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> "Professional equipment [...] sturdier, more solid, more rewarding of dedicated training, more difficult to obtain, than equipment intended for amateurs" Tha
by dvirsky 12y ago
> "Professional equipment [...] sturdier, more solid, more rewarding of dedicated training, more difficult to obtain, than equipment intended for amateurs"
That is how I see Linux/Unix, and its tools - vim/emacs, the shell, etc. It doesn't have to be hardware, after all.
- keithpeter 12y agoThe OA sees professionals using amateur tools. I've always drawn some comfort from the idea that some young person somewhere not rich can get an old box and download an OS and the same toolchain that people use to build stuff they see. Hardware can be differentiated: HP Z series work station half a dozen large monitors and a mechanical switch keyboard will feel much nicer than a frankenbox from the local supermarket. I take the OAs point that it is still basically a 'glass teletype'.
- dvirsky 12y agoYeah, my setup as a developer is a laptop with quad Core i7 CPU, 32G of RAM, 250G SSD and 1TB HDD, plus two 24" monitors. That is a piece of professional equipment for a developer, and it cost about 4 times what a decent general purpose laptop does. But I could develop on any old box, and I like that.