...and sometimes tasks like getting hardware seem impossible in a timely manner. This is a good point. There's a lot of red tape at big companies and sometimes

...and sometimes tasks like getting hardware seem impossible in a timely manner. This is a good point. There's a lot of red tape at big companies and sometimes doing the simplest things (e.g. setting up an Apache server) can be made into maddeningly bureaucratic operations (fill out the support ticket -> X -> Y...)