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I have a Linode. It's available anywhere. e.g During I code, my brother asks me to watch his soccer game, and I keep working from a soccer field with my IPad; h

by oakaz 13y ago

I have a Linode. It's available anywhere. e.g During I code, my brother asks me to watch his soccer game, and I keep working from a soccer field with my IPad; http://instagram.com/p/dNcNfREmwT/ http://instagram.com/p/dNcNfREmwT/

melvinram 13y ago
Hate to be "that guy", but why bother showing up to the game if you're going to be distracted most of the time?
- oakaz 13y ago
  I (and probably most of us) focus much better when I change my environment. Using a VPS mobilizes your entire development environment.
  - jvoorhis 13y ago
    So your brother's match is just an excuse to test the Hawthorne Effect? I hope you at least pretend to cheer.
jmathai 13y ago
I have Vagrant running on my laptop. I don't require an Internet connection to work.
- oakaz 13y ago
  Yes and that's the why you can't use multiple devices to access same environment. I highly recommend you to give linode + tmux + emacs/vim as an IDE.
  - HeyImAlex 13y ago
    That's a nonissue for anyone that only codes on one device, and it comes with dependence on a decent internet connection. When you have a decent sized team I imagine a vagrant box and git pull are probably a better option anyways. Plus vagrant is free.
  - gingerlime 13y ago
    I do the same, and love it. It really frees me to work anywhere, and instantly connect to an already-running dev-box just where I left it last time. However, the only problem I have convincing my teammates is that they use TextMate/Sublime, and that's the only thing that seems to break this, where Vagrant is potentially easier (you can share a local folder). I tried things like rsync and fuse over ssh, but they seem a bit sluggish or not-so-transparent. I wish there was some tool that would solve this.
- zhuzhu 13y ago
  I think Vagrant is the best VM management tool for laptop.
shirro 13y ago
I live on a big island in the southern hemisphere. Working remotely on a Linode is painful due to latency even with mosh. I tied Fremont for ages but the latency was too much so I moved to Tokyo which is a little better but I still prefer to work with a VM locally. Vagrant gets the job done but I would prefer an alternative. I don't like Ruby. I don't like running virtualbox when I could be running an lxc jail with something like docker. I think I will be ditching OS X and moving back to a Linux desktop as soon as I find the right laptop.
- oakaz 13y ago
  My VPS is in London, never noticed any latency in Turkey and US. I guess Linode now has bunch of more cities, check them out. For laptop, I recommend Macbook Air. The design, is a master piece of minimalism. As a guy who used Xmonad for years, I think OSX and a Linux VPS is the zen combo.
  - shirro 13y ago
    Turkey is really close to London. Domestic traffic in Australia travels further than that. It is quite a different matter round tripping packets across the pacific to another continent. I can do minor edits on a Linode but I much prefer using a local solution like vagrant. I would like to ditch OSX but the hardware/os combo is hard to beat.
- rat87 13y ago
  https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc

by oakaz 13y ago

melvinram 13y ago

Hate to be "that guy", but why bother showing up to the game if you're going to be distracted most of the time?

oakaz 13y ago
I (and probably most of us) focus much better when I change my environment. Using a VPS mobilizes your entire development environment.
- jvoorhis 13y ago
  So your brother's match is just an excuse to test the Hawthorne Effect? I hope you at least pretend to cheer.

jmathai 13y ago

I have Vagrant running on my laptop. I don't require an Internet connection to work.

oakaz 13y ago
Yes and that's the why you can't use multiple devices to access same environment. I highly recommend you to give linode + tmux + emacs/vim as an IDE.
- HeyImAlex 13y ago
  That's a nonissue for anyone that only codes on one device, and it comes with dependence on a decent internet connection. When you have a decent sized team I imagine a vagrant box and git pull are probably a better option anyways. Plus vagrant is free.
- gingerlime 13y ago
  I do the same, and love it. It really frees me to work anywhere, and instantly connect to an already-running dev-box just where I left it last time. However, the only problem I have convincing my teammates is that they use TextMate/Sublime, and that's the only thing that seems to break this, where Vagrant is potentially easier (you can share a local folder). I tried things like rsync and fuse over ssh, but they seem a bit sluggish or not-so-transparent. I wish there was some tool that would solve this.
zhuzhu 13y ago
I think Vagrant is the best VM management tool for laptop.

shirro 13y ago

I live on a big island in the southern hemisphere. Working remotely on a Linode is painful due to latency even with mosh. I tied Fremont for ages but the latency was too much so I moved to Tokyo which is a little better but I still prefer to work with a VM locally. Vagrant gets the job done but I would prefer an alternative. I don't like Ruby. I don't like running virtualbox when I could be running an lxc jail with something like docker. I think I will be ditching OS X and moving back to a Linux desktop as soon as I find the right laptop.

oakaz 13y ago
My VPS is in London, never noticed any latency in Turkey and US. I guess Linode now has bunch of more cities, check them out. For laptop, I recommend Macbook Air. The design, is a master piece of minimalism. As a guy who used Xmonad for years, I think OSX and a Linux VPS is the zen combo.
- shirro 13y ago
  Turkey is really close to London. Domestic traffic in Australia travels further than that. It is quite a different matter round tripping packets across the pacific to another continent. I can do minor edits on a Linode but I much prefer using a local solution like vagrant. I would like to ditch OSX but the hardware/os combo is hard to beat.
rat87 13y ago
https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc