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Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by monk_the_dog »

Main Development Hardware: * i7-3930 @ 3.2 GHz/16 GB Ram/240 GB SSD/1 TB HD * NVidia GeForce GTX 680 (For CUDA programming) * 24" 1900x1200 Dell monitor on LCD Arm * Quickfire Keyboard * KVM Switch (for linux/mac secondary systems)

Software: * emacs (in evil mode/development wiki in org-mode) * zsh/tmux/git/cmake * 99% of time programming C++. Compilers: Visual Studio 2013 (main)/Clang (secondary)/gcc (secondary) * Windows 7 (main)/Linux (secondarily)/Mac (secondarily)

If I could change one thing? Faster compile times!!!! Anything that would improve turnaround time would be a huge productivity boost for me. I still think C++ is the right language for my project (vision related), but sometimes I dream about using a language with blazing fast compiles.

Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by rudimk »

A Dell Inspiron, Intel i5, 4 GB RAM with 1TB worth of disk space. I run Windows 8.1 Pro - love the clean look. I use Vagrant for coding - got different boxes for the different projects I work on. 2-3 boxes for coding on Flask(Python), Docker(Go) and various computational math tools(Numpy, Scipy, Octave, Sage, Julia, R, F#, Haskell) for MathHarbor, one box for some consulting gigs using Rails, and another for hacking on IPython. Use Git for VC. Sublime Text 3 is my editor of choice, but I don't use any plugins, for now.

If I could change one thing..that'd be the machine itself. Would love a Macbook.

Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by jdzurik »

Dell dual xenon CPU, 12 gb ram, dual 27" monitors + 1 20" third, dual graphic cards * on win 8.1 / Mac OSX * c#, JavaScript, ms and pl SQL, lucene, Go * SVN and GIT * visual studio, textastic, webstorm * 2 win server 2008 and one unbuntu server.

Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by keerthiko »

Circumstance: Traveling and working remotely for startup since I had to leave the US thanks to H1B visa lottery miss. Miss a cushy well-curated work environment, but the novelty of working in different parts of the world is interesting.

Software: Developing with Java+ADT/C#+Unity3D/Sublime3/Github. Test devices Nexus5 + 7 (KitKat). Google Hangouts for team-meetings/human interaction.

Hardware: MBA 13" 2013. Sometimes use Logitech G5 mouse. Sometimes the 22"Samsung external.

Edit: Tethered/hotspot-ified internet from the mobile carrier most likely to give me semi-reliable+cheap 3G on my Nexus5. Which is really not very reliable here in south India (BSNL).

Ergonomics: Fashioned a standing desk by putting a solid (brick-like) footstool on tiny desk in my parents' house. Perfect height. External monitor on a shelf next to the desk.

Geographic Location: Currently in tropical Kochi, south India, going to travel slowly to Singapore soon.

PS: Miss my i7/16GB RAM/GTX460/1900x1200 26"/CMStorm Quickfire desktop machine that I use for most of my sideprojects (art and gamedev). Left at my first travel stop out of the US =(

Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by RossM »

martin-adams wrote: post #37

Surface Pro 2 (256GB SSD, 8GB RAM) 2 x 1920x1080 monitors (one via displaylink, other via USB) + Surface Pro screen Windows 8.1 Virtual Box running: - Ubuntu - Apache or Nginx (depending on project) - PHP or Node.js (depending on project) - MySQL, MongoDB, Redis (depending on project) - Samba network share PhpStorm (running in Windows to Samba) & vi in Ubuntu MySQL Workbench & MongoVue Node with Less compiler Bitbuck…

How are you getting on with that? I do similar stuff, and love the idea of just docking in a tablet rather than a full laptop. I assume battery drops pretty quickly while running VMs?

Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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keerthiko wrote: post #55

Circumstance: Traveling and working remotely for startup since I had to leave the US thanks to H1B visa lottery miss. Miss a cushy well-curated work environment, but the novelty of working in different parts of the world is interesting. Software: Developing with Java+ADT/C#+Unity3D/Sublime3/Github. Test devices Nexus5 + 7 (KitKat). Google Hangouts for team-meetings/human interaction. Hardware: MBA 13" 2013. Sometimes…

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Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by alleycat »

Macbook Pro 15in i7, 16 GB RAM. and and iMac 27inch i7 OSX Mavericks Mostly Python, Javascript, PHP Git Sublime Text or VIM w/ tmux (too many plugins for both to share). Also occasionally Transmit app for remote file managing VMware for virtual machines (usually ubuntu dev)

Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by alleycat »

geekam wrote: post #47
mentos wrote: post #34

Retina Macbook Pro - Objective-C/Javascript - Git - Xcode/Sublime2 - Parse/Firebase If I could investigate one thing it would probably be an external display but I haven't found anything thats retina and affordable.

>> but I haven't found anything thats retina and affordable. Not even those high-end LED backlit monitors? What about Apple's own cinema displays?

I'm the same, no retina support yet unfortuantely
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