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Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by alnayyir »

TextMate and Gedit for my more sundry programming needs

Emacs when I'm hacking on Clojure/(some-other-lisp)

Grooveshark for tunes

Unison for remote folder syncing (sucks on OS X, I'd love to have a replacement for this)

I have a knack for using sshfs/scp for perverse ends from time to time.

Fabric for deployment. Of anything.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by maximilianburke »

At work I have an HP xw-series workstation sporting two quad core Xeons and 12gb of RAM. I have a 24" main display and a 19" secondary, both Dells, hooked up to a fantastically terrible Quadro NVS290 video card. It runs Windows 7 and my primary code editor is Vim. I have development kits for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Wii attached. I use Perforce for SCM at work and a mishmash of NAnt, Visual Studio, and XGE for builds.

I also have a secondary Core 2 Quad machine I use for PC games development as the video card is actually usable, also running Windows 7.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by PStamatiou »

tlrobinson wrote: post #70

* MacBook of some kind (currently 11" MBA) + 30" Apple Cinema Display + wireless keyboard + Magic Mouse * Terminal.app * TextMate * Git * Safari * Chrome * Homebrew * Xcode * Transmit * Tweetie * Adium * Skype * Mail.app * Colloquy * Cinch * Dropbox * Evernote * And a whole bunch of command line tools. Run "history | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n" to find your most common. Mine are: rm, mv, make, cd,…

slick setup. I used to have a 30-inch Dell monitor way back when ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauls/642309070/ ). ended up selling it to ryan block because I thought it was too big and always had to move my head around to look at the screen. in hindsight I think it was just because my desk wasn't deep enough. ryan ended up selling it to someone else not more than a month later as he thought it was too big too haha.

I have yet to play with the ACD 27" but I think that might be the sweet spot for me.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by jackolas »

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…

You can save those terminal things as a Terminal window set (and make it the default on launch) If you set the right terminal profiles with the right start commands then open them in a window, hen you go into Window -> create window group...

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by alecthomas »

Hardware

Desktop: Hackintosh, Core 2 Quad @ 2.83GHz with 8GB RAM and a GeForce 8800 GTS.

Laptop: Core 2 Duo MBP @ 2.26GHz with 4GB RAM

Server(s): Arch Linux

Software

MacVim, Python, Go, Chrome, Adium, Tweetie, Homebrew, Fabric, Git, git-flow, Rietveld, GMail, Redmine.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by PStamatiou »

jackolas wrote: post #74
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…

You can save those terminal things as a Terminal window set (and make it the default on launch) If you set the right terminal profiles with the right start commands then open them in a window, hen you go into Window -> create window group...

I tried that a bunch but couldn't get it to work the way I wanted for some reason. Then I tinkered with iTerm scripting, but I prefer Terminal so I ended up with my current AS + Automator combo.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by lukeqsee »

alnayyir wrote: post #71

TextMate and Gedit for my more sundry programming needs Emacs when I'm hacking on Clojure/(some-other-lisp) Grooveshark for tunes Unison for remote folder syncing (sucks on OS X, I'd love to have a replacement for this) I have a knack for using sshfs/scp for perverse ends from time to time. Fabric for deployment. Of anything.

Replace Unison with Dropbox.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by rdl »

I've been mobile for the past year, so just a 17" MBP (mid-2010), 8/500. I'm going to upgrade it to 512GB SSD + 1TB rotating HD soon. Right now I carry 5 x 500GB hard drives for photos (and backup), music, and 2 x data backups. The critical component: UltimateEars 10vi headphones (upgrade from Etymotics ER4S).

I usually have a high-spec Linux desktop with 3 x 24" portrait-mode U2410 IPS panels, and a 24-30" second monitor for the laptop, at my desk. I'll probably try some combination of Mac Pro and iMac (at home or office) next, but I think I'll keep the linux desktop too. Critical component: Beyerdynamic DT770pro sealed headphones (office), Sennheiser HD650 open headphones (home). May upgrade to HD800 at some point, or speakers.

I need to be able to do office automation and image editing (and maybe now iPhone dev?) (mac), lots of sysadmin/text editing/dev (mac or linux), and to also have a way to keep "work" and "fun" stuff on separate machines at the same desk. I also often need to have "machine under test" (embedded, server prototype, etc.) separate, and also sometimes need to run one or more machines on an airgapped network.

This leads to wanting 2 x 20A power feeds to my desk, and a good air conditioner. A noise-isolated enclosure would be an awesome upgrade (or a nearby office with some long DVI/keyboard/USB cables and a remote power cycler...)

$250 armless "size C" Aeron at home; probably will get an Embody or something for the office.

Also need to get an office: planning to use a shared office space in Mountain View for Q1-Q2 2011.

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