Why Cruise Ships Are My Favorite Remote Work Location (2013)

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Post by syncopatience » Sun, May 22, 2016, 5:32 PM UTC

Why Cruise Ships Are My Favorite Remote Work Location (2013)
tynan.com

Re: Why Cruise Ships Are My Favorite Remote Work Location (2013)

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Post by okket » Sun, May 22, 2016, 6:02 PM UTC

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416 (~3 yrs ago, 311 comments)

Re: Why Cruise Ships Are My Favorite Remote Work Location (2013)

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Post by samfisher83 » Sun, May 22, 2016, 6:24 PM UTC

The internet on cruise ships are super slow and very expensive. So I don't know how to programming on the cruise ship would work if you are connecting to a server.

Re: Why Cruise Ships Are My Favorite Remote Work Location (2013)

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Post by jkot » Sun, May 22, 2016, 6:30 PM UTC

This was discussed in DN community a lot. Cruise ships are useless for slow internet.

Re: Why Cruise Ships Are My Favorite Remote Work Location (2013)

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Post by zeristor » Sun, May 22, 2016, 6:34 PM UTC

I keep thinking about that article, working on a cruise ship. Here's a search of his blog about cruises, it looks like he stopped two years ago[༆]

[༆] - http://tynan.com/?search=cruise

Re: Why Cruise Ships Are My Favorite Remote Work Location (2013)

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Post by toomuchtodo » Sun, May 22, 2016, 6:41 PM UTC

jkot wrote: post #4

This was discussed in DN community a lot. Cruise ships are useless for slow internet.

Cruise ships are slowly being outfitted with high speed spot beam internet access. A friend working on RCCL's Quantum Of The Seas can pull 50-60Mbps off hours.

Re: Why Cruise Ships Are My Favorite Remote Work Location (2013)

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Post by iamben » Sun, May 22, 2016, 6:43 PM UTC

Serious question - is the mobile signal terrible if you're cruising on the Med? My data plan is £2 a day for about 500mb (or something like that) when out of the UK. That would probably suffice, assuming there was enough signal to bother tethering...

Re: Why Cruise Ships Are My Favorite Remote Work Location (2013)

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Post by mixmastamyk » Sun, May 22, 2016, 6:45 PM UTC

samfisher83 wrote: post #3

The internet on cruise ships are super slow and very expensive. So I don't know how to programming on the cruise ship would work if you are connecting to a server.

He writes about downloading all necessary docs beforehand. Also, it isn't hard to run servers in virtualbox or containers if you need them. That leaves slow internet for occasional searches of stack overflow, which is doable.

Re: Why Cruise Ships Are My Favorite Remote Work Location (2013)

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Post by jkot » Sun, May 22, 2016, 6:53 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #6

jkot wrote: post #4

This was discussed in DN community a lot. Cruise ships are useless for slow internet.

Cruise ships are slowly being outfitted with high speed spot beam internet access. A friend working on RCCL's Quantum Of The Seas can pull 50-60Mbps off hours.

Shared among hundreds of people... Not really reliable connection.

Re: Why Cruise Ships Are My Favorite Remote Work Location (2013)

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Post by op00to » Sun, May 22, 2016, 6:54 PM UTC

samfisher83 wrote: post #3

The internet on cruise ships are super slow and very expensive. So I don't know how to programming on the cruise ship would work if you are connecting to a server.

Not really so much on the newest (mega-)cruise ships. http://fortune.com/2015/10/15/cruise-ships-tech-wifi/

Latency is tied to the laws of physics, but using stuff like Mosh and Git, you're pretty well set.