Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

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Post by anonymous344 » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 7:33 PM UTC

trello.com for 1st. place! They survived katrina, or whatever that was for just couple hours of downtime and that was years ago.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

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Post by tmaly » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 7:34 PM UTC

vim as a text editor has worked consistently for me since 1996.

ssh has worked for me for about the same period of time.

the linux kernel has worked for me for pretty much the same time period.

the software running in my TI-85 calculator has been working for me since 1994.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

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Post by quantumhobbit » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 7:34 PM UTC

bberrry wrote: post #20

Notepad++

I'm a big sublime text fan but notepad++ just works in a way that makes me never hesitate to recommend it to people of all skill levels. It is like nano for the gui.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

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Post by anonymous344 » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 7:35 PM UTC

anonymous344 wrote: post #111

trello.com for 1st. place! They survived katrina, or whatever that was for just couple hours of downtime and that was years ago.

And must say Sublime text (currently still v2) This thing has saved me million of times and hours. You can do so much with it.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

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Post by dan1234 » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 7:35 PM UTC

ammobear wrote: post #26

Spotify. Very rarely do I run into performance issues or bugs on any platform.

I got so sick of Spotify randomly taking up 100% of a core that I switched to Apple Music. Yes, I actually found iTunes to be more stable…

Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

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Post by juped » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 7:38 PM UTC

fn1 wrote: post #25

Postgresql. Such a marvel of reliability and good design. All features just logically and consistently work with each other.

And the documentation is good too! (And that means that it's good, not like most software with "good documentation" where "good" means that it has reasonable feature coverage.)

Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

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Post by JiNCMG » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 7:39 PM UTC

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #80

gshx wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Care to give some examples how? For me, Eclipse has remained very stable. Maybe we are using them for different languages and/or things.

IntelliJ lets you do a lot more from the keyboard. It's suggestions for code completion are very useful. It's amazing to see the code almost writing itself, several times faster than you can type!

It even has a plugin that will tell you the key commands for any feature you use more than 3 times.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

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Post by joeyspn » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 7:40 PM UTC

nginx, htop

Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

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Post by Khao » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 7:40 PM UTC

ammobear wrote: post #26

Spotify. Very rarely do I run into performance issues or bugs on any platform.

I often hear my friends talking shit about the spotify desktop app and web app not working properly. I don't use spotify but it seems like something's not working at least every month or two.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

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Post by ryanisnan » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 7:40 PM UTC

Moom window manager. Vimium chrome extension. Sublime Text is more reliable than Atom, but I do prefer Atom these days. 1Password also always just works.