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Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by mark_l_watson »

japhyr wrote: post #78
mark_l_watson wrote: post #69

I mostly work remotely out of my house in the mountains, although I did work onsite for four months last fall which was fun (that was at Google). I like to meet my customers in person, but do most work in the comfort of my home with no commuting time lost. I really like it when customers travel to work with me out of my home. Home office: MacBook Air with large external monitor. I have a very nice teak desk and an er…

What mountains? I live in southeast AK, and I love the mix of tech work at home, and good outings in the wilderness, completely detached from the tech world.

I live in Sedona Arizona. Do a Google image search :-)

Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by abengoam »

Self built pc (E8400, 8GB, 128GB SSD) which I will upgrade in the next year or so. Two 24" monitors, thinking about upgrading to two 27".

Windows host, running VirtualBox images with Linux Mint. I run several images, each major project in a separate VM.

Almost 100% Clojure development.

SVC: Git mainly.

Editor: Eclipse + Counterclockwise.

For services, I use mostly Heroku and Github.

The best improvement I had in the last years was to buy a corner desk (such as this http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60251335/ ) instead of a regular desk. It's miles ahead in comfort.

Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by wwkeyboard »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #71
mark_l_watson wrote: post #69

I mostly work remotely out of my house in the mountains, although I did work onsite for four months last fall which was fun (that was at Google). I like to meet my customers in person, but do most work in the comfort of my home with no commuting time lost. I really like it when customers travel to work with me out of my home. Home office: MacBook Air with large external monitor. I have a very nice teak desk and an er…

edit: missed something important: I use VPNs from Rimuhosting and Digital Ocean, lots of AWS services, and occasionally AppEngine. I spend a lot of time in remote SSH shells.

+1 for Digital Ocean, the $5 droplet is fast enough for most of what I do. And if you haven't tried Mosh recently I'd recommend it, it's a lifesaver when I get caught in a coffee shop with spotty wifi.

Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by FireBeyond »

Hardware: Late 2013 iMac 27", 3.5/32/512, and Thunderbolt Display. Early 2013 rMBP 15", 2.7/16/512. On my desk, Apple Wireless, Magic Trackpad and Mouse, use Synergy so I can use the one set between both computers. Audioengine A2+ speakers. Polycom IP phone

Desk: Ikea Galant.

Software: Git (work) and Mercurial. Rails (work) and Python. PyCharm, Sublime Text 3.

Servers: FreeNAS with 12TB of storage, i7 950/24GB/2TB as a Docker host. Production environment is Rackspace Cloud and Amazon S3.

Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by jyothepro »

Hardware: 13" Macbook Air(2012), Samsung 21" monitor, Apple bluetooth keyboard and trackpad

Software: XCode, Coda2, TotalTerminal, bitbucket, github

Server: Parse, DigitalOcean

Ergonomics: Yet to buy a ergonomic chair and standing desk. Currently using a normal a chair with wheels and placed a bunch of boxes on the table for standing desk (temp solution)

Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by thenerdfiles »

romanovcode wrote: post #48
imwhimsical wrote: post #41

MacBook Pro, 13", Late 2011. Basic model (no upgrades done), 4 GB, 500 GB HDD, i5 OS X Mountain Lion (Mavericks won't install for some weird reason) Python, HTML, CSS, JS, C Sublime Text 2

I never understood how can one write anything on 13" screen.

vim, tmux.

Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by ladybro »

icebraining wrote: post #11

4GB ram, i5 CPU, 120GB SSD, 15" + 19" monitors with Ubuntu 12.04 Python (and XML, alas) Bazaar, Eclipse with PyDev, Vim. Awesome as a WM. Google Apps for chat, email and calendar. rxvt-unicode as the terminal, zsh as the shell. Servers: Ubuntu 12.04, Nginx, custom Python app server, Passenger for a third-party Rails app. Ansible for deployment, Upstart for process management. Oh, indispensable: redshift[1], particula…

Redshift is wonderful. Came from OS X and couldn't get f.lux to properly work on Ubuntu 13.10 in the first few days and Redshift was what saved me from switching back. Once you live with it, you can't live without it.
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