mattpardee's comments

Good lord, man. How do you deal with people you meet in real life? Do you walk around responding "What you just said is irrelevant to me."?

What if the algorithm you think you want is actually the opposite of what you might find interesting tomorrow? Most people are complex, interesting creatures finding new inspirations and communicating them on a daily basis. People grow, change, they find out what is interesting to post. We're in the baby stages of this whole online social experiment.

Regardless of that: I find it's generally _people_ I can choose to hide from my news feed (usually because they constantly post things that annoy me). And with what, maybe one of those people hidden every few months, I otherwise actually have a pleasant experience catching up on what my friends & family have been up to. It's not that complicated...

Haha I have no idea. Didn't see that coming. OH wait it's April 1.

Party school.

If I'm not mistaken this original document was on Chico State's computer science domain. It was my understanding Beej went to Chico; does anyone know for sure? This was around long before 2006, I remember reading it around the year 2000 when I was first getting into C++. (miracle this quality of a document escaped anyone's brain in Chico -- I know, I went to CSUC. Let's just say it was hard to concentrate there :)

True. Many companies have come up with solutions for this problem, including VMs. But imagine having a VM for every project without the need to download or distribute them. That's what Cloud9 offers~

The other possibility is developers are given a computer that's in a locked down jail cell state. But pointing this out (and other configuration scenarios) distracts from the central idea: developers battle configuration hell because our processes are disconnected from each other. It's more than a configuration script, this is about solving a bigger problem. Think of remote development too and collaboration, this is something we can solve with cloud tooling.

Great point! We've extended the deadline to include the weekend as well.

Thanks for your advice, I responded to the commenter below and I think that's the best course of action for me at this time. It allows me to get to sleep during the night, I just have to OK it with the rest of the team. They're very understanding people and have been flexible with me, so this shouldn't be an issue.

In general I agree with your viewpoint. I've been willing to sacrifice myself on some level to appease this schedule, which is the wrong long-term strategy. For the time being I am on the west coast, so some of the other moving considerations I might make are out of the question. Feeling "stuck" put me in a mental quandary, but it shouldn't be that way. I need to open the lines of communication to my team and address this issue head-on; ultimately the team will grow and more displacement will occur. My experience should provide a template by which we can all work together effectively, no matter what the time zone.

Thank you again for your reality check, I very much appreciate it.

Your post made me take a step back and realize that most of the day-in, day-out communication on Skype is less pressing than I originally thought. There are times when it's important to be around all day, such as during release sprints, but other than that, as time goes on it seems it will be less important that I'm on schedule with the rest of the team. Certainly the benefits of me working after a solid 8 hours of sleep outweigh any negatives.

The approach I'm planning on taking from here on out is to get to bed around 4 AM. This will allow me to get up at noon, do any day activities I need to do, and then start work in the late afternoon where I can then overlap with the beginning of their day and be a part of the standups.