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As a developer, if I had internet access (at least intermittently) I could work remotely during the transit and be productive. Interesting thought
by notyourwork 8y ago
As a developer, if I had internet access (at least intermittently) I could work remotely during the transit and be productive.
Interesting thought
- kbenson 8y agoFor developers in certain areas (SF for example), $100/day might be cheaper than (or on par with) local housing. With a good internet solution, that might be an interesting way to work and travel at the same time.
- matt_the_bass 8y agoI remember hearing once about a company trying to turn an old cruise ship into a floating hotel off the coast of California. The idea was also to keep it in international waters so that visas and taxes were not a thing. I wonder what happened to that idea?
- chevman 8y agoA few years ago at SFDC Dreamforce, a company actually did this - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/step-aboard-the-dreamboat-salesforces-floating-hotel-for-dreamforce-2015-09-14 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/step-aboard-the-dreamboat-...
- matt_the_bass 8y agoThanks! The one I was thinking of was for non-us it workers to work close to the us. They even were going to fly out US residents for meeting on the boat.
- jordanthoms 8y agoThat's blueseed - https://blueseed.com/ https://blueseed.com/ . They could never get the funding needed to make it happen.
- matt_the_bass 8y agoThanks! That was it!
- dalore 8y agoNot the first person to think it. Cruise ships offer wifi packages and so it's possible. http://tynan.com/cruisework http://tynan.com/cruisework https://medium.com/@wouthermans/what-i-learned-when-i-quit-my-corporate-job-and-sailed-across-the-atlantic-on-a-cruise-ship-62c292d2f316 https://medium.com/@wouthermans/what-i-learned-when-i-quit-m...