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by yoz-y 3952 days ago
A classic company nowadays will have their code in Github, their e-mail and documents over at Google, even more documents in office 365 cloud, critical company files in Dropbox etc.

All for the sake of convenience. For me the important thing is to keep a work machine which is solely dedicated to work, which is only connected to the necessary services.
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ryandrake 3952 days ago
Really? That sounds very unusual to me. I've never worked at a company where critical, confidential business information was permitted to be hosted on an external service. Critical company files on Dropbox?? That sounds to me like a fire-able offense. Maybe fine for a start-up, but for a "classic" company?
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yoz-y 3952 days ago
Fair point about the startups, indeed that is what I was talking about. I do not see it as much of a problem, personally. (side note: I do not have access to critical company information, however I know it is hosted on Dropbox)

Our code, which is probably the most critical part, is on Github and that is definitely the case for many, many companies.

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matwood 3952 days ago
> For me the important thing is to keep a work machine which is solely dedicated to work, which is only connected to the necessary services.

VMs do wonders for this. A work VM with only work things makes it easy to keep work and life separate, but at the same time way more convenient than two computers.

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