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Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
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#532Earlier quoted context omitted.
True, but you at least have a functioning display out of the box, which lets you get to that website.
You poor souls running windows... even Linux can do this with mostly no fuss today.
Sure, but from the user's perspective Linux operates in exactly the same way as Windows. A boatload of drivers available directly from the vendor but they're out-of-date (or in the case of Nvidia not the official drivers). And it's much much more of a PITA to install out-of-tree drivers on Linux than Windows.
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#533Jetbrains products
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#534Not software but financially, option spreads. The ability to construct risk/reward defined outcomes completely changed the effectiveness of my investing.
These never used to be realistically available to retail trading, but are incredible financial tools if you take the time to understand the mechanics.
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#535A couple i havent seen listed: Tivo - pretty cool when it came out - you didn't have to run to the bathroom/kitchen during commercial breaks and hope you made it back in time. Of course it's obsolete now but a significant improvement over the standard at the time Streaming music services - i spent an embarrassing amount of time as a kid/early teenager collecting cds and ripping them to my hard drive - if only I could…
I have never witnessed somebody tripping over a laptop charging cable - does that happen a lot for others?
On the second day of ownership of the first MBP w/out MagSafe my father in-law tripped on the cable and it yanked the new MBP off the table and the force of the MBP bent the USB-C plug something nasty.
The only way I’ll ever forgive Apple is if one of their C-suite exec personally calls me and tells me why on earth they did this.
And we all know why... because MagSafe wasn’t Ive’s idea and since people loved it, he hated it.
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#536Reaper. Its simple, fast, and no licensing bull. Steam. Just works, simple and easy to use. Copy-Paste the Steam folder to your new system to move your entire game library. ZoomIt by Sysinternals - excellent, excellent tool that has improved all my presentations/screen-share sessions. Everything by David Carpenter - super fast system wide search for files that has bookmarks and other features like match using file na…
> Copy-Paste the Steam folder to your new system to move your entire game library.
Can't do that. I don't own a hard disk big enough to hold my entire game library.
So I have the most frequent games in an SSD, other games in several HDDs, and so on.
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#537Edit and continue, Visual Basic 3, 1994
After adding a major piece of new functionality to my app, I would step through the new code, fixing each bug as it appeared, and then continue stepping. Being able to produce bug-free code after only one run-through just blew my mind.
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#538Earlier quoted context omitted.
I made my account(s) off invite codes and have "just my last name" at gmail dot com as an address... it's one of my most prized possessions, to this day!
I managed to snag my (very common) italian last name. I get a flood of messages every day. I both love and hate my account. I don't even speak italian!
do you receive any interesting emails?
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#539Postfix. It's the only software package that I use where I am consistently sure that any issue I come up with is me making a mistake in configuration or me not having read the documentation closely enough. It's stable, it has good error messages, it supports all the different ways to send email. And it's documentation is just really well and precisely written. It's just really good . It's not that I think that Postfi…
And all that without having to learn the amazing m4 macro language so you can ‘easily’ configure Sendmail
If you ever start thinking that m4 is the solution to any problem you have just shred the drive and start over.
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#540When I started as a developer the internet wasn't there. If you wanted a new library or tool you had to go to a shop and buy the floppy disks (or mailorder). If you wanted docs you used the man pages or had to buy the book, probably the bookstore would order it for you. Its hard to imagine now.
I was 18 and moved to Univeristy where I "met the Internet".
And yet I find it hard to recall life before having mobile phones to easily coordinate meeting friends, google maps to navigate, banking apps for account and bill management.
Clearly I had a life before internet. Clearly I coped. I just can't recall how.