Robert LoveInterview
Software engineer (Google)
Adapted from Robert Love's interview on Uses This, published 2 November 2010. 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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It is connected to a 30" HP monitor outputting 2560x1600.
On the workstation, I use a dorky Logitech keyboard, but I'm absolutely obsessed with the old IBM Model M keyboards.
My mouse is a Logitech MX518.
My laptop is a 15" MacBook Pro.
My smartphone is an Android-powered Nexus One.
My most-used consumer electronics device is a Kindle 2.
Communication
Productivity
Browser
Coding & Development
At Google, we use GCC, with a lot of nice productivity and development tools around that and we have vimrc files to tie everything together.
Storage
Other installed apps include Dropbox, Google Translate, Kindle, and OpenTable.
Other
I helped launch the Android mobile platform, working on its kernel and system stack.
My server is a Linode instance.
I run the GNOME desktop environment (the default in Goobuntu).
My laptop runs Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard." The only apps I run on it are Chrome, iTunes, and GIMP.
My server runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with a kernel of my own compilation.