I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode • Hacker News Board

Re: I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode

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Post by pseudonym » Sat, Nov 05, 2011, 1:21 AM UTC

Buzzzz wrote: post #312

pseudonym wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to toss this out here, but $20/mo for a linode, is not a huge investment, and it's something that I have even without doing everything "in the cloud". It's handy for those quick file transfers, a small portfolio site, and since you have root access, you can quickly set up or take down any odd services without the hassle of finding a distinct hosting service (Mumble, Mercurial, Subversion, or what have you). But…

How does the cost of light usages like this compares to aws?

To be honest, I couldn't tell you-- for the amount of usage that I have on it, it's a flat $20/mo, and I believe I have something like 20G of HD space and 200G of bandwidth, which I've never come close to using up (it's amazing how small your OS is when you're not running a gui).

The really nice thing, imo, is the fact that you can pay a couple bucks per month piecemeal to increase any one stat of the machine as you need it.

Re: I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode

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Post by Hominem » Sat, Nov 05, 2011, 8:50 AM UTC

awolf wrote: post #77

There are a lot of comments here from people acting as if not having two 24" monitors and a full mechanical keyboard would drastically diminish their productivity. This year I spent 4 months out of the country with only my 15" laptop while still working 8 hour days. I was surprised to find no change at all in how long it took to get shit done. I think we tend to kid ourselves about how much of a difference expensive…

Yeah I been working on a laptop on a dining room table for the last week. I think I get more done, it has been so uncomfortable that I do only what is necessary, no reddit or HN breaks to slow me down.

Re: I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode

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Post by ubercore » Sat, Nov 05, 2011, 10:02 PM UTC

anjc wrote: post #342

6ren wrote: post #320

Isn't the latency of vim on a remote server distracting? Or is your ping low enough to not be noticeable? I've thought about this kind of setup, but I think I'd need vim to be running locally (but working on files from a remote filesystem - vim can do this).

Can you or somebody expand on that last bit...run vim locally on remote files? How? How does this improve lag? Any downsides to it? This would save me so much bother.

Expandrive works well for this.

Re: I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode

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Post by p0ckets » Sun, Nov 06, 2011, 5:38 PM UTC

markkanof wrote: post #232

cmwright wrote: post #44

Incredible that we seem to be moving back to powerful mainframe computers in a timesharing system. A 40 year cycle?

It is a bit better than that though because you can have a complete server environment to yourself, and don't have to deal with timesharing.

Unless you shell out for a dedicated server, you are sharing the physical machine with other people. The cpu is probably scheduled according to the size of the instance you bought, but you might get the whole thing if your neighbors aren't running anything.