notmything

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by notmything 8y ago
A friend of mine moved to the Philippines with her husband (both Australian) to set up an offshore development shop doing NetSute ERP implementations for Australian NetSuite customers (usually mid-market retailers or manufactures). She’s be
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by notmything 10y ago
So if one thing is true then other similar things must be true!!!
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by notmything 10y ago
So I'm supposed to say this to my wife when I lose my job? The world will move on and I will struggle to pay the mortgage and pay for the kids school supplies all because of some rant on HN News. Jesus christ...
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by notmything 10y ago
Nothing would ever get built if individual devs were held liable by the public. The liability sits with your employer.
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by notmything 10y ago
As a contractor - I had insurance to cover me up to a million pounds. As a full time employee, the liability falls on my employer.
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by notmything 10y ago
I'm not saying you should shrug it off - I'm saying you should't have your life ruined over a mistake in some code you wrote. I'm yet to see a building collapse around me in my city - I see software fail all the time tho
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by notmything 10y ago
Sounds good in principle but if I lose my job tomorrow are you going to guarantee this stuff for me and my family?
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by notmything 10y ago
Sounds dangerous - mistakes happen - will I get thrown under the bus by the media if a bug in my code causes an accident that no QA process could have reasonably picked up on?
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by notmything 10y ago
Nope - alternative is to have a work from home culture and local community culture.
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by notmything 10y ago
I live in one too - if we spread people out a bit more into localised communities and make work from home culture a real thing, all the pollution and lifestyle issues you get from high density housing and everyone having to work in the same
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by notmything 10y ago
Yes they should - high density housing and everyone having to commute to the same few square miles in the middle of a densely populated area is one of the biggest scams of our time.
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by notmything 10y ago
Yet for me it's provided every single job I've ever had except my first straight out of University.
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by notmything 10y ago
RE: 300 days. Not always true, I took 6 month break from a large consulting firm - they have thousands of consultants so you can take a break without killing the company but obviously they want as many consultants billing hours as possible.
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by notmything 10y ago
I work in ecommerce consulting - most of my clients take CC info on their site, the forms on the checkout POST (over SSL) to the PSP who then return a token to the site, all future transactions use the token. Most people don't want to
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by notmything 10y ago
Typical small minded HN user, the cost of an employee does not begin and end with salary.
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by notmything 10y ago
What on earth am I reading? One thing I’ve noticed since moving to San Francisco is that my cohort in the tech world doesn’t talk that much about the industry’s past. How is the above different in any other industry? I don't
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by notmything 10y ago
The comments on this story are really reflective of the kind of people on HN - no idea what's going on with the bigger picture - if it's not completely dev focussed then it's stupid and wrong...... Sad
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by notmything 10y ago
What have half of your points got to do with anything? Not knowing who you live around is because that's not within the culture, if your life was based around where you live rather then where you work (and was the same for everyone) I&
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by notmything 10y ago
cultural change required. London is busy and expensive because people need to be there, if they didn't it wouldn't be!
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by notmything 10y ago
Agree - I've been thinking about what the city would be like if all cars (except taxis) were banned during rush hour. I'm struggling to see how it would lead to anything but a better public transport network and a better standard
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by notmything 10y ago
No it's not - there are very few companies that live and die by this - it;s not in any job spec I've ever seen and even if this is true for some companies, I never claimed this would work for all companies. You have cherry picked
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by notmything 10y ago
1. This reduces the overall cost by some small percentage but I doubt it actually makes it free 2. In theory this is correct, are there any studies that actually show productivity gains for companies in this respect? (I think the real reaso
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by notmything 10y ago
The problem would vanish if we moved from city living to small town living. We only have city living because everyone needs to get to their office which created high density housing near the city centre and urban sprawl everywhere else; bot
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by notmything 10y ago
It would benefit many from a standards of living perspective. The lack of high density housing and removal of urban sprawl would mean that your child will actually know what a nice back yard is rather than having to live above one family an
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by notmything 10y ago
Like I said, cultural changes required. Urban sprawl is currently worse for the environment than high density because people can't work from home. Urban sprawl happens around cities because people want a house and want to be as near as
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by notmything 10y ago
I get the bus to work: 45 - 60 minutes to travel around 13 kilometres. I bough my two bedroom apartment for around 1 million aussie dollars, if I choose to live further away, I could have got a 4 bedroom house with a pool for $700,000, or a
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by notmything 10y ago
You are correct - there is no push from anyone significant on this - this is one of the few things I think the Government should intervene in, heavily incentivised a work from home culture to the point where we can get rid of central busine
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by notmything 10y ago
Hence needing a cultural change - we can get the same effect remotely if we actually try. When I was a fresh grad, I also learnt a tremendous amount from the people around me; I don't doubt our ability to get the same effect remotely.
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by notmything 10y ago
It's a serious issue. Just because you don't see it working that does not mean it cannot work. How else are we to solve the living standards issues? We can't all be 24 year olds forever!
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by notmything 10y ago
In response to your response (which I cannot reply to)- that's just one example. I did say that it may benefit some companies some of the time but I highly doubt that it's worthwhile enough to be a driver for EVERYONE to work fr

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