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> and no one runs antivirus on the Mac, ever. Working at a large company (also not one of the famous silicon valley tech companies) and if you get a macbook, t

> and no one runs antivirus on the Mac, ever. Working at a large company (also not one of the famous silicon valley tech companies) and if you get a macbook, they are managed remotely and have BitDefender installed.

coder543 8y ago
I sometimes forget how much big companies enjoy spending money. I once worked for a large company where every developer was issued a full copy of Microsoft Office, even though most of them worked inside a fullscreen Linux VM all day. Outlook was the only piece of Office that my coworkers and I used, and I would have been happier using a tab open to a webmail provider inside the VM than having to use Outlook to connect to Exchange. That was far from the only unnecessary software they paid for. Why use Git when you can pay for Perforce!
- viraptor 8y ago
  > every developer was issued a full copy of Microsoft Office Enterprise volume licenses. It probably cost them less than the time/money they'd lose if you spenta few minutes trying to figure out how to open some file sent by non-devs.
- pjmlp 8y ago
  > Why use Git when you can pay for Perforce! Nice graphical tooling and sane developer experience.
  - Murk 8y ago
    I consider perforce "views" to be burdonsome and not so sane. The rest of the experience may be less jarring than git for many.
- golergka 8y ago
  If you're working in the game industry, and your repository includes a lot of huge binary files that are mergable, perfoce is a godsend. Also, p4merge is the best merging utility for any VCS, and I always install it alongside git if I work in Windows.
  - mariusmg 8y ago
    >p4merge is the best merging utility for any VCS What makes it "the best" ? Honest question, i found it kludgy and settled for Kdiff3.
  - shandor 8y ago
    p4merge is indeed awesome. I work exclusively in Linux environments, but p4merge always gets installed. The experience has actually gotten better in that regard since git started supporting it straight as one of its 'mergetools'.
- dagw 8y ago
  Why use Git when you can pay for Perforce! Perforce integrates very nicely with a whole bunch of third party tools in a way git does not, and is on the whole a lot easier to use for most people than git (and I'm saying this as someone who doesn't like Perforce at all)
  - maccard 8y ago
    Really? My experience is the opposite - all the tools integrate with git, not perforce. Said as someone who likes perforce. Having hundreds of developers working with large binary files was incompatible with git until very recently.
    - hobs 8y ago
      I would have to echo this, no problem with perforce, but sayings its ecosystem of plugins is more viable than git? Maybe 5+ years ago?

coder543 8y ago

I sometimes forget how much big companies enjoy spending money. I once worked for a large company where every developer was issued a full copy of Microsoft Office, even though most of them worked inside a fullscreen Linux VM all day. Outlook was the only piece of Office that my coworkers and I used, and I would have been happier using a tab open to a webmail provider inside the VM than having to use Outlook to connect to Exchange. That was far from the only unnecessary software they paid for. Why use Git when you can pay for Perforce!

viraptor 8y ago
> every developer was issued a full copy of Microsoft Office Enterprise volume licenses. It probably cost them less than the time/money they'd lose if you spenta few minutes trying to figure out how to open some file sent by non-devs.
pjmlp 8y ago
> Why use Git when you can pay for Perforce! Nice graphical tooling and sane developer experience.
- Murk 8y ago
  I consider perforce "views" to be burdonsome and not so sane. The rest of the experience may be less jarring than git for many.
golergka 8y ago
If you're working in the game industry, and your repository includes a lot of huge binary files that are mergable, perfoce is a godsend. Also, p4merge is the best merging utility for any VCS, and I always install it alongside git if I work in Windows.
- mariusmg 8y ago
  >p4merge is the best merging utility for any VCS What makes it "the best" ? Honest question, i found it kludgy and settled for Kdiff3.
- shandor 8y ago
  p4merge is indeed awesome. I work exclusively in Linux environments, but p4merge always gets installed. The experience has actually gotten better in that regard since git started supporting it straight as one of its 'mergetools'.
dagw 8y ago
Why use Git when you can pay for Perforce! Perforce integrates very nicely with a whole bunch of third party tools in a way git does not, and is on the whole a lot easier to use for most people than git (and I'm saying this as someone who doesn't like Perforce at all)
- maccard 8y ago
  Really? My experience is the opposite - all the tools integrate with git, not perforce. Said as someone who likes perforce. Having hundreds of developers working with large binary files was incompatible with git until very recently.
  - hobs 8y ago
    I would have to echo this, no problem with perforce, but sayings its ecosystem of plugins is more viable than git? Maybe 5+ years ago?