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Do you work for Linode? Seems a very Linode attitude to communication
No, I think remote work sucks, too.

Once you've worked in a environment with healthy technical interaction on an organic basis it's qualitatively and quantitatively better than a group of remote workers. There is so much shared information that is lost when you can't just strike up a conversation.
Most large corporations are more run by personal dominance and fear than by use of profitable skills. Once you reach a certain size, the economy caters to you rather than the other way around. Reality is determined by the will of the powerful, rather than what is observable.

Profitable skills in and of themselves can be dangerous in a large corporation, as skillful people can change things outside the will of the politically powerful.
I'm curious if you wouldn't mind sharing what was the context around that pitch, and your subsequent response. It sounds like you didn't go forward with implementing that ... was it your decision to not move forward, or were you in a team and that's just what ended up happening?
The Supreme Court interprets the law as it is written. If the legislature decides they want to change the law, they can (like how if something is declared "unconstitutional", by following procedures the legislature could modify the Constitution to make it so).
Well worth the read.
Interesting you would say that. One of the biggest reasons I would want to work remote is because I can't afford to live in the town that I work in. Small town in Montana big city prices... no, I would definitely want to be able to choose where I live.
our entire company (not just developers) clicks video chat almost before thinking about an issue. I get a lot of calls that are just one of our technicians saying something looks odd in a config file and asking me for a 30 second sanity check. It can be annoying because email communication is (it feels like) avoided even when it would be a better medium or force someone to actually think through an issue.

However, it does mean that we have good team cohesion.
Actually I liked cubicle farms. I had my own space and could have meetings at my desk if I needed to and would go over and chat with my colleagues a lot. I mean it wasn't visually exciting but as a work space for a order company it had a lot of good qualities.
If there is one thing that is for certain, this is only going to get much worse. And peoples wet dreams about a jobless society. Well, you are not going to spend all that leisure time alone on secret deserted locations around the world.
A programming language (visual or textual or whatever) is an expression. How thoughts and ideas are represented inside the mind is a different question.
Sounds like you have internal knowledge of this process ... how does it work, do you have to formally tell your boss that your fridays will be spent on 20% time? do they need to give you permission? or do you just have to sneak the time in at your discretion?
You're right. It's good to have some expectations of the company, but customers really need to take the TOS seriously.
It still wouldn't be a human gene, possibly a human compatible gene, but not a human gene.
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The thing is, it's not that hard for an animal (or a machine) to do one thing that we do, sometimes even to do it better than we do. But doing everything that we do, in the same package, is really, really hard.
an extra 12k usd/year goes a long way to FIRE status. Both uber and barista routes seem viable for this.
What percentage of those remote work setups are “ideal”?
If you want a loud computer that consumes ten times as much electricity as it should, then an old Xean Workstation might be for you. Personally I prefer buying old Thinkpads. They're cheap, fast enough, and their electricity consumption is decent.
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Since "Redis" and "Redis Labs" are mentioned multiple times among the comments, here is my gentle reminder that Redis is BSD licensed, and only additional modules provided by Redis Labs have a different license.
> On the other hand, if a court finds that a law is unconstitutional, that means that the legislature does not have the authority to pass the law to begin with. A constitutional limitation can't be overridden by statute.

In the United States, the legislature most certainly has the authority to modify the Constitution and has done so on several occasions.
My wife's experience was much the same. So much that when I had an emergency appendectomy I answered every question with the goal of being discharged and not spending the night.

I was even more motivated when I overheard a phone call from a patient down the hall. It was so loud that my nurse rolled her eyes and informed me he be awake until 3am. I was sure between him and the nurses there wouldn't be any sleep in that place. I got out about 20 minute before the cutoff time for being stuck in hell.
Have you tried a Sony product lately? [1]

They are capable of 'world class' things, which is more than most nations can say, but like everything 'it depends'.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyCtaciiM8Y
I was going to complain about people who live abroad (as I do), and them being penalised for returning to see their family, but then I realised that it's actually the inverse in Sweden.

You get a tax break if you travel to visit your home country, I guess it's something they want to promote.
While I understand the concerns with this, I highly doubt our government does (they still don't understand the internet). I'm a believer that this ban is centered around religion and the fear that if man can "create" then it takes away from religion and a God creating man.
Yeah, do they not teach times tables in school these days? O.o
Maybe off topic, but isn't the language in the abstract a bit aggressive?

