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I love Sublime. I'm not sure what to say about the belief some people have that 'we need releases twice a month' for a stable, high-performance product. I don'

I love Sublime. I'm not sure what to say about the belief some people have that 'we need releases twice a month' for a stable, high-performance product. I don't want or need product releases twice a month unless there's a good reason. I feel like the regular releases crowd is mostly cargo cult driven by a desire to emulate the big web companies who are constantly - and often infuriatingly - tweaking their products for whatever reason. From what I can see, this desire/need for constant tweaks arises mostly because web companies tend to ship very buggy products, and because there seems to be this belief that a company is going out of business if their web page that doesn't change often enough.

epalmer 9y ago
I use ST3 daily and have been using the beta since it came out. I don't have problems with it. Granted I'm not a poweruser of ST but I do use at a lot. I love it. I could have stayed with ST2 for free but I chose to pay so that the devs could get the $. I love sublime.
hprotagonist 9y ago
Bingo. Very relatedly, I kind of wish TeX Live would release less frequently -- the 4-GB-of-crap song and dance is a pain, even once a year.
- epmaybe 9y ago
  random question, is there a xelatex compiler that works online? I only really use LaTeX for my CV (though I would like to write papers in it!) so it'd be nice not having to have that huge MacTeX install on my hard drive all the time.
  - hprotagonist 9y ago
    i think Overleaf (https://www.overleaf.com/ https://www.overleaf.com/) is kind of what you had in mind? It shouldn't be too hard to combine https://github.com/thomasWeise/docker-texlive https://github.com/thomasWeise/docker-texlive and a linode server or something into a LaTeX CaaS, either, but I can't say I've ever done so.
slantyyz 9y ago
It's funny. Personally, I only use about 10% of Sublime's functionality, yet I keep upgrading to new builds (even though there's nothing new that I need), and I plan on buying a license upgrade when 3.0 goes official. I don't feel bad giving them my money because I use Sublime for 8h a day, and given the amount of time between major releases (5+ years?) the cost per year is ridiculously low.

epalmer 9y ago

I use ST3 daily and have been using the beta since it came out. I don't have problems with it. Granted I'm not a poweruser of ST but I do use at a lot. I love it. I could have stayed with ST2 for free but I chose to pay so that the devs could get the $. I love sublime.

hprotagonist 9y ago

Bingo. Very relatedly, I kind of wish TeX Live would release less frequently -- the 4-GB-of-crap song and dance is a pain, even once a year.

epmaybe 9y ago
random question, is there a xelatex compiler that works online? I only really use LaTeX for my CV (though I would like to write papers in it!) so it'd be nice not having to have that huge MacTeX install on my hard drive all the time.
- hprotagonist 9y ago
  i think Overleaf (https://www.overleaf.com/ https://www.overleaf.com/) is kind of what you had in mind? It shouldn't be too hard to combine https://github.com/thomasWeise/docker-texlive https://github.com/thomasWeise/docker-texlive and a linode server or something into a LaTeX CaaS, either, but I can't say I've ever done so.

slantyyz 9y ago

It's funny. Personally, I only use about 10% of Sublime's functionality, yet I keep upgrading to new builds (even though there's nothing new that I need), and I plan on buying a license upgrade when 3.0 goes official. I don't feel bad giving them my money because I use Sublime for 8h a day, and given the amount of time between major releases (5+ years?) the cost per year is ridiculously low.