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someguy1233on Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

You can use my builds, http://atom.someguy123.com

They're well tested by a lot of people, and I offer both stable and unstable releases

someguy1233on Unofficial Atom Builds for Windows

Strange. It seems to extract to C:\Atom fine over here, it refuses to extract to my desktop though, Surely my Desktop is shorter than AppData\Local\Temp o_O

someguy1233on Unofficial Atom Builds for Windows

When you run script\build it automatically tries to install it in program files. If it failed to do that, you can also copy %temp%\atom-build and run the exe from there.

someguy1233on Unofficial Atom Builds for Windows

You mean the source code? I compiled it from their github.

https://github.com/atom/atom

someguy1233on Unofficial Atom Builds for Windows

Those are when building. I got them too, all I had to do was run script\build a second time and it worked. No idea what's wrong there, but it's not a big problem (other than being a really misleading error)

someguy1233on Unofficial Atom Builds for Windows

They also seem to install and function correctly too, e.g. color-picker plugin: http://i.imgur.com/7vcU9qJ.png

someguy1233on Unofficial Atom Builds for Windows

Seems to work over here[1] on the Windows build

[1] http://i.imgur.com/glepE3c.png

someguy1233on Unofficial Atom Builds for Windows

If you have any questions about the builds, reply to this comment and I'll help you.

someguy1233on I wish I could read Wikipedia like this

It works well until you get too deep. Then it becomes unreadable.

Http://i.imgur.com/9lSpyxb.png

someguy1233on Dispelling the hate against PHP

It's definitely unfortunate that PHP code in various websites across the web is designed horridly, it's also sad that we're unable to fix most things in PHP e.g. the needle-haystack problem, without destroying compatibility. HHVM has done a decent job at cleaning it up with Hacklang, but some of these legacy issues we're going to be dealing with for a long time.

PHP is evolving, many sites on the web are too. But legacy codebases are here to stay, I mean look at how many sites are still on classic ASP.

PHP was one of my first programming languages so I will defend it, the ecosystem is much cleaner than it was a few years ago, and it's still the easiest to deploy language IMO.

someguy1233on Drop Dropbox

Unless you like privacy. Partially nude photos in your private folder on OneDrive can get your whole Microsoft account banned. [1]

[1] http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-what-you-store-on-skydriveyou-m...

someguy1233on Microsoft ends support for Windows XP and Office 2003

They slowly are going open source.

A big example is Gov.UK which is mostly mostly open source as well as a few other big UK gov services like police.gov [1]

A large part of the NHS was moved off of a proprietary oracle system just a few months ago [2]

[1] http://github.com/alphagov [2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/10/nhs_drops_oracle_for...