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And when your company starts doing that to developers it is time to dust off your resume and start looking for something better. I get it that these companies h

And when your company starts doing that to developers it is time to dust off your resume and start looking for something better. I get it that these companies have real issues and their managers are multiple times smarter than me but I refuse to be put into a position where I cannot use the tools that I need to be productive.

mgkimsal 4y ago
I get it - have been there. Work with project/team X, and... with tools I know, I'm X productive. "We need to switch to tool Y". There's usually a host of reasons I may not want to move to tool Y, but in most cases, it's because I don't want to have to learn yet another tool just to do what I was doing. Why? Cognitive overload... but also for some period of time I'm going to be much less productive. I don't want to be judged on that. you are saying I have to use Y... I'm going to be slower. Every estimate will be 20% more than what it was for the next Z months. I've got 10 years of muscle memory to undo. Is it worth it? In most cases, really not. BUT... if someone mandated that, AND also acknowledged up front that the delivery expectations will be reduced for some longer period of time... perhaps it's OK. On the JB topic, IntelliJ was one 'heavy' tool I resisted for a long time. "I'm faster in these other tools - notepad++, vim, netbeans, whatever". I was faster, for many tasks. Adopting something new was slow. I'm generally glad I did it, but I did it mostly on my own projects, and freelancing. Had I been under pressure to deliver at a high pace while having to undo years of habits/tools/processes that got me where I was at that time, it would have been far more difficult to deal with.
pjmlp 4y ago
These companies take liability in software seriously, and if someone installs software that damages their employer business, or their employer customers, they better dust off their CV indeed, including the reason why they got fired.
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 4y ago
  They take liability seriously? How many outright frauds and data leaks are swept under the table? If you like to work in extremely low trust companies, you do you. If somebody trusts me to write production code but not to pick text editors, they are morons with red tape wrapped around their eyes.

mgkimsal 4y ago

I get it - have been there. Work with project/team X, and... with tools I know, I'm X productive. "We need to switch to tool Y". There's usually a host of reasons I may not want to move to tool Y, but in most cases, it's because I don't want to have to learn yet another tool just to do what I was doing. Why? Cognitive overload... but also for some period of time I'm going to be much less productive. I don't want to be judged on that. you are saying I have to use Y... I'm going to be slower. Every estimate will be 20% more than what it was for the next Z months. I've got 10 years of muscle memory to undo. Is it worth it? In most cases, really not. BUT... if someone mandated that, AND also acknowledged up front that the delivery expectations will be reduced for some longer period of time... perhaps it's OK. On the JB topic, IntelliJ was one 'heavy' tool I resisted for a long time. "I'm faster in these other tools - notepad++, vim, netbeans, whatever". I was faster, for many tasks. Adopting something new was slow. I'm generally glad I did it, but I did it mostly on my own projects, and freelancing. Had I been under pressure to deliver at a high pace while having to undo years of habits/tools/processes that got me where I was at that time, it would have been far more difficult to deal with.

pjmlp 4y ago

These companies take liability in software seriously, and if someone installs software that damages their employer business, or their employer customers, they better dust off their CV indeed, including the reason why they got fired.

isbvhodnvemrwvn 4y ago
They take liability seriously? How many outright frauds and data leaks are swept under the table? If you like to work in extremely low trust companies, you do you. If somebody trusts me to write production code but not to pick text editors, they are morons with red tape wrapped around their eyes.