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Re: Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices?

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Post by dmoy »

OkGoDoIt wrote: post #196
drstewart wrote: post #186

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Agreed, I also think it's smart to pay your programmer $350k/year. If you don't work for a place like that then you don't work for a true software development company, or you work for a dumb one (in which case you shouldn't work there).

Is this sarcasm? As far as I’m aware, jobs at even large successful software companies rarely pay that well. Perhaps super high level engineers at Google or FB but a very small subset of developers would have this opportunity.

You do not need to be that high of a level at Facebook/Google to make 350k/yr. It is not a very small subset, but rather a very large set.

Re: Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices?

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Post by onion2k »

bdavisx wrote: post #128
onion2k wrote: post #12

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It's contribution; it's not supposed to cover the full cost.

If it's your employer, they should be paying for the entire cost of your office.

They are but only up to an agreed value. If Automaticc's employees choose to spend more then they can, and probably do.

If the employer were to cover the full cost then you can be quite sure they'd want a great deal more control over where the employee was based, and if the employer could rent an office for several employees then they probably would. At that point the job stops being remote and becomes an ordinary office job. That's how these things work.

Re: Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices?

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Post by calafrax »

sand500 wrote: post #200
calafrax wrote: post #173

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this fcc comment is so uninformed. getting rid of net neutrality will make service way better because you will be able to pay for a line with prioritized access for video conferencing and remote presence. net neutrality is what makes it impossible for individuals with a public isp connection to get the same quality as corporations with their own private networks.

>net neutrality is what makes it impossible for individuals with a public isp connection to get the same quality as corporations with their own private networks. Right, its definitely not the ISP monopoly/duopoly

yep. all of those qos and traffic shaping features on routers don't actually do anything. that is why it should be illegal for public isps to use them. makes sense.

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Post by taheca »

nfriedly wrote: post #175
Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #162

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That's gotta be quite the complement to your value to the company. Not only did they not let you go, but you still got a decent raise later. Even if they hinted that you won't be eligible for promotions (I imagine that decision comes from someone higher than the person allowing you to continue working from home), I'd still be feeling good about myself if I were in your shoes.

Yea, I'm really pretty thankful; I think my teammates and manager really went to bat for me when the whole thing came down. Without their help, IBM almost certainly would have let me go. It didn't work out so well for a colleague of mine who was on the design team. Despite several other teams within IBM trying to hire him, the company stayed the course and let him go. I don't know the full details, but I do know that…

I just reached out to him. Thank you so much for letting us know about their short sighted decision.

Re: Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices?

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Post by taheca »

pixelmonkey wrote: post #141

My team at Parse.ly is fully remote/distributed -- and one of the motivating reasons I formed the team that way was to reproduce the feel of Fog Creek's "bionic office", but in each engineer's home office space. I discussed this a little in my "Notes on Distributed Teams" presentation here: http://pixelmonkey.org/pub/distributed-teams/notes/#open-pla... Here's how my personal home office looks: https://flic.kr/p/v1NZ…

Just out of curiosity, why do you have two webcams?

Re: Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices?

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Post by hinkley »

colanderman wrote: post #76
latencyloser wrote: post #48

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Definitely depends on the group, but I think mostly just whatever building you happen to be in. The building I'm in is newly remodeled. Meaning entirely open-office. In my opinion, my building/group/whatever does it wrong by jamming so many bodies in the same room together. There's 26 desks here in a room that looks as though it could comfortable fit about half that many. I've since adopted big sound-proof headphones…

> Too many people for what the building was originally designed for OSHA regulates the ratio of employees to toilets ("water closets"). Check this table [1] and file an OSHA complaint [2] if the requirement isn't met. [1] https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_tab... [2] https://www.osha.gov/pls/osha7/eComplaintForm.html

I assume those numbers are per employee by gender, right? If my company managed gender equality we'd be right at the limit if all the desks were full. Maybe that's why the facilities guy gets cranky if people take over meeting rooms for contractors or interns?

A certain online retailer of books and counterfeit electronics has slightly larger bathrooms and a similar layout in its new buildings, but worse gender equality. They may actually be in violation.

Re: Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices?

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Post by pixelmonkey »

taheca wrote: post #206
pixelmonkey wrote: post #141

My team at Parse.ly is fully remote/distributed -- and one of the motivating reasons I formed the team that way was to reproduce the feel of Fog Creek's "bionic office", but in each engineer's home office space. I discussed this a little in my "Notes on Distributed Teams" presentation here: http://pixelmonkey.org/pub/distributed-teams/notes/#open-pla... Here's how my personal home office looks: https://flic.kr/p/v1NZ…

Just out of curiosity, why do you have two webcams?

Oh, simple explanation -- I have two computers. I have an always-on Mac Mini these days, and then a docking station for a Lenovo X1C. One webcam on each. (Since we have a remote team, I sometimes sit in on meetings [listening only] while doing work on my laptop, and for convenience and to save CPU, I do it from a second machine.)

Re: Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices?

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Post by harveywi »

wolco wrote: post #139
ams6110 wrote: post #135

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It seems weird to me to use online chat to talk to someone right next to you. I've done it in some situations to avoid disturbing others but it's pretty inefficient compared to face-to-face talking.

The good thing about online chats is you have a history of the conversation to reference later.

This is worth its weight in gold. Add to that the ability to selectively broadcast the conversation to potentially-relevant people without mutilating the concentration of non-interested parties. Add to that the ability to forward that info to new team members years after the conversations have happened and potentially years after the originator of the answer left.

Re: Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices?

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Post by phaed »

pixelmonkey wrote: post #141

My team at Parse.ly is fully remote/distributed -- and one of the motivating reasons I formed the team that way was to reproduce the feel of Fog Creek's "bionic office", but in each engineer's home office space. I discussed this a little in my "Notes on Distributed Teams" presentation here: http://pixelmonkey.org/pub/distributed-teams/notes/#open-pla... Here's how my personal home office looks: https://flic.kr/p/v1NZ…

As long were showing off remote workspaces, heres mine. Herman Miller Aeron + 50" 4k Samsung. https://www.instagram.com/p/BVGgCYMFhF_
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