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Productivity isn't as important as happiness once you have the skills to back up the demand for working from home. If you are valuable enough, you can demand that type of control. If you aren't, then whether or not you are happier doesn't matter.

Things like working from home are great, but not something you are entitled to. You have to provide the value to justify it.
So why do you feel qualified to comment?
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That's a pretty fun one. It's a sequence of the following codepoints: {LARGE RED CIRCLE} {COMBINING CYRILLIC HUNDRED THOUSANDS SIGN} {COMBINING CYRILLIC HUNDRED THOUSANDS SIGN} {COMBINING CYRILLIC HUNDRED THOUSANDS SIGN} {COMBINING CYRILLIC HUNDRED THOUSANDS SIGN} and then 66 repetitions of {COMBINING LEFT ANGLE ABOVE} {COMBINING CYRILLIC MILLIONS SIGN}
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But the stipulated scenario is not about highly productive employees. The author is saying that even if he's less productive, he thinks that he should be allowed to work at home.

Obviously, "less productive" is an implicit comparison with some base level of productivity, and we don't know what that level of productivity is. I think that the author implies that he thinks his base level of productivity is "high enough." On the other hand, reading between the lines, his coworkers may think that his base level of productivity is "not actually all that high." And we don't know how much less "less" is.

If an employer has a choice between "happy, unproductive employee" and "unhappy, productive employee," I'll suggest that the rational approach is to get "unhappy, productive employee." In that scenario, you'll get useful work out of the person until they quit, and then you'll have another chance to hire someone who's happy and productive. In the happy, unproductive scenario, that person is a drain on your resources until you fire them, which is inherently more expensive than someone quitting, and often more of a morale hit than an unhappy person quitting is.

(Any real scenario will be more complex than the previous paragraph).
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Black Nova Traders was an old school "TBS" with turns granted over time ( their version of command points.. ). it was a pretty fun game back in the early 2000's and at best i saw ~100 active players per game with 100 other's that provided extra targets...
It's not irrelevant - you claimed that the reason legislative deadlock occurs is that people refused to be taxed more. What about the people who refuse to cut automatic increases to spending? Are they to be absovled?
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bzzt wrong. Most pools payout only after 100-120 blocks after the block they have mined is built upon by other miners (they go via an "estimate" then "unconfirmed" stage first). Additionally, the biggest mining pools either 1) only pay out their slave-miners after these confirms or 2) factor this in to their PPLNS slaves as a mining pool cost. Either way, you can bet they have enough in reserves to cover a small number of orphaned blocks. There will be no pools that fail after this event and I am prepared to bet on this.
Honestly, "Share" is one of the most brilliant features Android has. Great example of something potentially minor (built-in "social sharing") becoming massively useful through extensibility.
This is huge for me. It weighs on me mentally when I am at work during a slow period adhering to a "butts in seats" rule, trying to find things to do or articles to read to pass the time while at home I have a sink full of dirty dishes and a laundry hamper full of dirty clothes. Then I feel guilty or stressed when I leave the office for not feeling like I then have enough time to interact with my family, decompress from work and actually do my household chores!
Real tartan doesn't have diagonal lines like that. Sorry :)
1. challenge your friend to come up with a productivity metric. 2. outperform your friend in the productivity metric, while working from home. 3. profit! (be productive AND happy; a novel concept, i know...)
and its also important to note that just because it worked for your buddy doesn't mean its going to work for you. it also means that just because it worked one time doesn't mean its going to work the next time. the best thing to do is to be monitored by a doctor so you can get the medical help right away if you need it.
Wow I had an idea similar to this back in college, couldn't get any co-founders interested in doing a proper startup sadly!

iPhone accessory manufacturer had a smartphone-OBD-II product called CarTrip which they discontinued:

http://www.griffintechnology.com/blog/new/cartrip-and-cleand...

As others have noted, you can buy the hardware yourself for pretty cheap:
http://dx.com/p/obdii-bluetooth-car-diagnostic-cable-black-b...

Combine it with an app like Torque...:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torq...

...or Rev and you've got some of the functionality already:
http://www.devtoaster.com/products/rev/

edit: the advantage of Automatic is that it's an all in one solution for the mass market, rather than the DIY/car enthusiast nature of the existing apps and hardware.
agreed. I don't know why so many UI Designers do this. It's terrible UX to require a hover over to read a label.

