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• uncleanmonkey: Posted May 24, 2012 10:33pm PDT No. Applications don't live in a vacuum. They run on a system. While developing it, you're going to need to modify the system to try out different...
• uncleanmonkey: Posted May 24, 2012 10:08pm PDT You are talking out of your ass. Don't tell developers that they don't need to have access to the machine when you literally have no clue what...
• uncleanmonkey: Posted May 24, 2012 10:00pm PDT What you don't seem to get is that the security of the company network is not more important than the company making money. Yes, the whole...
• uncleanmonkey: Posted May 24, 2012 9:55pm PDT Jesus Christ have you ever even MET a developer? WTF? You don't just write code in a white room and then roll it out to some secure test system....
• uncleanmonkey: Posted May 24, 2012 9:53pm PDT No, it's not a binary choice between "annoy people" and "keep our shit safe", it's a tradeoff. If you want to keep the most secure system ever...
• uncleanmonkey: Posted May 24, 2012 9:50pm PDT You literally have no idea how development works do you? I could also print out the source code and send it in an armored car to another...
• uncleanmonkey: Posted May 24, 2012 9:48pm PDT Because VMs aren't perfect. There's overhead, there's bugs, there's general clunkiness. When something goes wrong I don't want to be debugging...
• uncleanmonkey: Posted May 24, 2012 9:42pm PDT Driver development.
• uncleanmonkey: Posted May 24, 2012 9:41pm PDT If I can't install experimental drivers, then I can't do work. Keeping my machine 100% pristine isn't the priority, getting work done is. When...
• uncleanmonkey: Posted May 24, 2012 9:24pm PDT Having to run half your apps in a VM is ridiculous. They're not as bad as they used to be, of course, but it's still a far cry from running it "on...
• uncleanmonkey: Posted May 24, 2012 9:23pm PDT If the people who want the "ease of use" are also the people actually making the company money by producing products, the maybe it's a valid...
• uncleanmonkey: Posted May 24, 2012 9:20pm PDT But that's a pain in the ass. I mean aside from the obviousness of having to buy two computers instead of one, you have to run some custom software...
• uncleanmonkey: Posted May 24, 2012 9:20pm PDT But that's a pain in the ass. I mean aside from the obviousness of having to buy two computers instead of one, you have to run some custom software...
• uncleanmonkey: Posted May 24, 2012 8:53pm PDT If I had to switch user accounts to flip between some online docs/email/IM and a bug I'm tracking down in the debugger I'd be severely crippled in...
• uncleanmonkey: Posted May 24, 2012 8:48pm PDT I don't just randomly download and install software off the net. This is stuff we get from trusted partners/vendors. Admins don't patch it for us,...