Do developers need the latest and best

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Published on 2010-05-24T19:52:06Z Indexed on 2010/05/24 20:01 UTC
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I know this is very subjective.

Do developers need the latest and best in software and hardware if so why and if not why?

Some people in our team seem to think we need we need the best while I think we need things stable.

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