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Comment by Loughla | Hacker News Reader

>Some of them are programming languages.

Are you doing programming on your smartphone?

I agree with the rest - sweaty fingers or wet fingers in general, or god forbid you want to wear gloves where it's cold.

But programming on a smartphone?

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When I had a Nokia N900, I programmed on the device all the time. Nothing especially big, of course, but the traditional-Linux environment and physical keyboard on that phone allowed you to quickly knock out a small shell or Python script if you had some task you wanted to automate.

I don't know about programming but I have definitely used a remote shell session from my phone while on the subway.

Can't now because my device doesn't have sufficient access, but I used to have VPN on it.

> I have definitely used a remote shell session from my phone while on the subway.

Out of necessity or just for fun/curiosity?

I have SSHed into a remote server from my phone out of necessity many, many times. When you get that e-mail on debian-security-announce that some package on one of your servers has just received a security update to fix some serious vulnerability, then ideally you install that update and reload the service right away, instead of putting it off for later.

Is this for a personal server or for a server that is being used by a paying client? If the latter, doesn't it make sense to have an oncall rotation with someone else on your team?

Personal servers.

It was for work but mostly to see if I could. I got a code review approval email while commuting and logged in to submit.

>Are you doing programming on your smartphone?

No, mostly because it lacks a physical keyboard.

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