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by znq 11y ago
Yes, but many times it also ends up in "maintenance" work. So new projects are always more exciting, but they might be rather short term and don't provide stability. In the end a mix of both worlds is what we try to achieve :
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by znq 11y ago
Hey, I'm one of the co-founders of Mobile Jazz. Initially most of the work came through our personal networks. Myself I grew up in Germany and lived in San Francisco for some time. My co-founder had a strong network in Barcelona throug
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by znq 11y ago
SEEKING WORK: Remote (we're a distributed team of high quality mobile & backend engineers) http://mobilejazz.com We are Mobile Jazz, a collective of excellent engineers and designers with a strong focus on everything mo
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by znq 11y ago
I've a similar thing. I get most of my good ideas (and those are not necessarily big ideas, but simple tweaks) while not having Internet access and therefore not the opportunity to be constantly distracted. Examples: driving a car (wit
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How we managed to work remotely while skiing in the Austrian Alps(blog.mobilejazz.com)
7 points by znq 11y ago|4 comments
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by znq 11y ago
Location: International with clients in US, Europe, ME and Asia. HQ in Barcelona. Remote: YES Willing to relocate: short-term Technologies: Mobile (iOS, Android, Windows), Web, Backend (Go, Scala, Java, PHP, Node.js), Design Résumé/CV:
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by znq 11y ago
Specifically for mobile logging and remote debugging you might wanna check out Bugfender's remote logger: http://bugfender.com/ Disclosure: I'm on of the co-founders. We've a couple of other related tools in
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by znq 12y ago
For the Thai experiment it was exclusively those who didn't have family. Some with family considered it, but as most of their kids are still very young they didn't do it in the end. Regarding the remote work, even when we're
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by znq 12y ago
Actually Thai people can do exactly the same. While from a legal perspective it might be all correct what you're saying, I think that most people simply have more important matters to worry about. For example, it's also illegal to
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by znq 12y ago
For some people that is their work.
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by znq 12y ago
> No, you stated you were working Noticed the smiley? Nevertheless, how do you differentiate between holidays and work and where to draw the line? If you're responding to a work emails while being on holidays, does that count toward
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by znq 12y ago
Taking aside the current legal situation and trying to look at it from a purely financial aspect, wouldn't it be beneficial for countries like Thailand to allow those kind of people in for a limited amount of time and have them spend t
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by znq 12y ago
Those were already the best they had available on the island ;-)
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by znq 12y ago
We actually met a couple of people from HN on Koh Samui ;-) And yes, I agree it doesn't make sense to be there permanently, but traveling once in a while to the big business hubs in the world and spending a month here and there helps.
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by znq 12y ago
Many of us working at Mobile Jazz actually have family and we care a lot about integrating them in whatever we do: http://blog.mobilejazz.com/work-life-balance-at-mobile-jazz/ It's not always perfectly possible, b
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by znq 12y ago
Many of us have families and on this particular trip to Thailand those people stayed back home in Europe. However for the trip we did just recently to the Austrian Alps pretty much everyone joined. But that was also a lot shorter and the fo
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by znq 12y ago
What you can do though is travel to the US for business purposes.
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by znq 12y ago
In our specific case in Thailand we never worked more than the usual 8 hours a day and on the weekends we organized trips together. So our goal was not to have people put together so that they work more, but rather have a good time and adve
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by znq 12y ago
We were there on holidays ;-) But I know what you're talking and while what we're doing is technically a gray zone, what the government is after is mostly freelancers that basically live in Thailand, but are not paying taxes there
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by znq 12y ago
That was one of the problems we actually described in our blog post about the Thailand experience. It took as us while to actually find out rhythm (simple things like finding food, doing laundry, etc.) and that was taking a lot of our energ
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by znq 12y ago
So at Mobile Jazz we made it a voluntary thing. After all you cannot force your employees to go anywhere ;-) To Thailand only a few of us went, mostly for the family reasons. However, to our most recent trip to the Austrian Alps we had almo
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by znq 12y ago
All of us should meet up some time ;-)
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by znq 12y ago
Hey, I'm one of the co-founders who runs Mobile Jazz. To answer your questions: 1) We actually wanted to experience a new culture and also have some kind of adventure. We're already doing things in Spain, so we just wanted to try
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Working Remotely From A Tropical Island In Thailand(blog.mobilejazz.com)
308 points by znq 12y ago|187 comments
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by znq 12y ago
SEEKING WORK: Remote (we're a distributed team of high quality mobile & backend engineers) http://mobilejazz.com We are Mobile Jazz, a collective of excellent engineers and designers with a strong focus on everything mo
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Pilot explains why it is impossible to fly with autopilot only(askthepilot.com)
15 points by znq 12y ago|12 comments
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by znq 12y ago
While not exactly the same as lnav, at Mobile Jazz we're building a remote logger for mobile devices (iOS only at this stage, support for Android, JS web apps and native desktop applications coming soon): http://bugfender.co
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by znq 12y ago
Hello HN folks! This is Stefan from Mobile Jazz http://mobilejazz.com/ . We've been developing Bugfender and using it as an internal tool for quite some time now and decided to promote it to an actual product. This is o
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Show HN: Bugfender – a modern remote logger tailor-made for mobile development(bugfender.com)
15 points by znq 12y ago|5 comments
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by znq 12y ago
Thanks. Appreciate the feedback. Already implemented :-)

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