I'm a programmer, and I get folks to pay me for doing it. I reckon that makes me a "professional" (for some value of "professional"). The kinds of programming

I'm a programmer, and I get folks to pay me for doing it. I reckon that makes me a "professional" (for some value of "professional"). The kinds of programming I do: 1. Machine learning 2. Distributed infrastructure (systems programming type stuff--message queues, data pipeline services and such, for example) 3. Scientific computing 4. Game development You know what "environment" I find suits me just fine? A terminal window with a combination of some muxer (e.g. tmux) and emacs, in the default WM/GUI environment that comes with whatever flavor of Linux I'm working with. I don't need a lot of extreme tailored environment to do my work and be efficient at it. I also don't think I'd care one way or another whether a "user" could use my laptop or not. It wouldn't be a point of pride for me if they couldn't, or if they could. I simply don't care.