It's best to do both, an Icon and a label. Street signs got it right 30+ years ago.
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Besides Google using Go for some things like part of Youtube and dl.google.com, CloudFlare, Heroku, Canonical, Torbit, SoundCloud, BBC, and others are using Go for parts of their back-end infrastructures.
It's the idea that a computer has a comprehensive view of an environment - location, personal owner, last purchase made, next appointment. At what point will it remind me to take my pills, call the doctor, ring the lead I met who just twittered something relevant.

Agent technology is going to be huge - as long as it can be standard interface agreeed somehow
I'd be interested in having one of these in the UK.
A bunch of stuff, but the important thing here is that it clips things above and below each line so things like this can't overlap other lines
It seems to work on most linux distro's. I'm using Chrome 25 and Windows 7 and It's buggy.
Very interesting... too bad that I don't drive to work :(
In Silicon Valley, companies spend a fortune on "happiness" - catered lunches, employee off-sites, release parties, snacks and sodas and beer, interior decorating and office design, pool tables and ping pong, expensive hardware, gym memberships, etc.

It might be cheaper to just let people be at home!
Yeah, working in an office is practically the equivalent of coal mining. This prima donna attitude really makes me sick.
I suppose if you divorce the concepts of "Captialism" and "Free Markets" this is true, but they are typically thought of togther.
This is the start of building technology that should hopefully satisfy South Korea's need for more vespene gas.
Debian unstable seems to be about at the same place as Ubuntu. I use it to get a minimal system, where 95% of the support forums answers for ubuntu is still valid.
Any idea when it actually expects to ship?
You are grossly overestimating the damage of a nuclear strike.
but with any sufficiently popular project it's impossible to tell which forks, if any, have momentum.

Seconded. This is one of the pain-points I wish github would address. The constantly broken "network graph" and complete lack of (meaningful) tools to compare forks or branches is a royal pain in the ass.

Many of the missing operations ("In which branches does commit X exist", "Show delta between A,B") shouldn't even be hard to implement.

I don't understand why github spends their resources on useless gimmicks ("streaks", "pop repos") rather than pushing their core product.
So that's what's going on! I get this in Skype on some Thai account names. Been wondering about this for ages (over a year)
Important topic. Here is an in depth look at touch vs click, how to sprite images, etc http://maxogden.com/fast-webview-applications.html

Also I think local data and avoiding network round trips is key to reliable consistent high performance. This is why we built Couchbase Lite for mobile. https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios
Exactly. Overall my life is more productive, when I'm thinking about a problem I'll go water the plants or do some dishes. Then come back and smash the keyboard with gusto. If I have to be in a office I'll usually end up just looking into my phone to kill time.
Huh. Inconvenient I'm sure, but this actually sounds rather fun.

There are people I haven't talked to in a while. Maybe I should invite them to LinkedIn.

Well, that, or I could just send them an e-mail, but that doesn't sound nearly as interesting.
No, it seems they do have the rights to the works. They had the basic right to pursue legal action against infringers.

But they, allegedly, did all sorts of fraud and identity theft along the way, and kept digging the hole deeper when people started sniffing around.

It's the cover-up, not the crime.
Hahaha! Good point! I'm probably not going to convince many people to change their minds or their habits since most of us who can choose have already made a choice.
EDIT "you" is generic, not you EthanHeilman!

When you have a rock and some things that look like fossils and you want to say that this is a space rock and these are space organisms then you have a responsibility to do all that kind of jumping to conclusions first, in order to rule each of them out. You should be attacking, as vigorously as possible, your theory because you know that's what other scientists are going to be doing and you can save them a bit of work if you show that you've tried to do this.

Otherwise you could actually have a space rock with space bugs but you'll be dismissed for longer because people don't have enough time and money to do your work for you.
That sounds like anxiety to me?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety#Existential_anxiety

They can occur together too...
Congrats guys! This product has come a long way.
You remind me of me. And I am a bit bitter. Everyday I cry into to the sky and yell "fuck them, I will succeed not matter what". I will succeed no matter what, even if it kills me.
Medications obviously aren't for everyone, and certainly there's no one size fits all medication, but as someone who tried several medications that interfered with my clarity of mind, finding Wellbutrin has made a real difference for me. It works along a different pathway than other anti-depressants. It's known to increase focus. Rather than feeling like I was experiencing the world through gauze, I feel more... like me, sans the crippling depression.

YMMV, but I find that every (exceedingly legitimate) objection I have towards medication simply became immaterial in the face of feeling better.
There's a comment by a Brad Hicks halfway down on that article about how ridiculous it was that Judge Wright allowed surprise testimony from the audience. It's even stranger that it was an attorney, who would be acutely aware of the normal consequences of something like this, who ventured to do so!

