UsesThis: Rob Pike

Post by webreac » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 3:30 PM UTC

mhd wrote: post #54

epaga wrote: post #23

Slight critique here - I feel like he's using this to push an agenda rather than just telling us in detail what tools and software he uses to get his job done. He mentions a few things but in far less detail than anyone else I've read on usesthis. Instead he gives paragraph after paragraph of "world view" about moving things to the cloud...interesting, yes, but not what I'm after when I read usesthis posts... :-/

The problem with asking Unix users about their tools is that you'll get a long list, and the interesting part is more about how they connect them. While I personally would be interested in a long treatise on how he combines shell-scripts and plubming actions in acme to get his coding/documenting/project management work done, this is probably a bit too long (and maybe technical) for a usesthis post. It's certainly eas…

Post by hexis » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 3:48 PM UTC

Evbn wrote: post #44

pilif wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Every Chromebook you own dies in a fire? Unbox a new one, boot up, everything is identical. unless of course some algorithm at Google decided that you are a bot and/or spammer. At that point, all your Chromebooks are useless and all your data is gone without any way for you to get it back. See the Amazon Kindle post from a cole of days ago. Don't get me wrong. In general I love the idea of having my data somewhere…

It is really a shame, bordering on suspicious, that Google Takeout doesn't include any approximately realtime sync APIs for maintaining an off-cloud copy of your life. Even at Microsoft's worst proprietary height, they could never delete your data.

Post by fra » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 4:07 PM UTC

maxerickson wrote: post #118

fra wrote: post #19

"The terminal was a computer but we didn't compute on it; computing was done in the computer center. The terminal, even though it had a nice color screen and mouse and network and all that, was just a portal to the real computers in the back. When I left work and went home, I could pick up where I left off, pretty much. My dream setup would drop the "pretty much" qualification from that." It exists! It's called a sun…

Does Sun Ray make a phone? Of course I'm not serious, but the Sunray is one stack of technology that offers stateful session management, not a system for using the same computing environment on whatever hardware you happen to have at hand.

Post by agwa » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 4:46 PM UTC

andrewflnr wrote: post #21

I can't get behind the idea of every computer I interact with being a dumb terminal. I don't want to assume I'll always have a connection to the mother machine. Even in some ideal world where I always have a high speed connection that never fails, can you guarantee that the server itself won't go down? Not really. I would like to see a nice balance: I basically work locally, and anything I do is synced ASAP to "the c…

Post by euroclydon » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 4:55 PM UTC

deong wrote: post #126

ericmoritz wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This basically describes my use of Dropbox. Anything important to me that's not code is stored in Dropbox. Every computer I have dropbox on and which has 100GB free, has a copy of those files so if Dropbox vanished, I still have a replicated copy of my files on one of my machines. I never have to backup those files because they're replicated to any running machine with Dropbox installed. One of those machines has my…

Dropbox is software, and like any software, it has bugs. One of those bugs could easily result in "delete this file and then propagate the deletion to every client". Granted, Dropbox has some rudimentary versioning, so it's pretty likely that you'd be able to recover, but still, I wouldn't advise anyone to use Dropbox sync exclusively as a backup solution.