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Installed it on windows 8, but lots of things started to fail. The sidebar was lagging, package manager didn't work, files opened blank randomly from an ftp server, and finally, it messed up my ST2 installation. I'll wait for a stable.
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You can already get it without paying for it, it just bugs you to buy a license every now and again.
Huh? That's besides the point. My point is that just because it's commercial software doesn't mean it should be closed source. If it was open source it could be 'easier to steal', but I bet most people seriously using it would still buy it. Anybody that took the time to patch the source would never have bought it anyway - so there is nothing lost. I'm not sure why I'm getting down voted. For a bunch of open source ev…
My point was that it's already freely available today. Just go to the site and download it.
For a bunch of open source evangelists that's pretty hypocritical.
wat?
Two levels of wat, really. You think Hacker News readers are open source evangelists? And you think downvoting is hypocritical for open source evangelists?
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TM2 was delayed by what, 6 years? One can't not joke about that. Considering that the author clearly went through serious burnout during that time, no, I would not joke about that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1388905
I don't understand why that can't be joked about.
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I don't understand why that can't be joked about.
It's mean.
Sure if you built something people loved, theres ton of pressure to follow up with something just as good.
But it's biology. People get bored, exhausted or uninspired with their projects.
At the end of the day he made a ton of money and built something thousands of people use everyday. That should be more important than having a good sequel. There will always be competitors who will keep customers happy. Thats not his full responsibility forever because he did it once.
Besides, he'll get motivated again one day and do something interesting.
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It's mean.
I've been building my own products for years. Burnout is a fact of life. Sure if you built something people loved, theres ton of pressure to follow up with something just as good. But it's biology. People get bored, exhausted or uninspired with their projects. At the end of the day he made a ton of money and built something thousands of people use everyday. That should be more important than having a good sequel. The…
Here's what I'd love someone to organize: A Kickstarter campaign to raise enough money to pay the ST developer to make ST open-source. If ST becomes open-source, that solves one of the biggest issues many people have with ST, especially those coming from a vim/emacs background. This is something I know I would pay for, and I believe others would as well.
I disagree. One of the reasons it works so well is that it has a lot of code written in C++. With a very specific feature-set of C++, as all single programmer C++ codebases are. An opensource project would focus in the slower Python part as most open source developers hate C++ and swear by scripting languages. Or would go on countless religious wars about what specific subset of C++ should the project use. They would…
If I wanted to extend it in a way that is not supported in the Python API, I simply can't.
"Sublime Text has always had speed as a feature, but version 3 addresses some weak points. Startup time is now virtually immediate, and plugins no longer have the opportunity to bring this down. Replace All performance is also significantly faster" couldn't care less about startup time while the speed problem on windows lies in loading/editing files greater than a couple of mb. I start ST only once a day but I load f…
On my work laptop (which I have no option to upgrade, and is encrypted) takes a good 9 seconds to start sublime. (Without even giving it a file to open!)
I have to contemplate if I need to open sublime sometimes, and just use notepad instead.
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I've been building my own products for years. Burnout is a fact of life. Sure if you built something people loved, theres ton of pressure to follow up with something just as good. But it's biology. People get bored, exhausted or uninspired with their projects. At the end of the day he made a ton of money and built something thousands of people use everyday. That should be more important than having a good sequel. The…
None of that has any bearing on whether or not we should make his unhappiness the butt of our jokes.
The best quote I've read on the subject was that if people care enough to complain about your product, that means you did something right.