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one company i worked for mandated underpowered laptops for frontend engineers and split their wifi so that everyone in that group had poor internet when trying
by kmlx 3y ago
one company i worked for mandated underpowered laptops for frontend engineers and split their wifi so that everyone in that group had poor internet when trying to see/test their own work (the rest of the internet was fast). everyone complained. except for the users. the website (a very complex web app full of graphs, images, videos etc) was super fast and tiny.
there are other ways of doing this, but i found this approach interesting.
- Maxion 3y agoYep, same when handing out reference devices for developing. Don't give out the Samsung galaxy excalibur 10+ super pro, or the Apple iPhone Pro Master 10+ extreme. Go to walmart and get the budget android on sale. Go get a used and beat up iPhone SE. If you get your stuff to run on those, it'll run fantastically* on the big devices * Barring device specific bugs.
- lawgimenez 3y agoFor sure it will run but the issue is that nobody designs for small devices like SE. It has been this way for over 4 years I guess. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26522294 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26522294
- tomohawk 3y agoRelated. If you want the people at your company to have good IT support, make sure that the execs and upper mgmt have a lower tier of support than everyone else. At most places, they get platinum support, and everyone else is bronze, so they never see what people who work for them have to deal with every day.