rabh

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   by rabh 16y ago

   Thanks for the info. On the points: A: This may be less necessary than I believe admittedly. I've only worked at companies with 100+ people before, all who gave similar hardware. The advantages were in the ability to swap computers. If y
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   by rabh 16y ago

   I agree that for most development projects, OS X will work fine. We've had interns in the past though who failed to get even the basics of our system working in os x. The complete one is guaranteed to not run due to kernel modules we use t
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   by rabh 16y ago

   Is it necessary to sync? I'm liking the VM ideas people have been talking about here; is it possible to just mount the guest OS' file system on the host (perhaps by running an NFS server in the VM) and develop directly on it?
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   by rabh 16y ago

   Good point on the hardware/software mix. Does the Mac have much value over Thinkpads without the OS though?
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   by rabh 16y ago

   Thanks for the info. We're not concerned about disk I/O but the app does have heavy network I/O. (though latency rather than bandwidth is the main concern). Also, I assume for virtualization you are talking about the worst case (perf-wise):
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   by rabh 16y ago

   What sort of work do you guys do? Also how bad is the speed hit? From this: http://superuser.com/questions/146623/performance-impact-of-... it seems like it'd be noticeable (20% I/O hit).
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   by rabh 16y ago

   I edited the summary to note that we are not (entirely) blocking system customization.
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   Ask HN: Would you work at a startup that requires you to use Linux?

   34 points by rabh 16y ago|95 comments