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Re:Questions to ask a company during a job interview by tomp on Monday September 09, 2019 @02:42PM (#20920997)
> We ought to protect data, not code.

Code is more dangerous than data. Personally, I'd be most worried by someone getting a virus that hacks into other computers and encrypts them and/or wrecks the network. Both can be protected against, first by cold backups and second by resilient / disaster recovery network, but both would also severely affect the company for a few days, so I'd rather avoid them.

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Re:Questions to ask a company during a job interview by devdas on Monday September 09, 2019 @08:17PM (#20923949)
That's code destroying data.

Losing data is bad for the business. A random box had software crashing? Just replace the box.

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Re:Questions to ask a company during a job interview by tomp on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @02:41AM (#20925638)
even setting up a new box might take one day of a productive person's time... unless, of course, if you standardise the dev setup... again many devs will complain, probably more than if you just remove local admin :D
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