Work: Macbook Pro, 15" retina, 2.7Ghz i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD. Home: i7 3770k@4ghz, 16GB RAM, 2x GTX 670, 512GB SSD, 7TB hdd Monitors: 2x 27" Dell IPS for work and 1x 24" TN, 2x 17" at home. OS: Everything. Keyboard: Kinesis Advantage Pro at work, Ducky Shine I at home. SVC: git. :) Editors: vim, with my vim config found here: https://github.com/wridgers/vimto Env: Virtual machines (VirtualBox) managed by Vagrant and…
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#32Custom 'ultraquiet' box with: 32GB, i7, SSD as primary/active projects disk, backups/cold storage on spinning raid 1, key things backing to cloud, plus external drive for cold backups. Monitors: 2x24" IPS dells vertical, with 30" dell IPS horizontal in center. And of course a Das Keyboard for the hands and a HM Aeron rescued for $175 from a dead '99 internet startup! I found this setup to be perfect for two-up window…
This setup requires a huge desk or system to hold it, doesn't it?
Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?
#33Custom 'ultraquiet' box with: 32GB, i7, SSD as primary/active projects disk, backups/cold storage on spinning raid 1, key things backing to cloud, plus external drive for cold backups. Monitors: 2x24" IPS dells vertical, with 30" dell IPS horizontal in center. And of course a Das Keyboard for the hands and a HM Aeron rescued for $175 from a dead '99 internet startup! I found this setup to be perfect for two-up window…
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#34If I could investigate one thing it would probably be an external display but I haven't found anything thats retina and affordable.
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#35 * retina macbook pro
* topre keyboard (http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=topre_keyboards,rf104&pid=xf01t0)
* 27" Monoprice monitor (http://www.monoprice.com/Product?p_id=10509&seq=1&format=2)
* Apple magic trackpad
* Linode running Archlinux
* iTerm2
* vimRe: Ask HN: What is your development setup?
#36* Windows 7 Pro
* C#, SQL, JavaScript
* SVN, Git
* Visual Studio 2013, Textpad, Notepad++, SQL Server Manager
As a bonus entry
* Beyond Compare
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#372 x 1920x1080 monitors (one via displaylink, other via USB) + Surface Pro screen
Windows 8.1
Virtual Box running:
- Ubuntu
- Apache or Nginx (depending on project)
- PHP or Node.js (depending on project)
- MySQL, MongoDB, Redis (depending on project)
- Samba network share
PhpStorm (running in Windows to Samba) & vi in Ubuntu
MySQL Workbench & MongoVue
Node with Less compiler
Bitbucket
TortoiseGit
Amazon EC2, S3 & RDS
Putty
Spotify
Experimenting with Cloud 9 for Node & PHP projects
If there was one thing I would change, it's hiring someone and delegating. I'm the bottleneck now, not my tools.
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#38Work: Macbook Pro, 15" retina, 2.7Ghz i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD. Home: i7 3770k@4ghz, 16GB RAM, 2x GTX 670, 512GB SSD, 7TB hdd Monitors: 2x 27" Dell IPS for work and 1x 24" TN, 2x 17" at home. OS: Everything. Keyboard: Kinesis Advantage Pro at work, Ducky Shine I at home. SVC: git. :) Editors: vim, with my vim config found here: https://github.com/wridgers/vimto Env: Virtual machines (VirtualBox) managed by Vagrant and…
So you have a PC at home? Those Dell LED monitors are really nice.
Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?
#39Custom 'ultraquiet' box with: 32GB, i7, SSD as primary/active projects disk, backups/cold storage on spinning raid 1, key things backing to cloud, plus external drive for cold backups. Monitors: 2x24" IPS dells vertical, with 30" dell IPS horizontal in center. And of course a Das Keyboard for the hands and a HM Aeron rescued for $175 from a dead '99 internet startup! I found this setup to be perfect for two-up window…
>>Monitors: 2x24" IPS dells vertical, with 30" dell IPS horizontal in center. This setup requires a huge desk or system to hold it, doesn't it?
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#40A dedicated development server box running several chrooted systems in a tmux session on Ubuntu x64. I'm in embedded and need to use toolchains of different vintage for legacy products, some available only in x32 flavors with library requirements from GWB 1st term era. The box handles my Hg repos which are backed up nightly to tapes in two company branches.
A Dell 13" laptop with Windows, mainly for company's time reporting system which is Windows only, and for occasional travel.