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Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by mark_l_watson »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #69

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 er…

edit: missed something important: I use VPNs from Rimuhosting and Digital Ocean, lots of AWS services, and occasionally AppEngine. I spend a lot of time in remote SSH shells.

Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by iamwithnail »

Macbook Air running OSX 10.9. Git through Bitbucket/SourceTree Webfaction for servers (MySQL) Python and Django.

At home I have a desk stuck in one end of the kitchen with 2x22" monitors and a 19" widescreen, ergo keyboard and mouse, which is for 'serious' dev sessions (or where I"m troubleshooting.)

Main IDE is AptanaStudio3, as it was literally the first 'proper' IDE I could get to work/make sense on the mac.

If I could change one thing? Have a machine I didn't need to plug in (2x USB, power, 2x monitors) everytime I sat down to use it - can't I just have a desktop and laptop that sync perfectly? No? Oh well.

Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by martin-adams »

RossM wrote: post #56
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?

I absolutely love it! I now use it over my rather powerful i7 laptop (24GB RAM, etc) and haven't noticed any performance bottlenecks as of yet (the SSD really helps with that). Best of all, it's dead quiet and doesn't really get that hot (unless you play games).

I do love however that my laptop bag has gone from weight a tonne to something I can lift with my little finger. The bonus is the wacom pen, touch input and well, it having the potential of a tablet.

Edit: You can get quite a few hours out of it battery wise. But I generally have it plugged in when I'm doing real development work.

Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by mark_l_watson »

romanovcode wrote: post #48
imwhimsical wrote: post #41

MacBook Pro, 13", Late 2011. Basic model (no upgrades done), 4 GB, 500 GB HDD, i5 OS X Mountain Lion (Mavericks won't install for some weird reason) Python, HTML, CSS, JS, C Sublime Text 2

I never understood how can one write anything on 13" screen.

I do almost all of my work on a 13" MBA. Works out fine. I do have a very large monitor that I can use as needed though. Except for Java, I use terse programming languages, so functions/methods are short, and I don't need to look at a ton of code at any given time. A few small edit windows open and visible does it for me (mostly tear off windows from IntelliJ).

Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by msh »

ek750 wrote: post #64
romanovcode wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never understood how can one write anything on 13" screen.

While I understand and agree it's easier and more productive to work on a large screen, I feel there are advantages to the smaller screen size. The primary is that it forces you to keep information in your working memory. So you'll either improve your mental capacity, or use better abstractions and architectures to be able to hold them in your working memory. But once you accomplish that, it is more comfortable to go…

If its only code I dont feel any productivity difference between my laptops 13 inch screen and the 24 inch at work.

If I am doing GUI design or flowchart based programming I am not as productive when I use the small screen.

Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by geekam »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #69

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 er…

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

I had no clue IntelliJ supports all of that!

Thanks for sharing Mr. Watson.

Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by japhyr »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #69

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 er…

What mountains? I live in southeast AK, and I love the mix of tech work at home, and good outings in the wilderness, completely detached from the tech world.

Re: Ask HN: What is your development setup?

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Post by anaphor »

Hardware: System76 Galago UltraPro w/ 8 gigs of memory and 500gb Samsung SSD.

Keyboard: SteelSeries 6GV2 (Cherry MX Red switches)

OS: Arch Linux

WM: XMonad

Terminal: Sakura with Tmux

Editor: vim

SVC: git

major languages: Racket, Haskell, Scheme, Python, JavaScript

Chair/table: varies quite a bit based on location

I need to get a nice monitor that has an hdmi input, this laptop is new and I used a VGA output on my old one.

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