Ask HN: What do you use? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by olalonde » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 1:00 AM UTC

* Dell Studio XPS 16, 15.4"

* Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit

* Gnome-Do, Chrome (browsing), Firefox (web development), Git (version control), Aptana Studio (IDE), VirtualBox (virtualization), GrooveShark.com (music), DropBox (file-sharing), Skype

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by tjr » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 1:03 AM UTC

13" Macbook Pro connected to a new 27" cinema display.

Xcode, emacs, python, gcc, clisp, TeX. SSH to some GNU/Linux machines. Mackie Tracktion and Sibelius for music production stuff. Cultured Code "Things". Dropbox. iWork for when TeX doesn't feel like the right solution.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by ethank » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 1:03 AM UTC

I'm an SVP at a music company, running our Emerging Technology group. It means I'm half CTO and half business development.

What Hardware I use:

Work Primary: - Mac Pro, 8 core, 3.03 ghz with 16 gigs of RAM. 4 TB of hard drive space, and dual Nvidia something or others.

This drives two Dell U2711 27" displays and 2 23" Samsungs with those ultra high res PPI.

Hooked to this machine I have an external BluRay, Drobo Elite with 8 TB for offline, a 2TB time machine drive, an Apogee Maestro hooked to two Rokit 6 studio monitors from KRK and a Magic Touch Pad. I also have a Kinesis freestyle split keyboard, which I have spaced about 10" apart. My iPad goes between the two halves of the keyboard.

My Laptop is a 17" I5 Mac Book Pro.

I also have a iPad, iPhone, and a few Android phones for testing.

HOME:

We have a Mac Mini server in a closet with a 4TB RAID off it and an iMac quad core i5 for my wife. She has an iPad and iPhone.

We have a Sonos for home audio.

My primary software:

Chrome, Safari, Textmate, Terminal, Evernote, Supersync (to sync itunes libraries), NetNewsWire, various Fluid apps (Instapaper, Pivotal Tracker, Github, etc), Omnigraffle, Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator.

My primary development environment is Textmate. I prototype in Python.

Web services used:

- Basecamp - Pivotal Tracker - Helpspot - Assistly - Github - OpenAtrium

and lots of custom stuff we have.

I have my dream setup pretty much, I'd just like a nicer desk and a faster Mac Pro

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by dgallagher » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 1:04 AM UTC

Hardware:

  MBP 17"            - anti-glare FTW
  Mac Mini           - for code testing
  52" HDTV           - 2nd display
  iPad               - 3rd display w/Air Display      - avatron.com/apps/air-display/

Software:

  1Password          - multi-browser password manager - agilewebsolutions.com
  Base               - SQLite manager                 - menial.co.uk
  Cinch & SizeUp     - window management              - irradiatedsoftware.com
  ClickToFlash       - block Flash in Safari          - clicktoflash.com
  Colloquy           - IRC                            - colloquy.info
  iWork Numbers      - notes                          - apple.com
  Murky              - mercurial/hg GUI               - tinyurl.com/p4qf2g
  OmniGraffle Pro    - diagrams/flow-charts           - omnigroup.com
  Photoshop          - graphics                       - adobe.com
  QuickSilver        - app launching                  - blacktree.com
  SelfControl        - block distracting websites     - tinyurl.com/d4ca5a
  Snippet            - code snippets                  - fuelcollective.com/snippet
  TextMate           - coding                         - macromates.com/
  Xcode              - coding                         - apple.com
  you Control:Tunes  - "Menu Bar" GUI for iTunes      - yousoftware.com/tunes/

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by benologist » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 1:09 AM UTC

I've got a little 13" Toshiba laptop and a once-beefy but still admirable core 2 quad desktop with 22" and 21" screens.

Most of my day's spent in Visual Studio, Edit Plus, Flash IDE, a browser and remote desktop.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by Xuzz » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 1:09 AM UTC

So far, only three people are using Windows (all 7) as their main OS. About 7-9 were using some flavor of Linux/BSD as their main OS, with the rest (all 10-12 using Mac OSX.

(There were 22 posts when I wrote this.)

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by injekt » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 1:12 AM UTC

* 17.5" HP pavilion 3GB RAM. Fairly slick but air vents are in an awkward position, and I should have picked a smaller screen size

* OS: Gentoo 2010 hardened. Browser: FF/Chrome. Editor: Vim/Redcar. DVCS: Git. TM: Tmux. File sync: Dropbox. IMP: GIMP, sometimes PS but I'm a beginner. Media: VLC. Shell: Zsh

* Pretty much every interpreter/compiler under the sun.

* Secondary Mac mini utilizing 4GB Ram but unfortunately it's external peripherals suck.. yes, all of them. It's there for nothing more than iOS development.

* Networking: Anything Netgear, it's never let me down

* Headphones: Sennheiser HD 800

* Ext HDD: Western Digital 500GB book

* iPhone 4 for iOS development, HTC Magic for Android development

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by ronnier » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 1:12 AM UTC

Intel i7

Dell u2711 27" monitor

Visual Studio with Vim plugin

Windows 7 64 bit

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by pclark » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 1:20 AM UTC

15" i7 MacBook Pro.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by bkorte » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 1:21 AM UTC

15" year-old Unibody Macbook Pro. 6 months ago I replaced the SuperDrive with an SSD - love it. 2 months ago, I picked up a refurb 24" Cinema display (~$649CAD, awesome price). I never realized what an impact that display would have on my desk, but I have far less crap on my desk now because of it.

TextMate, Versions, Terminal, Photoshop for Dev & Design work.

Nikon D90 - Usually my 12-24 f4 or 50 1.8 are on it. It's a great creative outlet that gets me away from my desk.

iPhone 3GS - Trying hard to wait till the next iPhone to upgrade.