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

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It's so oraclish an ingresish in the way it treats the command line monkeys...

There's a reason for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stonebraker

This is actually the first time I've seen POSTGRES referred to as named for being post-Ingres. This wiki page is full of quite interesting tidbits of history on DB research, thanks.

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

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Glad to see you folks coming up with many examples. For me it's more like a journey of constant sorrow, i'm hardly put coming up even with one example, but maybe: - übertime on iOS = i hate time tracking, this rock solid app makes it bearable. - Brief (under DOSBox) just to remind myself that good, reliable, general-purpose text editors did exist at some point...

I can help you right now: you shouldn't be using iOS

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

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A month ago, I would've put Winamp on this list. Unfortunately, the lack of updates to it has made it impossible to read on my new 4K laptop.

Huge pity, otherwise, as I still love the thing. I wish they'd just open source it so someone can future-proof it for Hi-DPI displays.

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Omnigraffle is the software that originally convinced me to switch from windows to mac. I love it so much. Great features, simple UI that doesn't fiddle too much version to version and it basically never crashes on me.

Omniplan is indispensable for me as a project manager. I just wish there was something online as easy/fast to use with support for multiple project managers/projects.

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Reaper DAW. Tiny executable, rock-solid reliability, low RAM and CPU usage, effortlessly configurable. It's closed source so it's just a gut feel but it gives the impression of being 'well made' under the hood. I call it my 'Vim of audio'. It was written by the creator of Winamp.

Haven't tried Reaper, but Ardour is pretty solid for me these days.

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I recently tried some tiling window managers, but the problem with those was that none of them provided basic default configuration and you have to configure them from scratch. For example you have to add a plugin for small things such as a battery indicator. The custom themes were too much bloated for me. I ended up installing shellshape for gnome. Do you know any tiling window manager which solves this?

I'm fairly certain that i3 comes with a percentage battery indicator by default. The default config is pretty good (except it uses `jkl;` instead of `hjkl`, but that's a simple fix).

I think that's part of a different package, i3-status or something, which is not strictly required but recommended in docs etc. Possibly it's also installed by default if you just choose 'i3', depending on your package manager.
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