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Re: How to work remotely as a software developer

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Post by celwell » Fri, May 31, 2013, 8:07 PM UTC

DavidHogue wrote: post #19

jiggy2011 wrote: post #13

I've never tried working from a coffee shop but it seems people do. How does that work out financially? I imagine they aren't too pleased if you just buy a coffee and then occupy space for 5 hours. But I don't really want to spend a fortune on excessive caffeine consumption and $5 bagels.

I did it for a few months while moving to a new city before I had my own place. It wasn't too bad. I'd buy a basic coffee (and sometimes a cheap bagel) and find a corner to setup in. At lunch, I'd pack up and find something to eat, then head to a different place and buy a coffee. Sometimes I'd go to the library instead. It wasn't any more expensive than going out with coworkers for lunch every day... Most businesses…

I've coded in coffee shops for a few years. I usually spend the first half of the day at one and then switch at lunch. It can get expensive, but I usually justify it by telling myself I'm earning money (not completely logical).

Re: How to work remotely as a software developer

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Post by technikhil » Sun, Jun 02, 2013, 4:33 AM UTC

I worked from home for over a year before, moving to an office. I even wrote a similar blog post to this one last February - http://technikhil.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/distributed-devel... I moved to an office finally because our company wanted to add a lot more people to our engineering team and as we rapidly started growing, the need to have a proper office and meeting face to face justified getting an office.

Re: How to work remotely as a software developer

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Post by jarek » Sun, Jun 02, 2013, 6:46 AM UTC

adaml_623 wrote: post #72

mseebach wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Commuting simply means travelling between your home and your workplace. The fact that many people impose a painful commute on themselves does not make a less painful commute any less a commute.

I think if you look at the origin of the word commute you will find that it did actually emerge from the trip between suburbs and the city and hence a walk to work in the morning is not in the 'traditional' sense.

Do you by any chance have details on that? I'm genuinely curious but with a brief search all I could find was a reference to Latin commuto which implies a "to change, to transform" meaning, I'm guessing applied to a change of environment or mindset from home to work.