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Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

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Post by sleavey »

napsterbr wrote: post #125
Noumenon72 wrote: post #111

Microsoft 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…

The interface may not be the same, but I highly recommend http://plaintextaccounting.org . I've used ledger and currently am using beancount. Both are great! There's also gnucash, never used but its interface may be similar to Microsoft Money (which I also never used).

I've found Beancount [1] to be a nicer version of Ledger. It is similar syntax but it enforces rigid rules to ensure you don't make as many mistakes. You can also use Fava [2] as a nice local web-based account browser.

[1] http://furius.ca/beancount/

[2] https://beancount.github.io/fava/

Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

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Post by snaky »

petepete wrote: post #527
ransom1538 wrote: post #500

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow. To this day. I can only find IDE's that do 1/2 of the features VB6 had. But yeah. After .NET hit, all the VB6 devs I know, bailed.

I'd say exactly the same for Delphi 5 and 6.

Delphi was much more productive, but VB6 was more broadly present on US enterprise market.

Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

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Post by darshanrampatel »

ksherlock wrote: post #233
Noumenon72 wrote: post #111

Microsoft 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…

I use MS Money (2004 edition) in a Windows 2K VM. Unless I write my own finance software, I don't believe I'll ever stop.

You should be able to use "Money Plus Sunset Deluxe" (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=207...) which works for me on Windows 10.

Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

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Post by darshanrampatel »

Noumenon72 wrote: post #111

Microsoft 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…

In the case of Money, they did release a sunset version (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=207...) that continues to work...

Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

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Post by krackers »

fyfy18 wrote: post #596
joshmn wrote: post #338

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe LG Smart TVs are webOS based.

Under the hood it's webOS, but obviously a custom UI for a TV. I have a 2017 LG with it and it works rather well, no issues with 4K HDR on Netflix and YouTube, and other than booting, it reacts instantly as a TV should. It's a shame there are limited apps for it though - I'd really like apps for Steam Link and Kodi.

I think webOS has been open sourced and there used to be some effort [1] to port it to devices starting with the nexus 4/5. Seems the effort is still decently active with a release just last week[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuneOS

[2]: https://pivotce.com/2018/11/28/luneos-november-stable-releas...

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