commondream

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by commondream 12y ago
Nice! I wrote one called maths a while back. It's in Ruby but I use it pretty regularly and it does the trick: https://github.com/commondream/maths
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by commondream 12y ago
http://teamtreehouse.com/jobs You tell me.
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by commondream 12y ago
> So are people expected to work 40 hours/week or not? Folks are expected to work 32 hours per week, although if you get technical and throw in PTO and holidays they're actually expected to work 28.9 hours per week.
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by commondream 12y ago
I retract my statement. Let's pretend I said "Turning off your brain is hard" instead?
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by commondream 12y ago
We used to rotate, but now we have one awesome person on support Friday to Monday to make sure our students always get great support with a quick turnaround.
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by commondream 12y ago
:( I know a lot of non-programmer managers who act nothing like that.
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by commondream 12y ago
> Her first name is Gill, but is her last name Carson Yep, Gill Carson. It does suck that they didn't give her more credit. Gill's had a lot of positive effect on Treehouse.
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by commondream 12y ago
I've wink winked at people about it, but never prefixed with a nudge nudge. Arguments like this are always kind of funny to me, because I can't do anything but say our intention and what we do and hope you'll believe me. Beli
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by commondream 12y ago
Or they're a unicorn or thunder lizard or whatever they're called these days.
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by commondream 12y ago
> Do you see the "6-7 actual / 8 attempted" thing to be "inevitable", like that's the maximum ratio people can reasonably sustain, or do you think that with better environment and habits, we could/shoul
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by commondream 12y ago
We don't really have fancy meeting rules, if that's what you're asking. Our team does a great job overall of keeping them as short as possible and staying the right amount of focused, but not too focused. It's always fun
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by commondream 12y ago
It's a balance though, right? Sometimes I'm still tired at 6AM when I wake up and I have to get out of bed and do things anyway. Then other times I'm tired at 4PM and I just give up and go home. I think you've got to do
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by commondream 12y ago
> What's the optimal amount for "computer people" to work each day, in your experience? I think a lot of folks, once breaks and all are accounted for, probably work 6-7 hours in an 8 hour chunk, and that seems to work pret
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by commondream 12y ago
> However, in five years they probably have the added pressure to start thinking about something called profitability. We don't talk publicly about finances, but let's just say that's something that's been thought abo
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by commondream 12y ago
Yeah, my wife's back in school, so we go to lunch but beyond that we don't get to spend our whole Fridays together. When we were getting started Ryan would go on adventures with his family on Fridays, but my kids were already in s
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by commondream 12y ago
He works on Mondays with the team to help with that aspect, but yes, it'll be great when we've got two weekend support folks.
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by commondream 12y ago
We're a little above 80 people on the team.
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by commondream 12y ago
Yep. Turning your brain off is impossible, and your brain's the most critical piece of you in a lot of these roles. If we counted thought time I'm not sure how many hours I'd log each week, but it'd be well above 32.
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by commondream 12y ago
Just to be clear, a lot of our company logs their hours from home in cities where we have no office. We've about 30 people in Portland, 20 in Orlando, and 30 remote. In all cases folks can work from home unless they absolutely need to
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by commondream 12y ago
Oh, on the work from home part, most of our developers and designers do. Because we have a video training service, though, we still shoot in the office, and some of us go into the office just because we like that environment (I'm one o
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by commondream 12y ago
I think there have been pros and cons of us being outside of SV. I'm personally really glad that we're not there. I love Portland and think it's been a really good place for my family. I know we have folks who wish we were mo
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by commondream 12y ago
I thought unicorns were people who can do anything. I'd never heard the thunder lizard thing either, though.
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by commondream 12y ago
Or where you work from. Most of our dev/design team is remote, and that's been hugely beneficial to us. I wish we could figure out how to shoot really high quality video remotely too.
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by commondream 12y ago
We have a support person who works his four days over the weekend to make sure it's covered.
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by commondream 12y ago
I'm Treehouse's CTO and cofounder. I'll try to answer anything I can.
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by commondream 12y ago
The work is pretty endless, we just stop at the end of the day.
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by commondream 12y ago
I don't stand over the team with a stopwatch, but it's something I try to keep a pulse on and I don't think most of our folks "work well over 40 hours." Most do probably end up over 32 though, I'd say.
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by commondream 12y ago
We come pretty average for the U.S. but under SV pay. We don't cut pay to adjust for the shorter week, though.
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by commondream 13y ago
Yep. We've been working the 4-day work week since well before we raised money.

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