• arty@feddit.org
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    3 hours ago

    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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      I don’t think the image is trying to indicate professional seniority, it seems to me to try to represent seniority from an experience standpoint

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      3 hours ago

      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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        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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          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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          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.

          They (MacBooks specifically) are still expensive but actually value for money now.

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        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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      If you can achieve the objectives in the desired deadline without attending 4 million zoom meetings, were the zoom meetings ever really needed?

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    I used to prefer Jameson poured into my coffee when I worked somewhere with 6 hours of zoom meetings a day. I don’t care what the laptop is,really, as long as it’s not running windows and it has a buttload of ram. It’s usually provided by whoever I’m working for anyway.

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        There’s two products of Jack Daniels that I do appreciate:

        • their BBQ sauce (I know there are better ones but none of them reached the UK yet, sadly, it’s a “good enough” substitute at a good price)
        • Gentleman Jack - pretty much the only commercial bourbon I find drinkable, albeit not worth the price
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    I was a senior developer within my first year, so I guess this tracks with the mid-wit theory. Now I’m well beyond that level I answer all questions with “it depends”.