Thomson NguyenInterview
Data scientist (Lookout Mobile Security)
Adapted from Thomson Nguyen's interview on Uses This, published 24 February 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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When computers are required, I use a 15" 2.4 GHz MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM and an SSD.
I spent like three hours trying to tweak my Aeron chair, and it actually feels just as comfortable as my neighbor's.
Communication
Productivity
Notes
Coding & Development
I really like iTerm as my terminal emulator.
I just converted to tmux from screen as my terminal manager.
Media
Storage
Other
My stats-crunching baby at Lookout is an Ubuntu cluster named celery, because celery is crunchy and it crunches data.