I mean, this type of study is somewhat open to interpretation. It's not like everyone should arrive to the exact same numbers..
AFAIK, Mozilla is not all-remote? They're hiring in Portland and specifically mention the office here.
> I'm graduating with my master's in CS now and still haven't been taught in class many of the things I had to figure out to make what I wanted to make.

Maybe the fact that you figured it out is an indication that it doesn't have to be taught in a CS curriculum. Most of the things that you mentioned have great documentation and tutorials outside of the classroom. The fact that so many people use them without them being taught in schools should be proof enough. I think the current situation makes sense -- Computer Science education should focus on teaching the fundamentals of algorithms, data structures, discrete math and how to think conceptually about problems without regard to implementation. By learning about data structures and the like, you indirectly learn how best to use memory, redis, MySQL, write servers and whatever else.
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Doing partial remoting atm (50% of the time on site) and having spent a year looking for a full remote job I have a few things to testify from the employee side:

1. Partial remote (sometimes) sucks. Ppl in office either feel they getting less or are bored to go the extra mile to accommodate you (remoting is based on better and more communication) or just ignore you cause it's easier to just ask the next desk. And anyhow you are out of any networking/office politics (not necessarily a bad thing though).

2. Fully remote companies are generally of 3 kinds: a. companies you've heard of and they're serious but since they're looking to hire from a global pool they are extremely picky (Maybe it's easier to get into google than getting into Wordpress). b. companies that are OK(ish) but are in the remoting thing just to cut costs, i.e. they pay peanuts c. companies that are outright dodgy and are looking for suckers or vanish in a puff without a sign. Obviously you'd only care for type (a) but so do thousand others out there.

3. If you happen to be tax-resident on a state where they tax-slaughter contractors (e.g. certain EU states with ~ 70% tax) remoting is devolving to a hobby rather than a job that may sustain you and your family. "Moving" to a tax haven comes with high risks and in the end you end up playing accountancy games rather than focusing on your job.

4. You essentially are a contractor. Few if any or remote companies hire you as an employee (but you are paid as an employee). You can be terminated with a minimal notice and no severance. In case of a mixed mode company non-remoters will probably get precedence over you.

5. Remoting is not for everyone. I personally am fine working like that but I totally understand that a lot of people need the motivation, vibrancy, socializing of the office.

6. Remoting is a very good way to balance work/family (but you might end up doing a half-assed job in both all the time).

7. Remoting it the _only_ way to fight off overheated to the point of surreal rental/housing markets like SF, London, Dublin, Munich.

8. Ecologically speaking the gains are just immense. Dunno if there are any statistics but I wouldn't be surprised if commuting to work is one of the biggest polluting activities overall.

9. Remoting is the only way to do _deep_ work. Focus, get in the zone, minimize disruptions and solve hard problems. Office is better for trivial, communication-heavy tasks.

Just my 2 cents from my experience so far.
If Firefox really wanted to compete, they could just move web search features more thoroughly into native browser chrome, interacting with the search engine as a raw API provider (i.e. render the DOM in a floating document, then scrape the results out of it and display them in a special “search” URI-namespaced page—the same kind of page Chrome uses to display its native Google search bar!) This would basically commoditize the search-engine space for their users—all search engines would look the same and work the same, just with different browser-exposed features enabled or disabled per provider.

So, for example, if Google doesn’t want to expose the ability to set a location, but does expose an API for doing so, Firefox could just provide a native-chrome option on their native-chrome search results display to set that parameter and search again.

And, of course, while they’re at it, they could prune out the “sponsored results”, as well.

Of course, they’d need to be prepared to lose all funding from Google at that point...
There seems to be almost too many options with each having some features that I don't truly understand. What would everyone recommend for an all around usage for scissors and even for a knife? I often have problems with scissors not cutting things for whatever reason.
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Fair point. I don't see how to outperform text in expressing logic and computation visually either.

The problem here is a scale – what works for cookie recipes, doesn't work for "recipe" on how to build a Boeing plane, for example.
It looks like you can choose to be employee, https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/contracts/
Not every employee has an abundance of intrinsic motivation that pushes them through the day. Many, many people require some extrinsic motivation. In practice, at a reasonably sane workplace, most of this motivation comes from peer pressure of watching your coworkers work hard, not from a manager swinging a hammer.

