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Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

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Re: Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

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Post by userium »

sschueller wrote: post #3

I find it interesting how they achieve this and it also gives people in remote places the ability to work for such a company. What I don't agree with is the pay scale they use based on your location. If you have the same skills, you should be paid the same.

> I find it interesting how they achieve this

There are lots of things, but one valuable thing is to build strong social connections [1] and trust [2] with your remote colleagues. For example by regularly getting the team together on video calls to discuss topics unrelated to work. And sharing a meal at the same time. Small things that make a surprisingly big difference.

[1] Guide to Remote Teams https://teamsuccess.io/remoteteam

[2] Harvard Business Review, The Neuroscience of Trust https://hbr.org/2017/01/the-neuroscience-of-trust

Re: Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

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Post by joppy »

rdsubhas wrote: post #100

How do people whiteboard remotely? This is a big problem for many development teams. Sometimes you just want to open a blank whiteboard and scribble some boxes and brainstorm or troubleshoot some things. The whiteboard is an inseparable part of nearly every meeting. And no, remote "canvas" whiteboards don't work. They end up looking like this: https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2015/3-3/jLndYAfNf... . Is there…

Get some kind of device with a stylus (drawing tablet, iPad, Surface, etc) and use that to whiteboard. I think remote canvas whiteboards do work, you just need the proper tools to use them.

Re: Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

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Post by tyingq »

dempedempe wrote: post #85
tasuki wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apart from being a turn-off, the location factors are also off: Poland - 33.3 Czech Republic - 37 Belarus - 41 Moldova - 41

Vancouver, BC - 60 Seattle, WA - 90 Vancouver is more expensive than Seattle... And Cuba is 41.1, while Mexico is 35??

Probably average market salary based versus cost of living based. That would explain Seattle, for example.

Re: Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

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Post by sethammons »

rdsubhas wrote: post #100

How do people whiteboard remotely? This is a big problem for many development teams. Sometimes you just want to open a blank whiteboard and scribble some boxes and brainstorm or troubleshoot some things. The whiteboard is an inseparable part of nearly every meeting. And no, remote "canvas" whiteboards don't work. They end up looking like this: https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2015/3-3/jLndYAfNf... . Is there…

Use a Wacom tablet or iPad with a stylus. Drawing with a mouse or trackpad is the problem. We use Zoom's whiteboard feature, but any online canvas could work. The Zoom option is interesting for us because we have the interactive boards in our office so remoties and in-office people can draw on the same thing.

Re: Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

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Post by lampe3 »

rdsubhas wrote: post #100

How do people whiteboard remotely? This is a big problem for many development teams. Sometimes you just want to open a blank whiteboard and scribble some boxes and brainstorm or troubleshoot some things. The whiteboard is an inseparable part of nearly every meeting. And no, remote "canvas" whiteboards don't work. They end up looking like this: https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2015/3-3/jLndYAfNf... . Is there…

The question is why do you need a whiteboard?

What problem is the whiteboard solving?

Drawing freely with a mouse is something that can be done but also you have tools like draw.io if you need to draw something.

Re: Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

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Post by flyinprogrammer »

rdsubhas wrote: post #100

How do people whiteboard remotely? This is a big problem for many development teams. Sometimes you just want to open a blank whiteboard and scribble some boxes and brainstorm or troubleshoot some things. The whiteboard is an inseparable part of nearly every meeting. And no, remote "canvas" whiteboards don't work. They end up looking like this: https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2015/3-3/jLndYAfNf... . Is there…

Obviously this is cost prohibited, and not collaborative - but historically I've used an iPad, QuickTime to capture the screen of the iPad, and then share the screen of my laptop.

Re: Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

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Post by r0rtega »

rdsubhas wrote: post #100

How do people whiteboard remotely? This is a big problem for many development teams. Sometimes you just want to open a blank whiteboard and scribble some boxes and brainstorm or troubleshoot some things. The whiteboard is an inseparable part of nearly every meeting. And no, remote "canvas" whiteboards don't work. They end up looking like this: https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2015/3-3/jLndYAfNf... . Is there…

There is tools like https://miro.com/

Re: Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

soren_dahl wrote: post #10
sschueller wrote: post #3

I find it interesting how they achieve this and it also gives people in remote places the ability to work for such a company. What I don't agree with is the pay scale they use based on your location. If you have the same skills, you should be paid the same.

The regional coefficients they use to set salary are a real turn off. https://about.gitlab.com/salary/data.json

They nicely make this public.

Given how rare this is, we probably should praise them for the transparency.

Because what we are doing here is the very reason companies are not transparent in the first place: you never get praises, only critics.

Re: Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

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Post by cyphar »

lampe3 wrote: post #105
rdsubhas wrote: post #100

How do people whiteboard remotely? This is a big problem for many development teams. Sometimes you just want to open a blank whiteboard and scribble some boxes and brainstorm or troubleshoot some things. The whiteboard is an inseparable part of nearly every meeting. And no, remote "canvas" whiteboards don't work. They end up looking like this: https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2015/3-3/jLndYAfNf... . Is there…

The question is why do you need a whiteboard? What problem is the whiteboard solving? Drawing freely with a mouse is something that can be done but also you have tools like draw.io if you need to draw something.

Whiteboards are absolutely indispensable for communicating ideas quickly in a small group of people. It's effectively just a bigger (and easier to erase) version of grabbing a scrap of paper to scribble something down when explaining or describing something to someone else.

I'm honestly more surprised that this isn't a universally known concept on HN. Scribbling on scraps of paper is something most people in western countries have done since pre-school.

Re: Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

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Post by renchap »

rdsubhas wrote: post #100

How do people whiteboard remotely? This is a big problem for many development teams. Sometimes you just want to open a blank whiteboard and scribble some boxes and brainstorm or troubleshoot some things. The whiteboard is an inseparable part of nearly every meeting. And no, remote "canvas" whiteboards don't work. They end up looking like this: https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2015/3-3/jLndYAfNf... . Is there…

Excalidraw (https://excalidraw.com) just implemented collaboration, making it a free, secure and OSS solution for remote whiteboard :)
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