Peak HN right here. There's this vision that a Good Dev doesn't ever need to talk to anyone, because they'll always get the Perfect Specification, and no busine

Peak HN right here. There's this vision that a Good Dev doesn't ever need to talk to anyone, because they'll always get the Perfect Specification, and no business needs will ever intrude and force adjustments, and no meetings will ever need to happen. Candidly, that's crap. If the spec is written well, there will STILL be points where you need to discuss things interactively. Bouncing emails back and forth during a workday is inefficient anyway; it's CRAZY inefficient if the time zones don't overlap, because then you're really only going to get one volley a day. Sometimes, TALKING is the right answer. If your dev team is working a day that is totally outside the rest of the company's working hours, then somebody is going to be working weird times to have that meeting, and that sucks for somebody. The hassle of setting UP that sort of call means people don't want to do it, and so cans of misunderstanding get kicked down the road. I'll never hire offshore again, and I won't work in an org that does it.