MacProject and HyperCard
Hypercard was my first programming tool as well. Unless you count useless BASIC toys I did a couple times in math class.
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?
#862Total Commander (yes it's still available and still great but I'm not using Windows anymore, now OS X). I even miss Windows Explorer... I will never get in love with Finder on OS X.. most horrible File Manager ever. Finder is like a punishment for everybody switching to OS X (I want copy&paste and folders first everywhere, gosh). Thunar on XFCE was also ok. At least ForkLift nowadays helps me not to be angry at my Ma…
On Linux and OSX: Midnight Commander! (apt-get install mc) || (brew install mc)
or konqueror
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#863Amarok 1.4
i also miss amarok1. last time i used clementine it wasnt as feature rich
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#864i'm missing kde3.5 and dcop. kde3.5 was so fast and snappy and apps there were so feature rich. and dbus is no match to dcop - you can discover dcop features straight in console and use right away. but you cant do use dbus without reading a ton of scattered docs.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#865Please read it from a consumer perspective about consumer topics: (of course B2B is very different, where other things matter) * products/software without DRM, always-online, analytics, tracking and spy "features" - bad for consumer personal privacy, and prevents second hand market, products cannot be owned anymore, try buying Windows 10, John Deer tractor, Tesla S without that crap * Cash money: those Davos attendee…
I'm not sure Germany is a good example. I am now living in west Germany, people simply prefer using cash. Unlike in Sweden, where I also lived, where they want to get rid of it soon. Many services are simply not available without a credit card (eg.: at T-Mobile store). But I second you on the cloud computing and SaaS - I want the programs to run on my machine. And off-line.
In most countries there is a legal rule that establishes cash, which says something along the lines of :
Currency notes must be accepted as payment for all debts, public and private.
This means not accepting cash is actually illegal. This has been relaxed a bit, in that refusing to take a 500 euro note for a .5 euro purchase is permitted, but either refusing to sell to someone who wants to pay cash or not accepting cash after the sale is not legal.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#866Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your rhetoric is off, "smuggle" is the term for illegal stuff. Don't use it for legal stuff. And don't make cash money look like it's bad - that's just the propaganda that started after the Davos conference to bad mouth cash money in the interest of a small elite. We all know better: You transfer legal stuff. Cash money is valid money form, you just carry money around in your wallet. While it's already true, some sta…
You're free to transfer value anonymously. Purchase gold.
You are most definitely not free to just trade gold holdings for anything without disclosing it to the authorities in the US, or any other nation I know of.
That it can be done illegally, I may agree with. At that point, it's not just criminals who will steal your gold (in the sense of taking it away without compensation), but the state as well.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#867CFStudio (big brother of HomeSite). Probably used it for 10+ years without an update until switching to OS X and having to find an alternative. Eventually settled on Sublime.
This! HomeSite's ability to to multi-line find & replace across multiple files (all open files or all files in specific folder) was a really helpful feature for many tasks. I have yet to find something that can repliciate that. Can Sublime?
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#868CFStudio (big brother of HomeSite). Probably used it for 10+ years without an update until switching to OS X and having to find an alternative. Eventually settled on Sublime.
This! HomeSite's ability to to multi-line find & replace across multiple files (all open files or all files in specific folder) was a really helpful feature for many tasks. I have yet to find something that can repliciate that. Can Sublime?
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#869Google Search. Sure, Google still do a search engine, but it is nowhere near as good as it used to be.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#870Google 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…
Feedly is about the closest I've got to Reader, after trying Digg and a few others.
Yeah, when Google announced they'll be shutting down Reader, Feedly was amongst the first to offer an automated migration. I use and love Feedly since then...