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My New Development Laptop: Samsung Chromebook

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Re: My New Development Laptop: Samsung Chromebook

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Post by edwinnathaniel »

sunnybythesea wrote: post #9
benwerd wrote: post #3

I use NetBeans for development, and always feel like I'm slightly inferior for not relying on vim. There's certainly a lot to be said for it, but I really like (1) being able to zoom straight to the definition of one of my functions (can vim do this?), and (2) being able to code offline / on localhost sometimes. And I think the second point is my problem with this. Chances are, if I get a cheapo PC or a tablet to cod…

vim cscope works like a charm http://cscope.sourceforge.net/cscope_vim_tutorial.html

Is cscope real-time or have to be re-run once new code has been added?

Re: My New Development Laptop: Samsung Chromebook

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Post by duck »

magic5227 wrote: post #7

What about installing Ubuntu on these and developing on that? Has anyone reliably done that? Doesn't that make more sense.

From a couple weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4929282. From that though, I got the impression that using linux isn't easier.

Re: My New Development Laptop: Samsung Chromebook

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Post by natrius »

niggler wrote: post #2

The following phrase struck me as very odd: "No, you want your phone book to be managed by Google or Apple" I suspect lots of people will never ever want any company to manage their phone books.

Before I got my first Android phone, my phone book was stored in featurephones with proprietary address books that couldn't be accessed without going to a phone store. Now my address book is everywhere with internet access. Whether I'm calling from my phone or a web browser, I type in a name and it just works.

The people who don't want this experience are a small minority.

Re: My New Development Laptop: Samsung Chromebook

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Post by rwmj »

magic5227 wrote: post #7

What about installing Ubuntu on these and developing on that? Has anyone reliably done that? Doesn't that make more sense.

I have Fedora on mine and it's fine for light development. Slightly slower, though not noticably for most things, with a smaller amount of storage.

Edit: using these instructions, which work fine despite the slightly scary warning at the top:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Samsung_Chr...

Re: My New Development Laptop: Samsung Chromebook

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Post by WayneDB »

benwerd wrote: post #3

I use NetBeans for development, and always feel like I'm slightly inferior for not relying on vim. There's certainly a lot to be said for it, but I really like (1) being able to zoom straight to the definition of one of my functions (can vim do this?), and (2) being able to code offline / on localhost sometimes. And I think the second point is my problem with this. Chances are, if I get a cheapo PC or a tablet to cod…

Don't feel inferior for not using vim.

People who claim that vim/emacs are the ultimate environment typically have a very narrow world-view in my experience. There are absolutely no absolutes!

Re: My New Development Laptop: Samsung Chromebook

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Post by r00fus »

niggler wrote: post #2

The following phrase struck me as very odd: "No, you want your phone book to be managed by Google or Apple" I suspect lots of people will never ever want any company to manage their phone books.

Problem is, lots more (10x at least) would be just as happy if Google/Apple/Facebook managed theirs.

Re: My New Development Laptop: Samsung Chromebook

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Post by sukuriant »

giulianob wrote: post #5

If your entire development environment consists of a browser then I guess it'll work

no no, the development environment consists of the terminal. It's like those "I've switched to developing on my iPad" articles, except with multiple windows at the same time.

Re: My New Development Laptop: Samsung Chromebook

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Post by ChuckMcM »

I enjoyed his iPad one a bit more. Clearly there is a space here and the Chrome book provides some additional leverage.

But it is most interesting to see the 'smart terminal' getting re-invented by this author and others. Which really has me wondering about where those guys are now. Is there an actual "use case" for this as a product? What would a terminal designer do?

In many ways the ASUS tablets seem to be good starting points, or the Microsoft Surface. Something that is expecting to have a keyboard attached. And of course ssh and a really nice terminal program are essential. But what else? Could we 'throw' with an air-play like service our social 'situational awareness' feed up on the TV? It is kind of strange because I get this weird "deja vu" feeling about this sort of capability and what you see in the movies sometimes with a bunch of monitors (or projectors) showing aggregate data while individuals toil away at their space.

So here is the picture, you're sitting on the couch coding, you've got your twitter/g+/facebook/rss feeds bouncing around on the screen on the wall. I don't know what the market for that is. Its at least two (me and the author :-)

Re: My New Development Laptop: Samsung Chromebook

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Post by niggler »

natrius wrote: post #13
niggler wrote: post #2

The following phrase struck me as very odd: "No, you want your phone book to be managed by Google or Apple" I suspect lots of people will never ever want any company to manage their phone books.

Before I got my first Android phone, my phone book was stored in featurephones with proprietary address books that couldn't be accessed without going to a phone store. Now my address book is everywhere with internet access. Whether I'm calling from my phone or a web browser, I type in a name and it just works. The people who don't want this experience are a small minority.

You are confusing two different issues.

With the older iphones, the phone book was backed up every time you synced. The phone numbers are still accessible on the computer and you could even get vcards from it. Then, when you upgrade (like I did from 3GS to 4S) transferring numbers was a snap: just connect and hit sync.

Note that no phone numbers were stored on google's or apple's servers. A very significant portion of the iPhone crowd still sync via cable.

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