moconnor

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by moconnor 15y ago
Well, I've only had it for a month. No, I'm not going to try to do anything fancy, the machine will go down for kernel updates just like any other.
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by moconnor 15y ago
I feel your pain, I can't imagine doing any serious text-related work on the iPad without an external keyboard. As you say, alone the typing position is horrendous.
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by moconnor 15y ago
At least when I last checked, Prompt doesn't support VNC. If I had to switch apps, one would time out in the background. I think that'd be get frustrating pretty quickly.
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by moconnor 15y ago
I haven't wanted to code offline for months. Maybe if I flew for more than two hours I'd miss it. Even the trains have wifi in Germany. The few times I have wanted to code offline, I've also wanted to look something up >.<
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by moconnor 15y ago
Can I get this on a t-shirt?
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by moconnor 15y ago
This is really true, although depending entirely on a low-price, commercial app makes me uneasy. I'd be happier if I knew iSSH made enough to support a small company. I'd be happiest with an open source version I could contribute to.
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by moconnor 15y ago
I tried Textmate. But I was also using a web browser, an email client, a terminal, a VM running Linux with gnome-terminal and a few other linux-only utilities, including our product. I don't recall exactly what was inconsistent with what, b
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by moconnor 15y ago
I've never restarted my Linode ;-)
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by moconnor 15y ago
Yes, this is something I wanted to say and somehow didn't: one personal take-away from the experience for me has been that programming, ultimately, is thinking. All the technology in the world doesn't make me think faster. The most I can as
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by moconnor 15y ago
This. I'm sure a "mini mode" will be a part of every tablet interface in a couple of years' time.
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by moconnor 15y ago
For me, 6 hours is the difference between needing to take a charger to work and never thinking about it. If I'm going to take a charger, I might as well have 1 hour battery life. I didn't buy the 3G version, but I do use bluetooth for the k
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by moconnor 15y ago
No, I wanted to try something radical and crazy and new. Frankly, I expected to be back on my MacBook by now. This has been as much a surprise to me as anyone!
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by moconnor 15y ago
Yes, I was really happy that so many open source tools born on such equipment were still around and perfectly tailored for this kind of setup.
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by moconnor 15y ago
I don't think it's the future for developers, I think it's the future for pretty much everybody else though. I plug the iPad into large monitors sometimes. When an iPad with double the resolution comes out, this won't seem nearly so silly.
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by moconnor 15y ago
For code navigation / completion, you could try eclim / clang_complete.
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by moconnor 15y ago
With case that double as an adjustable stand. I can't figure out how anybody uses an iPad without one. The smart cover's one fixed angle doesn't cut it.
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by moconnor 15y ago
The wireless keyboard is really good; it's not quite as nice as a mechanical one, but it's easily better than a laptop keyboard. If I ever go back to my MacBook, I'll take the keyboard with me. I have a tiling window manager. It has one til
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by moconnor 15y ago
Linode offer monthly backups for $5. All my real work is pushed to the office repository. All my personal projects are done in a Dropbox folder. I'm pretty confident the data will be ok this time.
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by moconnor 15y ago
This is true, but I'd be sacrificing the silence, the portability and the battery life. And the hipster factor, I guess. 102x768 isn't for everyone, but in text-mode it's all the same. I've no idea how many hours I've spent on a huge high-r
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by moconnor 15y ago
I must confess, I did wonder about adding a second iPad for browsing documentation, or maybe one of the new kindles... I went through a phase of using multiple monitors all the time. After a year or so I came to the conclusion that alt-tab
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by moconnor 15y ago
I do some web development in my spare time but I think I'd really miss the developer tools in the browser if I did more client-side javascript. There's always firefox-in-vnc, but that's a pretty awful solution.
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by moconnor 15y ago
tmux: is it faster because it's more efficient about sending updates to the terminal, or are you talking about server-side resource usage? I certainly wouldn't say no to a more responsive terminal.
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by moconnor 15y ago
This is really true. Back then we were still using CVS, and I was writing a feature that I thought wasn't quite big enough to branch and remerge for, but turned out to be a bit more involved to get right than I'd thought. Now we're on Mercu
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by moconnor 15y ago
If you're using vim without all the features of a graphical IDE, you're missing the right plugins. I used Delphi for years, then Visual Studio for years, then Eclipse for a while, then QtCreator for years. I've haven't found anything in any
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by moconnor 15y ago
I wondered about that, too, but I haven't noticed a feeling of being constrained or blinkered. I'm editing 85 rows and 35 columns with a pleasantly-large font. Check your editing space inside an IDE - is it really that much larger? My guess
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by moconnor 15y ago
A UK expat who can't (legally) get UK series like Outnumbered digitally, yet still wants to take them with him on his iPad.
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I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode(yieldthought.com)
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by moconnor 15y ago
Every AI I've ever seen or written has always sidestepped inconveniences such as a limited number of actions per frame and a limited field of view. Getting this working in a game as complex as Starcraft 2 is ridiculously impressive. The t
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by moconnor 15y ago
I've been developing full-time on my iPad for over a month now and am surprised at how pleasurable it is. My MBP just rips DVDs and gathers dust these days.
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by moconnor 15y ago
Why not list these on the landing page? There's not much on there to convince someone to share their data with you at the moment.

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