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Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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Post by kyriakos »

tedmiston wrote: post #6

Attention span

and my ability to stay up late at night and work. I pass out no matter what. This is what family and responsibilities do to you. I don't regret having a family but it did impact my ability to work substantially.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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Post by Uptrenda »

carsongross wrote: post #45
tomcam wrote: post #44

Visual Basic 3.0 Any version of Turbo Pascal or Delphi. dBase II.

Visual Studio's debugger still smokes anything I've used since. You could literally drag the program counter to the point you wanted, rewrite your code, and start stepping through it again. That, and the ability to double click on a damned button and see what it did... What a golden era.

These were amazing. So much power and flexibility. Todays IDEs are somehow far less powerful and more complicated sadly.

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Post by viraptor »

Glench wrote: post #35

Yahoo pipes

I wish something better than yahoo pipes existed in the first place. I mean, I love the idea, but every time I tried to use it for something more than a toy, I ran into the same issue - I need to unpack one item into several items and switch to processing those. I never found a good solution for that and ended up writing own python/requests/lxml processor instead.
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