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I'm toying with the idea of getting a chromebook for my day job (software development). I already use the vscode ssh [1] plugin, so that my IDE runs on a remote

I'm toying with the idea of getting a chromebook for my day job (software development). I already use the vscode ssh [1] plugin, so that my IDE runs on a remote server which has been a great experience. For Jupyter notebook type tasks, Google's collab sheets [2] run on a remote server (there's a bit to be desired of course). I even use Genymotion in the cloud [3] such that my android APKs are run on the cloud and rendered through a browser emulator. At this point I'm 85% of the way there, and can't wait for the day where no serious computation needs to be done locally. [1] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh [2] https://colab.research.google.com/?utm_source=scs-index https://colab.research.google.com/?utm_source=scs-index [3] https://cloud.geny.io/ https://cloud.geny.io/

gofreddygo 5y ago
I don't get the appeal of taking local task metadata, executing on a remote machine and then consuming results locally. I can imagine this for a collaborative task, but not much else. Local computation has always led teams I've worked in to a superior (personalized, decentralized, fault tolerant, highly parallel) mode of operation. My tryst with working with remote computation ended when the 5 VMs we were using as a team for development were locked out and decommissioned without a notice due to a devops error. Thankfully, I did have local equivalents, which I habitually worked on and copied over to the VM for execution, not so much for my team members.
- jackconsidine 5y ago
  To each his own. In my work, standardizing environments is a point of frustration to the extent that it's better for us to figure out the environment once remotely than for every OS locally.
nmfisher 5y ago
I've really wanted to move into this direction too. What's the remaining 15%?
- jackconsidine 5y ago
  I haven't really figured out MacOS specific stuff, especially Xcode related (though apparently AWS has OSX EC2 instances). Also with Genymotion, you don't get the same live-reload experience as you do locally so it's better to suck it up and listen to your fans sometimes

gofreddygo 5y ago

I don't get the appeal of taking local task metadata, executing on a remote machine and then consuming results locally. I can imagine this for a collaborative task, but not much else. Local computation has always led teams I've worked in to a superior (personalized, decentralized, fault tolerant, highly parallel) mode of operation. My tryst with working with remote computation ended when the 5 VMs we were using as a team for development were locked out and decommissioned without a notice due to a devops error. Thankfully, I did have local equivalents, which I habitually worked on and copied over to the VM for execution, not so much for my team members.

jackconsidine 5y ago
To each his own. In my work, standardizing environments is a point of frustration to the extent that it's better for us to figure out the environment once remotely than for every OS locally.

nmfisher 5y ago

I've really wanted to move into this direction too. What's the remaining 15%?

jackconsidine 5y ago
I haven't really figured out MacOS specific stuff, especially Xcode related (though apparently AWS has OSX EC2 instances). Also with Genymotion, you don't get the same live-reload experience as you do locally so it's better to suck it up and listen to your fans sometimes