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Same here. I often work to loud music. Loud like a pair of old JBLs at 50W per channel. I usually work in a bathrobe or sweats. And I abhor meetings, unless I'm billing at a decent rate.

Also, I totally don't get the complaints about loneliness and isolation. I have the company of family and friends. And I distinguish firmly among clients, coworkers and friends.
Hello Zadyree,

Your perspective is interesting. I'm interested to find out more. Could you describe in detail what do you mean by "the best... FACE the problem BEFORE... knowledge."?

Best wishes,

Jek
You pay a penny to read an article. If they show you an ad and you find that objectionable, withhold future pennies. Further, inform anyone who will listen that the publisher is being dishonest about ads. Anyone who finds this objectionable will likewise withhold their pennies.

What makes this hypothetical microtransaction-based market different from classical publishing/broadcasting is the lack of friction on the internet. Friendster, Myspace, Digg et al. is the lesson we should all take to heart.
Long term - open dialogs.

Short term - allow law abiding citizens to carry guns to protect themselves. This will make life of police much easier and would save lives.
Ask HN: What happened to the old mainframes? Were many preserved?
Does this mean there's another Idlewords essay appearing soon?
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I'm not a fan of people interrupting either, but I've come to realize it does help the team run more efficiently. If I get 3 legitimate interruptions a day where 5 minutes of my time saves the other developer an hour, overall it means my team just accomplished 3 hours of work in 15 minutes.

Or say some error or urgent request comes up, it's been my experience at our office that the point person can look around, grab people into a quick meeting and resolve something in 10 minutes that would otherwise kick around in email for days.

It also helps on the social side to be "plugged into" the company. When you run across some weird error or feature request it's really valuable to know who you can even ask about a related part of the codebase or functionality. And you build that mental database by socializing.

Just a few of points the other way :-) I've done both remote and office work and just happen to prefer the higher bandwidth/iteration speed of in-person work.
Agreed. The time is irrelevant to me, because I can easily spend a month without internet programming my mobile apps, but I checked their schedules and their prices and they are very high compared to just flying wherever I need to go. Getting to Shanghai is 4x the cost of just flying.

Seems like just a waste of money for rich hipsters.
Living the dream! I have also telecommuted from the tropics, though on a fraction of your less-than-300k I bet.

What has your favorite work location been so far?
Be careful, 'lest your macro language itself turn Turing-complete.

> It is not worth sacrificing verifiable correctness to induce this kind of gain when there are better ways of doing it.

It's also important to remember it's not always worth sacrificing power to gain verifiable correctness. Not every class of problems needs it.

"Freedom for security", something something. ;).
SAFE is not my work. I was evangelizing many of the same principles, working similar things, and generally try to draw mainstream attention the The Right Thing (eg SAFE) when it manifests for a given problem/domain. High assurance security & systems path has been quite a trip, though. Thanks. :)
Bought! Hope that helps you get back to writing "Why programmers work at night" ;)
I prefer to think of it as intelligently precomputing options for a person, or setting an automatic helper to solve most of the cases.
> Go is language of choice on cloud.

I don't think this makes any sense. Javascript is the assembly language of the web because it's the only choice for the web (or more specifically, the browser). At best, any other legitimate choice will just compile to JavaScript, which is why it's thusly named. Go has no such privileged position; it's not even clear what it would mean to be the "language of choice on the cloud." You can write cloud software in any language you want, provided that the language has libraries for networking. All of the features you list are great, but none of them are exclusive to Go, nor are they required for cloud computing.
Not up for that commitment as I'm already bogged down. I could spare enough for the article and a few comments but not much more than that. Thanks anyway.
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Sure, I see what you're saying ionforce, and thanks for the clarification.

I still don't see the point...Hangover only works when you
1. go to the same place with
2. the same people, and
3.you want to lock content with those people

I ask how often does this use case occur?

What do you think ionforce?
I mean, I'm pretty sympathetic to the somewhat political statement that started this subthread. Having meaningful work for all humans that want it, and meaningful existence for any humans left out? (A bit off topic, granted.)
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Movie subtitle: "And so began a legacy of horrors that would never be topped in semiconductors..."

(Especially if you're in INFOSEC.)
Microwaving cooks food without generating as much carcinogenic char as other methods, so it can actually be healthier.

Since the microwave is often used for reheating food that was cooked with these other methods, there's often no advantage.
The 9-5 premise is about having regular hours (whatever they are) so team members can get in touch if they need to. It's also about signaling when team members can't get in touch. Both are important since they are implicit to an office but something you need to be careful to correctly define/signal when you are working remotely.

