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"I can code in a crowded bar" Bars aren't for coding, put down the computer.
If it's at night (I've done this too), the loud people act like a white noise generator and leave me alone in my thoughts.
"I can code in a crowded bar" Bars aren't for coding, put down the computer.
"At Caltech, he used a nude/topless bar as an office away from his usual office, making sketches or writing physics equations on paper placemats." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman
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So, 'make it painful to code, buy requiring your code to be written on substandard equipment' makes you think more about what you're going to do, because the experience of using it is painful and substandard. I'm not sure I'd like to put myself through that. Also: I'm pretty sure those tiny keyboards are NOT ergonomically up to snuff for anything more than basic web/email usage. My wrists hurt after about 30 minutes…
Everyone is different. I can type without pain on a netbook keyboard for arbitrary periods of time. I can type faster on my HHKB, however. (Of course, the HHKB is as easy to carry around as the netbook, so I usually don't have to use the netbook keyboard. Once you get past the keyboard, a netbook is a full machine like any other. Except it weighs nearly nothing and it can live for 14 hours without a power outlet.)
The speed was also rarely an issue. Clojure starts a bit slow, but everything runs perfectly fine. Admittedly, I mainly use lightweight tools like vim (I did once fire up eclipse, but it was so painfully slow, I promptly (as promptly as it let me) uninstalled it again).
I actually bought the eee pc for development. I find it extremely useful to have a small and light laptop which i can throw into the bottom of a bag and bring with me wherever. I got it for the freedom of being able to work on the bus or in a cafe without the hassle of a heavy or bulky laptop.
I do use a decoration-free window manager though, so I don't have screen space wasted on window borders, title bars or taskbars.
I've mainly been using my dual monitor desktop machine since I "upgraded" my work room, because I now have a very spacious desk and it makes sense to me to have plenty of screen space too (and I've been doing more GUI development recently too), but I still ocasionally pick up the eee pc to hack something together, especially when I'm not near my desk.
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http://jkontherun.com/2009/03/04/achy-wrists-bleary-eyed-you...
Bump up your font sizes?
I have only one semi-functioning eye and code in 14pt font on a 24in monitor, though, so I'm maybe not the best to talk about eye strain on a netbook... after all, one must be able to at least see them first.
But it seems like line length would be a real issue.
End of the world is nigh -- Netbeans is being referred to as 'lightweight IDE.'
End of the world is nigh -- Netbeans is being referred to as 'lightweight IDE.'
I find Geany pretty light and complete for my current project in php, giving me 32 lines to look at a time. Running awesome wm with yakuake has been great relief on my eee pc 1005p which has just 1GB ram. When I run an xterm, yakuake and vim, along with apache and mysql in background, it just eats 140-180MB of the precious ram.
End of the world is nigh -- Netbeans is being referred to as 'lightweight IDE.'
I find Geany pretty light and complete for my current project in php, giving me 32 lines to look at a time. Running awesome wm with yakuake has been great relief on my eee pc 1005p which has just 1GB ram. When I run an xterm, yakuake and vim, along with apache and mysql in background, it just eats 140-180MB of the precious ram.
The nice thing about a longish honest post like this is that the writer is likely to tell you what you need to know whether he meant to or not. This is a good example of condemning something while meaning to praise it. Trying out ideas is half the point of programming!
My old Thinkpad T22 was fantastic for coding, and of course my desktop with HHK and 3-button Logitech (3 real buttons, no scrollwheel) is even better. The netbook, not so much.