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Re: Show HN: Black Friday deals for developers

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Pity that jetbrains didn't join the party (I know they are Czeck). At least, I got me some little snitch && pixelmator 50% off which it nice.

That is weird, because they did have an end of the world sale at something like 75% of if you brought a years worth of upgrades, so they are not against using silly days to sell merc.

That sale was nuts. I think everything was like $12 or something insane like that. Picked up RedMine and AppCode myself.

Re: Show HN: Black Friday deals for developers

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DaisyDisk 50% off http://daisydiskapp.com/

Who the fuck would pay for that, when WinDirStat, KDirStat, and Grand Perspective are all free, and far more powerful, while still being quite easy to use. It seems to get mentioned EVERYWHERE, but it offers nothing compelling.

I prefer DaisyDisk to all the above

Re: Show HN: Black Friday deals for developers

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Pity that jetbrains didn't join the party (I know they are Czeck). At least, I got me some little snitch && pixelmator 50% off which it nice.

It seems they haven't had a sale in ages, which is a shame because I really want Pycharm but won't pay full wack for it.

>It seems they haven't had a sale in ages, which is a shame because I really want Pycharm but won't pay full wack for it.

They've dramatically reduced discounts since they introduced the Community edition. I can't blame them, tbh. Try the CE, it might be enough for what you need.

Re: Show HN: Black Friday deals for developers

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Suggestion for companies running Black Friday deals for techies. Don't run them with midnight to midnight hours based on the EAST COAST!!! Run the midnight EAST COAST until midnight WEST COAST.

I was looking at transferring dozens of domains from GoDaddy to NameCheap today. Their deals ended at midnight east coast. I'm in Los Angeles.

Don't know if the domain transfer deal ran for a specific sub-segment of the day, which means I would have missed it anyway. I thought I'd just highlight that ending online deals at midnight east coast makes little sense. Particularly on a day when people can be very busy during the hours that brick-and-mortars are open or, barring that, if they happen to be enjoying time with family, which may have bee the primary purpose of travelling for the holiday weekend.

In other words, be smart about how you make these decisions while at the same time being considerate to the customers you are trying to attract.

Also, one hour deals? Really? I probably have over 50 domains still left at GoDaddy. Do I really have to get that done in one hour? It almost guarantees that some will not be transferred until next year.

Not ranting, just voicing an opinion. I could be wrong.

Re: Show HN: Black Friday deals for developers

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I expected more, nothing really interesting on that list. Just the usual suspects, the same old Mac software that's (1) always on sale or (2) bundled up every few months.

Reading this list makes me happy I develop for/with Linux.

Eh, the fact that there are a lot of paid software for Mac is not indication of the lack of open source software. It only suggests a healthy market.

There a lot of open source software for Mac, too, and I frankly does not use any software on this list. In fact, the POSIX nature of Mac OS X means that the majority of open source software on Linux are also available for OS X.

Re: Show HN: Black Friday deals for developers

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DaisyDisk 50% off http://daisydiskapp.com/

Who the fuck would pay for that, when WinDirStat, KDirStat, and Grand Perspective are all free, and far more powerful, while still being quite easy to use. It seems to get mentioned EVERYWHERE, but it offers nothing compelling.

> it offers nothing compelling to me.

I fixed that for you, you forgot for a moment that your subjective ranking of software features is not a perfectly objective metric that holds for all humans.

Personally, I prefer Daisy Disk because it it fast, well designed, and I find it easier to reason with its representation of space used.

Re: Show HN: Black Friday deals for developers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reading this list makes me happy I develop for/with Linux.

Eh, the fact that there are a lot of paid software for Mac is not indication of the lack of open source software. It only suggests a healthy market. There a lot of open source software for Mac, too, and I frankly does not use any software on this list. In fact, the POSIX nature of Mac OS X means that the majority of open source software on Linux are also available for OS X.

I never understand this mindset, where OS X having a thriving independent software ecosystem -- something that I would expect HN to support, startups doing well and all that -- is a negative.
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