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The Setup – what people use to get stuff done
- swah 12y agoVery nicely made but may give the impression that you need a specific setup/computer to be sucessfull / get things done (forget it, I won't say what it is!). So, for me, the only insighful interviews are the ones w/ "strange" or "forever unsatisfied" people.
- waferbaby 12y agoI'm always open to suggestions, if you have 'em!
- swah 12y agoIt's not your fault, its just that people w/ Macs care more about their setups than everyone else, so they appear more. (But I've gone back to your site dozens of times to check on people I admire.. say jrockway or rich hickey etc. So thanks a lot for building it)
- stevekinney 12y agoI've been following The Setup for years (it's a dream of mine to eventually be interviewd) and I—if I correctly understand what your getting at—respectfully disagree. Daniel is really good about featuring a wide range of people from a number of disciplines on a bunch of different platforms. But careful readers will notice a trend. There are a number of accomplished artists/developers/makers that are really happy with their current setup as their "dream setup." In addition, many of them are using 3-4 year old hardware (controlling for time). The moral is that we can all probably accomplish our dreams (cliché) with the hardware we've got—and that's my biggest takeaway from The Setup.
- swah 12y agoSome I like: http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/ http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/ http://mike.fogus.usesthis.com/ http://mike.fogus.usesthis.com/ http://phil.hagelberg.usesthis.com/ http://phil.hagelberg.usesthis.com/
- th0br0 12y agoYay! xmonad! ;) OTOH, the "interview character" is difficult to parse, even with all the highlights. Personally, I'd prefer the data extracted as a list (with the interview additionally or optional comments on the choice).
- waferbaby 12y agoI've got a light-weight "API" for each interview - just append /json to an interview URL.
- jajaja2014 12y agojust look at all those mac nazis! did apple pay for this ad?
- waferbaby 12y agohttp://usesthis.com/interviews/windows http://usesthis.com/interviews/windows http://usesthis.com/interviews/linux/ http://usesthis.com/interviews/linux/ http://usesthis.com/interviews/bsd/ http://usesthis.com/interviews/bsd/
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- quaffapint 12y agoI was going there to read about all this high end PC setup, but the interesting thing is how many just have simple, older PCs. Makes my 7 yr old PC feel much more adequate.
- artpop 12y agoJohn McAfee’s is hilariously good. http://john.mcafee.usesthis.com/ http://john.mcafee.usesthis.com/
- dbg31415 12y agoNothing you can do as a user these days really taxes CPU. Just get 8GB of RAM and a SSD... And just about all mainstream software runs on anything. It comes down to just a matter of portability / monitor size / OS / preference.
- dang 12y agohttps://hn.algolia.com/?q=usesthis#!/story/sort_by_date/0/usesthis https://hn.algolia.com/?q=usesthis#!/story/sort_by_date/0/us...
- Gilliam 12y agoGreat website. But compared with hardware and software, I am more interested in what "tools" they use to help them work better, like their ways of thinking.