What kind of "workstation" were you provided? It sounds like your employer provided you a computer from the Windows 98 era. I'm surprised that your employer couldn't even cough up $50-100 for a used desktop PC.
On Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 12:49:17 PM UTC-6, dana tassler wrote: > > Hi Jason, > > I used to develop inside a virtual machine as well (VMWare and VirtualBox) > but made the switch to development on the same operating system for > hardware reasons. The "workstation" I was provided with didn't have the > specifications to run a virtual machine inside its host operating system. > > Even though sometimes it's frustrating, having to work through missing > dependencies and the like is a good experience. I work on a small team > where both of us are full-stack developers. When something goes wrong we > can only rely on one another and have to solve problems with no other > assistance. > > Being able to scrap a VM instance or reset it surely is convenient but I > feel that it prevents you from gaining some development (system > administration, really) experience. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/c9d254e5-0e72-4dbc-b9bd-166bec59fa8c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
