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 pantaloons » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 7:53 PM UTC

KeepFlying wrote: post #124

conception wrote: post #105

Trying not to pick fan favorites/well knowns - SecureCRT - SSH and more client (win) Quicksilver - OSX launcher Pathfinder - OSX finder replacement Notepad++ - Win text editor Gawor's LDAP Browser - still my favorite (Java) Cog - OSX Music player (ala winamp) GCalTookit - Doing Google Calendar Magic (Java) Plex + ShowRSS + Catch - Netflix but better Synology - Their NAS platform is pretty amazing. You can do just abo…

I love that you suggested YNAB here but I have one significant problem with it that doesn't have a consistently good workaround. Reimbursements. When I m out with friends and the restaurant doesn't split the bill I'll often cover it then get paid back with cash or PayPal. YNAB doesn't seem to handle this very well. Then wirh longer term reimbursements it gets worse. Either you forget that you are owed or you float th…

Split the transaction in YNAB, send your part to the correct category "Dining", and itemize owed amounts per person into another category "Loaned Money". It's easy to track if "Loaned Money" has a positive balance, and you don't screw up the budget for your Dining category.

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

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Post by gkst » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 7:53 PM UTC

Apache server. I know it is not a hip choice, but I've used it for more than 15 years to serve static and dynamic websites. I've changed tech stacks from perl to php to python used different data bases and Apache always just worked.

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

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Post by wintermute42 » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 7:53 PM UTC

nulltype wrote: post #127

Go, super stable, reliable and fast. I also love the ideology.

I'll give you the first 2 at least. On another note, having an impoverished type system isn't much of an ideology..

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

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Post by BlackjackCF » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 7:54 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

IntelliJ Idea is head and shoulders better than many other IDEs, particularly Eclipse in the reliability department.

I'm not a big fan of IDEs, but IntelliJ is really good. I just hate how heavy it is.

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

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Post by pzone » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 7:54 PM UTC

hack_edu wrote: post #32

ffmpeg and libav

Absolutely ffmpeg. I guess it's not "stable" in the sense that the fast pace of development sometimes leads to changes in best practices, but damn is it excellent to use.

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

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Post by icholy » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 7:55 PM UTC

thedudemabry wrote: post #71

Synergy. It's a keyboard and mouse sharing client/server application that runs on every platform I use. I don't know if better alternatives exist because it has just been rock-solid for the last 12 years that I've been using it. I've used it in multi-monitor and machine desktop setups (e.g. an Apple laptop paired with a Windows desktop and linux desktop for enterprisey cubicle development), as well as to let me drive…

Eh, maybe it's gotten better since the last time I used it, but I found it to be pretty unreliable.

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

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Post by Finbarr » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 7:56 PM UTC

Alfred for mac. App launcher and so much more.

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

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Post by adnanh » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 7:56 PM UTC

i3

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

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Post by ArkyBeagle » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 7:56 PM UTC

gglitch wrote: post #90

ArkyBeagle wrote: post #48

Tcl. Everything about it is reference-grade.

Can you say more about this? Is there any particular problem space you like it for?

Yeah; mainly for:

1) Testing embedded things over comms links. 2) Modelling/simulation, particularly discrete-time simulation. 3) Anything where the ability to generate permutations is important. 3a) At times, generating big tables in other languages like 'C' based on permutations, lists or other data. 4) Operating Excel/Word through OLE.

The thing that Python does not have is 1) packaging ( at least not as well ) and 2) sockets and other comms objects are first-class objects in Tcl.

It's a bit old (it has a 1990s aroma ) for web-based things, although there are web servers in Tcl, most famously AOL's.

It's a fantastic duct-tape language.

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

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Post by chowes » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 7:58 PM UTC

aserafini wrote: post #85

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.

Not sure if you're playing music or just recording, but have you ever tried http://www.cockos.com/ninjam/ ? Also made by the same people and a lot of fun!