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Re: Ask HN: What is the best-designed software you've used?

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Post by canhascodez »

sanityvampire wrote: post #40
brunosutic wrote: post #10

- Unix command line. - Vim's commands and keybingings interface (not the UI).

>Vim's commands and keybingings interface (not the UI). I recently decided to finally get good at Vim, but the UI, being text-only, can be charitably described as "awful." Solution: Sublime Text 3 with the NeoVintageous[1] plugin. Takes a beautiful, highly customizable, extensible editor and adds most of the Vim bindings. I can do all of my main development work in a gorgeous editor, and when I have to hop onto an un…

You may want to check out SpaceVim. I've been developing on a remote machine lately; before I was using ST2/3. I could have continued to do so using (e.g.) sshfs, but I think that I'm probably more productive this way. One of my favorite features so far is that the terminal is bound to SPC+', and that lets you easily yank and paste and navigate using the vim tools. It's not quite as pretty as ST or Atom. Powerline fonts and a 24-bit color terminal emulator are recommended.

https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim

Re: Ask HN: What is the best-designed software you've used?

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Post by gtf21 »

prolikewh0a wrote: post #29

Pocket Casts

I tried a lot of podcasting apps after Instacast died and PocketCasts was so far ahead of the competition (and Instacast) that I fell in love with it (and now many of my friends have it as well). It has almost everything I want in a podcast app except for being able to search through the episodes (I often remember an episode during the course of a conversation and want to send it to someone).

Re: Ask HN: What is the best-designed software you've used?

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Post by com2kid »

panic wrote: post #48
com2kid wrote: post #20

Hands down, Rhino3d ( https://www.rhino3d.com/ ) It is an amazing piece of 3D modeling software. After having used it, other 3D modeling software seems software seems clunky in comparison. Rhino3D is the best mixture of command line, auto complete, and a mouse based interface that I have ever seen. Lots of CAD software combined the two, but Rhino does an incredible job. The commands are also incredibly well named, to…

The company behind Rhino, Robert McNeel & Associates, has also managed to stay small ( http://www.mcneel.com/contact ) and user-focused (from http://blog.novedge.com/2007/03/an_interview_wi_3.html ): > In the last few months, there has been a lot of talk in the CAD community about proprietary file formats and how companies protect them. I would like to know how a CAD system like Rhino was able to succeed with a file…

Rhino is such a joy to use, I honestly wish I had a reason to do some 3D modeling just so I could justify purchasing it, and have an opportunity to use it.

An absolutely amazing bit of software.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best-designed software you've used?

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Post by prolikewh0a »

gtf21 wrote: post #62
prolikewh0a wrote: post #29

Pocket Casts

I tried a lot of podcasting apps after Instacast died and PocketCasts was so far ahead of the competition (and Instacast) that I fell in love with it (and now many of my friends have it as well). It has almost everything I want in a podcast app except for being able to search through the episodes (I often remember an episode during the course of a conversation and want to send it to someone).

If you didn't know, their web app is another $10 (when I bought it 3 years ago at least), but it's just as good and syncs.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best-designed software you've used?

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Post by iopuy »

salutonmundo wrote: post #46

Probably, VLC media player. It does everything I need a media player to do.

If we are talking about UI design, in my opinion VLC falls short. I still can't figure out where the setting is to turn off the title overlay at the beginning of the video. Does anyone here know?
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