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Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

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Post by nulltype »

wintermute42 wrote: post #143
nulltype wrote: post #127

Go, super stable, reliable and fast. I also love the ideology.

I'll give you the first 2 at least. On another note, having an impoverished type system isn't much of an ideology..

Or it's proof of the strength of their convictions that they can have an impoverished type system despite all the pressure to have an enriched one.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

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Post by lotyrin »

Draiken wrote: post #178

PuTTY Saved my ass a lot of times when I wasn't around a linux machine.

Putty has some pretty strange design choices. They coupled the terminal emulator and the SSH client, and (at least used to have) really bad default configuration (blue color was unreadable, windows codepage instead of utf-8, etc. etc.).

Now that Mintty exists, I prefer to use it + openssh on Windows.

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Post by vurrpurr »

mbreedlove wrote: post #168
mangeletti wrote: post #160

Alfred ( https://www.alfredapp.com ) Alfred is absolutely the most game-changing app I've ever been introduced to. I only use it for finding files, searching, opening a page by direct URL, defining words, calculator, translation (via Google), launching apps, and quickly jumping to apps that are already open. It's probably saved me hundreds of hours in clicking around, etc. I've never purchased the paid version (been…

I've installed Alfred before but just kept using Spotlight. I never saw why it amazes so many people. What does it do that Spotlight can't?

there is a lot of features in Alfred, but my absolute favorite is the workflows [1]

I use Alfred workflow with dash [2], so i can type "go fmt.Println" into alfred, and jump straight to the man-page.

I also use Alfred workflow with SnippetsLab [3], to open my personal notes in a similar fashion.

    1: https://www.alfredapp.com/help/workflows/
    2: https://kapeli.com/dash
Dash is also an absolutely wonderful app, for having all your coding docs on-the-go. Since I am often without internet access, Dash lets me continue working. It even has offline stack exchange if that rocks your boat.

    3: https://www.renfei.org/snippets-lab/
SnippetsLab provides a very much awesome way of organizing all your snippets of code / notes, etc.

This way of navigating means I have to use the trackpad pretty infrequently.

My only complaint about these tools, is that I'm stuck in Windows at work :-(

For another software I use daily and can no longer live without, it would be tmux.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

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Post by robobro »

jeffthespasm wrote: post #11

Great thread. Important to keep perspective. So far the responses seem desktop-centric, but I'm going to throw out a few web apps that I have a lot of respect for: - Instapaper - Trello - Google Inbox And, on the desktop side I have to give credit to Garageband and Logic, which I honestly can't recall having crashed or let me down in recent memory. YMMV.

Inbox lags quite a bit on my desktop. It still needs some work...
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