The Setup: Zed Shaw

Post by fsvehla » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 11:19 AM UTC

latch wrote: post #25

ethank wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shouldn't it be worth it to decrease friction in something you are spending 8-10 hours a day on? Personally I can't stand when I run into the physical/computational limitations of a system I'm on. I also can't stand it when someone on my team complains about this. A nice computer, a good amount of RAM, good input devices, a good chair and a desk are paltry compared to what you should be paying a great engineer or des…

Like I said in another comment, in my opinion, a 2006 (intro of a intel's c2d) computer with 8gigs of ram + an SSD was pretty much the last time your average programmer saw any appreciable gains on the desktop. Things _have_ moved forward since then, especially if your are multi-thread/core sensitive. For everyone else, even at 8-10hours a day, I'm not sure it'd be considered a great investment for such incremental i…

Post by eliasmacpherson » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 11:42 AM UTC

dbbo wrote: post #9

I thought it was a bit odd that he wrote 7 paragraphs about music equipment and software, but didn't mention which GNU/Linux distribution(s) he uses on his "junky" laptops.

Post by efsavage » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 11:51 AM UTC

dlsspy wrote: post #5

zdw wrote: post #3

I'm on a similar course - the further I dive into systems, the more I learn to use the ubiquitous software (vi, for example) rather than being picky about my tools and environment. People with very complex environments make me think they spent far too long developing a theoretical methodology, and too little time actually hacking and using stuff.

It took me years to consider using vim over plain vi. After fifteen years or so of vi I ended up switching to emacs. I've worked with really awesome people who are completely lost without [insert proprietary single-platform editor here].

Post by jamii » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 1:40 PM UTC

dlsspy wrote: post #21

crag wrote: post #6

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I can't use vim. God, I've tried, and tried. I'm too old. I just can't do it. So I stick with a big IDE (or Sublime 2 which I'm liking more and more). I had to telnet into a Centos box recently and the only thing I could find was vi. Took me a few minutes but I managed. I was proud. ;)

I bet you can. But can likely use emacs as well. I think if I had to pick one piece of software to live with on my desert island, it'd be emacs (assuming I had a reasonable boot loader and a filesystem to sit under it).

Post by zwieback » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 1:57 PM UTC

keithpeter wrote: post #40

dbbo wrote: post #9

I thought it was a bit odd that he wrote 7 paragraphs about music equipment and software, but didn't mention which GNU/Linux distribution(s) he uses on his "junky" laptops.

I'm not a programmer, but I suspect the detail on the music gear might be because the sound you get depends on the instruments and effects chain. The code you get out of your coding session, or the LaTeX source for your book, does not really depend on which method you chose to install and update GNU/Linux. Am I being naive here?