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Junoir vs Senior (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 140 points 9 months ago (30 children)

Let's see how many people agree with me that both poor communication and alcohol are not really signs of professional seniority

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago* (16 children)

    I agree, i also want to add that bad financial decisions are not professional (buying over-priced hardware) but i suppose you don't care if the salary is high soo

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  • [–] 42 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    How about getting the people who pay you to buy you over-priced hardware?

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I'd personally prefer more hardware for the money, including when its being bought by others. But I also have to replicate client environments (though at a much smaller scale), so its kind of a cheat code for "buy me that" or "I'll be keeping this for 6-9 months and you can buy me a replacement when this one gets delivered to you".

    I think I need another GPU heavy project.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I have the same preference, but companies keep giving me macbooks to use for work no matter how many times I ask for a cheaper (or better specced at the same price) Linux laptop.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Many companies will just buy in bulk and give the same thing to everyone. I'd rather use Linux but I understand they don't want to deal with different environments. Also yeah, Apple has made it very difficult to emulate MacOS so it's easier to buy that and emulate everything else.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Except every single MacBook you can buy right now (directly, from Apple, not second hand) directly beats pretty much every other device in its price range - unless you go super crazy with the specs and want to do 128GB RAM with an M5 Max and 8TB storage.

    So it's hardly overpriced.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    I’ve been diehard anti-Apple for anything but their mobile devices (iPhone, ipad) for most of my life. Overpriced, underpowered. Now I own a MacBook Pro M4 and I just can’t get over how good it is. What a turnaround their change to Apple Silicone has made, it’s actually wild to me.

    MacBooks, specifically, are still expensive but actually value for money now.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    I hear the base M5 is a pretty big leap forward in terms of performance, compared to even the M4. I ALSO hear Apple is still comparing them to the M1 because people with M1s are still hard to convince to upgrade so there's no point in marketing it to M4 owners.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    My experience was different: after using Linux for a decade, I had to use a company MacBook for a year, and I was happy to return to my "normal" laptop afterward. Even though it couldn’t run Deus Ex like MacBook.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    The build quality is excellent in my experience. I can justify spending more if it lasts and my previous MBP made it a decade!

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago* (5 children)

    neither are macs

    0/3 overall

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    Macs are excellent dev machines, especially if your company buys them for you. 3/4 of my past jobs have provided Macbooks rather than Windows laptops and I don't plan on going back unless I'm allowed to install Linux

    Having a Mac laptop at work means I can use the same dotfiles between it and my personal CachyOS desktoo

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    tbh if I couldn't install Linux as a software dev, I'd consider a different job

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Have you been able to? Even though I've mostly worked in backend APIs that run in containers on Linux, I haven't been able to switch my work machines to Linux since they have required company VPNs and SSO stuff installed

    Edit: the only place I was able to use Linux was a startup environment but the company was bought out and I was forced to switch to Windows

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