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Re:Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon by krisdol on Thursday July 14, 2016 @03:03PM (#12096423)
Those tech companies should also provide high end machines to developers. I'm glad the last two places I've worked provided high end MacBook pros but also allow devs to use their own machines so inevitably there are a couple of Linux and Windows folks.

Interesting that for me it was the startups that provided good machines while the enterprises provided 4 years old lenovo laptops with not so good batteries not the specs needed to use a VM effectively

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Re:Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon by vincnetas on Friday July 15, 2016 @03:08AM (#12099364)
Just got back from paternaty leave and got new MacBook pro. Not sure if got lucky or this will be common practice. I'm from the IBM corporation. So one should not generalize ;) P.S. I guess only people who get crappy HW complain and this creates the ilussion that all corporations give crappy HW.
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Re:Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon by SomeCallMeTim on Thursday July 14, 2016 @06:03PM (#12097532)
>enterprises

Yeah, well, I'll just add that to my (very long) list of reasons never to work for enterprise companies.

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