HyperCard. It's been decades and I've still never found a better way to make simple GUI applications.
What about Livecode?
Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
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#402Microsoft 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…
Since 2007 I have all my expenses (every single item, drugstore, stocks, funds, etc.) in KMyMoney. It works very well.
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#403* The Borland Turbo IDEs, but modified for modern languages. * Paradox for DOS (with PAL = Paradox Application Language), but with SQL backends.
Do you mean the TUI interfaces?
I love those, still. If you can get setedit or RHIDE working then you can revisit the experience on Linux.
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#404* Symbolics Genera. Nothing like it today. I hope it happens some day since it's not exactly dead and abandoned.
* NuMega SoftICE. Those that used it know.
* Nextstep as it was before Rhapsody. Revolutionary.
* Lost Treasures of Infocom for IOS. Abandoned since Activision won't recompile it for 64bit.
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#405Is no one going to mention Pebble? It's the only smartwatch I've ever wanted, and I was so sad that it got bought and died right when I had enough money to spend some on a smart watch. It just had the perfect combo of good design, long battery life, and usability.
Try the Amazfit BIP, it’s similar (e ink screen), cheaper ($69) but does lack a bit on software / integrations side
Does not look comparable. Appears to be basically a heart rate and step counter. One of the great things about smart watches is notifications.
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#406Apple's Quartz Composer: This is the best tool to do different types of creative coding projects such as VJ'ing, IOT Prototyping, Music MIDI Controller etc. It's sad that development stopped on this years ago.
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#407TacWarrior. It's a strategy turn based tactical RPG for IOS. Like Fire Emblem. I think it's my favorite game. My kid deleted it from my old iPad 1 and now it's not available for download.
Would love to port this to Steam.
http://tacwarrior.wikia.com/wiki/Tacwarrior_Wiki
It was so well balanced and just hard enough to keep you hooked. Also, so much variety in ways you can win, by having different warrior types. Also, various weapons. IMHO a masterpiece.
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#408Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I do keep wondering how Thunderbird can be so slow This is a frequently heard complaint, but I can't imagine under what circumstances this would happen. I have hundreds of thousands of mails in tbird, in various accounts and folders. It's never struck me as slow. And its search (one of the features i use most) is simply fast.
> This is a frequently heard complaint, but I can't imagine under what circumstances this would happen. I see it both fast and slow. Ironically it's absurdly slow on my 8-core desktop and just fine on my older dual core laptop (both with SSDs and same accounts, etc). Definitely weird, but this behaviour has peristed for years, so much that I had to disable TB features on my desktop just so I could type without stalli…
> first thoughts would be to compact your folders and if that doesn't help, vacuum the sqlite files.
Might also recommend a disk check, perhaps FS needs fixing.
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#409Microsoft MapPoint. This was a phenomenal piece of mapping software and had features I haven’t been able to find in any of the online map replacements. When getting directions, you could designate a number of areas on the map as “avoid area”. You could map all sorts of census data. Want to colorize the map based on crime rate divided by median home price? No problem. You could import lots of data from a spreadsheet a…
I would resurrect Microsoft Streets and Trips. I have never used it, but my father still does, and swears it is better than any online mapping software. Part of the reason I would like to resurrect it is that then I would no longer have to figure out how to install his ancient CD copy of it on whatever netbook he buys every 2-3 years.
Some of the fondest memories I have from childhood involved Microsoft Streets and Tips. Father was a military man, so we were always traveling either for moves, or for some other reason related to his career.
He delegated to me the task of putting together his route using Streets and Tips, a great introduction to navigation, mapping and spatial reasoning. Been a cartography geek (not to mention massive road geek) ever since.
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#410* 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…
> compared to today's bloated apps that have difficulty keeping up with keystrokes on 8-core 3.5 GHz monsters Seriously, I recently had to disable Thunderbird's spellchecking so that typing emails wouldn't stall for 5+ seconds at a time on my 8-core machine. Ironically, my older dual core machine has no such problems, and the same email accounts, OS and extensions are at play.
Something is wrong, see my other replies for potential fixes.