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Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Post by nijave »

dougdonohoe wrote: post #159

Gotta say IntelliJ, which isn't just for Java. It's a great coding platform and I used it for Scala, Go, Python, Bash, Java, PHP, Perl, you name it. I know many people like to hate on IDEs, but IntelliJ (and/or its language-specific variants like PyCharm or GoLand) has great support for all the debuggers in the above languages. It has awesome search/replace. Being able to "drill down" in to code, including 3rd party…

IDEs like this are definitely kludgy and slow but the productivity gain from code navigation, test tool integration, profiler, and debugger is just insane (imo). Having a tool that helps you visualize the code (while it's running) is incredibly powerful

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Post by spariev »

orthecreedence wrote: post #7

Vim. I can never leave modal editing now. Been using it since 2010 and I think in vim when editing. It lets me enter a flow state so much easier. My brain maps into writing and editing.

Just a reminder that you _can_ leave modal editing with :q (sorry couldn’t resist)

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Post by [deleted] »

porridgeandrice wrote: post #126

Autohotkey There is simply no better automation program on any OS. I even run a fully fledged tiling wm written in autohotkey. ( For reference, here's when I tricked r/unixporn into thinking it was bspwm https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/nhzz3b/confession... ) Fluent search Spotlight on steroids, for windows. Apart from being a search/launcher, it has a bunch of atrociously good features. It lets you use a c…

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Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Post by ikrenji »

nijave wrote: post #241
dougdonohoe wrote: post #159

Gotta say IntelliJ, which isn't just for Java. It's a great coding platform and I used it for Scala, Go, Python, Bash, Java, PHP, Perl, you name it. I know many people like to hate on IDEs, but IntelliJ (and/or its language-specific variants like PyCharm or GoLand) has great support for all the debuggers in the above languages. It has awesome search/replace. Being able to "drill down" in to code, including 3rd party…

IDEs like this are definitely kludgy and slow but the productivity gain from code navigation, test tool integration, profiler, and debugger is just insane (imo). Having a tool that helps you visualize the code (while it's running) is incredibly powerful

slow? i use both pycharm and webstorm and their are definitely neither kludgy nor slow...

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Post by ironrabbit »

kiernanmcgowan wrote: post #242

Things - its a light weight todo app with just enough features to make it useful. I tend to use it for a dev log to keep track of what I'm working on, keep notes, and finally mark something as complete https://culturedcode.com/things/

This looks very nice but no android support is unfortunately a dealbreaker

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Post by amrtn »

geocrasher wrote: post #85

Ditto Clipboard Manager for Windows. Yes, I know W10/11 have it native now, but it's not as good as Ditto. https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/ AutoHotKey https://www.autohotkey.com/ And if deleting TikTok from my phone were an app, it would be nominated, because that saved me hundreds of hours I'm sure :D

I loved ditto when I used windows. Do you know a good ditto alternative for mac?

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Post by logicallee »

celeritascelery wrote: post #175
logicallee wrote: post #121

I've easily saved 100 hours already using ChatGPT. If you haven't heard of it already, this is, in my personal opinion, superhuman general AI with almost no limitations except that it might not be free forever and it likes to stay SFW. For example, if you ask it to list "What pieces of software that most users don't use is most likely to save me 100 hours - keep your answer brief and specific" you get the response at…

I don’t know how useful this reply is. Essentially everything it suggested is not “software that most users don’t use” (which is what was requested). It just a list of really common software, with lots of fluff text. If you knew nothing about software, this list could be helpful, but otherwise this reply is not good. That being said, I find ChatGPT really useful for generating basic code samples. It can replace basic…

Try telling it your workflow and ask what might save you time, since half of its answer was that everyone's workflow is different. You might be surprised at what it knows or can suggest for you.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Post by ornornor »

cooperaustinj wrote: post #201
boplicity wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

RE: ChatGTP... How confident are you that it's giving you the correct answers to your queries? I've noticed that it often sounds right, but is sometimes completely wrong, in subtle ways. It always puts together words that are commonly near eachother, and it is always grammatically correct, but it is often absolutely wrong. I've observed that the more specific and technical a question I ask, the more likely it is to b…

How often are you confident that you find the right answer on Google? As with anything, you need to reason about it yourself and verify.

Parent is using chatgpt as a tutor though, not as a google search.

I’d expect a tutor to give the right answer, but I wouldn’t expect google to. Chatgpt is often wrong. It’s a problem if you’re trying to learn something and using it as your tutor/truth.

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