I don't really look at commit logs because, to me, they reflect how one prefers to work, rather than how productive they are being. 2 people can easily have 2 or 20 commits for the same feature set. I'm not going to be calling one a 10x engineer based on that :)

To that end I don't believe in looking at commit log, or time tracking (!) because both can be falsified pretty easily: they are just another form of counting lines of code IMO. I prefer to look at how much customer value someone is delivering and how much other team members listen to them.
> Or even get up to go find a desk calculator!

They are used to its UI.
Colocation assumes talent is centralized. I work on a team with a southerner, a hawaiian, and a guy in australia, and the client is located in Florida!

3 citizenships, 2 continents, and still a small team. If they wanted us all in-office they probably couldn't have hired us
How long do you do it? I think it's different in your first year and your tenth.
I'm in a wheelchair, I have limited access to telework with my current organisation. I'm trying very hard to find somewhere that'll let me work from home as it'd be a huge benefit for my health and wellbeing. Travelling is hard.
I guess that's true. But my inner cynic thinks that (ab)using people's herd instincts like that to "facilitate retention" cheapens traditional jobs. I would rather work remotely and have a meaningful social life, than work in an office and have a social life that my employer engineers to make me less likely to leave for a better job.

As an introvert, there is only so much social interaction I can take in a day. The office burns through most of it.
Sure, but I'd rather work with my coworkers.
Forgot about that, it's wonderful to be able to use my own bathroom instead of thinking about which co-workers sat on the toilet before me or did they have a contagious disease, etc.
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I've traveled enough to realize I'd rather stay in one place. Other places are good to take vacations to. But I always end up looking forward to getting home.
This isn't really free. More like "included" in your current plan. You are still paying Tmo like 50 bucks a month for a single line.
Haha thanks! To be honest, Why programmers work at night has been at a standstill for two reasons: 1) It's trying to be too many things to too many people and I can't decide who to focus on, and 2) It's been shelved for so long that at this point I feel deep fear of being judged when I get back to it.

It's hard to get back to something that you know 2000+ people are looking at you for.
I love working remote, and wouldn't consider working any other way. That being said it's still difficult to find work at home jobs, even for software engineers. I have recruiters hitting me up on LinkedIn all the time about open positions, but when I tell them I'd rather work remote, they sort of just shrug and go away.

Any other engineers out there that feel the same way? How would you approach finding a work at home job should you be looking?
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The title of this item is a bit misleading imo, as 'drawing' can mean a bit more than 'visualization', such as layout (node placement and edge routing) as you imply. Without intending to minimize the importance of design, presentation, and api, graph layout algorithm implementation can be quiet involved, which is why you see them rarely, imo.
I agree with you. I need to be more nuanced and less cold in my language. The reality is, I prefer going to an office and seeing my coworkers; fortunately this is well-aligned with the retention interests of my company.
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Wow that sounds like a bad client!
I find that I need people around doing stuff to look at occasionally to fend off the loneliness. I prefer to work from a Starbucks or a local open plan co-working space because of this. If there are people around, even if I don't talk to them, it helps me get work done.
Actually that isn't normal at all. Have you worked in any companies larger than 10 people? There are legal liabilities employers have to (or are supposed to) uphold and more so for public companies. Starting with this: http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/fs-sex.html
That's the URL I posted. What did you see?
I know it's an old chip from the 70s, but is that really a wood panel on top of the case?
I agree. One way to address that is to define a space at home that is your work office/space. So a study, or corner of a room. If a corner of a room, you could even get some dividers to separate yourself from the rest of the room. It also helps hide work if you also use the room for something else.

Then doing something like going to the gym, or going for a jog etc when you finished work for the day can help you make the mental disconnect. A routine can really help develop that mindset.
I forgot which company it was or where I heard of this, but they would be remote and do a group video chat together the whole time while working.
Net neutrality has always been a solution in search of a problem. The theory has always been that the big bad ISPs will destroy the internet for the little guy.

Any FCC implementation of net neutrality should make sure customers are being harmed or some other anti-competitive actions are occuring.

But telling Tmobile they can't allow free video on their network is an unwarranted intrusion into their business model. Should the government tell Google they have to charge for Gmail?
This legal battle has been going on for years. In that amount of time they could have built more affordable housing as a backup plan however Palo Alto has been stubborn about that. They portray this as a fight between a greedy landlord and low income residents but it's really caused by Palo Alto's stagnant zoning and land use policies.
As I said, I'm probably just too cynical, and seeing things through the fact that I don't like going to an office.

