The most important thing when working with text is, for me, consistent keyboard shortcuts. Just CTRL+A, CTRL+E, CTRL+K, CTRL+Y, ALT+D, CTRL-left/right alone get used so frequently in Emacs that in any other editor I immediately try to set things up the same way (thankfully, there seems to always be someone who writes an Emacs mode plugin for almost any IDE). A massive benefit of org mode, then, is that I can write my notes, meeting minutes, TODOs and even latex/pdf papers as well as track time right there in org mode, with consistent shortcuts and consistent emphasis markup. org-export takes care of producing .md, .pdf, .odt, .html or whatever so that I can communicate with other people. All my org files live in a Dropbox-synced folder. The only thing missing is a mobile app that shows you your agenda in a reasonable format...

great app, i've been using it for a while (i also use terminator on linux). together with homebrew and fish it makes the osx command line experience fantastic!

On desktop I only use DDG, mostly because I think their visual design & typography is much more pleasing than Google's, and the search results are usually just as good.

Agreed. The new google logo looks like it was drawn with a Crayola.

I liked Circa, especially its "breaking news" feature. The only reason I didn't use it that much was that it was very US-centric (I live in Europe). In particular, it would give me "breaking news" about some US sports celebrities I'd never heard of. Other that that, I really liked the way it structured stories that unfolded over time.

This seems like an odd choice to me.

I think OS X has been the best all-round Desktop OS for many years now, but what does it give you as a server that a linux-based system can't, and that's worth the trouble of custom racks, vendor lock-in and high costs?

In fact, if you're working with OpenGL, OS X can be frustrating since it only ever supports an OpenGL version a few years behind the latest release - IMO one of the platform's biggest drawbacks.

Then again, I've seen some pretty strange errors on server machines doing GPU-heavy work on linux machines with Nvidia cards, and it's probably easier to get support on a standardised SW/HW system such as the Mac Pro...