The comment goes on to say

> (The next place my mind went was, "well, if Prenda wants to establish grounds for appeal, if they need more evidence that the judge is prejudiced against them, didn't they just find the smoking gun?" I mean, if someone with only a peripheral involvement in the case had jumped up in the audience and called The Real Alan Cooper a liar, would the judge have tolerated that?)

but has received no response on Popehat so far. As a layman, I'm wondering the same thing.
Huh - my Chrome renders it like a photon out of a Feynman diagram.
Google has a structural advantage over Apple and MSFT in natural language.

Apple has plenty of cash to buy Nuance to integrate Voice Recognition technology but lacks the management bandwidth.

Microsoft Research has done a lot of path breaking work in natural language recognition but MSFT management seems to be actively hostile to their R&D group.

Google has natural language features in all their core product areas and management that prides itself on dog fooding their own R&D.

I'm a Google shareholder for these reasons.
Very cool, guys! Love the design.
This is a really important post. Something I've noticed is that more people climb in the Bay Area than anywhere I've ever been before. I wonder if its at all related to the stress and personalities contained there?
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Perhaps I'm missing something - why try and have wearable passwords when everyone is already carrying around a phone?
I always thought the paradox interactive strategy games do things well. Games like Hearts of Iron 3 and Victoria 2 are technically RTS, but play with traditional turn based strategy micromanagement. They accomplish this by allowing you to slow, pause or speed up time, depending on how much a situation requires. It was a little weird at first from being used to how turn based games traditionally work, but I quite like it now and stops the down time you would experience in between turns.
virgin mobile usa is $35 (-$5/mo for autopay) = $30 for 300 minutes/unlimited texts/2.5g data, sprint mvno, data speeds are rather poor though.
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A lot of UI designers are doing this actually. They got the idea from using Facebook, Twitter logos with no labels. It doesn't work for icons that aren't commonly used.
Is this well localized? Metric units, European cars and speed limits?
You don't need a separate JS file, there are script tags.
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I think it is interesting to have it in there for academic purposes, to see how fast you could go sticking with the high level ORM API. Once he drops down into the expression language, he goes back to generating the ids server side.
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Damn. Awesome idea and that app is ohmygod amazing.

The downside of course is much more immediate guilt about my fast accel/deceleration habits.
What a great looking product idea! I pre-ordered; don't normally do that, but they promise not to charge until they ship.
I guess I've been doing it so long that I don't really think of it as allowed anymore. It's just something that I feel is my choice. I've gone so far as to co-found my own consulting company so that no one will get to make that decision for me in the future. I will make my own decisions about how and where I should work.
Search the Google Play store for OBD-II. You'll find a number of apps that allow you to get at the data in various forms using a <$10 Bluetooth adapter.
Well, if you have a job you're satisfied with, then maybe you're stuck doing what you're already doing. But if you're job hunting, you can prioritize work-from-home. Lots of engineers change jobs every couple years, so it's not like it won't ever be relevant for most people.
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Nice.

Is it a "Like a Boss" character?

http://www.leer-leren.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Like-a-...
>To which the appropriate response is: "bullshit". Requiring someone to take physically harmful and addictive drugs is not even remotely in the same galaxy as requiring them to come into the office.

Not sure. The things some companies demand of their employees do have a health toll, and it's higher than Adderall. Working 14+ hours for days (EA style) is not better than taking Adderall. And a "death march" type of project is even worse.
Pretty sure this is N. C. Wickramasinghe: http://i.imgur.com/FpqQTu6.jpg
On OS X, things generally just work, and work quickly. 3D performance is good. I've never had graphics hardware that was not supported. Granted, OS X doesn't have to deal with a lot of different hardware configurations like Linux does, but still.

On Linux, things are flaky. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Some things work, other things do not. Alt-Tab out of full screen games? Upgrading the NVIDIA and ATI graphics driver without dropping out of X? Not possible. 3D performance is extremely variable: depending on your driver and hardware, some 3D operations are hardware accelerated, others are not. On OS X everything that should be hardware accelerated, always is. Ditto on Windows.

The Windows Display Driver Model allows upgrading the display driver without rebooting, and without even relogging in. It runs the display driver partially in user mode so that if it crashes it can be restarted. I don't know how far Linux is away from a similar feat.
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I formerly ran a large team and cared about both things for my employees: their productivity AND happiness.

