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Indie devs are small minority, majority of the folks work in companies. You are already paying 2000-4000USD for your laptops, plus you also have to cost in lost
by harpratap 6y ago
Indie devs are small minority, majority of the folks work in companies. You are already paying 2000-4000USD for your laptops, plus you also have to cost in lost productivity because of not being able to replicate your stack locally.
Eventbrite is already doing this for all their employees - https://kelda.io/blog/eventbrite-interview/ https://kelda.io/blog/eventbrite-interview/ So the economics of this does check out.
- jdmichal 6y agoLarger companies can do this with virtual machines in their own datacenters, which cuts down a lot on the cost. Especially for developer machines, which have relatively high requirements on memory.