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Re:Ask HN: How do you work efficiently on remote servers? by gknoy on Friday March 27, 2015 @01:00PM (#9277518) 

  [N]o local copies of development files are allowed
  ... without special authorization
I'm curious what kind of employer would hire programmers, and they tell them they couldn't develop locally as a matter of _security policy_, rather than "it won't fit on your machine". That seems like it would be very constraining.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you work efficiently on remote servers? by jlgaddis on Friday March 27, 2015 @01:59PM (#9277960)
That's not so uncommon in the corporate world, especially with people using laptops more and more as their daily driver and the potential for those laptops to be lost/stolen.
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