I worked remotely for two years out of LA as one of two engineers for a tiny startup, and that describes my experience there perfectly. I've been working remot

I worked remotely for two years out of LA as one of two engineers for a tiny startup, and that describes my experience there perfectly. I've been working remotely for the last three years out of Seattle, and it's totally different. Part of it is the availability of plenty of coffee shops from which to work (http://technomancy.us/156 http://technomancy.us/156), part of it is having more hacker friends locally with which to co-work, but a lot of it comes down to just having a lot more communication with my remote team. At my last job I spent the majority of the day pair programming over SSH and VoIP. Also, being the one remote guy on a team that's otherwise all in-house is much, much harder to pull off.