Carlos BuenoInterview
Software developer (MemSQL), writer
Adapted from Carlos Bueno's interview on Uses This, published 2 August 2014. 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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I still miss my old 12-inch aluminum Apple G4.
Today I use a tiny Samsung 303c Chromebook that's essentially a terminal with a browser.
For work I have a MacBook Pro the size of an aircraft carrier, which is also essentially a terminal with a browser.
Productivity
Publishers still tend to email Word docs around with corrections scrawled in the margins.
Notes
Coding & Development
Google Compute Engine+ 1 other
And there's always Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine for spinning up a quick cluster.
I use Emacs for everything text.
Other
I never learned how to use it in the shell so I run the GUI version and use sshfs to mount remote drives as if they were local.