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Re:Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure by levesque on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:13PM (#19223064)
Don't kid yourself, it's not going to be as efficient. Audio and delay are big issues, as not everybody can talk at the same time. But the point is that it is doable, and some companies have good success with that. They are usually small-medium companies though, my guess is we won't be seeing any 100% remote unicorns popping up.
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Re:Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure by jdietrich on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:04AM (#19223270)
It continues to amaze me that most businesses use worse conferencing tools than the average e-sports clan. High-quality, low-latency conferencing and screen sharing is essentially a solved problem if you don't use completely crappy tools.
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Re:Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure by speedplane on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:15AM (#19223517)
Most businesses have far more requirements than a e-sports clan, namely security, standardization, and dealing with large numbers of people. An e-sports clan can change their service in a day with one email. A large organization can't move that nimbly.
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Re:Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure by kalleboo on Friday February 22, 2019 @03:53AM (#19223982)
We changed our voice conferencing to Discord since it worked better than anything else we had tried
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Re:Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure by yread on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:09AM (#19223499)
Which tools should you use?
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Re:Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure by Kluny on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:52PM (#19227376)
Zoom.
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Re:Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure by nadc on Friday February 22, 2019 @08:08AM (#19224957)
Both GitLab and InVision are 100% remote unicorns, last valued at $1.1B [1] and $1.9B [2] respectively.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/19/gitlab-raises-100m/ [2] https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/11/invision-valued-at-1-9-bil...

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Re:Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure by levesque on Friday February 22, 2019 @09:38AM (#19225650)
Haha I did set up the stage for the multiple slam dunks I received as replies. This is really amazing.
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Re:Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure by ivalm on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:00AM (#19223462)
Wolfram has 800 employees, most of them tech, which puts payroll at ~160m. Suppose 30% margin, thats about $50m earnings, at 20p/e thats about $1b/unicorn.
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Re:Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure by mirekrusin on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:53PM (#19223227)
You mean like github?
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Re:Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure by luisfmh on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:18PM (#19223087)
elastic?
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