I agree that when it comes to team productivity rather than personal productivity, offices do work better. Especially when people of varying skill levels are involved.
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I totally agree. There is no need to pay to meditate. Sometimes, the best things in life are free. You can research breathing methods, posture styles, and more online.
It's really disconcerting that you can no longer tell satire from an earnest statement regarding such blatant Doublethink.
in a verbose and roundabout way, he is stating that <insert Arab terrorists here> could pilfer this and use it for a non-state actor bomb
I doubt it. Storage costs and hassles would be immense. Given that few people kept old Apple 1's around, as small as they are (which is why they sell so high at auction), I see no sense in preserving a mainframe, then or now.

I would guess that most surrendered mainframes (for the past decade or two) would be directly decommissioned, having no subsequent market warranting re-deployment.

Have you been in an old-school mainframe shop? I left that world in 1986 for the minis/PCs/UNIX world and didn't follow the industry after that. But at that time, a mainframe like an IBM 309x (successor to the 308x, which was the successor to the 3033, which was the successor to the 370 era) required huge, elevated, Halon-protected, chilled rooms, with banks of tape drives the size of a phone booth, hard drives the size of a small chest freezer, plus numerous large peripherals (printers, card readers, card punches, etc.), and an enormous power infrastructure.

Today, you now have more CPU power in your phone.

I loved operating mainframes alone - it was like being an orchestra conductor, except you could reboot a recalcitrant concertmaster.

It was typical of the mainframe world that machines were leased rather than owned. I guess the owners would redeploy if there was any customer, otherwise decommission for parts/scrap. The hassle of transport/exchange was huge.

BTW, anybody need 9-track reel tapes? I have a few.
At the risk of sounding totally ridiculous or trolly, the toughest challenge I've faced when adjusting to working remotely is answering the question, "When should I shower?"

It's easy when you're working in an office job: Shave and shower before you go into work in the morning.

When no one will see your face, you're suddenly left with the curse of too many options.

In the morning? But what if your roommate needs the hot water before he goes to work?

During your lunch break? What if you're hungry?

After work? What about your other roommate who usually works night shift?

Maybe that's totally silly to some folks. Communication came easy for me, but I grew up on IRC.
Universities and private institutions lack the check on that power that the government has with the judicial system. So even a policy of ardent free speech in these institutions would be on weak ground without a system to accuse or appeal misjudgment by the power holders.

The best system they have is public discourse... the media or internet,

But modern corporate media, much like University administrators, have demonstrated to be extremely unwilling to offend anybody. They rarely take a strong stances towards freedom of speech, preferring to appease via resignations and public apologies.

Additionally if Reddit is any indication the internet is not a great place for thoughtful political discussion.
Sometimes people don't have any choice and must work remotely like my startup. It was frustrating in the beginning but once we got used to it, it was very rewarding.

My cofounders and I are in this situation. We don't have a choice and have to work remotely as we have been in different countries for over a year now. We have been dogfooding our product (a real time collaborative whiteboard) to work together because as a startup we are always exploring new ideas, discussing strategies and designing solutions. Can't say that it beats meeting or working in person, but it definitely has worked well for us by making it easy to communicate and focus on ideas.
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I am just one of the people looking at it, so take these opinions for what you will.

Maybe it's better broken up into focus areas? It resonated with me and I was left wanting more - from what you said I'm not the only one. I really hope you do find a way to get back to it.

I wonder if it could work in a format other than a book? Look at "This is Not A Consipiracy Theory" for a really interesting way of producing a documentary.

I hope that one day I can show a book or something like this to my girlfriend to explain to her why I sometimes can't get to bed before 2 or 3 am...
(I'm not a lawyer... this is not legal advice... etc)

But I think he probably could try it if he wanted to. There are a number of "sample trolls" using technology that finds samples in old songs: http://www.project-disco.org/intellectual-property/040914-wh...

The statute of limitations for copyright infringement usually starts when the infringement is discovered: http://law.freeadvice.com/intellectual_property/copyright_la...
I believe I have a very good setup for working remotely. I have a house with a yard, and I can work indoors, or I can work outdoors (and regularly do.) The key, however, is that I work at a coworking space 2-3 days a week for part of my work day. It provides the perfect amount of social interaction, which I get to gatekeep. If I'm doing something particularly detail oriented, I stay home. If I can stand some interruptions, I head to the coworking space.

