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Re: Atom

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Post by kuntau »

michaelmior wrote: post #167
adamors wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and there's no compilation step or anything -- then it's almost a fundamental paradigm shift for what desktop software could be. > It already makes me dream of a word processor I could hack like that, or a music player. Just by opening up a text editor. It's an inspiring thought. Not to rain on your parade or anything, but you can already do this with Emacs, not to mention that Emacs is free, open source software.…

> Atom is free during the beta period. Where does it say it won't be free after the beta period?

Atom won't be closed source, but it won't be open source either. It will be somewhere inbetween, making it easy for us to charge for Atom while still making the source available under a restrictive license so you can see how everything works. We haven't finalized exactly how this will work yet. We will have full details ready for the official launch.

> http://discuss.atom.io/t/why-is-atom-closed-source/82/9

Re: Atom

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Post by NIL8 »

gavinpc wrote: post #377
tzs wrote: post #341

From "The Zen of Programming": ------ Hearing a disturbance, the master programmer went into the novice's cubicle. "Curse these personal computers!" cried the novice in anger, "To make them do anything I must use three or even four editing programs. Sometimes I get so confused that I erase entire files. This is truly intolerable!" The master programmer stared at the novice. "And what would you do to remedy this state…

> Sometimes I get so confused that I erase entire files OT, but just this week my wife did something that really got me thinking about how far computers haven't come in terms of usability. I heard her say "O crap" from behind her macbook, and out of habit I came to assist. For some reason unknown to both of us, she had pasted the text of an email into a document called "thesis.docx", and then saved it. The text was c…

"Now, I love my wife deeply. And she is no fool. On the contrary, she is a graduate student."

No offense, to you or your wife, but this statement is hilarious for several reasons!

Re: Atom

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Post by kevinlangleyjr »

I see people saying they get into the beta within 15 minutes of signing up, but I still haven't gotten one and I signed up day 1. Anybody have an extra invite they're willing to spare? Email in profile. It'd be much appreciated!

Re: Atom

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Post by pyoung »

bluedino wrote: post #534
enscr wrote: post #404

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'Primary computer is ARM' - and you are a developer? I'm genuinely curious about your setup & work.

Chromebook?

Yup, the Samsung model. Use it for most of my work. I've got an old clunker that is x86, but that thing is showing it's age so only use it when it's absolutely necessary (when there is no ARM port for an application i need, for example). The battery life and weight/size of the chromebook are really awesome. Using crouton to run an OS is pretty painless, although you do run into a few bugs every now and then. Also, the hard drive needs to be supplemented with and SD card. But for the most part, works as good as a MacBook Air for a quarter of the price.

Re: Atom

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Post by Morphling »

I thought this was an open source project, but when I read FAQ beta version is only out for OSX and they talk about charging for it so it probably wont be open source.

Re: Atom

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Post by nilved »

tuananh wrote: post #610
nilved wrote: post #588

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Why are you using GA if you hate GA?

I wanna track stats of my websites; not be tracked by the code editor.

Don't be a hypocrite. Tracking is tracking is tracking and it's as wrong when you do it as it is for anybody else. Show your users some respect and value their privacy.

Re: Atom

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Post by wodenokoto »

keypusher wrote: post #413
adamors wrote: post #204

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Emacs is GUI desktop software. Few people use it in a terminal. Also, people didn't born knowing Javascript. They learnt it. And one could argue that Lisp is just as easy to learn, if not easier.

I'm sure the emacs GUI runs great on your macbook, but for people who live on remove linux servers day in and day out, trust me they are using emacs in the terminal.

Actually it doesn't run great. It's so clunky you might as well just run it in the terminal.
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