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Paul Graham : uses this.
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Re: Paul Graham : uses this.
#2This whole thing was more like - let's build a random profile. Nothing that I didn't already know.
Interviews are supposed to give a reflection of a person, their thinking process or get an insider scoop. Nothing here.
EDIT: Sorry people, just saw that interview aimed to know the tools he used to get things done. So my bad!
Re: Paul Graham : uses this.
#3This whole thing was more like - let's build a random profile. Nothing that I didn't already know. Interviews are supposed to give a reflection of a person, their thinking process or get an insider scoop. Nothing here. EDIT: Sorry people, just saw that interview aimed to know the tools he used to get things done. So my bad!
The site is about interviewing people asking them what tools they use. I think that is achieved in this.
Re: Paul Graham : uses this.
#4This whole thing was more like - let's build a random profile. Nothing that I didn't already know. Interviews are supposed to give a reflection of a person, their thinking process or get an insider scoop. Nothing here. EDIT: Sorry people, just saw that interview aimed to know the tools he used to get things done. So my bad!
Nothing superfluous here. He's a minimalist.
Re: Paul Graham : uses this.
#5Paul Graham has a screen smaller then mine and uses two software I didn't know existed which I will now check out, that's everything vaguely "interesting" I found in this.
Re: Paul Graham : uses this.
#6This whole thing was more like - let's build a random profile. Nothing that I didn't already know. Interviews are supposed to give a reflection of a person, their thinking process or get an insider scoop. Nothing here. EDIT: Sorry people, just saw that interview aimed to know the tools he used to get things done. So my bad!
Nothing superfluous here. He's a minimalist.
Depending on your usage, a terminal isn't necessarily minimalistic, apart from the visual side. I've known a lot of people who live in Excel, who could be deemed more minimalistic than a lot of Unix users, using umpteen command-line utilities, a few ad-hoc programming and expression languages…
(Not saying that pg does it that way. For all I know, he might just use vi and mzscheme after all)
Re: Paul Graham : uses this.
#7This whole thing was more like - let's build a random profile. Nothing that I didn't already know. Interviews are supposed to give a reflection of a person, their thinking process or get an insider scoop. Nothing here. EDIT: Sorry people, just saw that interview aimed to know the tools he used to get things done. So my bad!
Agreed, out of all the usesthis interviews that have been put up, I believe this is the shortest and least interesting.
The good ones include historical context and explanation of the setup decisions, this is just a list.
Re: Paul Graham : uses this.
#8> I'd like it if the Air was about half the size. [...]
> I'd like it if the HD display was bigger and much lighter and didn't have such a massive octopus of cables attached to it.
Looks like Apple agreed. The more recent Apple displays are bigger and have mostly eliminated the “octopus of cables” (when LightPeak hits this should even further improve), and the new Air is substantially smaller.
Re: Paul Graham : uses this.
#9One common thing in all usesthis.com interviews is, no one uses Windows OS as their main operating system and Mac is used most. Only person I found using Windows is Mitch Altman so far.
Re: Paul Graham : uses this.
#10One common thing in all usesthis.com interviews is, no one uses Windows OS as their main operating system and Mac is used most. Only person I found using Windows is Mitch Altman so far.
Another Windows sighting!