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

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by jjcm » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 8:40 AM UTC

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…

This, except vim instead of emacs, and my desk is a surfboard that I'm currently not using (I have a big wave board and a small wave board, I'll switch out the two depending on if it's summer or winter - provides a good desk and a way to store unused items).

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by jasonkester » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 8:40 AM UTC

This was my dev environment while building FairTutor on the road over the course of the last year (Parrot shown for scale):

http://img.expatsoftware.com/blog/parrot_vs_keyboard.jpg

  - Standard Microsoft dev stack
  + ReSharper
  + CodeSmith
  + TortoiseSVN

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by alnayyir » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 8:50 AM UTC

lukeqsee wrote: post #79

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.

The host machine for the directory I am distributing and syncing does not belong to me and cannot be dropbox'd.

It's contract work, we don't always get to decide on our toys of choice.

I need the explicit merge awareness anyway, not blind single-source propagation.

When I say that I need a replacement for Unison, I mean that I've already searched exhaustively and found nothing beyond slapping one together with a script. I'm probably going to have to make something myself.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 8:50 AM UTC

lukeqsee wrote: post #79

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.

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Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by hasenj » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 8:50 AM UTC

dkasper wrote: post #78

Inspired by usesthis.com and the response here I created this site: http://hnsetups.com/

This is awesome.

http://hnsetups.com/interviews/13

Can you "fix" newlines please?

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 8:50 AM UTC

lukeqsee wrote: post #79

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.

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Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 9:38 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by sb » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 10:19 AM UTC

cytzol wrote: post #34

I tend to write very freeform, please forgive me. My main computer is a desktop that hit a year old last month. It contains an AMD Phenom X4 @ 3.6GHz, 4GB RAM, and an SSD (60GB, one of the OCZ ones - I wasn't picky) for the OS and programs. I've started to use VMs more often, so I'm starting to hit the memory limit, but the overclocking needs a bigger fan, which I had to install over half the RAM slots. No, really. C…

Regarding your question: IIRC, when you use tramp on emacs, commands executed on remote files are executed remotely as well (for example, a vc-checkin is not executed locally but on the origin-host of the file/buffer you're editing). Though I am sure that this worked on version control commands, I am not sure whether it works on compile commands per default, but a little emacs lisp surely solves this problem...

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by Vargas » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 10:30 AM UTC

My brain, mostly.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use?

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Post by uggedal » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 11:10 AM UTC

I like to keep it simple.

Hardware:

    ASUS Eee PC 1201N 12.1"
    AKG K518DJ Headphones

Software:

    Arch Linux
    DWM Window Manager
    Firefox with Vimperator
    Puppet
    git
    hg
    Vim
    urxvt
    Zsh
    openssh
    rtorrent
    mplayer-nogui
    Spotify

Webapps:

    Google Apps Gmail and Google Reader

Hosting:

    6 x 512MB Linodes