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My group at Microsoft was notorious for not spending money on hardware. I did some math. If the money they spent halved my build time (easily possible at the t
by kabdib 10y ago
My group at Microsoft was notorious for not spending money on hardware.
I did some math. If the money they spent halved my build time (easily possible at the time, since we were on spinning rust and they wouldn't spring for SSDs "because everyone will want one, and then what?") then they could afford to buy me a new computer every couple of weeks, more often if you computed the $ lost from the average imputed load (of $500K/year) of an employee.
Bean counters. Feh.
- dev360 10y agoThis happened to me at Citrix. I had to bring in more ram to put in the computer because it was just unbearable to run Visual Studio. Some places don't give a crap, you just throw more people at the problem.
- gaius 10y agoAt a previous employer, one of my colleagues needed a bigger HD. He spent months struggling to get it and ultimately gave up and made do. But I was wise to the ways of this company, and I also needed a bigger HD, so I simply requisitioned a whole new PC and it arrived the next day. Its about whatever makes the paperwork easier...