codex_irl

poor show FB - thumbs down!

I love the bay area, nothing else to say.

Do we know what is secure against the likes of the NSA / what encryption they can break today?

I understand this is almost impossible for us to accurately answer, just curious if we have any clues regarding their codebreaking capabilities in this regard.

Wow - I wonder if it would be possible to practically use this to commute to / from work every day.

I live a 5 minute drive from a tiny airport and it would be about a 30 minute flight to Palo Alto...if this was possible it would allow us to live further away....maybe even somewhere where home ownership is possible!

I currently work from home and am interested in a new job in SV, however all of the companies I have spoken with will not allow me to telecommute 2-3 days per week.

I don't see any reason why I need to give up 2 hours of my day traveling to / from work on the days when I need to work exclusively on coding.

So I'll stay where I am.

I've worked from home near SF & for a European client for almost 4 years now, we are on different sides of the world and can make it work so I fail to see the issue here.

We have about 3 hours overlap in working hours, I have a 5-10 minute talk with my boss each morning so he knows what I'm working on & I know what's happening in HQ. He can view my git logs to make sure I am actually doing what I say I am & we manage projects using Redmine. For meetings they schedule them slightly later in the day, their time & we using a combination of Skype & Google Hangout.

Their are times when it would be useful to meetup in person, e.g. when working on user workflows or product design, but this is rare.

I would need a LOT of extra money from an employer to endure a 1-2 hour commute to / from work these days & sit in a cubicle farm or factory-floor style open plan office.

fact is people have kids & that's just life. If M wants to make Yahoo a more attractive place to work & get the most from her employees then build a dam child-care facility on site / at the office so that every employee can use it - take care of your employees common life requirements so that they are free to focus on building the best products & not about what time they need to leave to beat the traffic & pick up the kids.

+1 to that. I have been working 100% remotely, full time for a client based in Europe for 4 years now - I've never met the people on my team in person & we only have a 3 hour overlap in terms of working hours. I expect myself to be at least as productive as when I was in the office and then some - to eliminate any doubts people might have. Its very easy for my boss to tell how I'm doing....just take a look at my git log.

Not sure I could ever commute 5 days to work & sit in a cubicle or open plan office (those places remind me of a Chinese factory floor)....they would have to pay me a LOT of money to endure that again.

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speak for yourself buddy....$1500 is still a big slice of pie to some of us

Just like a software interview - demonstrate that you know a bunch of stuff that we, in our company have & never will use. For many software jobs...its like hiring a mailing man based on his understanding of mail-delivery-cart mechanics.

hehe - might be true, but I've given up being an early adopter. I'll take my 1000 miles on tank BMW diesel for now.

When you convert the gallon sizes for US, it gets 52 MPG. No major engine servicing required until over 200k miles - why is the 5 series diesel not for sale in the US, seems nuts. Top Gear claimed last year that its pretty much "the perfect car"...I want :)

Electric is all very good, but I can buy a BMW 5 series with a diesel engine in Europe today & get 81 MPG. A Prius only gets 51.

Personally - I prefer Linode to Heroku, sure there is more of my time consumed with sys admin, but I like having full control over my platform & setup, rather than having it virtually dictated to me. I'm always open to change but this strategy has served me very well for almost 3 years now.

I have been working remotely for 3 years now, full time & would find it very hard to go back to commuting full time.

I can get more work done, experience less distractions - to be honest I don't really give a dam what a companies culture is like to a large extent, tell me what you need done & when you need it done by, if I think its achievable then I'll make it happen. I don't want to play xboxes, get free lunches or any of that nonsense - I want time with my family & lots of money for future security - that & working from a location of my choosing is all that really matters to me, in return I'll work my ass off, remain loyal & ensure my employer is getting value for their $

I agree with you, but I did not really want to stay working for that guy anyways - it was no loss.

My take on working is that my employer is renting my time & skills to complete a job, they have every right to expect value for their money - but they don't own me, nor can they tell me when I am allowed to take a phone call, go for a lunch break, shout at me or demand that I work extra hours for no extra money.

As the wolf says: "I'm here to help - if my help's not appreciated then lotsa luck, gentlemen."