Part of that is that I am a human, and part of that is practical -- namely, productivity is a long game (at least for knowledge-workers). It's not something you measure in work-units-per-hour within the confines of a single day. Same reason you can't have a death-march release cycle and ignore the plummeting "productivity" in the days/weeks/months after... or the lost productivity from employees who seek more manageable work elsewhere and need to be replaced, etc.

Your post is too one-sided and uses Adderall as a straw-man (or similarly fallacious argument). Your personal happiness as others have said isn't the only factor in an employer-employee relationship -- but that said, viewing productivity as a many-factored, nuanced thing that includes overall worker happiness (or, better put: satisfaction) is probably pretty appropriate.
I'm working on a longer answer to satisfy the people who think there's a zero-sum game between whether my neighbors get evicted or whether there are enough mosquito nets for African children, but I want to take a stab at it:

I care more about the immediate social fabric I live in than the relative poverty of people in other places. It's because I think that other social problems are merely symptoms of a mindset that allows people to think of themselves as seperate from the social fabric where they live.

I believe the way we solve the problem laid out in the OP is by creating resilient local communities that can take care of their own needs with minimal resource input, and I believe that geographic arbitrage and global division of labor have created many of the problems that responses to this post have suggested my money is better spent alleviating.

I further believe that when we solve social problems in our own commuities, we create templates for action that can be used by others, and that this is more efficient than using charity to impose solutions for social problems from without.

Lastly, I think anybody who thinks of themselves as an island, disconnected from the people and place immediately surrounding them, is delusional.
It doesn't make any sense to promote someone who keeps their head down and does three times the work without squawking. As an employee moves up the chain, they spend more time in meetings/managing, less time doing, they get paid more to add less to the bottom line.

Unless it becomes obvious to those above that the 3x worker will leave without some recognition/challenge, nothing happens. When they get it, the pattern I've seen is Year 1: "Okay, how many awards can we give you and keep you in your current role?" Year 2: "Ugh, okay, what raises can we give you to keep you in your current role?" Year 3: "Alright, alright; how much headcount do we now need to justify to replace you after we promote you? Three? Seriously? Holy cow, get the checkbook..."

If a 3x-the-work person stews silently and just leaves in a huff without communicating what it is that they want from their chain of command, they miss on all that fun (and several rounds of salary bump).
I've never been able to get into TBS because of the issues he mentions at the start. Risk II [1] had a mode with simultaneous turns, which was fun for a bit but lost its luster because it was still basically Risk.

What I've come to prefer is RTS with a live pause: that is, you can pause at any time to give orders, line up production queues, etc. It works best for single player games, which is what I prefer anyway. Paradox Interactive's games (Crusader Kings series, Hearts of Iron series, Europa Universalis series) are prime examples of this method.

(Disclaimer: I worked on a spin-off of Europa Universalis II; see my profile for a link. I started on the project after having played the game for six years.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_II
I sorta read this post and boiled it down as a protracted "I'm doing this because it makes me happier" kinda post. That's great! I'm wary of basing some general policy so heavily on personal happiness, though. It's a highly personal and varying thing. At a personal level, though, happiness/contentment is pretty much paramount. Do what gives you purpose and fulfills you...otherwise what's the point?

I guess what I'm saying is if you want to work from home, do it! Making the leap to enabling/convincing everybody else to do it may be a bit of a stretch for me, though. It might not make sense in the general case.
Walking definitely helps. Last year was a particularly rough one for me in a lot of ways and just going back to the mountain town where I grew up and hiking for a few hours in the forest really helped me to change my outlook. I consider it the most important thing I did.
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So style > substance?
These sort of posts always amaze me. Nearly everyone I know optimizes their life for more time at home. We eschew bonuses in favour of a shorter work week. Or more holiday or longer lunch breaks or shorter commute.

When, inevetably the overtime requests come pouring in, or the new boss hates people leaving 'early' then people start looking around for new oppertunities.

Taking an hour out of each day usually shortens the commute by 50% - if your day is 9:30 - 4:30 == happy times.
Yeah, a more honest comparison between working from the office and taking dangerous drugs is to actually make that comparison: "come into work or stay home and take Adderall."

Bonus: you will find out which of your staff would rather stay home and do drugs than come to work.
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Do all cars have this 'data port'? I had no idea this thing existed.
>what if your employer started handing out Adderall every morning?

I wonder if that's as uncommon as the OP thinks. I once worked for a rather large media/advertising company and they actually did that. We called it "Focus Fridays"
Thanks. I'd asked on SO about Unicode sanitization before and got a very "brush off" answer. Seems I was asking the wrong question.