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> ...your developers are probably using their home gaming PC for work because it's 10x faster than the garbage you gave them... I went from a waiter to startup

> ...your developers are probably using their home gaming PC for work because it's 10x faster than the garbage you gave them... I went from a waiter to startup owner and then acquirer, then working for Google. No formal education, no "real job" till Google, really. I'm not sure even when I was a waiter I had this...laissez-faire? naive?...sense of how corporate computing worked. That aside, the whole argument stands on "well, other bad things can happen more easily!", which we agree is true, but also, it isn't an argument against it. From a Chesterson's Fence view, one man's numbskull insistence on not using AWS that must only be due to pointy-haired boss syndrome, is another's valiant self-hosting-that-saved-7 figures. Hard to say from the bleachers, especially with OP making neither claim.

topato 1y ago
As a 35 year old waiter with no formal education, who has also spent the majority of his free time the last 25 years either coding or self-studying to further my coding, I am super interested in your life story. While struggling to scrape by has been "awesome", I'm hoping to one day succeed at making tech my livelihood. Do you have a blog or something? lol But to go back to the topic: are companies that have such a high level of OpSec actually outfitting devs with garbage, enterprise lease, mid-to-low tier laptops? I only have knowledge from a few friends' experiences, but even guys doing relatively non-hardware intensive workloads are given a Dell XPS or MacBook Pro. I would imagine a fintech would know better AND have the funds to allocate for either of those options Maybe an in-house SWE at a major bank would end up with that level of OpSec on a mediocre fleet laptop, although I'd hope they'd have managers willing to go to bat for them and an IT department that can accommodate provisioning multiple SKUs depending on an employee's actual computational needs.... perhaps I too have a skewed/naive sense of how the corporate computing world works haha

topato 1y ago

As a 35 year old waiter with no formal education, who has also spent the majority of his free time the last 25 years either coding or self-studying to further my coding, I am super interested in your life story. While struggling to scrape by has been "awesome", I'm hoping to one day succeed at making tech my livelihood. Do you have a blog or something? lol But to go back to the topic: are companies that have such a high level of OpSec actually outfitting devs with garbage, enterprise lease, mid-to-low tier laptops? I only have knowledge from a few friends' experiences, but even guys doing relatively non-hardware intensive workloads are given a Dell XPS or MacBook Pro. I would imagine a fintech would know better AND have the funds to allocate for either of those options Maybe an in-house SWE at a major bank would end up with that level of OpSec on a mediocre fleet laptop, although I'd hope they'd have managers willing to go to bat for them and an IT department that can accommodate provisioning multiple SKUs depending on an employee's actual computational needs.... perhaps I too have a skewed/naive sense of how the corporate computing world works haha