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I've worked with Scott in the past and used Visual Team Status. I can vouch for the usefulness of this product, I definitely think it is worth a try.

Just emailed you (using the address from your paypal donate link)

There's some debate on the Elasticsearch forums around CA vs. CP - with the overall consensus in favor of CA. Elasticsearch doesn't perform well across networks so in practice, most deployments have multiple nodes in a single datacenter - CA.

Thanks for your feedback though, I have some posts queued up on more of the subtleties in the model, this was just meant to be an introductory post.

I don't see a problem with this. If Google can easily show you the answer to a problem, use it! The Evernote notebook is a good last-line-of-defense that captures things you really struggle with - or issues that require a solution with multiple parts.

Personally - I don't think there are enough details for me to want to sign up (in fact, I didn't). I have no clue what your product or service does, I don't know if it will be compatible with the tools/systems I use.

I clicked on the question mark for more details - something I wouldn't have done normally, I just did it to provide you more feedback - and there was no helpful information there either.

Heartbreaking story. As a father of an 8 month old girl this really tugs at me. Nobody should have to go through this.

On a positive note, Anna is a very talented designer. Hopefully the positive experiences doing meaningful work for appreciative clients will eclipse some of the pain in the past.

I think you have a point here. I was just using what Tony Alessandra already made popular: http://www.alessandra.com/abouttony/aboutpr.asp.

Interesting perspective. There is quite a bit of research on the subject and most people typically have a dominant trait. Although, everyone can express behaviors in any of the types at any time, we typically "default" to a single one (sometimes two).

Have you taken a DiSC assessment? I find they are accurate for me and the people I work with who have taken them - anecdotal I know.

I think you might enjoy Personal Styles and Effective Performance. It's a dry read, but reinforces the things you discussed above.

http://www.amazon.com/Personal-Styles-Effective-Performance-...

maybe I had a flaw in my logic. I was trying to say that if you treat people according to your behavioral preferences (in my case, driving and task focused) then there is a good chance you will actually be introducing tension into the relationship - if they have a different style.

The golden rule is great for matters of ethics (i.e. I shouldn't steal from you), but it can cause tension when we discuss communication behaviors.

This concept shows up in a few books and was made popular by Tony Alessandra.

* http://www.alessandra.com/abouttony/aboutpr.asp

* http://www.amazon.com/People-Smart-Powerful-Techniques-Encou...

* http://www.amazon.com/Personal-Styles-Effective-Performance-...

I did the exact same thing. I typically don't make "me too" replies, but I hope the extra data point is helpful in this case. Great idea, this looks like something I'd be interested in using sometime in the future.

Interesting. Most companies nowadays offer a "Roth" option for 401(k) which takes contributions with after tax dollars so when you are ready to get your money back out at 59.5, all of the growth is tax free. You only have to pay taxes on what your employer matches.

Agreed, you can put up to $17,500 in your 401(k) for 2014. This is a great way to meet your retirement goal.

Bummer. Hopefully your wife's remote working situation will improve over the next couple of years. Your gig sounds pretty great though, congrats.

I think they were referring to the liabilities from the perspective or running a company. Not, how it affects the individual employee/contractor.

I'm using Github Pages. http://erjjones.github.io/blog/How-I-built-my-blog-in-one-da...

That's really great. I'm glad to hear of another company that has benefited from an all-in approach to remote workers. I think reading the book would be time well spent. You can knock it out in a single day.

Yeah, Keats. You are 100% right. Remote covered this briefly, I think in the "Beware the dragons" chapter.

I don't understand the legal side of the situation completely, but if you have enough people working out of a given international city, it could create a Nexus and require you to set up an office, etc.

Remote's advice here is to hire international workers as contractors, but to treat them like full-time employees. Not ideal.

Hopefully, this will get easier as time goes on.

Yeah. It's definitely rare, but companies are starting to trend towards a more parent centered workplace. I think most companies doing these types of things now are early adopters of an upcoming trend.

Yeah, that's a great point. The guys at 37signals also recommend using a fat-tipped pen or marker to prevent you from trying to get too detailed.

I've only been on one job interview where the hiring manager looked at my github account prior to the interview

Unfortunately, I don't know of any remote Grails/Java jobs, but I do know of several openings across the US. What location are you looking for specifically? I know some recruiters that won't try to screw you over with sub-par opportunities. If you'd like, you can send me an email through the contact link on my website and we can see if there's anything that fits you.

I really like it, nice job.

Nice work, I made something similar http://gitcv.com The Github API is pretty cool.

The goal here is to support the idea of companies hiring developers based on what they've done online and not a resume/1 hr interview.

Right now, GitCV only supports github, and I plan on adding more sites once I get all of the features down.

Any feedback/advice would be appreciated. I'm working on this for free, and hosting it for free (no ads) because I think it would be cool to make it easier for fellow developers to get hired.

The recruiter that got back to me was more direct and less spammy than other random recruiting emails I get from those who see my profile on linkedin etc. I'm wondering if this is an accident or a change in the way the recruiter views these postings.

What would 10 be? I need some more context before I can attempt to answer this question.