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Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
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#442Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's interesting that this is kind of a constant .1x * 10x = 1 cycle we repeatedly go through with new platforms. We rarely realize the cost of a new development platform in the fact that we often have to start from zero with documentation, tools, communities, etc. Tools are arguably the easiest to realize on day 1, when all of a sudden you can't set a breakpoint. So it's really .1x development in many ways until som…
Some day, before I die, I hope that when I say "If it doesn't work for the developers, then soon it won't work for the customers," and people will know what the hell I'm talking about.
I know what you mean. But I am a software developer so I dunno if that counts, or if you meant that non-developer people would know.
Re: Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
#443Emacs: its versatile and easy to configure code editor. If you are fan of Org mode, then you have to use Emacs.
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#444+ using Google for search in 2000 and being amazed at how much better the results were than AltaVista and Yahoo Search. + Google Maps in 2004 and dragging the map interactively around. This was a quantum leap beyond Mapquest's page reload and reset with cumbersome arrow buttons. This was a paradigm shift that let me explore a geography better than any book atlas. I gave away all my atlases + MS Window Media Player's…
Heck, GMaps is slow and clunky for me, but it's still 10x better than anything else I've ever used. I'm pretty sure it'll be the last GOOG service I manage to get myself off. Is there even a single OSM-based alternative that offers competitive POI search?
For me, Google Maps got slow some 5 years back.
Re: Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
#445+ using Google for search in 2000 and being amazed at how much better the results were than AltaVista and Yahoo Search. + Google Maps in 2004 and dragging the map interactively around. This was a quantum leap beyond Mapquest's page reload and reset with cumbersome arrow buttons. This was a paradigm shift that let me explore a geography better than any book atlas. I gave away all my atlases + MS Window Media Player's…
Google Maps was amazing. Back when I showed it to my dad for the first time, he expected it to be a live satellite view of his house.
My grandmother had the same expectation.
Re: Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
#446Re: Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
#447Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA. Using it since about 2004, it was slow as molasses and unstable for my codebase but it was the first widely available refactoring IDE for a mainstream language, and it rocked and it and its offshoots still rock today. They didn't invent automated refactoring but they made it excellent and accessible in a way that VisualAge and similar tools weren't.
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#448Nobody has the audacity to mention The Pirate Bay. Ethical and moral issues aside, it was and arguably still is a 10x method for obtaining digital content and software.
And libgen/scihub for ebooks
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#449Firebug. Every developer from around 2006-2008 knows what I'm talking about. Debugging JS in IE6 was like trying to build a house blindfolded with both arms tied behind your back. Firebug is when JS went from just a web augmentation toy that could silently fail and your web page would still mostly function to becoming a critical function for a web page (many will see this as all a big mistake).
Firebug came out AFTER IEDevToolbar, and IEDevToolbar was superior to Firebug for years for debugging JavaScript. So not a very good example at all, in fact quite the opposite, it just happened to ride the back of the anti-M$ wave and wasn't at all innovative, copying its features from already existing products. Conversely, though it was free, IEDevToolbar was only really advertised to MSDN subscribers, so never got…
At least Firebug was attached to a good browser. IE6 was terrible to use so being able to develop in Firefox with a decent debugging experience improved web development
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#450Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Notifications" is being generous here. The average user's email inbox is 90% marketing spam.
Any sources on that? I’m guessing the 90% is hyperbole, but I still wonder how much spam the average user actually gets. (For me, close to absolute zero)
It has taken me over a year to wrangle my inbox into shape (unsubscribing from all marketing email that isn't spam/gets through google's spam filter) and I would say anecdotally that my incoming email has decreased by at least 90%. I go multiple days without receiving emails now.