Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015

Finally someone using a tiling window manager! I don't know how the stacking folk survive, look at the insane amount of windows just floating around.

Warren Toomey: &quot;my mail is stored locally, not on someone else&#x27;s server&quot;<p>What does this mean exactly? Is his machine a mail server?<p>I used to know an engineer&#x2F;scientists who only used a single laptop (linux) and it acted as his mail server. When he travelled he used dyndns (or some such thing) so that delayed mail would be delivered to his laptop. Could never get a straight answer about whether this worked all the time or not (whether he ended up missing emails).

I don&#x27;t do a whole lot of software (got caught up on the hardware side of things), but one thing I&#x27;m noticing is that nobody makes extensive use of &quot;advanced&quot; IDE features as in eclipse or visual Studio.<p>Is this personal taste, or has it to do with the scope of the projects these guys are working on?

Pretty much what you expect from such people. Not very customised and quite boring. A long time ago I used to &quot;rice&quot; my dev machine. I customised <i>everything</i> but these days I work with mostly the defaults with a few changes such as font and colour scheme. A terminal, code editor and doc browser (usually a terminal or browser) is all I really need. Oh and a decent music player (Winamp for me, it still kicks the llamas ass).

&gt; Richard Stallman (2002) I don’t know how to make a screenshot, because I normally use my computer in text-mode. I have X and GNOME installed, but I use them only occasionally.<p>Does anyone else find this quote completely absurd? What a ridiculous disconnect from modern computing, even in 2002, to use text-mode.

4&#x2F;6 developers describe their desktops as &quot;boring&quot;.

Only one of then uses a tiling window manager today (although many of them look like they arrange things in tiles anyway)

For Stallman&#x27;s case, surely there is an emacs command to copy the the whole frame, mode line and all, to text for pasting into a mail buffer.<p>But seriously, it does make me wonder how much of the vast system he retains and uses. Using it for a decade, myself, (certainly not working ON it or understanding the internals) I learn new parts every month but forget a lot, too.

I am liking to open the images go full-screen .. to feel seeing at their machines<p>you can see how all they --or we?-- moved from 4:3 to 16:9

I believe my only change has been from Notepad2 to Sublime and from Firefox to Safari.

Stallman ........ yes! I&#x27;m searching for the screenshot tool

previously: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?query=&quot;unix.se&quot;&amp;dateRange=all" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?query=&quot;unix.se&quot;&amp;dateRange=all</a><p>notably: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10469824" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10469824</a>

So Kernighan uses the sam editor, classic.

I submitted that 3 day ago and it was not met with interest. hn is a strange place some times.