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injekton Ask HN: What do you use?

* 17.5" HP pavilion 3GB RAM. Fairly slick but air vents are in an awkward position, and I should have picked a smaller screen size

* OS: Gentoo 2010 hardened. Browser: FF/Chrome. Editor: Vim/Redcar. DVCS: Git. TM: Tmux. File sync: Dropbox. IMP: GIMP, sometimes PS but I'm a beginner. Media: VLC. Shell: Zsh

* Pretty much every interpreter/compiler under the sun.

* Secondary Mac mini utilizing 4GB Ram but unfortunately it's external peripherals suck.. yes, all of them. It's there for nothing more than iOS development.

* Networking: Anything Netgear, it's never let me down

* Headphones: Sennheiser HD 800

* Ext HDD: Western Digital 500GB book

* iPhone 4 for iOS development, HTC Magic for Android development

injekton A Google Suggest Venn Diagram Generator

I could have fun with this for a very... very... long time..

injekton "Calling oneself a C Programmer is like saying you're a Hammer Carpenter"

I don't get it. Using these frameworks has nothing to do with the user either not being able to write markup, or just generally sucking at doing so. The abstraction isn't 'useless'. It gives you a choice, though. If someone is feeling more comfortable writing raw SQL then do so, ActiveRecord isn't stopping you. That's the great thing about Rails. If you want to write raw markup, sure, go ahead; just don't use any of the helpers provided.

Regardless of the means of transport, we're achieving the same goal. How we achieve this is usually personal preference. And for that reason rants like this will always come and go, just as responses like mine.

injekton Piknik - my full screen color picker

It's nice. I like that it's a full screen perspective as opposed to the usual 10x10 box which makes it truly impossible to show how a color may look on a larger scale.

In reply to the numerous comments regarding the lack of features; I think that's a feature in itself. If I'm looking for a boat full of features I'll open up an image manipulation program.

Open up a browser, throw the mouse pointer around until I see something I like, click, done. Simple. I like it.

injekton Ewww, You Use PHP?

I kind of agree. But I still find 90% of extremely talented programmers breath a sigh of relief when they find they're not having to use PHP. Even for web development.

PHP was great a few years ago, and by great I mean "one of the only options". PHP is active on every shared web host around. It's the norm. Only recently have the likes of Ruby and Python become popular on shared hosts. Personally I think that's fantastic.