Google Reader. Now I have a mix of HN, Reddit and GMail, and none of them work really how I like.
I miss Google Reader too. Now I use TheOldReader (no affiliation) which tries to be like Google Reader. It does the job for me.
Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
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Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
#302Palm/HP WebOS
Definitely Palm, the Palm Pre, and that tablet that I so hoped for, but never got my hands on.
The whole system was amazing, the phone was amazing, Enyo was amazing.
The whole company had charme and a great product and a great outlook. Up until HP came by and smashed them into pieces...
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#303The 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…
Apple has ditched so many cool things in the MacBook line. 1) MagSafe. I know they really want to go all in on USB-C, but the original MagSafe connector was awesome. Even the weaker 2.0 version was nice. There were two instances where that connector saved my laptop. 2) The laser-drilled power indicator. That was so cool. It looked like the light magically appeared through the aluminum. Now there's no indication whats…
I forgot to list magsafe as one of those awesome things that was lost. I could take or leave the power indicator but it was kind of cool. It's such a no brainer that I'm surprised it's not been copied. Apple must have patented it too well.
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#304Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
#305The 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…
> nor get my GPG and SSH keys for Github working. This definitely works, I've used it back in the day (needs "enable-ssh" in config).
Good to know. I was following instructions for Windows on Github and just felt ultra dense as it kept not working.
Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
#306The 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…
I'll just add: 17" MBP...
Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
#307The 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…
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Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
#308Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> One could project n-dimensional spaces to any arbitrary lower dimension with the right semantic and spatial distances. I'm incredulous. Doing this well for unstructured text would be worth a lot in many industries today, let alone the entire web. If they did this well, they'd still be alive and well in another form.
Near queries are easy on unstructured text. Here's the Elastic systax: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...
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#309Picasa, 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)
I run Picasa on my Windows 7 machine, but the latency when loading DSLR JPGs is too slow. Thus the software is unusable for me.
Here's an old discussion of the slow refining behavior (to view a JPG) https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/picasa/-XPN4e...
Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
#310The 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…
The design is terrible. I never use the touchpad for anything regular keys wouldn't do better. The keyboard on my 2017 MBP13 failed three times in the year I've owned it. The first time, the Apple Store person "cleaned" the keyboard, fixed things for a while. A couple of weeks later, the problem came back. I insisted on a better solution, and they replaced the keyboard.
Five months later, a different key failed, and the Apple Store people sent it to Memphis. This time, it came back with one of the "new and improved" keyboards. They also replaced the screen because of 'delamination' which I hadn't noticed. The total amount they spent to repair this computer is approaching the cost of the machine at this point! So far, the new keyboard hasn't failed yet but I'm not holding my breath…