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- 15k with an MSc in Data Science after 10 years of professional experience. Key aspects that made this useful for me: I commited to it 100% and went for a 4 gp

- 15k with an MSc in Data Science after 10 years of professional experience. Key aspects that made this useful for me: I commited to it 100% and went for a 4 gpa as that was the only way to take it seriously, I could do it because of my personal situation and tine availability. I learned A LOT, among other things that I am not that stupid as I thought while taking CS, it was just a matter of interest to me. This gave me my currennt job with a significant turn to my career. - Spending 2k with a work station and changing my environment from expensive Macbooks to an expensive workstation and cheap laptops as a front end

vb6sp6 6y ago
> expensive workstation and cheap laptops as a front end This has worked really well for me too. Desktop is xeon with 64gb ram and I can take advantage of that power from anywhere.
- melenaboija 6y ago
  Same here, AMD Ryzen 9 3900X with 64gb. I just realized I don't need that when I am seating in front of tv or while traveling, and as long as I can connect two external monitors to my laptop is enough. Something "similar" to this in MacBook world is 4k, and you end up with a portable device with worst battery performance and always suffering that you are about to loose your life. VS Code was definitely something that helped to decide for this configuration.
  - CydeWeys 6y ago
    > Same here, AMD Ryzen 9 3900X with 64gb Same here, those two plus a 2 TB NVMe SSD.
  - x87678r 6y ago
    I've always wanted to do this but do you run IDE on laptop or XWindows/VNC/RDP? Also big screen laptops now are more expensive than smaller ones which is the opposite of 10 years ago.
    - vb6sp6 6y ago
      For me, everything is on the remote desktop so I can work on any device via RDP (phone, tablet, chromebook, raspberrypi, etc). The laptop needs no configuration. It doesn't need to be backed up, I don't need any software licenses. The laptop can be lost, stolen, damaged, etc and nothing will be lost. If I was more mobile, the laptop specs would be more important but I work in the same physical space. It needs to be able to power some monitors and the keyboard needs to be decent for the few times a year I go out of town. Currently using a Surface Go (8gb version).
    - melenaboija 6y ago
      My current setup is: - Pixelbook with 8Gb. Not cheap ($1000) but I think you can find similar options for half of that. I mostly wanted to try it but I am happy with it now. Important, I just use it for Chrome and VS Code, nothing else! Battery life is decent, you can run linux apps, it has touchscreen and is light. I personally don't care about the screen now, I actually prefer small laptops to carry them and I have two 27" screens on my desk - I run the IDE on the laptop and lxc containers in the workstation for different projects

vb6sp6 6y ago

> expensive workstation and cheap laptops as a front end This has worked really well for me too. Desktop is xeon with 64gb ram and I can take advantage of that power from anywhere.

melenaboija 6y ago
Same here, AMD Ryzen 9 3900X with 64gb. I just realized I don't need that when I am seating in front of tv or while traveling, and as long as I can connect two external monitors to my laptop is enough. Something "similar" to this in MacBook world is 4k, and you end up with a portable device with worst battery performance and always suffering that you are about to loose your life. VS Code was definitely something that helped to decide for this configuration.
- CydeWeys 6y ago
  > Same here, AMD Ryzen 9 3900X with 64gb Same here, those two plus a 2 TB NVMe SSD.
- x87678r 6y ago
  I've always wanted to do this but do you run IDE on laptop or XWindows/VNC/RDP? Also big screen laptops now are more expensive than smaller ones which is the opposite of 10 years ago.
  - vb6sp6 6y ago
    For me, everything is on the remote desktop so I can work on any device via RDP (phone, tablet, chromebook, raspberrypi, etc). The laptop needs no configuration. It doesn't need to be backed up, I don't need any software licenses. The laptop can be lost, stolen, damaged, etc and nothing will be lost. If I was more mobile, the laptop specs would be more important but I work in the same physical space. It needs to be able to power some monitors and the keyboard needs to be decent for the few times a year I go out of town. Currently using a Surface Go (8gb version).
  - melenaboija 6y ago
    My current setup is: - Pixelbook with 8Gb. Not cheap ($1000) but I think you can find similar options for half of that. I mostly wanted to try it but I am happy with it now. Important, I just use it for Chrome and VS Code, nothing else! Battery life is decent, you can run linux apps, it has touchscreen and is light. I personally don't care about the screen now, I actually prefer small laptops to carry them and I have two 27" screens on my desk - I run the IDE on the laptop and lxc containers in the workstation for different projects