I've called out more than one "leader / boss" out in meetings / code-reviews for being excessively mean & shaming noobs who are genuinely trying their best & are hungry to learn.

Constructive criticism is a great thing, but telling someone they will never work again in this industry because they make a small CSS error on their first ever post-college project is another.

I've been fired from one job for standing up in a meeting and calling the boss a self-important asshole & refusing to retract it.

Life is too short to let these type of people get you down, we are all just floating on a rock in space & going to die in a few years....what's important: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/14su4p/he_sang_to_her_...

An especially happy Thanksgiving to anyone here from out of town or away from friends & family!

What a load of entitled nonsense, this article is nothing but an unfounded rant IMO. By generalizing "Europe" as a single market / country - which it is FAR from in reality, the author has demonstrated that they really don't know what they are talking about, no entrepreneur in Europe would generalize in this way. Each country has its own set of unique laws, challenges as well as opportunities.

I have founded companies in Ireland & never encountered any bureaucracy or red tape which prevented us from following our plans or accessing markets.

In fact, one of the governments business development agencies gave us free rent in an incubator for 2 years, connected us with business mentors, used its connections to setup some key introductions which led to our first sales which really helped get the business off of the ground. All for no commitments or equity stake.

For me, the battery issue is a deal-breaker, I have a Logitech "darkfield" bluetooth mouse & the thing goes through 1 AA battery every 3-ish days (heavy usage) which drives me a little nuts sometimes...two devices to feed with batteries is to much.

Good to hear that they are comfortable to wear all day though!

thanks for the suggestions - I'm going to check them out, always looking for something new to listen to! :)

are you happy with the construction quality?

I was originally leaning towards a pair of Bose but was a little put off by some of the Amazon reviewers who complained that they felt a little flimsy & that they are a little tight fitting.

My hope is a very simple one, I was hoping that I could buy a phone, charge it and that it would not run out of power within a few hours of heavy usage, my co-worker gets a full day of challenging battery use from his S3, which I have been a little more impressed with.

Impressive screens & faster chips are all well and good but only if their is enough power in the dam thing to actually keep the device powered on.

I have always been impressed by Apples products (I use them to earn a living after all) & was planning to upgrade my tired old iphone 3G to an iphone 5...but now I'm having second thoughts.

When a friend handed me his S3 I immediately felt a little wow'd by the screen size, responsiveness & general look / feel of the phone, this new iphone does not look like it will give me the same "wow factor".

I am extremely disappointed that Apple have not worked harder to improve the battery life, it has been & remains pathetic, primarily for this reason I will not be buying an iphone 5.

Come on Apple, I want to give you my money - but please start putting some creative innovations back into your products, if you cannot do that then at least give us a phone with a battery which can last for a full / busy day.

That is a genuine concern, however what would be the point, within hours of me starting my first project with them it would become obvious that I could not do my job & end up being fired. Lose Lose for everyone.

Also, having been on the interviewers side of the table - I think as soon as a candidate & I begin discussing his code & technical choices, it becomes obvious if he did the work himself i.e. can he talk in depth about the stack he used, any algorithms, schema decisions etc... or does he just give short "I'm hiding from your question" type answers.

I have a few small apps, personal projects, that I have offered to show to an interviewer & discuss, while this offer is normally received positively, it is always viewed as an addition to some sort of cryptic test, never a replacement.

I am also happy to work on a small take-home project for them (within reason) & provided its relevant to the work they do.

Rails developer here, I am thinking of changing jobs right now but am put off by the thoughts of going to bullshit technical interviews where I need to implement / modify some obscure algorithms or concepts which I last saw 12+ years ago in a computer science class.

I would be much happier if the interviewer gave me a small app to create from home (which was relevant to the work they actually do) & then discuss my implementation choices in person with them.

What is the point of having me spend most of an interview doing things with dijkstra's algorithm if never, in the history of your company has this been used nor do you plan to use it & then spend the last 5 minutes asking a few vague questions about what I like about Ruby / hate about Rails.

Technical tests, in my experience, are mostly (90%+ of the time) composed of challenges which have no relevancy to the work I would be doing for that company, its pointless ceremony over common sense.