[wodenokoto]

I used to work at a place where we all used the enterprise server version of RStudio, which also runs in a browser.

There was a lot of good thing about that setup. Nobody could walk home with code, and no code was lost on somebody laptop.

Execution happened on a server, much more powerful than any dev machine.

[paulddraper]

>no code was lost on somebody laptop.

Doesn't full disk encryption solve that as well as putting it in the cloud (and you'd need encryption anyway)

[wodenokoto]

Not necessarily lost to a 3rd party. Just if somebody was working on fixing a blocker and doesn’t push progress before going home and then losing the laptop on the train or something.

The real scenario would be “we need to finish this blocker that Jim is working on, but he is sick and hasn’t pushed progress to git.”

As to syncing with cloud. Why not just have it on cloud and let people ssh into the server. And then do one better better, and give them a full IDE instead of teaching them emacs or vim.

[iamgopal]

How often do you think, somebody walk home with code, happened ?

[wodenokoto]

When you code on your laptop computer and push to git; every day.

The problem wouldn’t actually be people taking code home, it would be taking the data they are working on, as this could be highly sensitive data (think medical history) and regulation wouldn’t allow for it to leave the company location.

[BubRoss]

Your medical data goes straight to people's all day every phones through Epic's web interface.

[wodenokoto]

Maybe in the states. Where I live the only Epic around makes fortnight.