Andrei AlexandrescuInterview
Research scientist (Facebook)
Adapted from Andrei Alexandrescu's interview on Uses This, published 18 May 2012. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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While at my desk I connect it to a 30-inch Dell monitor.
When at the desk I also connect a stock Apple flat keyboard.
Finally I use a Logitech M510 wireless mouse.
While on the road I plug a USB Sierra Wireless 598 device from Sprint for 3G connectivity.
My "work away from work" machine is an 2007-vintage Dell E1705.
Your interview made me realize I still have an antediluvian Compaq Presario SR1726NX tower right under my desk.
By the way, I haven't a fixed phone since a long time ago; instead, I use an old Linksys PAP2T VoIP box connected to the Internet (which I guess makes it count it as hardware).
Communication
For email I use Thunderbird with the Nostalgy extension.
Productivity
Browser
Notes
Coding & Development
In my free time I work on the D programming language.
(The day I figured the connection between ssh and screen, a white dove landed on my shoulder.) Inside the screen sessions, I run zsh.
Other
Yeah, so as I was saying, I played with Windows 7 for a while.
My personal website uses Concrete5, but I'm unhappy with it, it's too damn slow (I'm rooting for the headline: "Concrete5 solves the game of chess using cycles from its customers").