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Originally Posted by jjshabado
Dave, re healthcare: I honestly don't see how what you're saying is relevant to what I'm saying. I think we're just talking past each other.
I'm saying that I do not have the appropriate knowledge or training to know what kind of monitoring is needed. I also understand that, emotionally, it's very difficult to be clear-headed on exactly what is appropriate and what is not appropriate because I'm not doing this for 12 hours per day, 6 days a week. I have no opinion on this. I figure those people earned their knowledge with many years of training and know better than I.
I know, nurses, etc, but nursing school is 3 years fast-tracked on learning every element of nursing, not add-ons, really. I hear nursing school is extremely difficult.
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Dave, re dev environment: how do people do development at your places of business? Like let's say you have a simple web app and mysql backend. Don't they need to run their own version of the web app on their computer in order to see how the changes they make effect things?
What I seen was a machine was setup with all the tools, the environment, no root access, etc. The sysadmin just set it up with all the correct OS's, versions, deps, VPNs, etc.
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Databases are a bit different. I have seen people (including myself) avoid a local db and only use a shared db. But its annoying and definitely not preferable to a developer getting their own local copy running to test their changes.
Right, a shared DB seems more standard than cloning it alone. Version control hasn't been solved very well yet.
As a contractor, I always have to download and clone to a local machine. If the database versions are behind my machine, I simply code down and not worry about it. If the database was changed, then I get the updated version, pop it into a different database, and diff.