actionherobiju

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   by actionherobiju 5y ago

   I agree with this, however companies should pay extra for the on-call hours. In our team, I am on-call once every 6 weeks. So I am "working" 9 weekends a year. As long as I am paid for 18 days, which is almost 3/4 of a month
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   by actionherobiju 5y ago

   This is mostly a cost saving technique that companies quietly incorporated as if it is quite normal. Anybody who complained or criticized were branded as not being team players or being old-school. Companies found a way to get rid of operat
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   by actionherobiju 5y ago

   Why not give devs a machine that is still fast after installing all that?
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   by actionherobiju 5y ago

   Not really. A really, really good laptop can be given for 1% of the cost of paying the developer. IMO, it would be best to provide the best tool for the trade.
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   by actionherobiju 5y ago

   Well, they are paying me a shitload of money as salary. That is what that doesn't make sense to me.
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   by actionherobiju 5y ago

   This argument is correct only if you're testing the end-user component on the dev machine. I work on backend services.
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   by actionherobiju 5y ago

   That is a valid point, but in my case I am developing backend services. I work on 3 services, so most of the time I have 3 instances of Visual Studio running. Then outlook, chrome, git extensions, Notepad++, sometimes Word/Excel/P
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   Ask HN: Why do companies issue crappy machines to developers?

   43 points by actionherobiju 5y ago|69 comments