Ask HN: What is your development setup?

i3wm is amazing. The documentation is awesome and config files are in plaintext. Believe it or not, that's a selling point for minimal window managers.

I had a look at a bunch of other wm's and some common themes I found were that configuration files were in a programming language and documentation was "the mailing list and irc". If I had to learn a new language or have an irc chat room open for every piece of software on my machine, I would never get anything done.

>I still think C++ is the right language for my project (vision related)

Interesting. What is the advantage to C++ in the context of CV that outweights the long compile time for you?

Is anyone using a 4K screen?

http://tiamat.tsotech.com/4k-is-for-programmers

1) Easy access to good vision libraries (in particular OpenCV and ITK)

2) Fairly easy to parallize algorithms w/ OpenMP or Intel's TBB.

3) Compilers (well, Intel C++ anyway) are good at vectorizing code.

4) No garbage collection. I can work with fairly large images and I don't worry about g.c. (This may be a conservative hangup of mine. As of a couple years ago anyway g.c. would run out of memory when crunching though a set of large images).

5) Decent GUI libraries for cross platform interactive GUIs (wxwidgets and QT in particular).

(And, to be honest, it's also the language I know best and I'm most comfortable in).

I mostly work remotely out of my house in the mountains, although I did work onsite for four months last fall which was fun (that was at Google). I like to meet my customers in person, but do most work in the comfort of my home with no commuting time lost. I really like it when customers travel to work with me out of my home.

Home office: MacBook Air with large external monitor. I have a very nice teak desk and an ergonomic chair. I don't use my office very often, perhaps 10% of my working time.

Home and on travel: MacBook Air, with a few lap desk alternatives I switch between.

I have five locations in our house and outside on our deck where I like to work. I find that switching working locations is pleasant to do, and provides a change.

Software: I use IntelliJ for: Clojure, Java, JavaScript, and Ruby development. I use Emacs for Haskell and Clojure development.

Parrot: of all the species of parrots available to augment my work environment, I chose a Meyer's Parrot. For ten years (so far) he has been a pleasant addition to my working environment. (As is my wife :-)

Thinking time: no computer and a yellow pad of paper and a comfortable pen.

I have a lifestyle business (consulting work and I always have a book project) that I spend about 25 hours a week on, averaged over the last ten years.