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

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by yesimahuman » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 2:15 AM UTC

bengl3rt wrote: post #36

Who am I? College Student (Computer Science/Music), Amateur recording engineer/producer, Independent consultant (iPhone/web/backend development) What Hardware am I Using? 3.33GHz 6-core Mac Pro w/ PCI SSD, 2x 21.5" 1920x1080 displays Just bought a 2.13GHz 13.3" Macbook Air... we'll see how that goes And what software? Mail/Adium/Skype/Safari Xcode/Textmate/Terminal/Ruby/Python/Java/Processing/etc Logic Pro/Rogue Amoe…

I'm really interested in how he Macbook Air goes for you, as a programmer. I've been eying that exact same one, but I'm not sure I can validate the price since most of my life and work resides on a Linux server somewhere in the "cloud". If you want my email is in my profile. Thanks.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by eugene2010 » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 2:17 AM UTC

PStamatiou wrote: post #48

( more here http://paulstamatiou.com/stuff-i-use ) 2 pairs of rayban titanium glasses with anti-reflective coating for computer screens (or that's what they told me). worth the investment. i can't wear contacts for more than a few hours without pissing off my eyes. curious about trying "gunnar" glasses though. anyone have them? year old 17-inch MacBook Pro matte 2.8GHz C2D with 8GB DDR3 and RAID 0 X25-M SSDs http://p…

Paul, did you make an update on your website for the "What I use" page?

And yes, Lightroom is much faster than Aperture (I've tested both).

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by david_shaw » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 2:17 AM UTC

I'm going to leave hardware out of this for the simple reason that given enough resources, as Paul Graham rightly said, we'd all want the fastest computer possible.

- OS: ArchLinux 64-bit (personal), FreeBSD (servers)

- Window Manager: awesome

Awesome is a great window manager because it's lightweight, robust, and tiling. I can't even explain how much my workflow has improved since switching to a tiling window manager. Awesome is much less intimidating than xmonad, and uses Lua as the scripting interface.

- Editors: vi for small edits, joe for bigger projects

- Terminal: rxvt-unicode

- As far as peripheral software, I use:

lighttpd as my web server

Ruby as my scripting language of choice

nmap as my port scanner (RIP unicornscan)

ncat as my netcat varient

OpenOffice for reports (yuck!)

- I prefer Xen to OpenVZ and VirtualBox to VMWare.

- Oh, and I have an iPhone.

- As a shameless plug, I also use http://sleepyti.me every day to figure out when to go to sleep or what time to set my alarm.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by rbranson » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 2:19 AM UTC

swah wrote: post #40

An older MBP which gets way too hot and has way too sharp edges to make me satisfied.

So get rid of it? They hold their value extraordinarily well.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by PStamatiou » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 2:19 AM UTC

eugene2010 wrote: post #52

PStamatiou wrote: post #48

( more here http://paulstamatiou.com/stuff-i-use ) 2 pairs of rayban titanium glasses with anti-reflective coating for computer screens (or that's what they told me). worth the investment. i can't wear contacts for more than a few hours without pissing off my eyes. curious about trying "gunnar" glasses though. anyone have them? year old 17-inch MacBook Pro matte 2.8GHz C2D with 8GB DDR3 and RAID 0 X25-M SSDs http://p…

Paul, did you make an update on your website for the "What I use" page? And yes, Lightroom is much faster than Aperture (I've tested both).

Yeah I need to do that. it was last updated a few months ago. mostly, I sold a lot of my stuff when I moved to SF. I only have my laptop now. Before I had a desktop Win7 Core i7 machine and a linux htpc hooked up to a 50-inch plasma, ps3, etc. I own practically no gadgets now except for what can fit in my backpack. I kinda like it this way.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by yesimahuman » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 2:19 AM UTC

Acer Aspire 5670 (4+ years old), Windows 7 Ultimate from Bizsparks.

I used to use Visual Studio 2008 for Outlook plugin development but now I pretty much always SSH into a remote Linux server to work. I use vim and git. Sometimes I run my stuff on Virtual Box with Ubuntu but that only works well enough on my i7 6GB desktop.

I program primarily in Python and Java and use Django for web app development.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by dlevine » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 2:23 AM UTC

13" MacBook (mid-2007) 2.16ghz w/ 4GB Ram and 500GB Hard Drive

Magic Mouse, Apple Bluetooth Keyboard, Rain mStand

NEC EA231WMi (23" 1080p IPS LCD)

500GB USB Drive For backup (1TB Time Capsule on order)

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by eel » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 2:28 AM UTC

For everyday computing and development, I use my HP Pavilion 14" laptop with Sony MDR-7506 headphones. I dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04, but I tend to spend 90% of my time on the Windows side using PuTTY sessions as necessary to SSH to Linux machines. For coding, I split about 50/50 between Notepad++ and Vim. I browse primarily in Chrome.

For relaxing, I have my aging gaming desktop: Intel Core 2 Duo, GeForce 8800 GTS, dual 22.5" Samsung LCDs, Velociraptor primary HD, and a cheap (but good) Logitech USB headset with mic. I have both Windows 7 and Fedora 13 here. The Linux side is generally used as a test area, and I often try new distros there. I was pleasantly surprised by Fedora, and sometime soon I will try Fedora 14.

For a home web and file server, I use Debian / Apache / Samba.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by howradical » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 2:30 AM UTC

Hardware:

   - 15" MBPro (4GB ram, SSD)
   
   - Magic Mouse, Apple Keyboard
   
   - 30" Dell 3007WFP

Apps:

   - Echofon, 

   - Propane (Campfire)

   - iCal

   - iChat

   - Things

   - Evernote

   - Colloquy (IRC)

   - Chrome
  
   - 1Password

   - Textpander

   - Dropbox

   - Spaces (to group everything)

Dev:

   - DevStructure with Vagrant & Virtualbox (http://docs.devstructure.com/vagrant)
   
   - Textmate
   
   - Rackspace CloudServers

Office:

   - Big flat desks 
   
   - Aeron or a huge exercise ball for seating

   - Bose Quietcomfort headphones

   - Skype + Googlevoice for VoIP

   - Whiteyboards

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by eof » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 2:32 AM UTC

tel wrote: post #33

jrockway wrote: post #20

Most frequently used software: Debian, xmonad, emacs, rxvt-unicode, conkeror, bash, git, perl, ghc, xmms2. Gnus for email, rcirc via irssi-proxy on a remote server for irc, bitlbee (via irssi) for Google Talk and AIM. Github and Gist for collaboration. (Github is such a good tool that I pay for it, despite not needing any of the paid features! Irrational!) The idea is to reduce overhead; anything I want to do is alwa…

Pretty close to what I'm running, except replacing emacs with vim because it plays with screen/xmonad more nicely. Some day I'll probably find a way to get a real no-nonsense screen/xmonad/emacs setup together.

With the amount of time I have spent learning and customizing vim, I can't imagine being comfortable to switch back and forth between emacs and vim