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Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

#101

Does anyone feel it's very, very wrong of Github to take down that gist?

No. Of course not. Seems like the easiest decision they made all week.

Imagine it was your software. And that somebody had pirated your beta and actually posted instructions on how to do so on the forums of your own website. What would you do?

Naturally, you'd delete the comment the second you saw it, then start working on patching the hole.

Which is what they did.

Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

#102
post #77

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How dare they collect usage data to improve their free product!!!

Sorry to tell you, it is not free. https://atom.io/faq "We haven't settled on pricing yet, but you can expect it to be competitively priced compared to similar editors."

If one takes Vim, Emacs, or Light Table as 'similar', then that would imply free...

Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

#103
post #9

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OS X only for now.

It is rather disappointing that github heads down the Mac OS path while they base their company around a concept which is rather strange to most things Apple - openness and sharing. Writing for Mac OS first also makes it harder to port to other platforms as it is a rather idiosyncratic platform. If they insist on pushing Mac OS AND want to be seen as a good free software citizen they might want to consider putting so…

They have always been hypocritical enough to sell a proprietary product for open source software.

Fishy practices, sounds like Apple. It checks out.

Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

#104
post #57

Download: http://www.filedropper.com/atom_1

FileDropper is really slow for europe. Mirror: http://www68.zippyshare.com/v/17397784/file.html

Here's a command to download from zippyshare without using the website.

wget http://www68.zippyshare.com/d/17397784/131268/Atom.zip \ --referer='http://www68.zippyshare.com/v/17397784/file.html' \ --cookies=off --header "Cookie: JSESSIONID=F95B7128B57441E49B5F33920D27AFD0" \ --user-agent='Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC1)'

Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

#105
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OS X only for now.

It is rather disappointing that github heads down the Mac OS path while they base their company around a concept which is rather strange to most things Apple - openness and sharing. Writing for Mac OS first also makes it harder to port to other platforms as it is a rather idiosyncratic platform. If they insist on pushing Mac OS AND want to be seen as a good free software citizen they might want to consider putting so…

I'm making an assumption that the majority (if not entirety) of GitHub employees use a Mac, so why wouldn't they make an editor for themselves on a platform that they use? I doubt they're doing it to bolster the OSX ecosystem as much as meet their own needs.

Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

#106
post #86

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It doesn't matter whether it is free or not. My only aim was to provide information that might be relevant for some people interested in trying out Atom (admittedly I mixed this information with my personal position towards Google and the ever-present tracking aka surveillance) so that they know the implicit price of its usage. You are free to use Atom or anything else, but you should always have as much information…

Except you aren't providing information in a vacuum - you are also providing a negative personal opinion. I would rather see responses which purport to educate include a more balanced perspective such as the potential benefits such analytics might confer to end-users in the long run. I fully respect peoples right to privacy. I just wish those who frequent Hacker news were more accepting of the fact that privacy is a…

Are you serious? You expect me to provide a Fox News fair and balanced response in any of my comments on Hackernews? I could understand your point if I would have tried to be polemic, but I surely wasn't.

The other position was already provided for by github and numerous other posters, while I pointed out a fact that was not yet mentioned.

By the way, "benefits of sophisticated analysis" for whom? Google's ad revenues? I actually agree that github could provide a better product with the information gathered, but I really don't think that google should be in between me and github.

Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

#107
post #91
post #81

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Thank you. Can anyone else confirm this?

From the official update: $ shasum -a 256 atom-mac.zip 4614ec62feaea32392ad7f6b3a80534c8ad0c758ed210cabafcc86c5c49a49a1 atom-mac.zip $ md5sum atom-mac.zip 5454bd3a8271c93f5225cd2b57cdab81 atom-mac.zip

Confirmed. I downloaded from github directly yesterday night, when this was first posted. Same shasum/md5sum here.

Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

#108
post #63

So, now that the zip file is missing from GitHub, some people are starting to upload it elsewhere. Can the people who got it from GitHub earlier post the result of running md5 Atom.zip ? That might help mollify the paranoid conscience. (EDIT: or any other hash function for that matter.)

MD5 (Atom.zip) = 5454bd3a8271c93f5225cd2b57cdab81

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Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

#109
post #106

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Except you aren't providing information in a vacuum - you are also providing a negative personal opinion. I would rather see responses which purport to educate include a more balanced perspective such as the potential benefits such analytics might confer to end-users in the long run. I fully respect peoples right to privacy. I just wish those who frequent Hacker news were more accepting of the fact that privacy is a…

Are you serious? You expect me to provide a Fox News fair and balanced response in any of my comments on Hackernews? I could understand your point if I would have tried to be polemic, but I surely wasn't. The other position was already provided for by github and numerous other posters, while I pointed out a fact that was not yet mentioned. By the way, "benefits of sophisticated analysis" for whom? Google's ad revenue…

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Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

#110
post #5

So there's only one comment that gives the impression that there's some kind of troll going on. Just to let you know: It actually works, nothing fishy just someone posting the direct link to the app that's exposed via their update Api. There's no activation or anything, it will just take you straight into the app.

Is it actually ok to download the app without an invite though?

I would assume that github knows how to create a private github repository and therefore they wouldn't mind you cloning / forking it.
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