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Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
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#202Microsoft Word 5 Mac edition. Just redevelop it, no additions or changes, except a conforming UI. That was the last good word processor before it all went to hell.
As noted in another comment, AbiWord is pretty close.
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been using https://www.inoreader.com and am pretty happy with it as an alternative. It has a lot of the same keyboard shortcuts, which is really all I want.
I miss google reader because it was simply lists and lists of news. Not these new readers that love to extract an image from the article and use it to cover quarter of the screen(exaggerating here). Then 4 more articles on the next page. Then so on. Google reader was perfect for skimming through 100 pieces of news in a short amount of time and just click the articles you want to read in a new tab and done. Any new re…
I can't think of a modern reader which doesn't have a view like this. Just a few examples: The Old Reader, Inoreader, Feedly all do.
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#204Lotus Notes. Easy to put together multi user databases with multiple views, security levels, authorization, and signatures.
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#205Microsoft Money. I didn't have to give access to all my accounts to some website, or pay an annual subscription for upgrades. I got keyboard shortcuts and reports and I could search for things to find out how old my computer is or when I went to Vegas. It seems like in the physical economy, if you create something of value and you aren't making money off it, you will sell it and someone else can make money off it. Wi…
My Dad used Money 99 for years until he wasn't able to run it any longer. He switched to gnucash and seems to like it well enough.
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#206Windows Phone. To this day no Android phone I've used ever as fast, reliable or plain refined as WP8 was. Unique design and many genuinely useful features, and it reflected a time when smartphones could have been vibrant and diverse, not our current two mega-platforms or nothing.
I do miss Windows Phone. The animated tiles meant that a lot of the time you didn't need to switch to the app to get the info you needed (weather conditions, how the market is doing, etc.) And it was fast I really dislike the pointless animations that iOS and Android go through - since the icons in Windows Phone were rectangles the few animations it did have were quick because they didn't have to worry about clipping…
I had a Lumia 920 for years. More than being fast, it felt fast. The animations were placed to make all the load times consistent. When you get used to a specific timing, the device always feels right.
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#207Pebble - still the best smart watch at the moment. I don't want my watch tracking me, I want a long battery life and I want it to be subtle.
This is one of the few times I actually watched better technology fail. Crushed by a few poor business decisions.
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#208* Windows Phone. We need a third viable option in the mobile space. This week we are concerned about the loss of a browser engine, recognizing this is unhealthy for the market. Windows Phone was terrific in many ways and recent concepts by fans such as @boxnwhisker (Harry Dohyun Kim) [1] show how beautiful the Metro design could be today. * Microsoft Image Composer. A little known sprite-oriented graphic arts program…
Note that there is KaiOS -- popular in India and Brazil but under the radar on HN because it's currently mostly aimed at feature phones. It's based on FireFox OS (hence probably closer to PalmOS than Windows Phone): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS
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#209I’ve been a heavy user of FoxPro [1] back in time. I would really love someone to make a better version of it. Although these days you have Airtable [2] and Ninox [3] they are having different user base than good old FoxPro. 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_FoxPro 2: https://airtable.com 3: https://ninoxdb.de/en/
I currently maintain a "legacy" VFP application that is actually quite robust. Not as modern as most languages, but desktop apps can be quite robust. The access to HTTP libraries and WebView controls can bridge some gaps. What's really missing is a better IDE with better type hinting, autocomplete, tabs, etc... VS Code would be a great base for an updated IDE. I know that Rick Strahl's West Wind has support for Visua…
I ported a FoxPro app to VFP in 2012. I had worked on the original one in DOS and ported it to FP for Windows around '96-97, so I knew the IDE's pretty well. But by that point I couldn't stand anything but Emacs. So I got xbase-mode (and patched it a bit), and just automated the project build.
There was 100+ screens so I had to do some bulk processing on those SPR's. But I used WebViews for any new stuff, and that was much better (though it was basically IE7).
Yeah I owe Rick Strahl so many beers for his blog.
Second time this has come up this morning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18635799
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#210I have a few software packages in mind: 1. The Genera operating system for Symbolics Lisp machines. Ever since I've gotten bitten by the Smalltalk and Lisp machine bugs, I've been wanting to use Genera, but I was born at the beginning of the last AI winter, and unfortunately the operating system is still proprietary, with no word about whether or not it will become open sourced. It's regrettable that the proverbial b…
I share your sentiments. With regards to Genera, have you seen this?