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Without fail, it has always done exactly what I wanted it to do. Simple. Solid. Reliable.
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Without fail, it has always done exactly what I wanted it to do. Simple. Solid. Reliable.
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#413Glasgow Haskell Compiler
Arch Build System
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#414Beyond Compare. An amazing/cheap file comparison tool. - http://www.scootersoftware.com
It's a very good tool. Meld is the equivalent under Linux.
Meld is not even close to BeyondCompare. I would also say kdiff3 is better when looking at all my Python merge conflicts in the past. Nevertheless BeyondCompare is on another level when looking at extensibility.
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#415Sublime Text 2, Plex, AudioStreamer2.1, LibreOffice, and Unoconv. I'd also like to mention that for archives I prefer Rar & Unrar instead of 7zip. I'd also like to add that I find 7z to be somewhat unreliable. Does anyone else agree or have another alternative?
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#416Apache server. I know it is not a hip choice, but I've used it for more than 15 years to serve static and dynamic websites. I've changed tech stacks from perl to php to python used different data bases and Apache always just worked.
Same and I've used it for a similar period, I look at alternatives but since apache has never let me down, is ridiculously stable and I know it well I've simply never seen a reason to leave.
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#417VLC. There have been so many times I thought "man it would be great if there were this crazy hypothetical feature in my media player" only to find out it's like a stable long-established feature that's a keypress away from activation after a quick google search or glance at a dropdown menu.
for somethings mplayer just works out of box, where it doesn't for vlc, e.g. :
curl http://blah/blah/some/hidden/network/stream | mplayer -
which I've seen fails on vlc
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#418On Windows: - Notepad++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org is a superb text editor with support for almost every language and a great number of advanced and useful features. - Everything http://voidtools.com is a great local drive search tool and is blindingly fast. - Syncdocs http://syncdocs.com is a better Google Drive client that supports multiple users and a host of other advanced features.
Notepad++ is a must-have! I have been using Eclipse, Sublime, Atom, Nano and Visual Studio, but when I just need to edit a file in a hurry, none of them is as convenient as Notepad++.
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#419mbsync [0]. It is a great example of blue-collar software. Unshowy, unfeatureful, it Just Works. Combine with mu and mu4e [1] and my mail situation is pretty much just fixed.
[0] http://isync.sourceforge.net/mbsync.html [1] http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu
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#420Visio before Microsoft[1] It was super simple and something OmniGraffle never really got right. In fact, it was so easy and nice (particularly boolean shape operations and object properties), it made using OmniGraffle painful. Of all the Microsoft software, that was the one I wished had been ported to the Mac. 1) to be fair, haven't used it after the buyout since I went full time OS X
Look at yed or this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2x5f3a/what_are_you_...