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

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Post by Aweorih »

reitanqild wrote: post #161

Netbeans IDE. Cannot remember one serious crash. Have emptied the cache twice that I can think of over the years I have used it. (And most importantly: I have less problems than my colleague who uses IntelliJ.) Also as others have mentioned I've had major stability problems with eclipse, mostly in connection with the perforce plugin.

I'm using PHPStorm and wanted to give Netbeans a try since my coworker liked it alot and I wanted to try it out anyways. Well opened it and tried to open a project folder (on windows), while navigating through the directories I accidentally clicked on network and it instantly frooze. Waited for like at least 10 seconds nothing happened. Closed it, never opened again...

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Post by kurlberg »

Analemma_ wrote: post #308
barsonme wrote: post #280

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you've any latex pointers I'd appreciate it :) I used latex to write a paper for the first time last week, and while i thoroughly enjoyed it, i'm fairly confident there were lots of things I could've done better.

IME, the most important key to Latex is setting up your environment so you can have a fast turnaround time between writing some markup and seeing what it looks like (essentially, getting a "Latex REPL"). There are a bunch of different ways to do this, you'll have to pick what's best for you. On Macs I tend to use Sublime Text (substitute with your editor of choice) with a macro to invoke pdfTeX; on Windows I use TeXs…

For emacs users I strongly recommend whizzytex + advi (at least if you find advi in your repos; it's somewhat painful to build advi on your own.) Almost as good is emacs + auctex - the first C-c C-c compiles the file, the second brings the document up in a dvi previewer with the page "flipped" to whatever you are working on. Both setups allow inverse search - click somewhere in the dvi viewer and your emacs cursor is moved to the corresponding source location.

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Post by raveren »

lucb1e wrote: post #242

Windows: "Everything" (that's the name). A lightweight, fast and advanced (if you want it) file search engine. Linux: Most tools of course, as they are made with the Unix philosophy, but these days I'm most surprised by print drivers for Linux. Where in Windows the printer is always magically offline or slow, from Linux I can print and scan very reliably. Vim is also worth learning, it makes editing much more... rela…

If we're talking windows software, since moving on I really really miss Irfanview, it's ridiculous for how long it's been actively developed by one person. It's featherweight, does its job admirably and has a myriad of advanced options when - and only when you need them.

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Post by eivarv »

barsonme wrote: post #488
Analemma_ wrote: post #308

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IME, the most important key to Latex is setting up your environment so you can have a fast turnaround time between writing some markup and seeing what it looks like (essentially, getting a "Latex REPL"). There are a bunch of different ways to do this, you'll have to pick what's best for you. On Macs I tend to use Sublime Text (substitute with your editor of choice) with a macro to invoke pdfTeX; on Windows I use TeXs…

Yeah, that makes sense. I'll make sure to do that. It was kind of time-consuming typing out the couple tables I did add. I used latexmk which watches file(s) for changes and rebuilds with pdflatex. It was nice, but made my laptop run real hot, and inotify never really works very well. Which ST plugin do you use?

Not OP, but I've had good experiences with La​Te​XTools[1].

[1]: https://packagecontrol.io/packages/LaTeXTools

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Post by dopeboy »

omgdlight wrote: post #659
dopeboy wrote: post #330

Surprised no one has mentioned this yet - venmo. Does exactly what I want and nothing more. And it's free.

venmo is good and I appreciate, but at least on my android it's not what I'd call reliable. It suffers some random crashes and failures (although it's never done anything too terrible like double charge me)

I haven't experienced crashes but I've had trouble finding certain people. Not sure if that's an android specific issue.
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