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Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using
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Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using
#92My engine management firmware has never failed me.
Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Care to give some examples how? For me, Eclipse has remained very stable. Maybe we are using them for different languages and/or things.
When I used it for Java, I often would have to use the menu option to restart. Seriously .. a menu option to restart??? The stability wasn't as bad as the slowness. Also, OSGI seems to be a philosophy or cult. Things are just generally complex and bloated.
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Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using
#94Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using
#95VMWare Player. I needed to run Linux in a VM with nested virtualization and hardware-accelerated 3D graphics. VirtualBox doesn't support the former and I couldn't get 3D acceleration to work even after installing the guest additions. Everything worked in VMWare Player right out of the gate.
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#96Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using
#97VMWare Player. I needed to run Linux in a VM with nested virtualization and hardware-accelerated 3D graphics. VirtualBox doesn't support the former and I couldn't get 3D acceleration to work even after installing the guest additions. Everything worked in VMWare Player right out of the gate.
Trying to run an OS X VM on an OS X host on it was "fun". Clang doesn't work out of the box and you had to set some weird and nonintuitive flags to get anything to compile on it.
I pretty much will try to use anything else besides VirtualBox when I need a VM.
Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using
#98awk, grep, sed, and these days I add jq to my standard tool belt. I also really enjoy fish as my shell language of choice. Languages, runtimes, etc come and go but these programs remain as useful as they were 19 years ago when I first learned about them.
Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using
#99IntelliJ Idea is head and shoulders better than many other IDEs, particularly Eclipse in the reliability department.
Care to give some examples how? For me, Eclipse has remained very stable. Maybe we are using them for different languages and/or things.
When eclipse gave me that error message I immediately wrote it off as useful software.
Also it is dog slow compared to intellij
Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using
#100vim - going on, what, thirty years of use and it rarely surprises me.
bash - same thing. The only surprise is my own ignorance of it after so many years.
SQLite - so small, so useful, and so reliable for what it is.
I guess that ended up being the list a lot of others posted. Which ought to say something for the products mentioned.