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Re:GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces by randyrand on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @03:07PM (#28146282)
If you've never had these issues, this product is probably not for you.

The question is, how much time do you spend on dev environment issues per year?

When I was at one of the FAANGs, our dev enviroment took about 1hr to install, and you had to redo it everytime you switched platform / version (about every week).

We spent ~50 hours per year managing our local dev enviroment. probably more in reality.

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Re:GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces by gray_-_wolf on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @06:19PM (#28148566)
> The question is, how much time do you spend on dev environment issues per year?

Definitely not little. But at the same time, I usually learn a lot about how stuff works during that. Which I like to think makes me better at helping other people debug weird shit.

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