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Re:Ask HN: Why use Docker and what are the business cases fo... by pekk on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @12:28PM (#9806422)
This is also a use case for not developing on OS X, which doesn't have anything to do with production anyway.
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Re:Ask HN: Why use Docker and what are the business cases fo... by mdaniel on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @01:03PM (#9806759)
Can you clarify? Do you mean that one should only develop upon the platform that will be used in production?
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Re:Ask HN: Why use Docker and what are the business cases fo... by justizin on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @05:59PM (#9808699)
Yes, the previous commenter is a purist with no battery life on their laptop.

Further, if you're in the middle of upgrading your production OS, does this mean that you need two developer machines?

C'mon!

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