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evilducklast Monday at 5:46 PM1 replyview on HN

Right, many people have to treat their local computer as a thin-client and do everything through a WebEx session or similar means, which makes the local device irrelevant. Or if you're regulated but have to be specifically exempted and allowed to work in a way that schools would never permit, then in that case you'd not be arguing in good faith that kids are able to learn to code and develop on a Chromebook since they can't.


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aleph_minus_onelast Monday at 6:25 PM

> Or if you're regulated but have to be specifically exempted and allowed to work in a way that schools would never permit, then in that case you'd not be arguing in good faith that kids are able to learn to code and develop on a Chromebook since they can't.

No, I just wanted to show that your claim

> It's doubtful that your employer locks you out of literally everything that would allow you to develop software on-device. See my other comments in this thread.

simply does not hold in practice.

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Addendum: Additionally, from my school experience, rather the attempts to circumvent "abitrary" restrictions on the computers which were set up by the school made you a good coder. :-)

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