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Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
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#122Demonoid, a private torrent tracker.
It had a wide range of quality files and the enforced ratio kept seeders around.
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#123Google Reader. Now I have a mix of HN, Reddit and GMail, and none of them work really how I like.
QuiteRSS
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#124Crazy Eddie
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#125Altavista. I miss it every single day. Searching for technical (unix, programming, etc.) content is so much easier when you can use nested parens and proper boolean language. This is in contrast to google where searches return things that don't even contain your keywords. This is in contrast to google where the modifiers like allinsite: and '+' and "quotes" are not respected or change their behavior over time. Man I…
My favorite feature was 'near' queries. One could project n-dimensional spaces to any arbitrary lower dimension with the right semantic and spatial distances.
With Altavista, the limiting factor was the searcher. And my nostalgia that over-estimates the size of their search database.
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#126Video game arcades. They were amazing during their heyday, but I was also young. I want both of those things back!
seconded
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#127Demonoid, a private torrent tracker. It had a wide range of quality files and the enforced ratio kept seeders around.
And on that note: what.cd
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#128I miss Boundary. Their traffic flow monitoring with per second granularity was utterly amazing. It had almost no overhead, it gave the equivalent of netflow data for instances in EC2, way before AWS gave VPC flow logs. It was incredible. Alas their sales team were incredibly difficult to deal with, managing to both seem to not know how or what they were selling, whilst at the same time being incredibly heavy handed,…
Was Boundary agent-based? You'd install something on all your instances, or start from their AMI or something?
Yes, Boundary is agent-based.
I visited their office in SF when they were 2 guys. :)
We used Boundary at Netflix to monitor Cassandra clusters - you can see mentions of that on Slideshare.
VividCortex takes the Boundary concept a step farther for databases.
RackPing.com currently has non-agent visualization tools for SREs now, but will also have a Boundary-style agent shortly. (Disclaimer: affiliated with them.)
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#129Westwood Studios. I loved their games including their final game C&C Renegade, even though EA rushed Renegade out the door and shut the studio down.
Microprose studios.
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#130Rdio