascript stack?
Who uses a non-traditional language that has become more web-servicey, like Go, Rust, or Swift?
Who uses something so wildly untraditional that it's barely mentioned? OkCupid using C++, etc.?
Who uses an entirely custom framework (in any language)?
Would really love to see a break down of who is using what, how people feel about their tech stack, etc.?
I still have some very old Django projects that I'm maintaining for > 15 years. It's an absolute delight.
I didn't intend for my comment to be mean. Generally, I think that sometimes the most useful advice one can give a founder (like myself) is "you should consider to pivot". Sure it's not fun to hear, but it can save you a couple of months. In this specific case, I think it'll help the founders to consider that the pain they're aiming to solve might already be answered, better, by existing simpler solutions. I don't think the best comment to leave is always "Amazing idea, wonderful execution!!!".
This is what I'm using Hacker News for. It doesn't require an app, it's super fast, the curating is done by real people (not by AI), and often the comments add a lot of value to the discussed article.
yoavm commented on Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust sinelaw.github.io/fresh/... · Posted by u/_sinelaw_
The multi-cursor experience is the smoothest I've seen in a terminal based editor. Congrats!
yoavm commented on Mistral 3 family of models released mistral.ai/news/mistral-3... · Posted by u/pember
This is big. The first really big open weights model that understands images.
How is this different from Llama 3.2 "vision capabilities"?
https://www.llama.com/docs/how-to-guides/vision-capabilities...
yoavm commented on Garry Tan claims Zoho will be out of business due to vibe coding twitter.com/garrytan/stat... · Posted by u/manojlds
> Why pay $30/seat/month for over bundled SaaS when soon even nontech ops ppl can vibe-code a custom solution in a weekend?
I don't get his suggestion. I'm paying Zoho for email hosting. What am I even supposed to vibe-code successfully for me to drop Zoho? There's no shortage of open-source IMAP/SMTP servers, in fact Zoho is probably using them too. Sure I can spin one myself, but I'm paying for Zoho for the *service*, not the software.