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Stop asking dumb questions:

http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

And get Motivated, this video gave me years of motivation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsSC2vx7zFQ

Hold a man underwater, watch him fight, tell him, when you want to succeed as much as you want to breath there, then you will be successful. Thing is, most people don't want to be successful, they want to date, they want to party, they want to EAT, they want to sleep and have sex and have nice cars, nice houses, nice wives. When you want to be successful as much as you want to breath, you will be successful. It's all about priority.
Nice idea, but GitHub already has pull requests which work wonderfully for code reviews.

When I'm finished working on my branch I can submit a pull request. Everyone else on the team gets an email and can take a look at the new changes. We can have a conversation about the code and people can pull the branch and make their own changes. It's all very seamless and works great for remote teams.
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Those are civil and not human rights, and they only exist because someone is already going through the trouble of governing you. Civil rights are a way of saying, as long as we're going to have a government, let's make sure it operates fairly and tries not to violate your human rights. The relevant human rights are, respectively, the right not to be locked in a cage without a very good reason and the right to have some say over your own life. Theoretically, you wouldn't need the right to a trial or the right to vote if it wasn't for the government going around and potentially violating your human rights.

On the other hand, by this reasoning at least, there's no such thing as a right to free beer, because then someone, somewhere would be obligated to brew you some beer, and that would violate his rights.
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Coffee shops are not for me. There will always be chatter noise which is very distracting.
I have to disclose I am a remote worker for JonAtkinson.

I believe set estimates are not the best way to approach this problem because how do you estimate it? If you are in new territory then what seems trivial to one person may require some research and extra understanding by another. Also when you set a deadline it becomes more of a target for the individual action and instills a time wasting mentality.

It's especially difficult when a new employer enters the company as they feel under pressure that this is the expected deadline. One of the most helpful things Jon has done to elevate this situation when it arises is allow honest conversations without any fear which come from I guess a personal understanding/experience.

I also don't believe this problem is specific to remote working, it's simply a managerial problem within the industry as I am willing to openly admit this (having a problem and not speaking up) also happened at my previous job but the openness didn't exist hence a lot of dodging and ducking was performed until the task at hand was accomplished.
I've always thought e-readers are bit like calculators. Great purpose built devices that will eventually end up being useful features on more general purpose devices.

I agree that e-readers offer a way better experience today and at some point, all of what consumers appreciate about an e-reader will probably be available in tablets, etc.

Kindle is interesting because it is trying to avoid being a feature by creating an ecosystem of services around the feature. But still, ereader as app/feature seems to make more sense over the long term...
I'm looking forward to the death of IE7 as much as the next web developer, but sadly it's not as simple as just stopping supporting it and waiting for users to catch up. As long as a significant number of customers continue to use it, I'll keep supporting it (although I may politely ask them to consider upgrading).
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How do you solve legal issues? If you don't have any contract with your employees, what if they contact personally your consumers and the work personally done?

I have visited the countries where our employees are, registered our startup there and made a non-compete contract ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause )with them. But this costs me time and money.

If you don't have any agreements with them, how do you manage your works and where/how do you find good employees over internet?
Smooth as butter! Too bad there is no way to search or get permalinks to specific location-view combinations, but hey, it's a demo :)
I'm being too petulant. If couchbase turns out very solid with a strong and lively community, or if CouchDB remains solid for a lengthy period of time, of course I'd return, but I'll just wait on the sidelines for others to work out the issues. I hope it turns out great.
Learning to code and actually coding are much like dealing with difficult courses. You work hard and you have to know how to find the knowledge you need.

Being an entrepreneur is entirely different. You need to work hard, but there are a lot of things which aren't so linear. It's kind of like picking up chicks. Hard work and being smart doesn't help you there. ;)
This is the usual practice here in Chile, and I don't expect it to change.
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This is what I thought of immediately except to implement the end with behavior you have to override the IDisposable shut down sequence? (does that make sense?)
OK, say I am a phone maker who is not sinking into the mire like RIM - so why would I buy into the Blackberry OS?

