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JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised

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Re: JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised

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Post by winrid »

ncmncm wrote: post #327
w0utert wrote: post #242

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One thing I've found with CLion is that you really, really want to edit the JVM settings for the IDE. By default it starts with a 2GB memory limit for the JVM, which even for small projects will severely drag down performance, e.g. my MBP would run very hot, spin the fans and the IDE would get very laggy. Increasing the JVM settings to allocate 8GB completely solved this.

An editor that needs (even) 2GB to be blindingly fast is a failure.

That's fine, because it's an IDE and a new dev machine tends to have more than 16gb of ram.

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Post by c-smile »

asdfasgasdgasdg wrote: post #463
Aeolun wrote: post #452

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> And we know that the head of that country is at best a violent and evil man, and so is an entity to be feared by those whose interests are misaligned with his. I’m not quite sure which country you were talking about? While I agree with your general point, it just occurred to me that that could be applied to both leaders. It’s the country and the structure of that country that is different (e.g. leaders will change,…

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> but he has not annexed any provinces of Canada or Mexico

But he already expressed intention to get Greenland, no?

Yet something tells me that if, say, Mr. Obama did present Point Roberts ( https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Point+Roberts,+WA+98281,+US... ) to Canada (as Khrouschev did with Crimea) then nothing would stop Mr. Trump to take it back.

Re: JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised

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Post by acollins1331 »

kevingadd wrote: post #293
sah2ed wrote: post #286

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> No apologies, no compensation for building a commercial product on something I had spent a decent amount of time on. I think the important question here is did they do this in violation of the open source license you had adopted as at the time the alleged infraction took place?

Something can be legal and still be incredibly tasteless. If you keep lifting major open source tooling as the basis of your product without contributing, you're eventually going to exhaust the patience and free time of the people working on it. Think about it this way: When Linus started working on Linux and decided to release it under the GPL, was it because he wanted companies to use it as the basis of billion-dol…

Woah the tech tips guy wrote Linux

Re: JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised

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Post by rco8786 »

marsrover wrote: post #191
rco8786 wrote: post #185

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JetBrains does have a free tier, fwiw. It’s quite powerful too (I say this as an avid vim user)

I didn’t think Jetbrains had a free tier other than for IntelliJ. Everything else has a trial but no community edition (as far as I’m aware).

Ok? They have a powerful free tier and sell niche upgrades. Seems pretty reasonable to me.

Re: JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised

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Post by nolok »

rb808 wrote: post #364

Do they ever have discount codes available? I assumed yes, waited for black Friday for nothing and now not sure what to do.

If you use them for professional purpose they're already extremely cheap so I guess it doesn't make too much sense for them

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Post by [deleted] »

NeedMoreTea wrote: post #514
kevindong wrote: post #179

I'm a big fan of the way JetBrains sells their licenses. Like a lot of software companies nowadays, they only sell licenses on a subscription basis. But with a very customer-friendly clause of where if you pay for a subscription for 12 months you get a perpetual license for the latest version of the product when you initially subscribed. And then after paying for any particular version of a product for 12 months, you…

I'm amazed you think that way. It's a huge step down, and incredibly customer hostile. I stopped giving JetBrains money when they switched. If there's no perpetual licence, I'm not buying. In the old world, you bought the latest version, got upgrades for a year - sometimes more, then got a discount on upgrading come a newer version. At any time you stopped paying you kept the latest software, in sync with everyone el…

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Re: JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised

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Post by grogenaut »

Waterluvian wrote: post #393
grogenaut wrote: post #377

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Non-sarcastic question, how do you fare in situations where you are uncomfortable, like learning new skills; Where you are just BAD at a thing. New sport, new technology/language, etc? I learned a while back that I had to lean into those things and just get through the awkward if you wanted to keep learning.

You raise a great point the more I think about it. I thrive when learning new skills and being "uncomfortable" and out of my element. It's probably because I'm picking at rust for fun in my personal time that I don't want to deal with the uncomfortable parts. In my own time I coast and comfortably stroll through new problem spaces rather than get to that "my brain hurts" part that's all too familiar. If rust + intell…

Personally I pick one new thing per personal project and leverage my skills on the rest. If I go too far into the new things then I get bored or flummoxed with say "buck build system" and "learn kotlin" in the same project, and never actually make progress.

I think this is why I bounced off of react 4 times before sticking, too many things to learn at once. Then again I bounced off of antlr 4 times and only really got it to stick because it was a work need, and antlr is the only new tool in that chain.

Re: JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised

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Post by randomidiot666 »

dang wrote: post #456
randomidiot666 wrote: post #90

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You are delusional and immature. I've seen experienced Vim/Emacs kiddies like you really struggle to keep up with my productivity levels in IDEA with JVM languages. Doing everything at the command line doesn't make you 1337 and superior. The actual typing and manipulation of text is the least complex side of development. Most of my time is spent thinking, analyzing, rather than monkeying with text. However I use Vim…

Obviously you can't post like this here, regardless of how wrong someone is about editors or you feel they are. We've banned this account. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Not obvious. Whatever.

Re: JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised

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Post by dang »

randomidiot666 wrote: post #528
dang wrote: post #456

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Obviously you can't post like this here, regardless of how wrong someone is about editors or you feel they are. We've banned this account. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Not obvious. Whatever.

"You are delusional and immature" is the kind of attack we ban accounts for, especially when they have a history of breaking the site guidelines.

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Post by leeman2016 »

personjerry wrote: post #148
dehrmann wrote: post #142

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> a jetbrains ide can do are just much better than what my custom setup could do I get frustrated by people who insist on a complex vi/emacs setup for something Jetbrains IDEs do better out of the box. Or people who insist Sublime is good for editing their complex React project.

Hello! I use Sublime for my complex React project. What should I be using instead?

VSCode is good for a free editor. But the difference between VSCode/Sublime and Webstorm is night and day.
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