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Re: I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode

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Post by bmelton » Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 2:17 PM UTC

scott_s wrote: post #207

bmelton wrote: post #177

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Can you say the same about your workstation? Can you say the same about your power grid? Can you say the same about your internet connection? Screen/tmux/dtach are so trivial to implement and use and make the connection much more bulletproof that if you foresee there ever being a possibility that you might disconnect and lose work, then you should probably be using one of them.

I think you misunderstood me. I'm the person who said how great Screen is at the top of this thread. My uptime comment was in response to someone who said "the only downside is that it cant persist through a machine restart." That's not much of a downside for me because the machines I have my Screen sessions on are down so rarely - literally, less than half a dozen times a year. In other words, I use Screen when I co…

You are 100% correct. My apologies.

My point though, which I'm sure you'll agree with, was to preempt the idea that "my machines don't crash, so I don't need it."

Re: I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode

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Post by doki_pen » Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 2:50 PM UTC

So Mac/VMWare/Linux failed and the solution was to move to iPad/Linode? Did you consider just installing a Linux distro? Why do people who develop on Linux all day need OSX? I don't get it. What is the killer app? It's more expensive and harder to use for Linux development. Is it really just because it's prettier?

Re: I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode

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Post by jarek » Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 2:51 PM UTC

mdonahoe wrote: post #302

j45 wrote: post #62

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Thanks for sharing. Did you consider switching to a smaller laptop like a Macbook Air / Netbook?

Vim on my 11" Air is excellent. SSD is nice and fast, and I wonder if the total weight is less than the ipad+bluetooth keyboard.

Nope, Ipad: 601 g (613 g for 3G), 11" Macbook Air: 1080 g, I was unable to find the keyboard's weight but it can't be 400 g.

Re: I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode

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Post by jarek » Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 3:05 PM UTC

sjs wrote: post #152

jrockway wrote: post #147

$800 gets you a pretty nice laptop. I don't see the advantage of this approach at all.

We have very different definitions of "pretty nice".

Only until Apple releases an $800 laptop

Re: I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode

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Post by pferdefleisch » Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 3:17 PM UTC

raganwald wrote: post #253

zachleat wrote: post #227

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What's the URL to the blog post where you read this? :)

http://twitter.com/#!/raganwald/status/131738600931995648 :-P

i think i'm in a wormhole!

Re: I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode

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Post by bitwize » Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 3:52 PM UTC

Hey, 1024x768, 8bpp is how I rolled back in 1995 rocking my first Linux box. Thanks for bringing that feeling of freedom back to my memory.

Re: I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode

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Post by AbyCodes » Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 4:08 PM UTC

raganwald wrote: post #253

zachleat wrote: post #227

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What's the URL to the blog post where you read this? :)

http://twitter.com/#!/raganwald/status/131738600931995648 :-P

Recursion abuse!

Re: I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode

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Post by j45 » Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 4:12 PM UTC

moconnor wrote: post #111

j45 wrote: post #96

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I tried out an iPad app called Koder, it was nice but still lacked some things. Your post has got me wondering about Vim again.. :) Making the switch to Sublime Text has got me appreciating a more shell-like interface for some things. Have you ever found yourself wanting to code and not have an internet connection? I think that's a pretty rare scenario, I'm rarely offline.

I haven't wanted to code offline for months. Maybe if I flew for more than two hours I'd miss it. Even the trains have wifi in Germany. The few times I have wanted to code offline, I've also wanted to look something up >.<

Haha, that's really true. I rarely code offline, maybe it's just another umbilical cord that we should be examining.

Between having tethering and generally ubiquitous tethering, we should be good.

I think I want to try getting into VIM again. Is there a good resource site you like, where I can find a decent guide and some pointers on where to find some language dictionaries? Totally off topic but I'd appreciate it.

Re: I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode

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Post by robgough » Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 4:54 PM UTC

jarek wrote: post #323

mdonahoe wrote: post #302

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Vim on my 11" Air is excellent. SSD is nice and fast, and I wonder if the total weight is less than the ipad+bluetooth keyboard.

Nope, Ipad: 601 g (613 g for 3G), 11" Macbook Air: 1080 g, I was unable to find the keyboard's weight but it can't be 400 g.

According to Amazon the keyboard weight is 522g.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-MB167B-A-Wireless-Keyboard/dp/...

Making the Macbook Air 11" the lighter option.

Re: I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode

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Post by jarek » Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 5:02 PM UTC

robgough wrote: post #329

jarek wrote: post #323

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Nope, Ipad: 601 g (613 g for 3G), 11" Macbook Air: 1080 g, I was unable to find the keyboard's weight but it can't be 400 g.

According to Amazon the keyboard weight is 522g. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-MB167B-A-Wireless-Keyboard/dp/... Making the Macbook Air 11" the lighter option.

That is the boxed weight for shipping.

I have the wireless keyboard (the older three-AA revision) and it's comparatively lighter than my 7" Tab, which is 380 g.

edit: Charlie Stross says 325 g for a four-AA revision in http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/05/ipad-wri.... Macworld says 323 g in http://www.macworld.com/article/150600/2010/04/ipadwhichkeyb...