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Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv »

drdrey wrote: post #123
thewisenerd wrote: post #57

- IntelliJ IDEA [ https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ ] (surprised no one mentioned it yet) - Spotlight - for quick calculations - Contexts [ https://contexts.co/ ] and chunkwm for window management [ https://github.com/koekeishiya/chunkwm ] - Maccy [ https://maccy.app/ ] for a decent and beautiful clipboard manager

I feel like I spend all my time waiting for Intellij IDEA to start up and reindex everything... Does anyone feel like it is snappy?

Feel the same. It is always doing something, especially with a big project.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

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Post by zamalek »

saagarjha wrote: post #116
murukesh_s wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Couldn't agree more.. People who say Electron (on which VSCode is running) is bloated and is slow probably haven't worked on full fledged IDEs using Java.. they consume memory in Gigabytes, are slower, at least appear to be slower, despite using native UI and takes a lot longer to open.

Eclipse isn't a particularly good user of Cocoa, is it?

It does something completely its own (and horrible/slow) on Windows (possibly one of the 6534 equally awful Java UI packages), so I can't imagine it does anything better with iOS.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

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Post by pfranz »

pottertheotter wrote: post #90
ivank wrote: post #32

Overcast says its Smart Speed feature has saved me 30 hours (over the last ~5 months), so I expect it to save me 100 hours within a year. It is especially useful for podcasts and language learning material with a lot of pauses, but I have become used to it, and so I now keep it enabled for most audiobooks that I load into Overcast just to get the dynamic playback speed.

I'm at 173 hours! I've liked Overcast (I've been a premium customer for two years), but I find myself wishing it has better features now. It feels like it was the best a couple years ago but hasn't done much since. Smart Speed is the one thing that has kept me from switching to something else so far.

When software grows I notice there can be a lot of dev done on features I don't end up using. I don't use CarPlay, watch, Smart Speed, Voice Boost, or playlists.

Last year it looks it launched a sharing interface with what looks like a non-trivial backend to it. In January, a rewrite of Voice Boost and support for Air Play 2 was released. So it's pretty actively developed.

What kind of features do you think is lacking? I feel like I have very simple needs. The only time I've wanted for something is occasionally wishing to use it on my desktop and the web interface is okay-ish for those brief periods.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

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Post by ckolkey »

sudeepto_dutta wrote: post #76
Ozlone wrote: post #29

- Emacs (with evil mode) and org-mode. The hours gained far outweigh the hours put in (and the hours put in were fun). - Yabai on mac for not having to think about moving windows around. - Pomodoro (now through org-mode) for helping focus (and saving hours, in a round-about-way.) - Removing as much advertising from my life as possible. (Ublock origin, deleting social networks when possible)

How is your experience with Yabai ? I just read about it but reluctant to try it . How stable is it ? Can we switch spaces with it ?

It's perfectly stable, but I didn't see it do anything that Amethyst can't do, and yabai requires you to run with SIP disabled

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

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Post by l0b0 »

Black, flake8, isort and mypy (with several type strengthening flags) have together ensured that Python editing and code reviews are an absolute breeze. The structure basically disappears, and all that I ever need to concentrate on is the actual change.

Sure, you can use your IDE to achieve some of this, but this is where the 80/20 rule really breaks down: since each IDE differs in the details, at some point auto-formatting the code is going to waste more time than it saves by having to undo or work around mutually incompatible formatting rules. You can't reasonably expect everyone to use the same IDE, but you can expect them to use the same Makefile targets and CI pipeline.

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