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Re:Ask HN: What is your desk / room / general working enviro... by yolesaber on Thursday April 14, 2016 @04:50PM (#11500240)
Firstly, I don't use any desk. I find them distracting. My 2015 Macbook Retina Pro and two Dell U2913WM 29" monitors are suspended from the ceiling using a pulley system. This way I can perfectly adjust the pitch and yaw of the screen as well as its vertical and horizontal distance to find the optimal point.

For a while I also was suspending myself in order to relieve tension on my back but I found it was a bit of hassle getting in and out of the harness so instead I use a stair-stepping machine as my "chair." It keeps me active and gets the blood flowing.

My "keyboard": I use two ergonomic chorded keyers as these give me amazing wrist flexibility. It took me a while to adjust but now I'm averaging around 150 WPM with them. I custom built my own sensor rig so I could do gesturing with them as well - was a pain, but worth it. And since the use case is limited to me, I was able to make things easier but just having it detect a certain color blob (in this case, bright hot pink) which is the color of the coding gloves I wear. Insane accuracy with that setup. I got emacs to play nice with the gesture control too so running a macro is literally as easy as a handwave.

I do enjoy listening to music while I work. I have a wireless headphone setup which syncs with my EKG readout to automatically determine the kind of mood I am and what music would work best for my mental space. I don't use spotify, I've built my own streaming service which pulls from my arch media server at home so I can listen to everything in FLAC. Mostly a mix of live Grateful Dead shows from 70-74 but also remixes of bird songs, free jazz, and intelligence-boosting drone tapes.

I work 20 hours a day, usually from 6:30pm to 2pm. I use melanin and mugwort to regulate my sleeping cycles so although I only get around 4 hours of sleep, it's always deep REM so I wake up feeling refreshed and ready to crush code.

Re:Ask HN: What is your desk / room / general working enviro... by noobie on Thursday April 14, 2016 @07:06PM (#11500960)
I've sadly read way too many 4chan posts to believe this is real.

If it is I apologize and do tell us more.

Re:Ask HN: What is your desk / room / general working enviro... by yolesaber on Thursday April 14, 2016 @11:16PM (#11501852)
I can assure it's quite real. What else would you like to know?
Re:Ask HN: What is your desk / room / general working enviro... by akulbe on Friday April 15, 2016 @02:38AM (#11502612)
I'd love to see pictures. Not because I have any doubts, but just because this sounds amazing!!
Re:Ask HN: What is your desk / room / general working enviro... by uptownfunk on Friday April 15, 2016 @06:33AM (#11503304)
Yes same! Pics and a small vid of the gesturing with hot pink gloves please!
Re:Ask HN: What is your desk / room / general working enviro... by kwc98 on Friday April 15, 2016 @08:56AM (#11503875)
Ah yes, The modern day Jules Verne '20,000 Tips for the Modern Practitioner' I believe, pg 30-41, Description of Work Environment and Surrounds.
Re:Ask HN: What is your desk / room / general working enviro... by atmosx on Sunday April 17, 2016 @12:37PM (#11515134)
Granted all this is real[1]

> [...] 4 hours of sleep [...]

4 hours sleep has a very good change of leading to hallucinations, weight gain, attention deficit disorder and ultimately depression.

[1] What you describe is my iMac's working cycle. If I were you I would already been planning an escape plan.

Re:Ask HN: What is your desk / room / general working enviro... by superJimmy64 on Sunday April 17, 2016 @07:26AM (#11514171)
thank you. Upon reaching "...I can perfectly adjust the pitch and yaw of the screen.." I was unable to stop laughing. Well done
Re:Ask HN: What is your desk / room / general working enviro... by uptownfunk on Thursday April 14, 2016 @05:23PM (#11500452)
You win. If this is true, you double win.