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and if you need that.. you ask...and the team leaders pony up... right? I still don't understand the frustration with that particular comment... its like you want to hate on someone for not using a beefier machine...do you think my development skill suck because I don't have the latest greatest? I can model all your virtual machines on my Amazon clusters online..and I model plenty of them locally just fine with Vagrant already. Is that ok with you?

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I think you handicap yourself by not having "decent" equipment. I don't run expensive gear, it's at the right price/performance point to do the job. I guarantee you that I spend less than most folk realize.

As for spinning up Amazon clusters, that's fine when you don't have to care about company/clients data security. We live in the post NSA revelation world and if you connect from overseas, your security is null and void.

:? Im sorry to hear that you think everyone and everything is being raided by the NSA and that my Amazon clusters are null and void...and that my 5yr old Macbook is a bad price/performance ratio for the job...I'll call you when I need to configure my next machine to be sure I get the best advice.. tanks.

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