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Re: Ask HN: Working on startup on work issued computer

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Post by cweagans » Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 3:26 PM UTC

It's not worth the risk. Go out and spend a couple hundred bucks on a Chromebook or something. If you need more computing muscle, use vim on an EC2 instance or something.

I agree with other commenters saying you should dump your current codebase and reimplement from scratch.

Re: Ask HN: Working on startup on work issued computer

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Post by dwarman » Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 3:46 PM UTC

also: things can get really ugly if your corp. decides to throw post-911 terrorism charges at you. I know of several instances where just using work machine for personal email got that treatment so the corp could get out of paying contract fees.

Re: Ask HN: Working on startup on work issued computer

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Post by retali8 » Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 5:41 PM UTC

why the hell would anyone do this, or even think about doing this?

if you're doing it for convenience, it ain't worth the jail time.

if you're doing it because your work computer has expensive development software, you're breaking ethics and legal agreements, then you'd deserve the jail time.

if you're doing it for any other reason ,DONT.

Re: Ask HN: Working on startup on work issued computer

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Post by hbhakhra » Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 7:16 PM UTC

Thanks for all the replies. I will get a personal computer ASAP.

It wasn't that I couldn't afford it, but its just more convenient to have everything on one computer. Yes, looks dumb now looking back at it...

Re: Ask HN: Working on startup on work issued computer

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Post by loumf » Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 7:34 PM UTC

icu wrote: post #14

Like others I will say don't do this, however if it's the only PC you have access then why don't you boot up a live Linux DVD or USB distro and do your work in that and save to the cloud?

That does nothing to mitigate the risk. It's not just the hard drive that matters -- it's the equipment, which includes the entire PC.