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Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
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#253https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbitz_(drink)
I still have an unopened bottle, it does not look very tasty anymore though.
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#254The Macbook Pro chassis before the OLED touchstrip. I'm a web developer and learned on MBPs. The touchpad was the right size, the keys had the right amount of travel, the form factor and weight were perfect. Right now I'm considering moving to developing on a Galaga Pro and using Windows/WSL. I've got most things setup on my desktop how I like using HyperTerm (I had too much trouble with Cmder), VS Code, and ZSH. I c…
WSL is terrible. It's basically a tech demo (look up what happens if you `cp` a file from `C:\...` to `/home/user` versus `copy` or going the other direction. It's alright to boot up a linux "VM" using docker, but then you have to pay extra for windows pro or whatever so you can unlock hypervisor privileges. I recently bought an extra SSD to put into the windows desktop I bought and am happily running linux, don't mi…
Interesting... I haven’t had any issues using WSL recently (since they fixed the networking stack).
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#255Palm/HP WebOS
I really miss the multi-tasking dynamic where you could have 'stacks' of documents within one app (e.g. browser tabs).
It's amazing that webOS pretty much nailed multitasking on mobile years ago. It took Android and iOS several years to copy the cards interface, and even then it's a half baked implementation.
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#256Virgin America- not perfect but when I was flying BOS SFO 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…
VX was the only airline in recent times I actually look forward to flying with. I dreaded most of the others.
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#257The Macbook Pro chassis before the OLED touchstrip. I'm a web developer and learned on MBPs. The touchpad was the right size, the keys had the right amount of travel, the form factor and weight were perfect. Right now I'm considering moving to developing on a Galaga Pro and using Windows/WSL. I've got most things setup on my desktop how I like using HyperTerm (I had too much trouble with Cmder), VS Code, and ZSH. I c…
Completely agree. Just started at a company about a month ago and was given a 2017 MacBook Pro. After 2 weeks of hating the entire experience (keyboard and touchbar) I asked for an older 2015 machine. Got it, much better now.
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#258Altavista. 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…
Oh man I used the shit out of altavista! I swear I could find anything on there no matter how obscure, it seemed like magic at the time.
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#259Wunderground. Whatever they've done to the site in the past few years is just terrible.
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#260Video game arcades. They were amazing during their heyday, but I was also young. I want both of those things back!