But the extrinsic motivation of colocated coworkers is still very important for many people.
Also the complete social isolation for at least 8 hours a day (sounds) like it would be awful. Honestly confused as to why anyone thinks they would like that. Everyone I know who have tried working remotely complains bitterly about it.
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There are several type of people of course and there's no correct answer. And for good personal reasons usually. A lot of asocial introverts are likely to have an issue with open plan offices but might do just fine in a private office - yet some of them would prefer only working remote.

Developing personal rapport with the colleagues is often another factor. I have seen remote-only people join the "office" camp and consider it more productive and motivating, simply because they found a workplace that they liked more than working remote, with one of the factors being relationships they developed. Some even prefer the synched schedule over flexible hours.

Personally I am remote-only but I appreciate everyone's different and not everyone work the same way.
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Pretty neat optimization.
I would argue that if a remote worker is dissatisfied with the physical setup of their remote office, that's on them, not the employer. Having a team that does not prioritize remote-first-style communication is another situation entirely.
nitpick: the problem is randomly distributed, just not uniformly distributed.
President Trump is trying to reform the US VISA system to make it more consistent with other developed nations. But for some reason any attempt to move to a more merit based system is considered racist by Democratic politicians.

Also, the flood of illegal aliens and faux-asylum seekers is sucking all of the oxygen out of the room as far as having a rational immigration system goes.
Personally, I prefer remote work, but have had a hard time finding it lately. Half of my opportunities require me to go to an office to work. I don't complain much, as I increase my hour by ~40% when it is not possible to do it remotely. That also comes to compensate for the time lost in commute, the extra money spent (e.g. transportation, food), and the fact that I can't really choose the hours I work. This last point is always funny, because my employers always tell me I have a completely flexible schedule. Their faces when I ask if I can come to work from 10pm~4am is priceless though. "Oh, your hours are 100% flexible given that you come anywhere between 8am and 6pm", heard this so many times it got funny.

PS: writing this at the office, feeling sleepy... they won't allow remote work... and this computer takes a while to build, 23x more than my personal workstation, I timed it.
Reading this article + accompanying comments has me reminiscing on how awesome the Runescape community was back in the day. Scripting for SCAR, Moderating on Sythe.org (screen name Puto & Heist if anyone's out there) and trafficking massive amounts of internet goods via PayPal bring back some of my fondest memories on the internet.

I credit a good portion of my career success today to Runescape-centric experiences in CS, Business and Community Politics.

Thank you Andrew Gower + JaGeX team for creating a game much larger than itself.
It depends on how the finding was made. If the court says that something is illegal via a direct conflict with the constitution, then no law short of a constitutional amendment is going to be able to overrule the decision.

In these cases, though, (and I'm not a lawyer!) the existing decisions are on weaker grouns. The court held that nothing in the constitution or the legal charter of the USPTO gave it the power to allow protection for things like gene, software or business method patents. So trying to regulate them was beyond the powers granted to the government by itself.

So you fix that by writing a law spelling out more clearly what the USPTO is allowed to do.

The actual language in the constitution itself is very broad: "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries". It's extremely hard to read a ban on gene patents in that, IMHO.
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But a great replacement for plastic grocery bags. And packaging for dry goods.

It doesn't have to replace ALL plastic uses. It's perfectly fine if it's just a replacement for specific uses.

Eg. Using a glass bottle instead of a plastic bottle
I think moving and experiencing the city and surrounding places for a few years is more enjoyable than short trips. I am now looking at moving to my 5th different city in 10 years. I spend my vacation days exploring around what is in my "backyard". Taking a 10 hour flight and spending a few days trying to see everything is not enjoyable to me.
Tldr; - it’s genes and environment. Not much science actually discussed.
Well, the pedantry can goo all the way down too!

These two forms are a dialect (variation?) of English, mostly used in Southern USA.

Also, if I remember my John McWhorter correctly:
1) "y'all" refers to a group majority (e.g. a group of 10 people within the global collective of 20)
2) "all y'all" refers to the complete set (all 20)

Both of these are contextually narrow than "you" which can refer to a single person or to an undefined sized group.

A possibly better example would have actually been "thou", an archaic singular 2nd person pronoun.

However, all of this is just further proof that the equivalence in conjugation is a harder problem that could be imagined. So, thank you for contributing a good example.
I would add another negative to the list from personal experience. About a year ago I built a used server dual Xeon home server with e5-2680v2s. Now the pass mark scores per chip are about 15,000 but the power draw overall can get quite high. If you’re in an area with more expensive kwh I would recommend looking into something like a threadripper or a more efficient and newer cpu.
Only speculating, but I suggest it may have even nothing to do with some specific industry (although paper seems to have a prominent role ...) - rather, an interest in artisanal quality.

