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JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

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Re: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

#191
Message from JetBrain ---------------------

We apologise for the issue with the e-shop. We're working on solve it and please do not worry, you'll get your chance to buy the products you like. Thanks for your patience.

Hadi Hariri JetBrains s.r.o. Develop with Pleasure!

Re: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

#192

This web-site needs Cloudflare or similar. I cannot get a darn thing to load.

Concur - Site is non responsive (well, pages are taking 60+ seconds to load) right now. I'll check back in a few hours.

Sorry, we're on it. Most of jetbrains.com resources should be working right now, estore we're trying to push back to service. Current estimate: 2-3 hours

Re: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

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post #188

All their server issues must mean they are dealing with unprecedented demand. It makes me wonder: When demand is THIS intense for a 75% off sale, you think it'd mean a more optimal "normal" price point would be at 25-50% off your current normal prices, wouldn't you?

I expect some of the demand is due to the fact that JetBrains releases new major versions of their products 2 or more times a year (ReSharper for example), and conveniently bundle important bug fixes into those versions instead of fixing the bugs in previous releases.

So anyone who's - for example - still using ReSharper 6 will probably leap at this opportunity to finally get fixes for critical bugs in the product. Normally you'd have to pay $100 or more to upgrade just for bug fixes; now it's a rather more reasonable $30 or so.

Re: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

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post #57

Judging by how slow your site is at 7am EST, I'd say your sale is a big success :) Anyone used AppCode? I'm tempted to give it a try, but what's its killer features compared to Xcode? If refactoring works with ObjC++ that'd be a great start; worth EUR23 alone.

killer feature being it doesn't crash every 15 minutes!

The original xcode4 was very buggy. Nowadays it works fine, even if it doesn't have all the fancy editing of a JetBrains IDE. My biggest complaint is that xcode4 removed a lot of the automation hooks that xcode3.x had, and it doesn't seem that they will ever be added back.

Re: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

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post #73

I had never heard of WebStorm before, and on the wikipedia page, they seem to say that all of its functionalities are part of IntelliJ IDEA. Is it true ? If I buy IntelliJ IDEA, will I be able to do everything that can be done in WebStorm ? (just trying to not buy both if it is not necessary)

Y, IntelliJ IDEA does provide all the functionality that WebStorm provides + support for more languages.

Re: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

#198
post #52

In case you're not able to get through right now: The offer is valid until Friday, 21 December 2012, 5:11 am CST (GMT-6)

I'm inclined to believe (if they want to be nice to their customers) that they'll extend the offer if the site remains unavailable like it is right now for the next 24 hours.

Of course, if we're into an extended out-of-service period, we'll prolong the offer. Current service restoration estimate is 2-3 hours though. Sorry, please hold on )

Re: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

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post #122

btw - personal licences only (i.e. not commercial licenses).

Not sure what happens if you are self employed or have a limited company to consult from.

That's the issue; JetBrains seem entirely unaware of that. I am one man operating through a limited company. According to them I have to buy the commercial edition even though I am the company...

Re: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

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post #169

I am not happy with the poor differentiation between personal (individual developers) and companies: owners of small companies can earn less than an individual developer, expecting to earn more in the future but with much more risk.

Small LLCs comprised of one or two[1] folks do seem to fall into the commercial license bucket; a "corner case", though.

Which means there's no need to rush to order today.

[1] This based on the 50% control requirement listed in the existing JetBrains license.

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