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Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#162Google Reader. There are no replacements that a) update fast enough, and b) allow search for free. I know, I tried all of them. Firefox had an amazing plugin called "Ubiquity", which was basically like command line for your browser and you could write custom scripts for it. It was seriously better than anything that exists today. They stopped developing it for some reason. Tab Groups is another feature that's now aba…
Have you tried Digg's RSS reader? I've been using it a bit lately, and like it well enough.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
Chrome's still fast, but other browsers caught up, and more importantly web developers took advantage of the increase in performance and started getting away with writing more bloated websites, resulting in much of the speed gains being nullified. Just try to use Chrome or Firefox to browse relatively lightweight websites (e.g. GNU.org), they're amazingly fast compared to what browsers used to be like before Chrome c…
Just try to interview as a front end engineer these days. Someone at Airbnb laughed at me because I used a for loop instead of lodash on an array. He said "wow, you write it old school." Why write fast code when you can write triple transpiled bloats bullshit vis a vis Babel, flow and jsx.
I could honestly believe that is Airbnb's slogan. But I'm sad to believe they treated an interview candidate like that.
I hope you were able to use that tool to leverage a better job elsewhere and that he/she is no longer interviewing people at Airbnb.
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#164Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#165Jasc Paint Shop Pro. This tool had the useful half of Illustrator's features and the useful half of Photoshop's, it was blazing fast, and it combined them in a single program so you could mix vector and raster layers. This made it absolutely perfect for web-targeted graphics work. It was the first software I legally bought because it was so good and still affordable (a fraction of the price of Adobe's stuff - something like $200 if i recall correctly).
Corel bought it and turned it into a bloated mess of a photo management tool. IMO they should've just killed Draw and rebranded Paint Shop Pro as the new Draw, it was that much better.
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#166Truecrypt
There is VeraCrypt, a fork of TrueCrypt 7.1a. It still works at least on Windows and OS X (I didn't check GNU/Linux).
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#167Turbo Pascal It had an awesome IDE, debugger, and help.
There is an awesome FreePascal [1]. Along with TurboPascal-like console IDE called FPIDE, it has Delphi-like GUI IDE - Lazarus. And it very actively developed, cross-platform and supports modern technologies.
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#1681. Delphi and its community 2. OptiPerl http://www.xarka.com/optiperl/features.html Though both are still available, not in use.
As I mentioned already - Lazarus + FreePascal for the 1st one.
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#169list, a DOS text file browser by Vernon D. Buerg. Anyone know where I can get a copy?
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#170Sabre C aka Centerline C and later Centreline ObjectCenter (C++). Best C debugging environment I've ever used. I ported the X11R3 server to some custom h/w using it.