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Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by rubiquity »

ryan-allen wrote: post #144
nodesocket wrote: post #132

I really wish RethinkDB the company with all founders and engineers would have survived. Their documentation, polish, and web admin interface was heads and shoulders above. The concept of changefeeds at the database level was super powerful. ReQL was nice to work with and using a ORM such as thinky[1] was a pleasure. If only (I know it's not easy) they could have inked some enterprise deals and focused on the busines…

Me too, do you think you could use it at all in production now or would you not touch it? I was looking forward to trying out FoundationDB before Apple shut it down.

Apple recently open sourced FoundationDB https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by iseanstevens »

Virgin America- not perfect but when I was flying BOSSFO a lot it was simply amazing. One of few corporations that felt like it had soul. The seat back ordering system made things so much better. Not to mention decent internet on basically every flight. I looked forward to flying. Def cried a few tears losing them.

AIM - settable status plus chat that almost everyone I knew was on

Early to Mid 90’s Radio Shack. Felt like culture was growing, in a good way

Apple Newton - stupidly ahead of it’s time and for all it’s flaws, still one of the best note taking paradigms I’ve used. Continuous scrolling plus shape/text recognition and vector editibility, multi copy-paste via drag and drop to edge of screen and decent assistant logic as well.

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by FebruaryStar »

awad wrote: post #150

I have a lot of love for Sidecar. When I first moved up to SF, 'ridesharing' was truly in its infancy as Uber was still Black-car/Taxi only and Lyft was still a part of Zimride. Uber might have taken most of the market while Lyft might have won as the 'not-Uber' but, having had all three in the early days, it really stood out to me how much Sidecar was innovating ahead of the other two product-wise, only to be immedi…

Have you hear about Via? Unfortunately it hadn't reached SF yet, but it's active in NYC and I LOVE it. Super friendly drivers, very efficient and pretty cheap. Don't know how they preserve these low prices for so many years but...

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by iseanstevens »

rsync wrote: post #71

Altavista. 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…

First decent index of the web and designed to let you find what you want to find instead of things paying to be found
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