Also, any planned support for more catalogs?
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> We don't flag general apps, e.g., ebook readers and browsers. But bible readers are not general apps. They are designed to read bible and there are NSFW contents in bible.
Honestly I think their argument is pretty weak, especially since like you said in this case it was a bible reading tracker.
Edit - found more context: https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45409794
I still don't get it to be honest.
There are enough politicized spaces as it is
I've seen this at Microsoft where acquiring startups that provide capabilities and then incorporating them into Azure or Defender led to the usage of those capabilities skyrocketing and those particular acquisitions (not going to specifics because NDA) ended up being profitable.
Credit where credit is due at my time at Excel we did improve things a lot (migration from Script# to TypeScript, migration from SourceDepot to git, shorter dev loop and better tooling etc) and a large chunk of development time was spent on developer tooling/happiness.
But it does suck to have to go to one of the old places and use sourcedepot and `osubmit` the "make a change" tool and then go over 16 popups in the "happy path" to submit your patch for review (also done in a weird windows gui review tool)
Git was quite the improvement :D
Check our mark miller's E stuff and thesis - this stuff goes all the way back to the 80s.
Check our mark miller's E stuff and thesis - this stuff goes all the way back to the 80s.
Nice article! For future reference in Node.js this would be `worker_threads` or if you want a higher level tokio like API something like https://piscinajs.dev/
This has been possible in Node.js for quite a while
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Also for blocking I/O CPU bound parallelism I've found Rayon to be a pleasure. It has a few caveats but it leverages the Rust race condition checking well and it's very ergonomic.
I happily mix it with `tokio` in an application that is CPU bound but has to perform some async I/O (due to the SDKs it uses)
My current startup is also not profitable, we're burning money but we're already signing big contracts and I hope in a year or two we keep growing rather than become profitable (1B+ valuation in a year).
Becoming profitable, even at this point is just a matter of deciding to stop expanding - but neither us nor our investors want this given there is so much potential for growth and more revenue streams on the line.
this is ycombinator's news aggregators, I suspect you're not going to get a "don't take risks and build things" vibe - it's a startup accelerator after all :).
The fact Discord isn't profitable (and hasn't been) is well documented.
Also, operating at a loss isn't necessarily bad (i.e. if you expand or spend more on R&D your profits shrink). Companies might choose to spend more on R&D and not be profitable (e.g. Amazon for a long time).
(We restore everything super carefully but sometimes I feel like we're the only ones who care)
Most of these have a direct relationship to Chrome vs. Edge - for example the Google workspace suite (docs, sheets etc) comes pre-bundled with Chrome whereas Office Online needs to be downloaded like any other website by the user.
```
setInterval(() => { let max = 100; while(max-->0) { let price = +document.querySelector(".last-price").textContent.trim().slice(1).replace(",","").split("\n")[0]; if (price > 20000) { document.querySelector(".stock-sell").click(); } else if (price < 10000) { document.querySelector(".stock-buy").click(); } else { break; } } })
```
Python is a great scripting language and a great language to wrap other stuff. I have other projects in Python that wrap many packages, some in C++/Rust and working on Python is a lot more fun than most of these languages.
When I'm writing this sort of code, I don't have to `.into()`, derive send/sync/debug/whatever, I don't have to `.clone()` my strings when I pass them to multiple places that accept `String`, I don't have to do oh so many things that make my production/critical code better but I care about very little when I'm writing scripts.
I'm much more effective in my 80:20 in Python than in rust though admittedly I'm still on Poetry since uv is releasing vey quickly and my things work "well enough".
(In package management land - I still think most ecosystems haven't caught up to JavaScript + Rust and Python's module systems have weirdness (mod.rs/__init__.py which is unnecessary) but Cargo _is_ overall really nice).
I'm excited to see more players in this space though, all the standards are open and there are decent libraries with decent licenses that exist. A lightweight LibreOffice alternative would be neat and something truly open source and embeddable (MIT) is great.
Just a note OMR (the office monorepo) is a different (and actually much larger) monorepo than 1JS (which is big on its own)
To be fair I suspect a lot of the bloat in both originates from the amount of home grown tooling.
Hey, in case an Autism diagnosis concerns you I just want to say I work around and with a lot of people on the spectrum both in open source and professionally both in large companies (like Microsoft) and small ones (startups) and people on the spectrum perform as well as neurotypical people in my (anecdotal) experience.
It's worth knowing though by all means ask for whatever adaptations help you.
(Not on the spectrum but have family/friends on the spectrum in the industry)
> I'm just a Weird Nerd who writes about complexity aaaaaand let's move on to the interesting stuff.
It's important to remember with a diagnosis you'll still be the same weird nerd (+ the diagnosis) :) We're all (most) weird nerds here you're in good company.
(Obligatory disclaimer about how autism is a spectrum and it's much harder for certain individuals than others + I'm not a health professional just a fellow nerd)
(congrats on the launch!)
So for example you can use Excel online with Sharepoint/OneDrive (two different hosts btw) but you can also use many maany third party hosts.
Additionally third party tools can programmatically access the first party hosts (like sharepoint).
I don't like Microsoft-esque APIs and the company sure has issues here and there but I doubt you'd get the same level of data privacy with a startup (e.g. everything goes through privacy review, security review, devs can't access customer data, data is separated by region etc)