Let’s see how many people agree with me that both poor communication and alcohol are not really signs of professional seniority
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
Apple products are not particularly expensive compared to a dev. Unless you enslaved your employees.
How about getting the people who pay you to buy you over-priced hardware?
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.
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.
I get that, I’ve got a Mac mini for similar reasons.
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.
This is a good move
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.
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.
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.
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.
The build quality is excellent in my experience. I can justify spending more if it lasts and my previous MBP made it a decade!
My mom’s is going 13 years now. I bought it used and handed it down. No idea how many former owners.
I’m not surprised! Mine was put through the ringer during its decade.
A m4 macbook air is $800 and absolutely stomps every laptop even remotely in that price bracket
I think it want’s to communicate burnout.
To the unawares, it also communicates the “proper” image of a senior developer
If you can achieve the objectives in the desired deadline without attending 4 million zoom meetings, were the zoom meetings ever really needed?
Countless teams are misshaped, but the usual unwritten objectives of a senior developer in a team also lie beyond lone development
The main mistake was even replying after hours.
That’s not true. I prefer wine and Scottish whisky
Or at least not Jack.
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
Gentelman jack is a very smooth whiskey. If thats your taste, japanese whiskeys also tend towards smooth.
Suntory is a good brand. I prefer their $60-ish Hibiki whiskey when im looking for something extra smooth, but all of them are pretty easy drinking.
I found most Japanese whiskey to be too sweet for my taste. GJ has that balance of smoothness while keeping the sweetness at bay.
Plus I’m not that big of a fan of non-scotch whisky anyway.
By the way if you want something truly smooth, and not too sweet, the cheaper Mackinlay’s Shackleton remake, usually around £20 a bottle (should be around $25-30 in the US), is an amazing choice.
The best, brightest, most complicated thing I’ve done in IT became obsolete in 4 years.
a senior engineer should has nothing to do with a fisher price toy, a glorified miniature lamborgini. real engineers should only use thinkpad.
I know right? What a poser!
/s
System admin. This is still relevant
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”.
