Ask HN: Your Hacker Workspace

Re:Ask HN: Your Hacker Workspace by abstractbill on Monday May 18, 2009 @12:26AM (#614369)

This is modest if not simple by hacker standards

I'm not so sure about that ;-) My setup is simpler than yours:

I do all my development on one machine - a macbook pro (Tiger, haven't got around to upgrading yet).

I run only three applications pretty much all the time, and they're all full-screen - Firefox, Emacs and iTunes, and alt-tab between them. Occasionally I also start a Terminal, if I want to ssh into a server somewhere.

Usually my Firefox tabs are gmail, yammer, ganglia, http://irc.justin.tv, and often some documentation to help with whatever I'm working on.

Typically I have a dozen or so Emacs buffers open - mostly python, javascript and haxe source code.

I never write notes by hand. I either write them in an Emacs buffer, or I send myself an email.

This is where I work (at justin.tv): http://abstractnonsense.com/workspace.jpg

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Re:Ask HN: Your Hacker Workspace by mrduncan on Monday May 18, 2009 @07:48AM (#614802)

Do you actually work from that couch all day? I can't imagine that being comfortable for more than a few hours.

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Re:Ask HN: Your Hacker Workspace by Silentio on Monday May 18, 2009 @09:01AM (#614884)

I have the smaller version of that couch (Ikea) and I can attest to the fact that it is a uncomfortable piece of shit. But it was cheap.

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Re:Ask HN: Your Hacker Workspace by timr on Monday May 18, 2009 @04:32AM (#614642)

Don't forget to tell everyone about the half-dead plant! ;-)

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