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> Yes, but the MBP costs what like 1800 while the Windows laptops corporate is willing to buy often cost around half that or less?

Yes, also why the corp waited on those Lenovo orders rather than switching some developers to Macs.

During the pandemic, some of my company's Lenovo laptop orders were backlogged by weeks (or months for a brief period). We had difficulty obtaining laptops for remote employees, even when lowering requirements to "Anything reasonably suitable".

At the same time MacBook Pro's did not have significant changes in order times. I suspect this is because that for large corps, Macs are not as prevalent as Windows laptops. More "specialist" less "commodity".

Personally, I have 10 year old Macs still usable. This message comes from a 2012 MacMini - laptop level hardware. Equivalent age Windows laptops are either Linux (which is also not as corporate common) or our of service.

> It's not going anywhere.

Including towards a potential revenue stream?

> There’s not enough slack in the system. Everything is strung so tight that any disruption causes a cascade of delays

The MBA effect.

> Oracle was one of the reasons for the catastrophic failure of eToys circa 2001

Would love to hear a from-the-trenches summary of that.

Does this refer to privacy.com, or something else?

Why not $LANGUAGE ?

How do you brick a machine with venvs?

> I don't think I've ever met another dev who likes PowerShell

I have. But they have never used bash, zsh, Fish, or NuShell.

Fox News reporting on something CNN did that is very Fox News like. Maybe it’s just meta-enough for HN.

No, I find it odd to spend that much cash on a celebrity endorsement when the target consumer audience (businesses) know that the celebrity is not a Sales Force customer:

"What the heck to Matthew McConaughey use SalesForce for ?"

  or more importantly:

"Why is SalesForce paying that kind of money when they could be investing instead in their abysmal support?" - as a SF/Tableau customer this is my perspective.