Ask HN: What's on your desk? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's on your desk?

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Post by comrh » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 5:22 PM UTC

Tissues, post it notes and a stress ball.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your desk?

#12

Post by taylorlapeyre » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 5:26 PM UTC

My laptop, a lamp, and a Braun alarm clock.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your desk?

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Post by septerr » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 5:27 PM UTC

kadabra9 wrote: post #4

I have a few printouts stuck to my wall with common snippets I use frequently but often have to look up....regexes, sublimetext shortcuts, db schemas, etc. I also have one big notebook that serves as a day to day scratchpad for projects that I'm working on, and a smaller notepad that I use as my daily to do list. Every day, the first thing I do at work is pull out this smaller pad and jot down a quick task list, by h…

Printouts of often needed code snippets is a great idea. I think it would help me to put up printouts of 'context-switch-snippets'. Like when I need to go to iOS programming after doing Ruby for a while, a quick checklist of the syntax and things I end up looking up again every time I make the switch (diff between retain/strong/assign).

Re: Ask HN: What's on your desk?

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Post by lukasm » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 5:28 PM UTC

- laster pointer just to point at random stuff (completely pointless). - pen and some paper - mug - my wallet, some change, keys and oyster card - my Nexus charging (as always)

And the usual stuff Macbook pro + screen (don't buy apple, better get Dell or Samsung with 4k) + stand + logitech K760 + some cheap mouse

Re: Ask HN: What's on your desk?

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Post by coldcode » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 5:29 PM UTC

Macbook Pro, 24in display, box of KCups, jar of B12, kleenex and some post it notes. I'm a mostly digital person.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your desk?

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Post by makeitsonumber1 » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 5:34 PM UTC

Beer tasting index card, a few scenic photos I took on vacation years ago, Radioactive Man Homer Simpson, Wireless headphones, coffee sleeve from the best coffee bar I've ever been too & a note book. If I have to sit here for 8 hours a day, I figure I should at least like the scenery.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your desk?

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Post by olgeni » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 6:05 PM UTC

Line-printer Snoopy calendar for the year 1969?

Re: Ask HN: What's on your desk?

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Post by T-hawk » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 6:08 PM UTC

good-citizen wrote: post #7

pen and paper! sometimes just drawing it out is way better than a mouse.

I've got a small clipboard-sized whiteboard with a fine point marker. Eraseability helps a lot over pen and paper.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your desk?

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Post by brudgers » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 6:09 PM UTC

Not decoration, not the monitors, and not the stack of bills...

Bought it in the UCF bookstore for about $100 in the spring of 1989, the unusual thing on my desk is an HP11C. Now in its 26th year, it's still a goto device.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your desk?

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Post by thebiglebrewski » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 6:17 PM UTC

Samsung Series 7 750 27" monitor, box of business cards, "rolodex" (just a stack of cards), my macbook pro 13", WD my passport for time machine backup, a projector that we barely use but has some cables on top of it that go with it, an NYCDA t-shirt, The Book of Ruby, Beginning Rails 3, Stylin' with CSS, AngularJS Directives, Wired Magazine, buckyballs, a Sphero I barely use, a stamp, an ink well for the stamp, a pen, a little thing of vaseline, and an iPod shuffle charger for my waterproof guy I use while swimming

That specific enough for ya?