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1. 151.▲
   by ishbits 14y ago

   Polycom and Aastra from my experience. Well built and great speaker phones.
2. 152.▲
   by ishbits 14y ago

   Just some suggestions. Big desk. Something like an Ikea Galant corner unit with extension. I have one at home, I've been startup that cluster these desks. Better than your usual Ikea setup. A good chair. Herman Miller, Steelcase.. Spend
3. 153.▲
   by ishbits 14y ago

   I'm not a fan of this at all. I wonder if there is a market for something like a CentOS/RHEL base system (think slow moving core system) with a faster pace of release for the desktop applications for a small fee. I kinda get this on my lapt
4. 154.▲
   by ishbits 14y ago

   For Java or Scala I use an IDE. Currently Eclipse but I'm giving IntelliJ an honest shot at the moment. I find that Java requires an IDE for me to be productive, even though I used emacs back in the Java 1.0 days. For C and Python I use ema
5. 155.▲
   SpringMVC with Embedded Jetty(jasonish.org)

   2 points by ishbits 14y ago|0 comments
6. 156.▲
   by ishbits 14y ago

   Hover.com and 10dollar.ca.
7. 157.▲
   by ishbits 14y ago

   I'm a full time remote employee in a company where 90% of the staff work in office. And I do miss out on a lot. Fortunately I have a few close friends I've made there who keep me filled in on the dirt. As a side note. Product management oft
8. 158.▲
   by ishbits 14y ago

   Does gmail web have a unified inbox? Not that I've seen. Why should the mobile client by Google have one.
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   by ishbits 14y ago

   I once had a VPS provider lose everything. And shame on me for not having current backups. And that was when I switched to blogger. While I have yet to do it for myself, I've setup some sorta automated backup of the text from blogger for my
10. 160.▲
    by ishbits 14y ago

    I'm plugging away on a service to allow mobile developers to add messaging and location services (and some simple online storage) to their apps without having to write the backend themselves - and provides high availablility. Sadly I feel l
11. 161.▲
    by ishbits 14y ago

    YAML is better suited for configuration files.
12. 162.▲
    by ishbits 14y ago

    This kinda hit home for me. I live in the city I grew up in yet hardly have any friends here. I work remotely with people around the world and my best friends are thousands of miles away and we meet up any various places around the world. D
13. 163.▲
    by ishbits 14y ago

    Giving up a stable job as a sr. dev at a good company with interesting projects to co-found a startup in a competitive market. All with a 1 year old at home, a second on the way and no savings other than some assurances from my previous emp
14. 164.▲
    by ishbits 14y ago

    HN?
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    by ishbits 14y ago

    I used to stand. An then arranges for my MacBook Pro to sit nicely on my already existing high end treadmill. Neither really did it for me and I think I was just sucked into the trend. Now I do 5k a day on the treadmill and some basic work
16. 166.▲
    by ishbits 14y ago

    If you want to use BitBucket, but still get the exposure of GitHub, its relatively easy to setup an hourly sync. Just turn off the wiki and issue tracker at GitHub, and link to the BitBucket ones in your README or something like that.
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    by ishbits 14y ago

    Re: Bitbucket. I have repos at both. And have a script that runs hourly to create local mirrors of my git repos. I see connection failures often to github (perhaps very intermittent), but I never do for BitBucket. It was my cron script e
18. 168.▲
    by ishbits 14y ago

    We use git because I am part of a distributed and often disconnected work force.
19. 169.▲
    by ishbits 14y ago

    80. So I can have 2 code windows side by side. Be it emacs or eclipse.
20. 170.▲
    by ishbits 14y ago

    What about SmartSSL. Free.
21. 171.▲
    by ishbits 14y ago

    My thoughts as well.
22. 172.▲
    by ishbits 14y ago

    I could never get the trackpad quite right, and the battery never lasted as long as it did with OS X. My travel kit is dual laptops. One Linux and one Mac. So far the T430s with 16gb RAM is looking very close to ideal.
23. 173.▲
    by ishbits 14y ago

    My travel kit already includes a Mac :) I've ran Linux on them in the past (not since 2008 though), and always felt that it wasn't the best match.
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    Ask HN: Laptop for Linux Software Development

    18 points by ishbits 14y ago|21 comments
25. 175.▲
    by ishbits 14y ago

    I think if you have to ask, the Air (with memory maxed) will be fine. The Pro is a safe bet to. Something to think about - if you are doing the majority of your work on the laptop screen, I do find its nice to have a 15". I have a quad-cor
26. 176.▲
    by ishbits 14y ago

    I'm not sure why, but I've never used the VCS integration in an IDE.
27. 177.▲
    by ishbits 14y ago

    Sure wish I had a nickle for every time I've heard/read this.
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    by ishbits 14y ago

    While I agree that installing Dovecot, and perhaps Postfix, and some other tools can be rather trivial, I switched to Google Apps when I was world-travelling with my family and my VPS provider back in 2008 basically disintegrated off the fa
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    by ishbits 14y ago

    I had to lookup fizzbuzz as I wasn't familiar with it. I haven't interviewed in 10 years. At first I thought there must be a trick, it's too simple. Way simpler than the tests I've given interviewing (reversing a string). But it is as simp
30. 180.▲
    by ishbits 14y ago

    Does this mean I can get Amazon built AMIs for CentOS instead of building my own or using untrusted community images?