Amarok 1.4
I use Clementine, which comes close, but on OS X it freezes on me relatively often.
(https://www.clementine-player.org/ - it's a fork of Amarok 1.4, just in case you did not know about it)
Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#172Windows XP and its search feature- Win7 above does not have it. Yahoo Geocities- simply miss it. and also Yahoo in general. My current yahoo mail is chock a block with spam mails. plus their ads. Xerox Ventura desktop publishing software- that was cool when book publishing was required. Motorola T90/91 basic mobile phone. superb and handiest phone used. Current Moto is smart but not unbeatable. Most importantly old B…
> "just plain filtered" ... "needs added filtration"..
Wut?
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#173Logitech Mouseman+
(http://2a.zol-img.com.cn/product/117_500x2000/44/cepKXmRt1Cs...)
Best ergonomic mouse ever made. Fitted my hand perfectly. The extreme slant looks terrible but works far better than every handed mouse I've used in the 20 years since. There was a matching trackball if you preferred that.
Unlike every modern Logitech mouse made it did not break after a short life. It was thrown away because it was old school marble instead of laser. Lasted years in great condition.
Use that design with modern sensor, sell me one for £150, I'd buy it.
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#174The iPad 1. It was great for web browsing but nowadays it dies when opening most web pages with advertising.
Fixed a bug in my project yesterday that broke it for iPad1 users. There’s still quite a few of you out there.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
How was it different then?
It had a non-rapacious future.
But Java is still as free as it was when SUNW was still a ticker symbol. Oracle hasn't done anything to kill OpenJDK and start charging for new versions or anything like that.
I feel that this demonization of Oracle and the concomitant sanctification of Google in this fight between two profit driven corporations is somewhat misguided.
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#176Lotus Magellan
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#177The Psion Series 3 handhelds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3
A (tiny, but) usable, physical keyboard on a device that lasted _ages_, fit into a suit pocket and was eminently practical. The age of the PDA is long gone (heck, I'm typing this on an iPad mini), but we still haven't caught up with some of its best bits.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
Chrome's still fast, but other browsers caught up, and more importantly web developers took advantage of the increase in performance and started getting away with writing more bloated websites, resulting in much of the speed gains being nullified. Just try to use Chrome or Firefox to browse relatively lightweight websites (e.g. GNU.org), they're amazingly fast compared to what browsers used to be like before Chrome c…
Just try to interview as a front end engineer these days. Someone at Airbnb laughed at me because I used a for loop instead of lodash on an array. He said "wow, you write it old school." Why write fast code when you can write triple transpiled bloats bullshit vis a vis Babel, flow and jsx.
The best part of this: The native for loop is what lodash uses. It's the fastest way to do it.
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#179Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#180The Psion Series 3 handhelds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3 A (tiny, but) usable, physical keyboard on a device that lasted _ages_, fit into a suit pocket and was eminently practical. The age of the PDA is long gone (heck, I'm typing this on an iPad mini), but we still haven't caught up with some of its best bits.
I saw someone using a 5mx on a train a month ago. It was still fully functional and he was perfectly happy with his 96MB CompactFlash card.