Consider that 'Sushi Chef' is not just some arbitrary post, like 'cook' - it's a status. An artisanal occupation. Not a very high status, but a status nonetheless. The chef can take immense pride in his tiny are of influence, his work is an extension of him. The clients praise (or distain) is 'personal'. So there's an expectation of quality, as a matter of dignity?

I'm only speculating.
I'm going to say that study has a serious smell.

I can't read any of the detail (no access), but look at the example graph for Danish mothers. It suggests that in 1965, the average time spent by a non-university-educated mother on childcare for an under 13 was less than 10 minutes. That's an extraordinary claim, and needs extraordinary evidence to back it up.
Ask HN: NonProfit Work for Developers?
I'm a Corporate Dev.

If I wanted to take a break out of this life, are there any Nonprofit Opportunities available that would need my skillset?
Where I could travel somewhere, teach basic computer/programming skills, help support various technical infrastructure for the org, etc.
I’ve never run into a colleague from another department on an email chain. It happens frequently in our office kitchen. I don’t that that, or the ability to simply walk over to someone’s desk should be discounted.
That's an interesting read. http://www.plutuspowergen.com/about/sustainability/

> "Plutus PowerGen’s facilities are anticipated to run for no more than 150 hours per year in 60 minute blocks of time during peak demand and may not exceed 300 hours as a result of the commitments made in the planning permission process. Despite providing valuable generating capacity, each facility is expected to be switched off for more than 97% of the time, ensuring that their annualised emissions are minimal. The Company’s facilities will conform to all UK and EU air quality standards The generators will be fired with either green fuel from HVO (hydrogenated vegetable oil) or gas."

A set of "backup" generators run for 3% of the year on vegetable oil is hardly a big carbon emitter. It's an expensive problem - no matter what the grid setup is, someone's got to be the generator of last resort which gets hardly ever used.

This is exactly the kind of market that a Tesla battery got deployed into in Australia.

http://www.plutuspowergen.com/current-operations/business-mo... is an interesting read too.
In my office there are 6 employees. We have group meetings twice a week but otherwise we almost never communicate face to face despite only being 15 feet away from one another. I do enjoy having the option of walking into one of their offices to get a face to face meeting if I need one but I don't see why a call over Skype wouldn't be just as useful.

Currently, I can't afford to live in this town which is insane because there are only 50k people living here. I would love to be able to move to some small town where a house of the same quality and size would only cost me 100k or less rather than 300k or more.
So we can return to the rightful world where only the rich can afford to jetset? Why bother with the price mechanism, just institute a lottery. It's far more egalitarian.
Some of these are incredibly sharp!

The titanium coated one they have in one picture (gold tinted blade) is one I got via jetpens.com and via an incident with them sliding along a plastic tab; I got my first stitches ever, 3 stitches from a cut adjacent a joint of the right pointer finger. (Fall 2018 at the tender age of 30. )

My recommendation: only use normal scissors on paper, for every thing else use a scissor with the grippy micro serrations for a safer / better time.

In the kitchen the oxo brand scissors are great. For random plastic stuff like the dreaded plastic clamshell I take the nuclear route of using a compound action tin snips! Makes plastic or sheet metal cut like melted butter. And way safer ;)
This ideal environment is impossible.

If person A needs “peace and quiet” and Person B needs to grab Person A to “look at something” then it will only be ideal for one of them.
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Human beings don't have claws, so we invented blades. Cats don't have the luxury to invent their own adaptations.
Why do people fear programming that much, so that even a simple SQL query is tried to be abstracted?

Same thing with visual "no code" programming. Is that really simpler to endlessly move around colorful blocks than writing a few lines in, say, Python?
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> the reason that people are often attracted to remote-working is precisely because their experience and environment fail on some or many of the ideals you list.

Disagree. They want to live someplace that doesn't have the highly paid jobs that, say a city or tech center would have. A San Francisco salary with a Modesto cost of living. Or they want to do the digital nomad thing.

Companies these days bend over backwards to make the office experience as optimal as possible.
If the variance is tighter, it doesn't matter.
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Your quote was the conclusion of the original work by Ray et al., not the one from the reproduction paper linked here. That one in short is:

"Unfortunately, our work has identified numerous problems in the FSE study that invalidated its
key result."
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