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Post by soheil »

atian wrote: post #3

Yes, the thing in iOS that automatically clips SMS verification codes sent to you. It saves me from going to my messages and finding the code.

Yes but not being able to copy and paste the code in iMessage by right clicking on it if you're on MacOS reverts this back to 1x. In MacOS right clicking on any word shows the copy menu with that word selected but in iMessage for some the entire message gets selected. You first need to highlight the word you're interested in before right clicking, major pain.

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Post by splittingTimes »

szszrk wrote: post #34

APM software (application performance monitoring). It was super expensive, pain in the ass to maintain, required a lot of training. But when someone skilled sat down with it - just wow. You could investigate particular users problem, and see that when she typed "s" in search form it triggered a few proxies, sql query which had proper execution plan, but it seems that connections pools are handled poorly. It could vis…

What software do you use? It sounds like for monitoring a website. Is there something similar for a desktop app?

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Post by NiekvdMaas »

DevKoala wrote: post #119

K8. It is night and day how well our organization operates now that we are fully on k8. ClickHouse/BigQuery have allowed me to tackle massive analytics projects with a tenth of the effort when I had to setup a map-reduce/spark infra.

I assume you mean k8s (kubernetes)?

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Post by narrator »

jakevoytko wrote: post #17

Gmail. Using web-based email clients was a nightmare before Gmail. They had limited storage space, and the UX was pretty bad, they were hard to search, etc. You spent all your time figuring out what you wanted to delete, or seeing your emails bounce when people had full inboxes. If you didn't log in for a while, your account would disappear. And then suddenly, you got a GB of storage. For free. No questions asked. An…

I studied Google's file system. What Google figured out is that, with the rise of very fast networking such as 10 Gig Ethernet and faster, the network is much faster than local disk. Files were spread across multiple servers so they could all stream different parts of the file off their local disks simultaneously to the client computer faster than the local disk on any one computer could run. Thus, you could have systems like Gmail that could run much faster than even local disk based email clients, even with thousands of users.

Other providers were probably using expensive NASs with huge profit margins built in. Google was using thousands of the cheapest crappiest commodity parts because it was all triple redundant... and it worked faster because the network was really fast and multiple computers could stream different parts of the same file to clients.

Re: Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?

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Post by 13415 »

The following come to my mind:

- Google Earth: A globe with ultra-zoom just didn't exist before.

- Tex and LaTeX: They revolutionized Academic typesetting and publishing.

- DAWs: I used to use a four-track recorder. When I first got to edit in a DAW with a few built-in effects, that was such a quantum leap. (I was about to write "affordable DAWs" but to be honest these came quite late and my first DAW was a cracked copy of Protools, of course.)

- REALBasic when it was affordable shareware: I've never been more productive than in REALBasic. (Also learned my lesson, though, never rely on commercial tools whose price suddenly might skyrocket.)

- XLisp: I did not end up programming much in it but this was so good and mature software for hobby programmers interested in Lisp during the 90s (at a time when CommonLisp was hard to get outside your university).

- Wikipedia: Doesn't really count as software but I had to include it. It's possibly the most useful Internet-based tool besides email.

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Post by splittingTimes »

Lichtso wrote: post #74

Not sure if mathematics counts as software: Geometric / Clifford Algebra. It makes just about every aspect of handling geometry in computer graphics and robotics so much easier. It comes with a ton of upsides and only two downsides: You probably were not taught it yet (so you have to learn it) and if you do, others will have trouble following you unless they learn it too. I somehow feel like coming from a tribe where…

Do you know 3D computer graphics libraries that use GA?

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Post by bizzleDawg »

ronald_petty wrote: post #126

control^r in bash - literally 10x faster to type things which (ideally) makes 10x more productive :) control^r is reverse search in the command history (for UI people out there).

If you like ctrl^r, you'll _love_ https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

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Post by dopidop »

deliriousferret wrote: post #49
jakevoytko wrote: post #17

Gmail. Using web-based email clients was a nightmare before Gmail. They had limited storage space, and the UX was pretty bad, they were hard to search, etc. You spent all your time figuring out what you wanted to delete, or seeing your emails bounce when people had full inboxes. If you didn't log in for a while, your account would disappear. And then suddenly, you got a GB of storage. For free. No questions asked. An…

Was Gmail really 10x better than Hotmail?

Long story short, yes.
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