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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
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#132Glad 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...
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#133Huge 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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#134Omnigraffle 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.
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#135Reaper 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.
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#136FB's messenger - everyone should be using this instead of SMS
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#137Microsoft Word, Excel, OneNote, Outlook.
Total commander, far manager.
IrfanView.
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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).
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#139SQLite