I don't know if all coworking spaces are as awesome as the one I have found myself at, but it fundamentally competes the "work at home" model for me.
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Yep. Took me forever to be rid of the dedicated calculator for exactly that reason.
> They would likely have exposed the nature of the study and Kinsey would likely have been fired.

If you mean because the scientific community was reactionary and would have run him out, then that's a criticism of attitudes in the scientific community, not of the usefulness of extra layers of blind in studies.

Even so though, your characterization of the scientific community is a bit hyperbolic. Note that Kinsey gave many open discussions of his research area as early as 1935, and yet somehow retained his position in "swinging" Indiana.

> There's no such thing as a separate neutral group of practitioners.

I doubt that's knowable.

There are helpful degrees of neutrality, though, and you can eliminate certain specific sources of bias as they are identified. If there was no way to derive any objective results at all, then it wouldn't matter if we just flipped coins, because no studies would be worth anything.

Self-run studies are biased because significant results further a researcher's career. If you have some other team run studies without knowing the author, that team's bias is to establish its own credibility, which is orthogonal to just 'manufacture significant results.'
The only issue I ever had working remotely was when my (now ex) wife thought I was talking to her while in a conference call.

"I know it's going to be tight, but we'll make it fit".
I switched from remote back to in-person about 2 months ago, and to be honest I'd completely forgotten how much easier it is to get some things done in a co-located environment. There were a lot of great things about working from home, but getting things done at anything above a "banging out the actual code" scale was not one of them.

I wish I could take back all my prior invocations of the complaint that someone interrupting me for 15 seconds eats 15 minutes of my productivity. Not only have I come to recognize just how transparently self-centered that meme is (and I'm embarrassed that I couldn't see it before, but given all the other great things about working from home I suppose a little confirmation bias is understandable), I've also realized that there are really quite a few domains where premature optimization is the root of all evil.
The title seems to be about something totally different than the article. Does the most powerful minority win? Sure. Does the most intolerant and stubborn win? Certainly not, at least in the long run.

Yes, you can smoke at a trainstation, or suicide bomb yourself to death in front of a football stadium. But that is only a success of your agenda in the very short term. If most of your coworkers are non smokers and you annoy them too often with your smoke, you lose their support in the long run and thereby your ability to push your agenda.

On the other hand we know that the straight white male is the default for our society beside being the biggest group, reason being that his agenda is integrated well in our world definition through media, history, etc. He doesn't win, because he's more stubborn. He wins because 90% of movies show him as the role model. You can be a very stubborn black woman but that won't make you rich and won't make people try to be like you, it won't enable you to push your agenda.
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Apparently I needed to include a "/s" on my comment.

No, conscription is most assuredly not the answer :)
They haven't done negotiating yet...
That part is easy. Shower after you work out, whenever that is.
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We have a system for democratically assigning value to comments here. Artificial moderation (moderation that supersedes the voting system) definitely must be a detriment to this website.
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Just a thought: you might someday find a home and work orientation where you can jog to work and shower there. This arrangement is certainly possible in cities like SF. Also many offices have windows that can be opened (if I were your colleague I would definitely want the window open if it meant something to you).

(It sounds like you are happy! I just wanted to point out to you and others that these two particular perks do not necessarily require working from home)

Edit: same general idea goes for the folks down thread appreciating access to a full kitchen. In fact, if one were designing an office, would this thread not be a great place to get ideas to distinguish your new office in awesome ways?
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The present argument is whether the which hunt would prevent them from advancing their career in the same field. It is contended that it never does really. Sure it is a dick move, but that's not being disputed.
For that same $11, he could have gone to see a movie and bought a pack of gum. Who's to say which is a better deal?
You could argue that these are not actually fungible products, that when buying from the independent store you are also paying for a public good - the existence of independent stores.
After the $75 gift certificate she actually came out ahead $47.05.
I was with you even though I've not used most of the tools you mentioned which must have been first released in the past 6 months for the hipsters. Why describe country music using terms like "discomfort", "shame" and "depression"? I can't think of any music that should make anyone feel that way. It almost seems to suggest a narrative, if you don't know what the new group of hot new tools are that were released yesterday, "Speech", "Slacker" (is that Slacker radio or Slack Linux?) and you like country music; don't bother to work for us. I'm guessing it also means if you're older than 25 no need to apply.