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Ask HN: 15' Macbook Pro or 13' Macbook Air for web dev?
8 points by scottschulthess 15y ago|24 comments
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
I get it: I used to use 3 monitors. I just have found that if you want to read something, I prefer it to be on the center monitor anyways, so what's the point in having multiple monitors? Plus, I prefer to work on my laptop screen, because
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
I don't see it in the app store, unfortunately. Edit: for me, the only way to get it is to download in iTunes and then sync
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
Having multiple monitors isn't good eronomically IMO. I always prefer what I'm working on to be on direct center, and I don't really see the point of having other stuff that isn't direct center. I prefer to alt-tab.
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
I see your point, but still, battery life/silence/portability doesn't seem to be worth the flexibility of having full osx esp when compared to an Air
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
Can you explain your question better? I don't understand it enough to take a shot at an answer
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
This is why I keep my working copies in Dropbox
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
Honestly, who besides programmers even know the difference between software engineers and programmers? I personally don't really think there is a difference. They are essentially the same thing. I'm both and I don't really see a case whe
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
#1 is why they have asynchronous writes, even though that doesn't really solve the problem for some (most?) use cases
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
Misleading title, this is just a cool list of cool tools, most of which aren't particularly oriented productivity (anymore than any tool is). IMO productivity tools are ones that help you do your existing task in essentially the same way b
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
Even primitive cultures have medicine men. But they don't have engineers, at least, certainly not full-time ones.
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
It depends on the state. You can't (successfully) sue a company in Massachusetts (like California) for any reason besides discrimination. They don't need to give a reason why they fire/lay you off. They just fire you and that's how it go
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
There are types of programming that create jobs, but you're right, most of them eliminate jobs while making the rich (owners of our companies) richer. Which kind of sucks if you think about it. The programming that creates job is the kind
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
Say that person leaves google and spends all his/her money. What jobs do you think that person will be most qualified to apply to next? Senior C++ Programmer jobs. And what do you think they'll have to prove to potential employers? That th
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
How about a surgeon? Their actual core competency is performing surgery. Should they not describe themselves as Surgeons? Edit: Are accountants high status? I'm not sure. They are generally regarded as making a fair bit of money but th
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
Does anyone else think that this article is in poor form? On the perils of describing yourself as a programmer: If you're hiring someone to provide a specific skill set (programmer) you want them to be good at programming. Would you hire
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
This whole article seems based entirely on conjecture
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
I don't understand why they couldnt leverage location services for iphone users and just lower the tempature whenever no one is home automatically. Of course, I have a dog so..
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
Depends on how you approach it, but, if you are particular, it can take weeks to get everything setup. First you have to learn a lot about vim and what it does. Then you have to memorize the all the shortcuts for all the stuff, there are qu
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
I'm assuming they build a new db per branch on the ci server and auto run migrations on them. pretty typical
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
I just installed xcode and I no longer have any versions of gcc in /usr/bin edit: you actually have to run the xcode installer
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Wow that sounds horrible
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
I really wish there was a way to name spaces in Mission Control
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
I wish they would add the backlit keyboards in some manner to the Airs
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I have been using tmux occasionally to, but the key mappings kill me. I just want it to be one stroke, not chorded...so what I want really is for an iterm window to behave like a tmux session, with tabs being windows etc
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
Great job developers of iTerm2, it's really a pleasure to use on a day to day basis, if only it had really cool integration with tmux so I could actually use tmux instead of hate on it.