After working extensively with linux USB drivers by large corps like Philips, I cannot but assume they put their worst teams on the Linux drivers.
And as a proud owner of (what is widely considered the most supported linux laptop) lenovo laptop, I can say that many things just dont work. E.g. Suspend.
>And as a proud owner of (what is widely considered the most supported linux
laptop) lenovo laptop, I can say that many things just dont work. E.g.
Suspend.
Suspend worked out of the box for me on my X220t. I am running Arch Linux.
The biggest failure of all the 'credit' and 'mobile carrier' solutions is the 15$-50% take they deduct, making it worthless for anything but virtual goods
Even if someone observing the flow of incoming and outgoing trucks could determine the ingredients and their precise proportions, it's the cooking method that produces the right taste, and someone who counts trucks won't be able to figure that out. You can sniff packets in my LAN all day long, but that won't tell you 100% of things that go on inside my computer. Tricking me to install spyware on my computer, on the other hand, is a completely different matter. If the Coca-Cola formula is known, it'll be because of corporate espionage and not something you can tell from publicly available data.
Indeed, I suspect it's pure marketing hyperbole. Even if only two humans currently know, the machines must know to mass-produce it. Their best-kept out-in-the-open secret in my opinion is the way they are involved (as are others) with things like murdered union leaders and generally poor living standards in places like Colombia and other nations.
Note that the $125 "gateway" fee is minor compared with the storage/transfer fees themselves - $0.14/GB/month for storage, for example. At that rate, a small 5 TB volume is already $700/month.
If you are preaching something like this, atleast have the decency to go all the way.
Why are all the examples of "remote" in US/UK ? There are 7 billion other people. And I can assure you there are amazing Indian, Japaneese, German, Russian, Finninsh and Australian devs.
Thats the real big pool of talent. (And you can get some prime developers at lower than $100K/year).
Dude, this whole software business thing at 37signals got started with me in Denmark.
Also, we just hired someone from Russia.
What makes it harder is that for this to work, you need timezone overlap. I now live in Spain half the year, but it does require me to work from 1pm to 9pm. I enjoy it like that and it fits well with the Spanish lifestyle, but it doesn't work for everyone.
Except that I'm a better worker when I live where I want to live.
I can't agree with this enough.
The lack of structural violence is also a huge win, being able to hack at 24+ hour stretches without being told that they are locking up now, or obligations to go for a Wed, Thurs, Friday beer etc. can also be conducive to high levels of productivity.
>> And I can assure you there are amazing Indian, Japaneese, German, Russian, Finninsh and Australian devs.
>> And you can get some prime developers at lower than $100K/year
Totally agree with that. I work remote from Bangalore for a YC startup.
I can't say if I'm "amazing" or "prime". Before I got hired, I had a bunch of opensource projects which I had passionately crafted for personal use. But I do get paid on the far lower side of $100k. I joined on an independent contractor agreement just the next day after I finished college.
About managing tasks: we do 5-minute meetings every day and discuss what each of us are working on.
I'm curious to know what kind of legal work is required to hire remote workers outside the country (US) and how the hires are compensated.
I looked into the requirements when hiring abroad, and the IRS makes it insanely confusing (surprise, surprise). I finally determined that I had no U.S. payroll/withholding responsibility as my foreign employee was outside the U.S. and did all their work out of the U.S.
For payment, I use xoom.com to transfer bank-to-bank. Its worked out well for international payments so far and their fees are reasonable.
My pay is being sent via international bank transfers. Costs about $20 (on my end) which is fine with me. It takes about a day but I believe it's reliable.
After working extensively with linux USB drivers by large corps like Philips, I cannot but assume they put their worst teams on the Linux drivers.
And as a proud owner of (what is widely considered the most supported linux laptop) lenovo laptop, I can say that many things just dont work. E.g. Suspend.