If I am RIM and I am finding it hard to compete in the smartphone market at the moment - why would I want other manufacturers competing with me for the market segment that still wants a Blackberry?
I can't talk for TDD, BDD, MDSD. But after working with git/hg on all my projects for half a year, I'd flat out refuse to work on anything that used SVN now.
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I disagree that the internet connectivity is not a right. It is the modern day equivalent of a library. I also see a flaw in his logic with the horse. Horses weren't owned by large monopolies and they didn't control how often you could use your horse. Imagine if Verizon owned all the horses at the time of the formation of constitution. With clauses like, "you can only use your horse from 8am-2pm" and if you fail to pay your monthly bill we will take your horse away from you. I would bet there would have been an amendment to the constitution to govern the horse.

Now im not saying the internet should be free but it should be available to all people, unrestricted by usage, uncensored by governments and affordable.
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Came here to say the same, google maps imagery of my area is about 7-10 years old.
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This particular startup had VC money flooding them from all directions. The bugs are still there. One involves credit card access between users, the rest are trivial (the stuff you'd let a junior programmer handle). Upgrading to Rails 3 doesn't magically solve anything.
When I've done similar upgrades, I've often found it quicker to have the previous code available to me in another checked out repo rather than switch branches and have to deal with any possible uncommitted changes issues.
Smartphones seem to have mostly sacrificed some of their security for convenience.

Take Windows for example, sure you can setup multiple user accounts with different levels of privilege , access to website and apps etc but how many people outside of a corporate or academic setting actually use this?

Whenever I borrow someones laptop they just use their own login, sometimes I find porn in their Internet history but at the end of the day who cares?

Perhaps this is more of a problem for people with kids who might want to use the internet themselves but when their child uses it they don't want them to have access to certain sites or see that their parent has accessed certain sites.

One issue I have with android is that when I clear the history in the browser and delete all cookie etc etc.

If I hit the back button it still goes back to whatever I visited last , also if I goto google and tap the search bar all my previous searches come up. It's not really very privacy friendly.

Hopefully this problem will pass once everyone has a smartphone so they don't need to borrow someone elses.
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It's really nice! I hope that Nokia releases this eventually.
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Wow, I am impressed with how responsive that is. I'm on an Air and I generally don't have good experiences with this sort of thing.
Marco is right. Sure, colour e-readers would be nice, as would ones with faster update speeds. Mirasol's Kyobo looks rather nice for this. But unless they can also keep the battery life up people aren't going to shift to them.

And then there's form factor. My Kobo e-reader sits handily in my coat pocket, and there's no way a 10" tablet is going to do that. The Kindle Touch is 17cm by 12cm, and that's pretty much perfect for reading novels. It's not perfect for reading comics on, or watching videos - for that I'd rather have at least a 10" screen.

So I suspect that convergence just isn't going to happen - we're going to be left with a range of devices - 3-4" phones, 6-7" tablet/ereaders and 10" tablets for video.
I should probably clarify; with one exception, all of our current team are salaried employees of our limited company, and we pay their NI etc. Our contracts have the usual non-compete for 12 months after ending employment stuff in there, but so far no-one has left the company, so we haven't had to deal with anything like that yet.

Finding workers hasn't been a problem to date, as we have generally grown organically, and most people have freelanced with us before they became employees, or we have worked with them in some capacity before we started the company. I think it's more accurate to say that while our team is geographically distributed, we share a really close social network. I did a really quick blog post about this last week:

http://jonatkinson.co.uk/talent-spotting/
A couple of years ago, I was working for a very bureaucratic company in a low-walled cube, being forced to ignore unpleasant distractions around me, and I hated the commute. I was one of their more productive developers, so I asked them to let me work from home. They sort of went for it: they agreed to two days in the office, three at home. I really enjoyed those three days at home, and I was way more productive. I eventually had to quit that place, because it just got too horrible, but I've been trying to get another remote job ever since. In the last few months, I finally succeeded.

I got myself hooked up with a contracting company. They find iOS jobs for me to do, then subcontract my time to other companies. And I get to work from home 100 percent. I had to take a severe pay cut to make it happen, but for me, it's worth it.

