Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms?
by thenipper on Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:04PM
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I did this for a few years. It was really great. I could take snapshots of my dev environment and when inevitably installed too many vim plugins just reset back to my last good 'state'.
Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms?
by boltn on Thursday December 22, 2016 @01:35PM
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This. What else is a cloud dev environment supposed to provide?
Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms?
by throw20161123 on Thursday December 22, 2016 @03:19PM
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What size droplet do you use and what kind of apps do you develop on it?
I see the cheapest one has only 512MB RAM.
Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms?
by dsl on Thursday December 22, 2016 @03:21PM
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It is VIM, not Eclipse. A few megabytes of memory is really all you need.
Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms?
by icebraining on Thursday December 22, 2016 @06:29PM
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Depends if you also want to run tests, like one often does in their local machines.
Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms?
by greenspot on Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:09PM
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I have the $10 package with 1GB RAM but the smaller one for $5 with 512MB should also work (depending on your use case/dev environment).
Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms?
by realstuff on Thursday December 22, 2016 @03:29PM
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Until you need a solid search that spans across the nested directories then you start wasting significant time with regular expression and complex commands.
Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms?
by greenspot on Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:07PM
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FZF? Works in Vim and on the command line.
Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms?
by realstuff on Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:49PM
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Looks like it searches the filenames, I am referring to file contents. Does it support that?
Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms?
by gkelly on Thursday December 22, 2016 @11:35PM
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I really like ack over grep, and there's a vim plugin too.
Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms?
by atmosx on Thursday December 22, 2016 @05:03PM
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GNU grep should be able to handle a few hundred small files easily for a few MB of free ram...
Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms?
by realstuff on Thursday December 22, 2016 @05:22PM
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Yeah, but it's not as convenient as a GUI search in, say, Sublime.
Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms?
by icebraining on Thursday December 22, 2016 @06:31PM
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That's debatable. For me, typing "gr <expression>" (my abbreviation for recursive grep) is quite fast and convenient.
Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms?
by greenspot on Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:57PM
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No, but what about locate, grep and find?
Locate is the fastest, find is the slowest and grep is the most complex but also the most versatile one of these since you can use regexes.
It's the shell and you can use anything you want.
- A cheap VM on Digital Ocean close to my location
- tmux
- vim
I have never been so productive before and they give me more flexibility than any cloud dev service at a much cheaper price point. And now after two or three years, I am a tmux, vim, console pro. Everything else compared feels slow and limited.