sane people like to work for other sane people and work should be about what you produce unless you have necessary human interactions
Want to attract top tech talent? Offer telecommuting
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#133This is sort of a no-brainer. I'm pitched by recruiters about once a week, and they're all for far away positions - typically SF area, but other areas too. I can't sell my house any time soon - the market just isn't moving - so I'm somewhat held hostage by geography. This doesn't mean that I can't travel onsite and visit your office regularly, nor does it mean skype and phone don't work out here in the sticks :) Tele…
what's an example of one of those "strong procedures" ?
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#134In the past 4 hours I have exchanged ones and zeros with people and computers in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Arizona, California, Germany, Singapore, and India. And got 3 "office days" worth of work done. And I haven't even brushed my teeth yet. :-) You know what telecommuters say, "Once you've deployed a killer app in your pajamas, you can never go back."
Don't you find it gets a bit lonely after a while? I've been working as a full-time programmer from home for about a year and a half now, and it's beginning to get a bit weird. Aside from not having physical coworkers, I don't leave work, go home and do something else, because work is always all around me. There's this never-ending pattern of 9-5 quickly becoming 2 PM - 8 AM, until I finally pull an all nighter and i…
I find that scheduling activities with other people that start at around the time that you want to finish work is very effective at enforcing sane working hours.
I meet a friend to go climbing two nights a week, which pretty much forces me to stop working at a certain time two days a week. Having those two days anchored seems to help stop the other days drifting into other time zones.
Re: Want to attract top tech talent? Offer telecommuting
#135In the past 4 hours I have exchanged ones and zeros with people and computers in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Arizona, California, Germany, Singapore, and India. And got 3 "office days" worth of work done. And I haven't even brushed my teeth yet. :-) You know what telecommuters say, "Once you've deployed a killer app in your pajamas, you can never go back."
Don't you find it gets a bit lonely after a while? I've been working as a full-time programmer from home for about a year and a half now, and it's beginning to get a bit weird. Aside from not having physical coworkers, I don't leave work, go home and do something else, because work is always all around me. There's this never-ending pattern of 9-5 quickly becoming 2 PM - 8 AM, until I finally pull an all nighter and i…
That's what I feel after staying at home 11 days.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't you find it gets a bit lonely after a while? I've been working as a full-time programmer from home for about a year and a half now, and it's beginning to get a bit weird. Aside from not having physical coworkers, I don't leave work, go home and do something else, because work is always all around me. There's this never-ending pattern of 9-5 quickly becoming 2 PM - 8 AM, until I finally pull an all nighter and i…
> Don't you find it gets a bit lonely after a while? At work we spend 80% of the day pairing over voip and SSH. It's ironic because I moved from California to Seattle because I got tired of telecommuting all by my lonesome from down there, but these days with pairing it doesn't bother me at all.
That sounds like an interesting pairing setup. Would you mind expounding on the details, both technical and logistical, if possible?
Specifically, are you sharing a screen session with VIM in a terminal or what?
Do you rotate pairs or is it always the same person? How would you compare your remote pairing setup with live, in-person pairing?
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#137Anecdote: I've been traveling for the last three months, but most of my network is in Chicago. I hear from recruiters and hiring managers every couple days and, despite the consensus that Chicago has a "developer crisis" (to use the words of an Obtiva blog post), every single job has onsite only.
I read "Anecdote" as "HNecdote", not sure what that says about anything.
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#138Quite offtopic. But still I wanted to share this. ;)
Why working at home is both awesome and horrible - http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home
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#139Timely article, comsidering 37Signals
is relocating their entire team to Chicago. Apparently they are freaked out, not about their employees, but about people in their homes who might break in to their stuff. Aka ex spouses et al. So David H said they will all work from the Chicago office, with iMacs
Chained to their desks and wear
uniforms. No more working from home or laptops unless it's on open source projects. I'd link to the post on 37Signals blog, but I'm in bed and on an iPhone.
Just cruise to their corporate blog. They posted the details a few days ago.
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#140My advice would be, talent /= experience. I'm sick and tired of companies being super picky because I don't know their technology stack or maybe just one element, they don't even offer a technical test these days. I wont learn Cassandra or Scala because they are popular on super-webscale sites, I did, though, learn Haskell, Node, MongoDB, Redis, Python, Ruby, not because they teach that in college. I think that tells…
You say you refuse to learn them. If you're not going to learn their technology what use can you possibly be?