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Re: Ask HN: What SaaS or apps are you paying for?

#51

why are you using g-suite instead of gmail? is it just to get email's like name@your-domain.com ? or you have other reasons as well?

When I started, it was just to get mylastname.com email for myself and my family. But, now I pretty much use Google Docs exclusively and the cloud sync for all my files and photos.

Re: Ask HN: What SaaS or apps are you paying for?

#52

A good amount! Media: Netflix, Spotify, Amazon Prime, put.io Personal "Work": GitHub, Heroku, Photoshop, Sketch, Dribbble Pro Workflow: Superhuman, Dropbox, 1Password Donations: Wikipedia, Watsi

I forgot about passwords -- I pay for for a password manager.

Re: Ask HN: What SaaS or apps are you paying for?

#53

Evernote, Resharper, Backblaze, Office 365

Have you tried not using R#? The only reason I ask is that a lot of its utility now exists in Visual Studio. R# actually overwrites many default VS key bindings and provides the same functionality, just with a different UI. So people are like "hey look what I can do!", when in actuality they could have done the same thing without R#. Also, it's a resource hog. I've only met a handful of people who contest this - and…

VS doesn't have any of the functionality under Generate Code:

- create delegating methods

- create equality methods

- create formatting members (ie override ToString() and just click on the properties - mostly for debugging)

https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/code_refactorin...

This list doesn't include things like converting some patterns back and forth to Linq expressions, converting foreach to for, better extract method that takes advantage of local methods and lets you choose which variables you want to capture, and various other code hints.

It also doesn't include safely adding and removing parameters, intelligently knowing when a class is used via DI when you are looking for unknown classes.

The unit test runner is also much better than the built in VS Test runner.

Re: Ask HN: What SaaS or apps are you paying for?

#54

Google Play / YouTube Red: ad free streaming music, ad free YouTube G-Suite: mostly for email for my personal domain Netflix: streaming video 101domain: domain registrar Amazon Prime: faster free shipping DigitalOcean: virtual machines AWS: cloud stuff

I forgot YT Red -- I pay for that too for music and ad free YT.

Re: Ask HN: What SaaS or apps are you paying for?

#55

why are you using g-suite instead of gmail? is it just to get email's like name@your-domain.com ? or you have other reasons as well?

Owning your email-address gives you a portability option and gives you freedom. It let me seamlessly migrate from Gmail to FastMail when Google’s offering stopped impressing me.

I don’t know about you, but I won’t let anyone else own my email-address, my digital identity.

Re: Ask HN: What SaaS or apps are you paying for?

#56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried not using R#? The only reason I ask is that a lot of its utility now exists in Visual Studio. R# actually overwrites many default VS key bindings and provides the same functionality, just with a different UI. So people are like "hey look what I can do!", when in actuality they could have done the same thing without R#. Also, it's a resource hog. I've only met a handful of people who contest this - and…

VS doesn't have any of the functionality under Generate Code: - create delegating methods - create equality methods - create formatting members (ie override ToString() and just click on the properties - mostly for debugging) https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/code_refactorin... This list doesn't include things like converting some patterns back and forth to Linq expressions, converting foreach to for, bette…

Interesting that you need/use all those things

Re: Ask HN: What SaaS or apps are you paying for?

#57

why are you using g-suite instead of gmail? is it just to get email's like name@your-domain.com ? or you have other reasons as well?

When I started, it was just to get mylastname.com email for myself and my family. But, now I pretty much use Google Docs exclusively and the cloud sync for all my files and photos.

Someone has my-last-name.com for my last name. They are selling email accounts for like $30 a year. No. Bitches.

Re: Ask HN: What SaaS or apps are you paying for?

#58
JuiceSSH - android, highly recommened GSuite a t2.micro EC2 - tiny websites, personal url shortener, screen with ssh sessions to every machine I have access to more Win10 licenses then I care to admit to - my VMs gave keys! Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, VRV, DirecTV Now - HBO is included in dtvnow, and we're grandfathered in to the intro $35/month plan Office 365 from work - If I love jobs, I'll pick up an Office subscription myself.

Re: Ask HN: What SaaS or apps are you paying for?

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post #58

JuiceSSH - android, highly recommened GSuite a t2.micro EC2 - tiny websites, personal url shortener, screen with ssh sessions to every machine I have access to more Win10 licenses then I care to admit to - my VMs gave keys! Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, VRV, DirecTV Now - HBO is included in dtvnow, and we're grandfathered in to the intro $35/month plan Office 365 from work - If I love jobs, I'll pick up an Office subs…

What url shortener script do you use?

Re: Ask HN: What SaaS or apps are you paying for?

#60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VS doesn't have any of the functionality under Generate Code: - create delegating methods - create equality methods - create formatting members (ie override ToString() and just click on the properties - mostly for debugging) https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/code_refactorin... This list doesn't include things like converting some patterns back and forth to Linq expressions, converting foreach to for, bette…

Interesting that you need/use all those things

I'm usually hired to fix existing code bases/departments. I trust automated refactors to get my head around really bad huge classes.
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