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tablespoonsrubyon Ask HN: How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote?

I prefer office-based work but it's not the top thing on my list of priorities. I've found that a really high number of companies that otherwise have what I'm looking for are remote, so I've had to compromise.

tablespoonsrubyon Ask HN: How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote?

> It's different from people who prefer WFH because they don't care if the other guys also work remote or not.

But lots of remote-evangelists will say things like "If anybody is joining a meeting remotely, everybody needs to call in from their own separate computers". I might able to come in to the office but it still affects my experience.

tablespoonsrubyon Ask HN: How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote?

> I don’t want to force anyone to do anything. I want to find a team that has the same primary work mode that I do: in-person collaboration.

I think of this the way I think of full-time pair programming: nobody should be forced to do it, but it's perfectly fine to form a team where it's a key part of the culture, as long as it's made abundantly clear to new hires before they join that it will be expected of them.

tablespoonsrubyon Ask HN: How do you get a job as a software engineer if you've been cancelled?

Alice Dreger seems to be the go-to support/advice person for people in this situation--don't act entitled to her time but if you reach out respectfully she has helped a lot of people in this situation.

tablespoonsrubyon Eyeglasses for school kids boost academic performance, study finds

Do you have a source? Everything I've read gave me the impression that we only have strong evidence that outdoor time is a factor, and the light exposure explanation is just a hypothesis.

tablespoonsrubyon Ask HN: Have you ever spend days unable to do *any* work?

ADD is an obsolete diagnosis; it's all ADHD now, with inattentive, hyperactive, and combined subtypes. (I think this is dumb--why have the H in the name if not everybody with the condition is hyperactive?--but that's what the DSM says.)

tablespoonsrubyon If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

It absolutely does provide a personal blog, you just have to pay $5/month.

tablespoonsrubyon If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

blog+microblog on your domain, and that automatically forwards the content to social platforms

Micro.blog does this!

tablespoonsrubyon If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

Maybe they mean that since there are many different feed readers a person could use, a blog can't have a "Click here to subscribe via RSS" link? Most feed readers will have a bookmarklet for 1-click subscribing, but the blog owner doesn't have the ability to make a prominent "call to action"-style button.

tablespoonsrubyon We still believe in private offices (2015)

Not if you are an employee. https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/small-business-taxes/th...

tablespoonsrubyon The only skin care that works? science video response (2020)

There's plenty more criticism out there:

https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/05/25/dear-ewg-why-real-scien... https://chemistscorner.com/3-reasons-the-ewg-is-dubious-reso...

tablespoonsrubyon The only skin care that works? science video response (2020)

EWG is a source of misinformation: https://www.theecowell.com/blog/a-case-against-the-ewg

tablespoonsrubyon My take on the study from MIT that predicts “societal collapse”

There actually was a shortage--of residential TP, due to people spending more time at home instead of at work, where commercial TP is used.

tablespoonsrubyon Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break

Not to mention that plenty of people (men and women) just don't want kids.

tablespoonsrubyon We Can't Let People Work from Home, for Stupid Reasons

Nothing. There's a difference between all employers forbidding remote work, and only some of them doing so.

tablespoonsrubyon We Can't Let People Work from Home, for Stupid Reasons

> I don't think it'd be too much of a stretch to also suggest that it'd be bad if all employers decided that their workers had to be butts-in-seats 40 hours (or more) per week, no exceptions.

Well, yes. That's not happening, though. My point is that I see people essentially claiming that it's immoral for any companies to not permit remote work, and I disagree with that.

tablespoonsrubyon We Can't Let People Work from Home, for Stupid Reasons

In the same way that most people don't want to pair program full time, but it's perfectly legitimate for a company to decide it wants to be a full-time pairing shop if they think it's important enough to limit their hiring pool to people who want to pair program, it's perfectly legitimate for a company to decide it does not want to be remote.