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A friend of mine moved to the Philippines with her husband (both Australian) to set up an offshore development shop doing NetSute ERP implementations for Australian NetSuite custom…

So if one thing is true then other similar things must be true!!!

So I'm supposed to say this to my wife when I lose my job? The world will move on and I will struggle to pay the mortgage and pay for the kids school supplies all because of some r…

Nothing would ever get built if individual devs were held liable by the public. The liability sits with your employer.

As a contractor - I had insurance to cover me up to a million pounds. As a full time employee, the liability falls on my employer.

I'm not saying you should shrug it off - I'm saying you should't have your life ruined over a mistake in some code you wrote. I'm yet to see a building collapse around me in my cit…

Sounds good in principle but if I lose my job tomorrow are you going to guarantee this stuff for me and my family?

Sounds dangerous - mistakes happen - will I get thrown under the bus by the media if a bug in my code causes an accident that no QA process could have reasonably picked up on?

Nope - alternative is to have a work from home culture and local community culture.

I live in one too - if we spread people out a bit more into localised communities and make work from home culture a real thing, all the pollution and lifestyle issues you get from …

Yes they should - high density housing and everyone having to commute to the same few square miles in the middle of a densely populated area is one of the biggest scams of our time…

Yet for me it's provided every single job I've ever had except my first straight out of University.

Downvoted to the shithouse but I liked this comment.

RE: 300 days. Not always true, I took 6 month break from a large consulting firm - they have thousands of consultants so you can take a break without killing the company but obviou…

I work in ecommerce consulting - most of my clients take CC info on their site, the forms on the checkout POST (over SSL) to the PSP who then return a token to the site, all future…

Typical small minded HN user, the cost of an employee does not begin and end with salary.

What on earth am I reading? One thing I’ve noticed since moving to San Francisco is that my cohort in the tech world doesn’t talk that much about the industry’s past. How is the ab…

The comments on this story are really reflective of the kind of people on HN - no idea what's going on with the bigger picture - if it's not completely dev focussed then it's stupi…

What have half of your points got to do with anything? Not knowing who you live around is because that's not within the culture, if your life was based around where you live rather…

cultural change required. London is busy and expensive because people need to be there, if they didn't it wouldn't be!

Agree - I've been thinking about what the city would be like if all cars (except taxis) were banned during rush hour. I'm struggling to see how it would lead to anything but a bett…

No it's not - there are very few companies that live and die by this - it;s not in any job spec I've ever seen and even if this is true for some companies, I never claimed this wou…

1. This reduces the overall cost by some small percentage but I doubt it actually makes it free 2. In theory this is correct, are there any studies that actually show productivity …

The problem would vanish if we moved from city living to small town living. We only have city living because everyone needs to get to their office which created high density housin…

It would benefit many from a standards of living perspective. The lack of high density housing and removal of urban sprawl would mean that your child will actually know what a nice…