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Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
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#92HyperCard. It's been decades and I've still never found a better way to make simple GUI applications.
Yeah this one surprises me. A generic card/db app... tempted to do it myself. A self-contained, no-fuss flexible thing, maybe with a few extras like calendar based events etc. Access I spose is close, buts its awful, and Microsoft.
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#93The original Motorola RAZR flip phone. And in general, phones with actual buttons you can feel.
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#95Picasa, the best image manager I have used. Nothing come close to it.
amen, I'm still limping along with it on Windows 10 but nothing else compares at all for managing your original photos. (I also use Google photos but that is a recompressed jpeg copy of your original)
Even if you pay for storage and upload in full quality, it re-jpegifies it?
I use Google Photos, but only the free, "high quality" uploads. I keep all the high res versions on my home server (backed up of course) and just use GP for viewing remotely, search, and its assistant features.
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#96Small iPhones.
Held on to my last SE until the cracks were too many and I had to put pressure on the cable to get it charging...
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#97Ensemble Studios, makers of Age of Empires, Age of Empires 2, and Age of Mythology, some of the best RTSs ever made. There are other great RTSs, but they're all great in different ways from the Age series, which nothing else resembles. Microsoft bought them, and shut them down not long after for insufficient profits. Sigh. Age of Empires IV is being made now since they noticed there's demand, but the studio they chos…
I thought it was being made because some redditor asked Bill Gates for it in an AMA? https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/49jkhn/im_bill_gates_c...
Maybe they choose a random studio because were was just trying to appease Gates' whims?
How bad is this "clown collective"?
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#98Crashplan for home. Still haven't found another unlimited plan with linux client.
Yeah, same boat here. Currently using the discounted small business version. Not sure what I'm going to do once that expires. I haven't decide whether it's worth the time investment to use something open source like https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy with eg Backblaze B2, or if I'll just bite the bullet and pay the full $10/month for Crashplan SB.
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#99Gmail (pre-August 2018)
Have you dug into the settings? I hated the change too, but found that the aspects I most hated (mostly the hover buttons that made everything jump around when used with the preview pane) were configurable.
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#100Haagen-Dazs black cherry amaretto gelato
It doesn't seem to be on the retired list: