I recently started a new job, and it's only the second that I've had in my dev career. With a fresh look into how different it can be between compa...
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I'm fortunate enough to have had a personal licence for the Jetbrains toolkit, so when I changed jobs I was able to use that. I went in as a lead dev to make improvements. Now the full team and any new hires get the full jetbrains toolbox. They love it
You're doing the lords work. Thank you!
It's not at all selfless, I got a year's free licensing out of it, whilst my employer got a 20% discount.
I think Jetbrains still won.
You won and so did your coworkers.
That first part in Old Busted is an interesting discussion. What is the balance between productivity and security?
I expect that the security decisions were made for all of the company based on the fact that the number of people that should have local admin is a subset of the people with AD accounts. I agree that most office personnel shouldn't have local admin, but if you trust someone to write code for your production servers and to be able to execute application code on said servers then MAYBE you should trust them to not nuke their primary means of employment/productivity.
Absolutely agree. And the separation of powers at bigger institutions can make things difficult. I think for the general user at the institution admin rights should be restricted. Here, for example, I had to put in a service ticket to gain admin rights, but it is only because they know me. Security vs Productivity is just an interesting dynamic to me. Information services tends to hedge more towards security at the cost of productivity while developers tend to edge towards productivity at the cost of security, from my experience.
I do enjoy the way that Windows has evolved to handle this over the way that it used to be. Just because you have local admin doesn't mean that you run everything from that privilege. Having the prompt before you run something as admin is a real benefit.
Bravo and congrats on the new job. It sound like a world of difference in culture and developer happiness/tools.
It really is a lot different. I had no clue that a moving companies could be so much different.
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