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Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
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#712Gnome 2 with Beryl. Not practical but damn if that wasn't a fun desktop environment to use.
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#713The Graffiti shorthand for Palm PDAs [1]. It still far outshines any handwriting recognition systems available on modern devices both in terms of speed and usability. Also, not really an individual product, but I miss durable consumer devices - I used a flipphone that had survived being run over by a tractor for years after the fact, and my old laptop could probably stop a bullet. If we could develop touchscreen glas…
For the keyboard, see: https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/a/42032
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#714The Sunrise Calendar http://blog.sunrise.am/
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#715The Axis-49 [1]. Ninety eight velocity sensitive keys in a hexagonal layout, ready to be remapped to Wicki-Hayden. I discovered them after they were discontinued and when a used one popped up after several years I bought it, but I'm really disappointed these didn't catch on. [1] https://www.c-thru-music.com/cgi/?page=prod_axis-49
Have you become proficient with them? I thought it was an interesting idea but the quality of the hardware is really pretty poor (buttons get stuck as you press them) and the hexagonal layout does not really seem that easy to learn / operate.
> Have you become proficient with them?
After about three weeks of playing around with mine I was better at playing melodies on it than I am at piano, and I've been playing piano for decades. https://youtu.be/3Qyg914392Q https://www.jefftk.com/jeff-band/marcell.mp3
>the quality of the hardware is really pretty poor (buttons get stuck as you press them)
I haven't had that problem; hopeful that I don't!
> the hexagonal layout does not really seem that easy to learn / operate
Are you talking about the Harmonic Table layout that it ships with? I don't like that layout at all. I converted mine to Wicki-Hayden: https://www.jefftk.com/p/rearranging-axis-49-keys
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#716Pschitt!
This is the absolute best soda drink, low in sugar and very refreshing.
It’s not really discontinued, but it’s basically impossible to get in the US; extremely hard to find in France.
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#717Google Reader. Now I have a mix of HN, Reddit and GMail, and none of them work really how I like.
Try NewsBlur
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#718Screenhero. Unfortunately, when Slack acquired it and supposedly included the functionality, it just wasn't anywhere near as good. Still, to this day, there's nothing as good as Screenhero for remote pairing.
It isn't quite the same, but I've had great luck with a combination of VS Live Share ( https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MS-vsliv... ) and then Zoom or some other tool for voice communication.
Unfortunately, there's no substitute at all for having access to the entire desktop, with super low latency and built-in voice.
ScreenSharing.app is about as good as it gets, I've found.
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#719The incredible machine.
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#720Westwood Studios. I loved their games including their final game C&C Renegade, even though EA rushed Renegade out the door and shut the studio down.
All the afternoons after school playing this game with friends. So much fun. I also remember the humor of discovering lag and kill lag.