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survey question

when you are working in your workplace, are you allowed to use your personal laptop?

If you have books and notes there that are helpful to your work, can you use them?

Some of the people I work with use their personal machine for work, everyone can use it for personal reasons

I had a bad expereince with one company before

Most companies I have worked for would definitely not allow you to connect a personal machine to their network

If you have books and notes there that are helpful to your work, can you use them?

just don't connect to their network?

I imagine it would be greate to use VNC or XPRA on office machine to personal laptop.

I don't think any would have objected to that but it also seems like kind of a poor reason to bring your machine to work. Just put your notes on a thumb drive or in the cloud

200 GB stuffs

You couldn't read 200GB of flat text in 10 lifetimes

It is my library. You don't need to read every book in a library

But you cna't expect which one you will need at which time

library of books, text files, projects

Well you can get a 128GB thumb drive for $8

Compress them and put it on there

or buy two thumb drives

copy and paste take long time. if you have multiple working copies

syncrhonization

I dunno, I just don't really blame a company for not wanting people to be on their personal machines during work hours. Any job specific notes should be saved in some sort of company wiki and 99% of everything else can be solved by a quick internet search

I never blame company. I kept work related notes on work computer.

There is difference between work specific knowledge and general knowledge

For example, you apply bash knowledge to solve a task in work.

Yeah I keep my bash notes in github and it's mostly just a bunch of links to U&L questions

And I almost never use it, I use google instead

In the mean time, you recall you have some notes about bash knowledge in your computer, and may also learn some new bash knowledge which you want to merge into your files in your personal computer

Maybe my way of learning and accumulating knowledge has some flaws

Meh my brain is all sorts of flawed. The internet has spoiled me. It's almost like I'm unable to retain any knowledge that I know I can easily google

A quiet day, it is not anymore !

Someone downvoted a Stéphane answer! :O

Should be an automatic 5 day ban

Are you going to ban Stéphane for 5 days? :O @jesse_b

Shame on you!

gawk is using 99.6% of my cpu right now, trying to read a 1 billion line file

I think I just made Stephane and someone happy

I didn't realize there is a guru badge. Is it a new one?

guru is silver. What is its gold one?

@Tim There isn't exactly a gold badge that directly matches but "Great Answer" I guess