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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?
#232Common sense.
Google Wave. Only kidding. ;)
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's wrong with your tap water? Don't they have the same safety standards to meet? UK tap water is great (Well, outside of Greater London where it's basically limestone slurry). I've never bought bottled or filtered aside from the brief time I was in London. At least two brands of UK bottled water were bottling northern tap water and selling it. Business idea I wish I had thought of!
If I'm not mistaken he's talking about India. It's common advice (for travellers at least) to only drink bottled water in India.
If it's India they have a problem of arsenic contamination of groundwater, plus bacterial contamination of surface water.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#234Graffiti on Palm handhelds. I owned the original PalmPilot and a couple of other models up to the Vx, and can still write Graffiti faster than I can type on a touch screen. Discounting the Newton (which I tested but didn't own), there still isn't anything else that even came close in terms of practical "handwriting", and even though there's an Android keyboard that does Graffiti, ACCESS is sitting on the IP and has d…
While over at Android there already is. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.access_com...
Yeah, I did point that out on my post. They let it languish for a good while and recently started updating it.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#235Nokia N9. The "more linuxy" Nokia Android competitor that was released late and dead on arrival (in terms of ecosystem), but was still years ahead of Android in many ways and fundamentally better in others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3rgAV1a2kg http://www.theverge.com/2011/10/22/2506376/nokia-n9-review
And seeded the crap fest that is making its way through the larger Linux ecosystem right now.
I had a N800, and i loved it. But come the N900 Nokia had done too many "pivots" too fast, fatally fragmenting the community the 770 to N810 lineage had built up. And once Elop came in and torched the platform, things were sinking fast.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#236PC Outline. It's a DOS-based outliner. In 1986, my manager said "Here, you're organised. You'll like this" and he was right - I did. So much so that I bought my own copy. I still use it every day in a DOSBox DOS emulator on Windows 7 and Linux. I use it for passwords, todo and done lists, keeping track of work done for clients, functional decomposition, shopping lists and the steps for configuring and compiling the L…
From quick googling, there's some discussion where people are suggesting alternatives: http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/2200/5
Personally, I haven't ever used PC Outline, so I don't know its features, but from many free outliners I tried I liked the Noteliner. Unfortunately I couldn't find a replacement on Linux (and I don't have time to learn Emacs + org-mode)
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#237OS/2 (ok, technically it does kinda-sorta still exist, but for all practical purposes it's dead)
No 'tisn't - https://www.arcanoae.com/
At the very worst they already have a bunch of drivers for relatively-modern hardware: https://www.arcanoae.com/shop/os2-ecs-drivers-software-packa...
However, if their promises to release a semi-modernized OS/2 actually come to fruition I'll be really happy. :D
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#238Please read it from a consumer perspective about consumer topics: (of course B2B is very different, where other things matter) * products/software without DRM, always-online, analytics, tracking and spy "features" - bad for consumer personal privacy, and prevents second hand market, products cannot be owned anymore, try buying Windows 10, John Deer tractor, Tesla S without that crap * Cash money: those Davos attendee…
> and eliminated entire cash notes like the 500 EURO note Good fucking riddance. It just was a gift to criminals.
Explain me more. You fall for the propaganda without background knowledge. The statistics says otherwise. Fake money is mostly smaller notes (like 20, 50, 100 notes). Higher value notes like 1000 francs note won't get eliminated anytime soon. Criminals already use electronic money, real estate, fake companies, etc.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#239Google Reader. There are no replacements that a) update fast enough, and b) allow search for free. I know, I tried all of them. Firefox had an amazing plugin called "Ubiquity", which was basically like command line for your browser and you could write custom scripts for it. It was seriously better than anything that exists today. They stopped developing it for some reason. Tab Groups is another feature that's now aba…
After removing tab groups I see literally zero reasons why anyone should use firefox. It's slower, more buggy copy of Opera and Chromium ;/