Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Since, over the past several years, I've been bouncing across multiple, discrete contracts where I own none of the development environments, I'd have to answer "could start being productive almost immediately." ...But mostly because my work-circumstances have generally forced me to rely on minimal toolsets (and why I habitually look for those tool that I can use everywhere).
Then again, my focus is more on the back end and infrastructure side of things than writing user-facing code. Maybe things would be different if I had a different focus.
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Since, over the past several years, I've been bouncing across multiple, discrete contracts where I own none of the development environments, I'd have to answer "could start being productive almost immediately." ...But mostly because my work-circumstances have generally forced me to rely on minimal toolsets (and why I habitually look for those tool that I can use everywhere).
Then again, my focus is more on the back end and infrastructure side of things than writing user-facing code. Maybe things would be different if I had a different focus.