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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 nullandvoid »

jmcgough wrote: post #149

Anki - I don't know how I'd prep for the MCAT without this. Open source with desktop and mobile clients, syncing via cloud. It's flashcarding but uses gradual intervals so you see things less often once you've retained them. ChatGPT - I use this as a private tutor (it's great for biomedical stuff) to check my understanding and ask it to correct me if I'm wrong.

I can't think of a single piece of software that has cloud syncing, for free, with no option for payment.

I'm not sure who is running it (hopefully some well funded academic group), but it restores me faith in humanity a little every time I press sync and don't get CTA'd to sign up for some subscription.

Amazing tool, kudos to the devs, and if there other comes a time where payment is required, I would be happy to chip in with the above being said.

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Post by nurettin »

ddterm (a quake terminal for gnome) is my favorite time saver. f1 dropdown, open a bunch of tabs and run mosh terminals for managing remote servers, name them appropriately and the spaceship is ready. Any time I need to access a remote, I press f1 and switch to its tab within seconds.

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

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Post by jansan »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #186
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…

I've tried to migrate to something more lightweight like (neo)?vim, Helix, emacs; but regardless of how good their syntax awareness/LSP support is, it's always inferior to JetBrains IDEs. Simple example: (any language, e.g. Rust) rename a function across multiple files and undo it. Let me know how you'd do it in your editor of choice.

I have been using IntelliJ IDEs since the early 2000s. Currently I am using WebStorm's (IntelliJ's small JS brother), and the local history feature in combination with the outstanding diff view are just one reason why I could not work without it.

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

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Post by qxxx »

z3ugma wrote: post #60

Gong.ai - transcribes Zoom and Google Meet calls with very high fidelity, and identifies which callers are talking and suggest tips to your sales, customer success, and demo staff on how to improve their presence in online meetings and phone calls. https://www.gong.io/product/ This is the SaaS I'm most excited about this year.

I sometimes use whisper to transcribe videos or audio to text. Works good and it is free.

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

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Post by mtwshngtn »

KiranRao0 wrote: post #205

I feel like I have a unique one here. The chrome extension: "Replace Youtube's Home with Subscriptions" It has easily saved me over 100 hours by preventing me from continuously scrolling through youtube recommendations. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/replace-youtubes-h...

can you not just click 'subscriptions' in the left sidebar on the homepage? Or direct?: https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

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Post by geocrasher »

amrtn wrote: post #247
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?

A quick Googling found this, and it looks similar:

https://maccy.app/

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Post by signaru »

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…

I use Visual Studio for the same reason, but might give IntelliJ a try as I've just checked that it also has a plugin for Rust.

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

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Post by gavinray »

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…

My one big complaint with IntelliJ is that they don't have Devcontainer support

It's (almost) 2023, the way to develop applications is to put a reproducible Docker container with all the dependencies + debug tools you need in the repo, so that anyone can clone it and spin it up in their IDE.

VS Code has amazing support for this, while the only Jetbrains IDE that comes close is CLion.

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