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Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

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Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

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Post by ralmeida »

sorahn wrote: post #8
GuiA wrote: post #2

The nature of your question in itself indicates that there is nothing you should buy. Buy things if you need them, otherwise leave your wallet in your pocket.

I took it to mean "I have some extra money, and I want something to fiddle with, is there anything that the hackernews readers know of that might be on sale?" But maybe that's just my question...

I took that point too, and there's also another point... there's software that's on my list for a while (JetBrains and Hazel come to mind, in particular), but since the exchange rate for me is bad, a sale might tip me over the edge.

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

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Post by lwhalen »

icecreammatt wrote: post #17
lwhalen wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does the Vive support Macs or Linux yet?

Valve has indicated that support for it is coming soon. Their recent developer conference they demoed it running on Linux. I'm not sure how well it's going to work on Mac with the lack of decent graphics cards unless maybe using a Hackintosh.

Eeeexcellent. It'll be a cold day in hell before a Microsoft operating system darkens my network, especially the likes of Windows 10.

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

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Post by jakebasile »

majewsky wrote: post #50
kek918 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah it's pretty dangerous to browse Steam now... I already purchased 4 games today (even two AAA titles), and I still have 5-6 untouched games from the last christmas sale.

> I only have 5-6 untouched games FTFY :)

If you're interested in the actual stats for your Steam library, check out the SteamDB calculator[1].

[1]: https://steamdb.info/calculator/

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

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Post by tedmiston »

ralmeida wrote: post #51
sorahn wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I took it to mean "I have some extra money, and I want something to fiddle with, is there anything that the hackernews readers know of that might be on sale?" But maybe that's just my question...

I took that point too, and there's also another point... there's software that's on my list for a while (JetBrains and Hazel come to mind, in particular), but since the exchange rate for me is bad, a sale might tip me over the edge.

JetBrains does nice discounts around conferences. PyCharm was 30% off for PyCon for example. I think anyone can use the code whether you attend or not.

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

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Post by kek918 »

jakebasile wrote: post #56
majewsky wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I only have 5-6 untouched games FTFY :)

If you're interested in the actual stats for your Steam library, check out the SteamDB calculator[1]. [1]: https://steamdb.info/calculator/

Interesting! 40 of my 102 games haven't been played yet. Jesus christ, I'm gonna have to call in sick next week to catch up here.
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