gavaletz

It really bothers me when people post their opinions as facts -- citations needed.

The Linux kernel. If you look at it really closely it isn't so pretty, but its massive size and overall complexity for me (as an undergraduate) was like looking into the grand canyon. What's more impressive is the speed at which things change and that despite breaking all of the traditional rules for "good" software design practices...it works amazingly well.

I liked it a lot until I convinced my wife to use it too. Then I realized that I was going to have to pay more than I wanted to be able to collaborate on a note. Then I started to notice the shortcomings of the UI and in particular the abilities of the Android client (at the time there was no local caching). Since I was not using it for text recognition in PDFs and scanned images I came to the conclusion that I would rather have the formatting flexibility of google docs and ability to share it and collaborate easily/freely. If I ever want to just do plain text I think I will install etherpad on one of my servers.