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High blood pressure.
This. I had also become violent towards my machines, punching and kicking them several feet up.
Edit: Ah, I see, you removed the violent rage towards machines running windows part.
C is Google, what are the others?
Have to say that the company I work for has improved this leaps and bounds in the last 5 years but still has a ways to go. Macs can be requested for devs but Windows is still the default for users. lots of services being migrated into azure/office365 means no longer needing the VPN for everything but sharing large files is still primarily done via mapped network drives, which requires the VPN. Security team unfortuna…
Have to say that the company I work for has improved this leaps and bounds in the last 5 years but still has a ways to go. Macs can be requested for devs but Windows is still the default for users. lots of services being migrated into azure/office365 means no longer needing the VPN for everything but sharing large files is still primarily done via mapped network drives, which requires the VPN. Security team unfortuna…
To me, Company F (bucket of parts) sounds a lot more enticing than your company.
I mean SSL MITM?!
I've been to companies that outright lie about their development environments. I only enjoy using GNU/Linux so one of my first questions is whether I can use Linux and if I would be forced to use Windows for certain things. One company told me yes for the first one, but when I got there I found Linux was completely unsupported by the draconian IT department. Many companies simply don't know the answer to the second b…
> One company told me yes for the first one, but when I got there I found Linux was completely unsupported by the draconian IT department Happened with me as well (but I use a macbook). I won’t call it draconian. The IT department usually has to deal with a large number of hardware/software support requests on a daily basis. It’s quite understandable that they won’t have all the answers for a platform they’ve never u…
The moment after I signed the contract to join a startup, the CTO said "OK, then... Here's your laptop, install Windows and we'll talk later..". My heart sank and felt I took a bad turn in life. I really wanted to work there but I had stopped using Windows for health reasons a long time ago. I wondered if it were rude to resign the same day because there was no way I would use Windows. I thought it was more honest, b…
I feel like people didn't understand sarcasm or I have a broken sarcasm detector. I can't tell.
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To me, Company F (bucket of parts) sounds a lot more enticing than your company.
Have to agree, this really sounds more or less as bad as it gets. I mean SSL MITM?!
Accepting a tech offer is surprisingly similar to bomb disposal, except that bomb guys have a better idea of what they're actually walking into. When I was young, I considered this to be exciting. These days, it makes me never want to switch jobs again.
I figure after 2 in a row, the next place has got to be step backward a good 5-10 years. I'm putting it off as long as possible.
Though saying that the first place I worked was firmly stuck in the 1970s so maybe I got it all out the way in those first 3 years.
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Standardizing a set of supported tools inside an organisation isn’t exactly a stupid corporate protocol, especially if it’s a very large organisation.
Mature IT departments tailor solutions to different classes of users with different needs. If they don’t do that for engineering, that tells you everything you need to know about engineering’s stature in the company.
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I was guessing A was FB due to the one-time mega download (though I've not worked there so I'm not sure if there's a linux VM in that picture)
Considering that Rachel has worked there previously, it’s probably not a bad guess.