I Only Work Remotely

Post by middlering » Fri, Feb 10, 2017, 7:23 PM UTC

ChemicalWarfare wrote: post #138

traviswingo wrote: post #65

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The tons of looks and odd comments bug the shit out of me. Being an engineer, my job is to produce, period. Don't worry about where it happens, just know that every time you pick up the phone and promise something that doesn't exist to someone else, the fact that it suddenly, magically, exists for you to show them is because people like me are plugging away around the clock. Dev work isn't 9-5. It's 24/7 and whenever…

well.. yes and no. you aren't developing in a vacuum unless you're the only dev in the company, and even in that case you'd have some coordination to do. drives me nuts when I need to run something by a dev and he's gone at 2 pm and I need to wait till he gets into the beer-induced code rage mode at 10 pm and even then he might be on slack or maybe not :)

Just wondering what would you do if you need to run something by a Dev at, say, 5PM. Or 7. Or 10 in the night? Or at 2am, when Asia woke up to a big change-request/bug/whatever?

My response would be to do the same at 2.

Post by jjeaff » Mon, Feb 13, 2017, 4:10 AM UTC

sleepychu wrote: post #135

jjeaff wrote: post #78

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I use f.lux. Cuts out most of the blue spectrum. But being a night owl is not the only reason I get more done. No one bothers me at midnight. No one calls or texts or emails. I'm left to my own thoughts. Add to that the fact that people have been describing themselves as night owls since before electric lighting was invented, I don't think that is a full explanation. I have total blackout curtains in my rooms. My cir…

Doesn't this conflate chronology with the position of the sun? Do you think it's healthy to live in an artificial day cycle?

If you exclude the position of the sun, then what bearing would chronology have? As long as you are on a consistent cycle with sufficient sleep, it wouldn't make any sense to think your body cares either way. To say otherwise would deduce that moving from one time zone to another forever puts you at odds with your circadian rhythm.

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