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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?
#4521. Delphi and its community 2. OptiPerl http://www.xarka.com/optiperl/features.html Though both are still available, not in use.
Delphi was awesome for rapid GUI development! It was so easy to get reasonable nice programs in a short amount of time. I really really miss it.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#453Newzbin + sabnzbd
Piracy has never been so easy
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#454RPN HP calculators: HP29C (my first one) and HP41C (did university with it). A long time ago, some demon soul from hell decided to kill them product lines. The world never was the same, afterwards.
They still make a 35S which is what I use. I have four 32sii still sealed in the clamshell.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#455Winamp
If you're on windows try foobar2000 [0] On linux try moc.[1] The latter might be too restricted for your needs but personally I absolutely love its simple interface. [0] http://www.foobar2000.org/ [1] https://moc.daper.net/
foobar2000 and Winamp are completely different types of programs. The former was more or less just a simple music player while the latter is highly configurable.
btw, foobar2000 runs perfectly fine under Wine.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#456Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lenovo destroyed the Thinkpad legacy. I gave up on them a few years ago when they dropped the 7 row keyboard. The 7 row keyboard was leagues ahead of any other laptop keyboard, ever. The replacement keyboard is awful. I hate the loss of web forward/back keys too. I hate chicklet keys. I hate pgup/dn placed as though I'll almost never use them. I still prefer the trackpoint over any touchpad. I'd buy a retro Thinkpad,…
The Lenovo keyboards aren't bad? I actually like them. Well aside from the bottom left key being FN instead of Ctrl...that part is retarded. The trackpads on them are beyond redemption though. How that made it past well any kind of user testing is beyond me.
> Well aside from the bottom left key being FN instead of Ctrl...that part is retarded.
There's a BIOS option to swap Fn and Ctrl, at least on the X250.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#457A few things: Everything not being 4:3 screens. I found it better for programming than everything being cinematic screens. Back when monitor manufacturers were racing to make better / higher resolution monitors, instead of just leaving it at 1080p / 4k / whatever the current standard good enough for movies is. The GMail interface before it started auto-converting the textarea to HTML when edited externally. Console g…
This is one of my two biggest pet peeves when it comes to e-mail.
Top posting is the other.
> E-Mail before we lost the "text should be text and not goddamn HTML" war.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#458Nothing Real Shake, which was bought (and killed) by Apple. It was the best video compositing app on the market at that time.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#459borland turbo pascal/c IDE that does most everything one needs for programming in one SIMPLE AND SMALL application.
dbaseIV and the possibility to create a db application + its menus/gui in short time without having to import 100+ kitchen sinks.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#460Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Tab Groups Still works, I use it on a daily basis. It's just an addon now. It will probably continue to work for a few years, they've been wanting to get rid of it since 2013 ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836758 ) and it's still there. But I'd be glad to hear of any alternatives!
I've seen this plugin but I don't understand the use case. Group of tabs = a browser window. Am I missing out on a productivity boost?
II have a tab group for each topic/task I'm working on. I have about 10 groups/80 tabs total, so if I open them all at once it takes a while. With tab groups non active tabs are not loaded right away, so when I'm working I e.g. don't need to open all the tabs where I'm planning a vacation open. I used to use lots of different sessions before discovering tab groups, but it was slower and I lost track of sessions often. Tab Group makes life just a bit easier.