Ask HN: How often does your company replace your laptop?

Re:Ask HN: How often does your company replace your laptop? by gshdg on Sunday July 21, 2019 @09:33AM (#20491236)

3-year leases aren’t all that uncommon. I’ve also been at a SmallCo that would buy brand new top of the line Mac laptops for developers and number crunchers, and then cycle them down after a few years to staff whose workloads were less demanding. They averaged 6-8 years out of a computer.

Asking developers to work on 6-8 year old hardware is definitely penny wise/pound foolish, tho.

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Re:Ask HN: How often does your company replace your laptop? by segmondy on Sunday July 21, 2019 @12:11PM (#20491987)

Have you been to Amazon? I don't think I saw anyone with a laptop that was newer than 4 years old. Being Frugal seems to work for them and they are the top cloud company.

I would say most developers don't need new hardware unless they are building games or developing CPU intensive application. Most laptops today have more resources than your microservice will have in the cloud.

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Re:Ask HN: How often does your company replace your laptop? by gshdg on Sunday July 21, 2019 @01:34PM (#20492495)

So now your test suite takes 15 minutes to run instead of 15 seconds. Sure, that doesn’t matter at all.

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Re:Ask HN: How often does your company replace your laptop? by eb0la on Monday July 22, 2019 @02:52AM (#20495835)

Test what? you don't work in consulting, right? The only way some consultancy firms have to earn the contract each year is: - Give crappy hardware to devs, so they can bill more hours. - Skip testing because if the customer wants to fix those bugs with anoter company, they will ask for an audit fee beforehand.

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Re:Ask HN: How often does your company replace your laptop? by gshdg on Monday July 22, 2019 @05:05AM (#20496347)

We’ve just moved from amazon to consulting firms?

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