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daspecster | 9 years ago | on: Your Daily GitHub Contributions Chrome Extension

Here is the GitHub repository for it as well.

https://github.com/daspecster/github-contributions-chrome-ex...

daspecster | 10 years ago | on: Hiring BYOT: Bring your own team

Thanks! Yeah me too, I really would like more data on it TBH.

daspecster | 10 years ago | on: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job

No problem! I appreciate criticisms and perspectives as long as they're constructive! Titles are really hard for me so feedback is good. Thanks for reading it!

daspecster | 10 years ago | on: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job

> I was surprised at the quality of this article given the clickbait title.

Thanks!

Great reply btw. I think there really is something to remote work once everything starts working together. But it's definitely a more than one ingredient cake.

daspecster | 10 years ago | on: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job

Now that I'm back off the top page, I just wanted to say thank you to everyone! I really enjoyed the dialog and hopefully we can all talk more next time!

daspecster | 10 years ago | on: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job

In my humble experience, I've found that there are two paths that seem to be traversed and work. 1. It doesn't matter how many people work remotely but everyone is committed to participating and communicating through distributed means(chat, email, etc). That usually works pretty well. 2. Depending on the company culture, you'll need to have different amounts of the work force remote to get critical mass of adoption.

daspecster | 10 years ago | on: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job

There was a good comment about how I used the terms "perk" and "dream" that was made. (https://medium.com/@martinb3/i-think-you-ve-come-up-with-som...) I agree with this. I could be wrong but I think a lot of people view it that way. I had hoped that the article would bring the tone around to make it sound less like a "dream" or a "perk" and more like a work environment decision. Either way excellent point!

daspecster | 10 years ago | on: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job

Thanks for commenting! That's true, I do have a whiteboard within arms reach in my home office. Sometimes I'll take a picture of it and send it along when talking about a problem.

daspecster | 10 years ago | on: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job

Sorry that was clickbate to see if we could all get going in a drawing frenzy...seems to have worked lol We have some artists on here.

daspecster | 10 years ago | on: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job

haha, I'll take the blame, I probably should format it better.

daspecster | 10 years ago | on: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job

Yeah sorry if my GOOD/BAD wasn't clear. But I was trying to convey that if that's the kind of response a company gives then you should take it as a warning. I've had companies say things like that in interviews when I asked them questions about remote communication and I think it means their management has not matured yet.

daspecster | 10 years ago | on: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job

So just googling around I found this and it seems to work pretty good. https://awwapp.com/b/u21itcedr/

daspecster | 10 years ago | on: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job

I had really good luck with the one built into google hangouts. I think it depends on what you're trying to convey. Sometimes just sharing mockups works really well too.

daspecster | 10 years ago | on: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job

Yeah, I agree. I updated the title here, but I just need to pay more attention to titles+content in general I think. I'm trying to get back into blogging so I really like this feedback!

Also, I totally agree on the being the first employee is a tough one. I've done that 2 times now and it's not easy.

daspecster | 10 years ago | on: You're Welcome HN: Change the Screen Shot Save File Location in Mac OS X

This works in El Capitan as well.

daspecster | 13 years ago | on: $24,000 Eve Online Battle...

700 billion iSK is about $24,000.... http://isk.thealphacompany.net/?isk=700%2C000%2C000%2C000.00...

daspecster | 13 years ago | on: Daily Actionable Good: insights - Released

It's written in Titanium, should I open source the code and ask people design help?

daspecster | 13 years ago | on: Gizoogle'd Hacker News

Someone out there needs a job! If only there power could be used for good :-)

daspecster | 13 years ago | on: Google's AirPlay

The two way communication is interesting.

daspecster | 13 years ago | on: Leaked Windows 8 tablet pricing suggests Microsoft may have already lost the war

I doubt Microsoft is targeting the consumer market. Most of these tablets will probably be bought by businesses which then force their employees to use them in their already fully integrated Microsoft ecosystem. So...I guess it depends on what Microsoft's priorities are.