Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location

Post by joezydeco » Fri, Nov 08, 2013, 6:17 PM UTC

melindajb wrote: post #17

invalidOrTaken wrote: post #14

Prediction: This will be a trend. People are less likely to be married now than they used to be. People increasingly feel loyalty to a culture rather than a country. Internet access on cruise ships will become cheaper.

Already this is a trend, but for senior citizens. Many of them use cruise ships as retirement communities for nearly similar reasons. http://www.aplaceformom.com/blog/2013-2-2-cruise-ship-retire... "According to Dr. Lee Lindquist’s 2004 study comparing assisted living costs and benefits to those offered by cruise ships, “cruises were priced similarly to assisted living centers and were more efficacious.” Lindquist cl…

Post by df07 » Fri, Nov 08, 2013, 6:21 PM UTC

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.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 08, 2013, 6:22 PM UTC

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.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 08, 2013, 6:22 PM UTC

slg wrote: post #23

Like others here, my major concern would be access to the technical resources that are freely available on the internet like StackOverflow. I was curious and consulted the StackExchange API and license. They seem to indicate it would not only possible to pull down the site's entire contents but it also would be allowed under the CC license that is used. Although judging by the various throttles in place, it would tak…

Post by wiggle_bar » Fri, Nov 08, 2013, 6:26 PM UTC