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		icey on July 30, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How many computers should a programmer have? He's your standard Microsoft stack developer. Microsoft has historically done a very poor job of virtualization, so Microsoft focused developers generally have a poor opinion of virtualization.

akd on July 31, 2008 [–]

If you're writing lower-level network stuff working inside a VM can often create subtle timing issues (and conceal others) that need to be debugged on host OSs.

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