As mentioned, not everyone can learn to code... and even those that do don't necessarily learn to do it well or with the proper discipline. The world does not need more crappy coders.

I used to be quite a fan of Apple products, going back to the Powerbook days... and for a while it was a pleasure to set aside Linux and Windows in favor of a OSX-powered Macbook. My frustration with their horrible attempts at simplicity and the decline of reliability in macos pushed me back to Linux and that in turn brought me to Windows 10 with WSL. My Apple TV is gone in favor of a Roku with Plex. My company-supplied iPhone is the only Apple product I still use and when I am up for a refresh I will be switching to something Android so I have choices again about how I manage my data and what I can do with my own device. Oh! Did I mention that I have been trying for over EIGHT MONTHS to get Apple to clear an activation lock on a company-purchased phone where the user mistyped his recovery phone number and now can't access his Apple ID? I've been told everything under the sun about what to do and what the result will be. In the end, the group responsible for actually unlocking the phone so we can reset and reissue it only communicates through form letters via email and there is no way to contact them directly. EIGHT MONTHS I have been going round and round... That device will eventually just get thrown away, I guess. I am SO done. Bye Apple.

I moved from a paid Dropbox subscription to a Resilio Sync subscription last year after having multiple issues with git repos being corrupted by Dropbox sync. In my experience, Resilio has been more reliable and the feature set continues to grow. I also like that there is no cloud storage of my files... Of course, some people like Dropbox just for that reason. The only thing I still use the free tier of Dropbox for is public sharing of links I had published that I do not want to have to break and recreate.

But it is welcome, nonetheless. It will be nice not feeling like my tired eyes are staring at a fluorescent bulb when I check my work email.

Neither dent in income OR quality of code produced... ;-)

The concern I have is that there is a real gap between what it takes to develop good software in the trenches and what management understands of those requirements. The bigger that gap, the more bluffing that can occur.

If true this is one more reason I'm glad I got off the Apple train and am back on Linux. Apple is growing too full of themselves.

You are assuming there IS a VPN, though and in many smaller organizations that is not the case.

Open source certainly is a business for Red Hat - they charge a ton of money for it!

If he'd been Russian, he wouldn't have needed to be onsite ;-)

He just needed to be sure!

Blackberrys? Seriously?? 2009 called... (but couldn't get through of course.)