I enjoy that I can make a better environment for myself than any office I've ever worked in. I have lots of space, a window, a door that closes, and a huge Apple monitor. A whole bunch of quality-of-life things I couldn't ever convince employers to give me. I can take an hour off here or there to take a nap or walk the dog. And there's no commute. Eventually, I can move somewhere cheap, to make the most of my income. This is the life for me.

I admit that there are inherent communication problems. As other people have mentioned, you have to be a fiercely determined self-starter to make this work. But looking back on it now, the stuff typical employers expect you to go through -- for me, there is no comparison. You'll have to pry my remote job from my cold, dead fingers.
Stuart Sutherland's book, "Irrationality", is about as concise and readable an account of these as you could wish for.

My New Year's resolution (last year) was to always make a New Year's resolution to re-read it that year, because the insights tend to slip away with time.
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I still have a calculator on my desk.
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Thats exactly what happens in Brazil. All phones MUST be sold unlocked but they lock you in with contracts in order to get cheaper phones. However if you choose to buy a "fully unlocked" phone, the prices have skyrocketed. (We have the most expensive iPhone worldwide, 16GB 4S = 1.2K dollars).
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I looked around the links but unfortunately there wasn't any stellar constellation software. Could anyone recommend an open source software which is able to compute constellations (visible from earth) of arbitrary history which absolute accuracy?
Does anyone else have all text on globe upside-down?
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Even with its many faults, you will claw my Kindle from my cold dead hand. I emphatically do not want an interactive color screen for reading books.
It's worth noting that vanilla DOSBox is much, much harder to use on OS X than it is on Windows. DOSBox on OSX cannot open EXE files directly and OSX has no concept of application shortcuts: so you cannot just right-click->Open With on EXE files to launch them, or set up shortcuts for your games that pass different startup parameters to DOSBox, like you can in Windows.

Instead, to launch a game with a custom configuration file (pretty much a necessity if you have more than one game you want to play) means typing in the following lovely command in the terminal:

/Applications/DOSBox.app/Contents/MacOS/DOSBox -conf /path/to/my/game/config.conf

...each time, or learning Applescript or bash scripting in order to write your own launcher script for each game to run the appropriate commands. That, on top of learning DOSBox's config file and mount syntax so you can write the configuration files each game needs. Needless to say, this is way too much work for the majority of would-be users on the Mac, even those who have a working knowledge of MS-DOS.

Users who overcome that learning curve still have to contend with things that simply don't work at all in the DOSBox OSX build: like swapping one physical CD for another while playing (DOSBox keeps the CD busy so it can't eject, and the new CD would be at the wrong path anyway), or using fullscreen mode in OS X 10.7 (broken in DOSBox 0.74), or using Tandy emulation mode on a PowerPC mac (graphics glitches galore) or pausing the game (the default pause key doesn't exist on a Mac keyboard, and even if you rebind it the emulator will not unpause once paused) and so on and so on.

Boxer doesn't just provide added value; it provides a usable DOS emulator for the Mac in the first place.
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A reflective eye-patch would be a nice idea. Are the materials which interfere with cameras but are not too annoying to other people?
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How about using Opera kiosk mode - it appears to meet your requested features.

Also FastUserSwitching doesnt require logout IIRC.
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Not sure what the link has to do with your interesting comment, but I'll upvote almost anything with a Feynman reference
This one is more method than concept, but it's pretty central to science: It's okay to change your mind. Knowledge is based on facts devoid of moral value, and some of these facts will be replaced as we learn more about reality. A body of knowledge that can rebuild itself in the face of new evidence, and goes so far as to seek out new evidence, is one that gets stronger and healthier.
Can any reasonable person honestly think manufacturers aren't trying; really? It's starting to sound like a people actually believe this is a conspiracy.
Do you have any additional references to cite regarding your claim? Cause the constitution itself only makes references to "the press" in the first amendment, which you can reproduce in full, since it's so short:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

(edit: I don't mean that as a challenge, I am genuinely curious if you know more about this than I presume to. Sorry if that came off a little catty)

And perhaps i wasn't explicit enough, i'm not claiming that the USPS is a right (it isn't), but the point was that it is important enough that it was established in the Constitution, although i would want to dig up additional resources as to whether that is an act of practical expedience, principle, or both.

