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

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Post by jstanier »

cespare wrote: post #520
busterarm wrote: post #296

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Under those high loads I've seen every single MQ fall over like a house of cards. At lighter loads you can get the job done with other tools that scale but with a little bit more pain. Leaves me super skeptical about them on the whole.

We push on the order of ~a billion messages / day into one of our Kafka clusters without having too much scaling difficulty.

Indeed. We have completely replaced all queues with Kafka. In fact, I'm not sure what it would take for us to even try anything else at this point.

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

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Post by cel1ne »

threeseed wrote: post #388
juped wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.)

I actually find the documentation to be awful. Take the installation guide: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/tutorial-install.... https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/installation/ PostgreSQL tells you "If you are installing a pre-packaged distribution, such as an RPM or Debian package, ignore this chapter and read the packager's instructions instead" whereas MongoDB actually lists specific instructions for each…

I find the documentation very structured, accessible and complete.

The chapter format might not be the most modern way of presenting it, but the actual page-layout is good and i'm coming from google most of the time anyway.

I don't know what you mean by that the "how" isn't there?

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

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Post by Aoyagi »

On Windows:

Everything - simple and quick file search tool

Ditto - clipboard history

Nokia PC Suite - I still use Nokia 808 PW as my primary device, and the PC Suite is one of the reasons

Puush - quick screenshot/file sharing tool

KVIrc - IRC client

Pidgin - multi-protocol IM client

Opera 12 - living with this thing is becoming increasingly difficult, but I don't want to imagine living without it

WinDirStat - storage space allocation visualisation

...

Then there's a ton of regular stuff: VLC, Photoshop, GetDataBack, Winamp, Telegram, Astroburn, CrystalDiskInfo, NetLimiter, LibreOffice, OpenVPN, Filezilla, 7Zip, Deluge, VirtualBox, TeamViewer.....

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

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Post by pfranz »

softawre wrote: post #270
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…

YNAB compared to Mint, anyone?

I've found Mint better at tracking what I spent money on in previous months (which isn't really budgeting). It's much better at big picture--did I spend more money than I made this month? Wow, I spent more than I expected on my fuel this month--or is that possibly fraudulent and I should follow up on it?

YNAB is similar to the envelope method; take your income and put it into buckets. As you incur expenses you deduct from those buckets.

Here's a big example where Mint falls short but YNAB works well; my utilities are bi-monthly. With YNAB, I'd stash away half of the amount every month and it would get subtracted when I get billed.

That being said, I never got into the habit of using YNAB long-term (tested out YNAB4 and the new web offering), but I wish I would.

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

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Post by Aoyagi »

Draiken wrote: post #196
ruler88 wrote: post #58

FB's messenger - everyone should be using this instead of SMS

It's closed. I will never vouch for a messaging app that is not open. Long live IRC. Look at slack... it's IRC with some design in the front, and suddenly everyone loves it! Somehow it's even worth billions! Irony aside... I miss the good old days of IRC chatting with bots, privileges (please mod me!) and even file sharing :D

IRC client is one of the first foreground programs that start up as soon as the OS boots. There's no shortage for people using IRC :P

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

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Post by MichaelGG »

virmundi wrote: post #201

RabbitMQ. It just works. We're operating with in the normal use case for it. We turn it on, transfer 50k or so messages a day, then forget about. The memory is fairly low, CPU is low and constant. The connections for month or year long clients stay open.

50K is nothing to talk about, really. Over a workday, that's like 2 a second. Even at 5x that much, it's enough for many uncached random hard disk IOs per message.

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

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Post by cel1ne »

aerovistae wrote: post #322

VLC. There have been so many times I thought "man it would be great if there were this crazy hypothetical feature in my media player" only to find out it's like a stable long-established feature that's a keypress away from activation after a quick google search or glance at a dropdown menu.

On the Mac I'm far happier with MPlayerX: http://mplayerx.org/

It's UI is optimised for playing video (example: if your window is not fullscreen, but playing it will stay in front). It has smoother playback than vlc, I can actually skip by seconds with my cursors etc.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

audleman wrote: post #327
aerovistae wrote: post #322

VLC. There have been so many times I thought "man it would be great if there were this crazy hypothetical feature in my media player" only to find out it's like a stable long-established feature that's a keypress away from activation after a quick google search or glance at a dropdown menu.

Or for folks like me: I just want to play my video files no fuss, no muss. Something other major media players seem to have more trouble with than they should. But not VLC! 100% of the time it works every time!

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

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Post by inconshreveable »

ChicagoBoy11 wrote: post #216

ngrok I mean, there are so many pain points when it comes to developing hybrid apps and integrating APIs and all the rest.. and ngrok was a true lifesaver. It's also always, always, always worked 100% of the time. Every time I fire it up, I swear I think I'm cheating somehow.

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