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Re: Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location

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Post by jaibot »

DanBC wrote: post #21
AlexMuir wrote: post #5

I too work from a lot of different places, but I find that I absolutely need internet to be productive. Pulling a Gem for instance, or checking Stack Overflow. My favourite places to work are all-inclusive holiday resorts. Lanzarote and the Algarve most recently. Being all inclusive means there is no thought process in eating or drinking. Nor any need to shop, clean, cook. The most difficult thing is finding out what…

I'm gently surprised SO hasn't done a 6 month torrent of a stand-alone locally searchable SO. They could possibly do a monthly subscription download? That'd help the people wanting to turn off the Internet. EDIT: And, if you really need it, you can get Internet on a ship. It's hideously expensive, but that's okay. You just need to think before going online.

I know of at least one shop that does most of their work offline and keeps a local SO cache for exactly this purpose.

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Post by gmays »

wbeckler wrote: post #78
gmays wrote: post #53

Great post. Being new in my entrepreneurial career I'm just learning the pleasures of working from anywhere. I live in San Diego, but a few weeks ago I drove up to NorCal to visit the parents. While there I attended Startup School in the bay area. The next week I flew to Boston and stayed with a friend in Cambridge and attended WordCamp Boston. I attended the Business of Software conference next and stayed at the Sea…

How did you arrange a roomshare at a hotel? friend or online service?

I shared the room with a guy I met earlier this year at MicroConf (another great conference). I think Rob Walling or Mike Taber put us in touch.

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Post by vinceguidry »

MattBearman wrote: post #117
triangleman wrote: post #102

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That was a terrible book! You might as well read Rich Dad, Poor Dad .

I've not read RDPD, but unless I'm mistaken isn't it a self help type book? (in the vein of 4HWW). Where as The Game a novel, you can't really learn to pick up women from reading it, so not sure they can be compared.

The Game isn't a novel, it's an account of the author's experience in the so-called seduction community. It's arguable as to whether you could learn how to "pick up" women from it, whatever that means. (it's not an instruction manual) It is a decent read though, Strauss is a talented author.

Re: Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location

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Post by larrys »

ZoFreX wrote: post #116
larrys wrote: post #99

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Yeah the memory thing is a problem for sure. I've noticed that and it worries me. A few years ago I built this php/mysql just to store things that I learned or figured out (correct syntax for rsync might be an example) so I wouldn't have to re google them. [1] But now what I'm seeing is that most things can be found by google quicker than in the format I am using the db for. (But it's still helpful because I can cut…

Stop cutting and pasting and start typing. I try to copy from memory, but even writing it out while looking at the original still seems to help retention.

I actually do do that almost always. Habit started with books actually. Exactly true as far as learning and retention.

Noting even that when learning php somethings that I cut and pasted had weird invisible embedded characters that caused things to fail [1]. That was actually a pretty good learning experience trying to take something that appeared correct character by character and figure out why it wasn't working by stripping things down the the basics.

[1] Might have been on w3schools or something like that.

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Post by eCa »

na85 wrote: post #98
kronholm wrote: post #77

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I wouldn't mind doing that, but not what sure you mean with "wifi hotspot functionality"?

I took it to mean "put it on your phone and let the phone serve it"

> at least 20-30GB of space

What would be good would be if there was an easy way to filter the local database for specific tags before putting it on the phone.

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Post by mathattack »

larrys wrote: post #99
mathattack wrote: post #90

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I hear you, and that's how I learned. :-) But I find it much tougher on the topics I'm learning today. Perhaps it's because the old stuff is hard wired because it needs to be, but I keep less of the new topics in long term memory because I can outsource that storage to Google?

Yeah the memory thing is a problem for sure. I've noticed that and it worries me. A few years ago I built this php/mysql just to store things that I learned or figured out (correct syntax for rsync might be an example) so I wouldn't have to re google them. [1] But now what I'm seeing is that most things can be found by google quicker than in the format I am using the db for. (But it's still helpful because I can cut…

You're being generous about it being laziness. I'm blaming my own on old age. :-)

But seriously, there are pros and cons with this. On the one hand, by outsourcing certain aspects of memory, we can hold much more. It's kind of like learning to call APIs rather than re-writing everything from scratch. On the other hand, I believe that instant recall has it's advantages. (I think our generation can do math approximations in our head faster than the current generation, and that's an advantage)

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Post by toomuchtodo »

larrys wrote: post #75
ssharp wrote: post #54

Having been of a few cruises, I'd like to point out a few things: 1) Listed prices generally DO NOT include gratuities. Low level cruise employees like the cleaning crew, cabin stewards, waiters, cooks, etc. are paid ridiculously low wages, because cruise ships are registered to countries like Panama and the companies do not need to adhere to U.S. standards. I don't recall offhand, but for a 7-day cruise the "automat…

"2) Internet is expensive, slow, and charges by the minute). " When I've been on cruises (this dates back to as early as 2002 iirc) I've always been concerned with this. And there are times as well (when sailing) that you are out of reach by satellite and have no connectivity at all. Unless things have changed you aren't going to be streaming video or doing anything that requires bandwidth. Once again, from my experi…

Was the cruise line Royal Caribbean?

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Post by toomuchtodo »

df07 wrote: post #24
DanBC wrote: post #21

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I'm gently surprised SO hasn't done a 6 month torrent of a stand-alone locally searchable SO. They could possibly do a monthly subscription download? That'd help the people wanting to turn off the Internet. EDIT: And, if you really need it, you can get Internet on a ship. It's hideously expensive, but that's okay. You just need to think before going online.

We release an XML data dump every 3 months. It'd only be a bit of work to make it presentable and load it into something searchable. http://www.clearbits.net/creators/146-stack-exchange-data-du...

Thank you. Stack Overflow is like the wikipedia of tech knowledge.

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Post by theorique »

Perspective from David Foster Wallace - "Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise". Also known as "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again".

[pdf] http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazin...

However, I don't think this (somewhat critical) article should deter any would-be cruise goers, especially if you have work to engage you during the time.

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