Regardless, the question still stands. Why doesn't the US government do for the internet what it does for mail?
I wonder how do they get the building facade textures/polys... It seems they have not only vertical satelite shots but also inclined ones.
I like a lot of things about CouchBase, but is it going to get the replication approach that CouchDB has? That is exactly what I am needing right now.
Remote employee here: Been that way since I started out of college about a year and a half ago. The majority of the developers, client support and analysts for my company are remote. Probably 50~ people. The founder, as far as I can tell wanted this kind of environment when he started it, so remote communication has been built into the work flow. We have an internal Jabber sever and IP phones. Any collaboration is done through that. We also have our own ticket/project management software.

It has been a completely positive experience for me, but as others have mentioned it takes a large amount of discipline. It is really easy to get distracted and basically lose a day.
Feynman also noted that the rat-maze paper was almost never cited, which he took for a worrisome signal about psychology as a science.
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Freelance translator here. 4 years working at home in a few countries for companies around Europe.

. Perhaps it is largely personality based, but I've always enjoyed it. Deadlines keep me on track and side-projects fill the spare working capacity. So work does get done and, as others have said, more besides.

. Productivity is not a problem, especially when you learn to down-tools when you feel you need to, rather than waiting for your set break times. You'll probably find yourself working more efficiently.

. Socially you do need to adjust, and make the most of opportunities to meet other freelancers/people where possible. I initially missed the office banter, but less so with time. As with most things, if you accept it will be different and don't resist that, it should be easier.

. As mentioned elsewhere, those around you at home will indeed sometimes forget that your body and mind are often separated (i.e. body at home, mind at work). Prepare to have many thought-bubbles burst, unless you have a good home-office solution. A semi-hack for this problem is to simply take more notes.

. Energy wise, if you care, I've seen studies for and against the savings made by remote working. Heating 25 whole houses in winter compared to a single office, for instance, doesn't guarantee an energy reduction. But then there would be 25 times less CO2 emissions. Swings and roundabouts. Never really been a key issue for me, but perhaps worth consideration.

I'm now moving into a more involved 'startup-style' phase this year, with no deadlines to keep me on track and no team around me I'm going to have to adapt to a new style of remote working. Tips welcome!
Is there a writeup anywhere on how this is done?
Ah... this is a good benefit to having multiple accounts. I am always confused by those with only one bank account. My current account never goes above 2K, mostly sitting at around a few hundred. This gives me a perpetual feeling of not having very much money, so I don't spend too much.
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It looks like only the cities that are labeled have 3D data (buildings etc), but those that do look phenomenal. Even the trees look pretty good!
Network locking is a form of money. If I can lock your phone to my network, that's worth money to me because you're more likely to stay with my network. As such, I can offer the phone to you for cheaper.

If I can't lock it, I'm going to charge you more. Is this something that requires government intervention? Perhaps, as many people don't understand the issues and may be taken advantage of. IMHO a better solution would be to require a maximum price to unlock phones (10 currency units?) and not get so involved in technology that changes quickly.
You're absolutely right, I should have said "three bytes" or "three octets".
I just love e-ink. For me, e-ink is the only discriminating factor between an ebook and a tablet.
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I would like to note that I've worked both remotely and on-site and that hiding a lack of motivation or results from the team is not a remote-only problem. It does sneak up on you a little easier if you're remote, but we all know That Guy that looks really productive until you realize he's been playing Minesweeper for three months. (Not making that one up - in his defense, Minesweeper was new and exciting at the time...)
It becomes useful after contract ends. I.e. I did not hear that locked phones magically unlock themselves after period of a contract. Instead you need to call some number, hold on a line, explain to reps what you want to do, explain that you contract is over, etc and then finally get unlock code.

It will be way less hassle if it would be just unlocked from start.

ps: still have Ericsson T60i and Motorola RAZR Gold.. While currently unused, old and scratched, I can rely on these when traveling somewhere with GSM networks.
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Yes, my point was that it was a product of facing that constraint.