https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008432
Thanks. Burying this one as a dupe.
Atom: Hello Windows
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#22meh
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#24Hopefully the Linux version isn't too far away! Speaking of which, their distribution mechanism (Chocolatey) seems interesting. For folks who use Windows, I'm sure an apt-get/brew equivalent would be really useful. The last time I tried to develop on Windows, I was totally shocked to discover that there wasn't any kind of package manager inside Cygwin -- and trying to install command line utilities outside of Cygwin…
> Hopefully the Linux version isn't too far away!
I agree. I had problems building atom from source on a linux box that sits behind a company firewall (due to it effectively blocking the git protocol). Can't wait for the Linux version.
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#25Atom can't handle opening files more than 2mb in size right now. That makes it stunningly useless. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2a80ae/atom_now... Also, the install has 11,000 files in it. This is amateur hour.
The 2mb size limit is pretty ridiculous, but how is "number of installed files" relevant is to the quality of a project?
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#26Atom can't handle opening files more than 2mb in size right now. That makes it stunningly useless. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2a80ae/atom_now... Also, the install has 11,000 files in it. This is amateur hour.
Can't remember the last time I opened a 2mb file in my code editor.
And who cares about the number of files. It's not claiming to be usb-stick portable.
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#27Huge kudos for using Chocolatey. It's the Homebrew of Windows and it's magnificent to use. I hate trolling around for installers on dodgy websites.
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#28Atom can't handle opening files more than 2mb in size right now. That makes it stunningly useless. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2a80ae/atom_now... Also, the install has 11,000 files in it. This is amateur hour.
Can't remember the last time I opened a 2mb file in my code editor. And who cares about the number of files. It's not claiming to be usb-stick portable.
I don't have a separate code editor and data viewer... I have a program I'm running that allows me to view and modify text files. The data I work with is often in flat files, and frequently in the ten to hundred megabyte range. Sometimes gigabytes or even tens of gigabytes.
Number of files... Let's move it around a few orders of magnitude to see how you feel. All else being equal, which program would you rather have on your system, one which is in 10 files... or one which is in 10,000,000 files? At some point, I think you'll agree, the large number of files installed for a program is an indication that the developers are doing things wrong.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can't remember the last time I opened a 2mb file in my code editor. And who cares about the number of files. It's not claiming to be usb-stick portable.
I don't have a separate code editor and data viewer... I have a program I'm running that allows me to view and modify text files. The data I work with is often in flat files, and frequently in the ten to hundred megabyte range. Sometimes gigabytes or even tens of gigabytes. Number of files... Let's move it around a few orders of magnitude to see how you feel. All else being equal, which program would you rather have…
> Let's move it around a few orders of magnitude to see how you feel
Haha! What a tactic for an argument. I'd love to see that added to yourlogicalfallacy.is but it's so absurd it'd never make the cut. I do feel like you've captured lightning in a bottle there though sir, you've made my day :)
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't have a separate code editor and data viewer... I have a program I'm running that allows me to view and modify text files. The data I work with is often in flat files, and frequently in the ten to hundred megabyte range. Sometimes gigabytes or even tens of gigabytes. Number of files... Let's move it around a few orders of magnitude to see how you feel. All else being equal, which program would you rather have…
> Let's move it around a few orders of magnitude to see how you feel Haha! What a tactic for an argument. I'd love to see that added to yourlogicalfallacy.is but it's so absurd it'd never make the cut. I do feel like you've captured lightning in a bottle there though sir, you've made my day :)
Your argument is "you don't care." My argument is, "yes, you do, outside of some limits. I'm not willing to GUESS those limits to convince you, so let's push the numbers hard. SEE, you do actually care at some point."
Your argument that "you don't care" is not the whole truth.
Calling my argument absurd is rude. Feel free to say you're not convinced.