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Re:Ask HN: How much you make working remotely? by varelse on Monday November 03, 2014 @12:51PM (#8552227)
Yes, he's wrong. I do quite well working remotely and every offer I've received for which I'd have to work in a $%^&ing open office (because open office good, cubicle bad plus mandatory daily Jar Jar meeting at no additional cost(1)) would have entailed a 25-50% pay cut.

My advice is to refuse in every way you can to be the generic fungible engineer most management wishes you to be, and to instead specialize in emerging technologies. When such technologies are in demand, your compensation will skyrocket.

1. http://softwaremaestro.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/scrum-master...

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Re:Ask HN: How much you make working remotely? by SnacksOnAPlane on Monday November 03, 2014 @01:29PM (#8552509)
That link is stupid. We do daily standups. It usually takes about 3 minutes. If it's taking 2.5 hours/week, you're doing it wrong.
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Re:Ask HN: How much you make working remotely? by varelse on Monday November 03, 2014 @01:50PM (#8552629)
Whenever I see "If X isn't working for you then you're doing it wrong" I remind the person who said it that they really ought to consider that there are no silver bullets/holy grails. If daily standups work for you, great (see, I'm acknowledging that it works for some people), but please keep your process religion to yourself, mmkay?
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Re:Ask HN: How much you make working remotely? by SnacksOnAPlane on Thursday November 06, 2014 @10:26AM (#8567384)
But this is a pretty clear indication that things are broken. I understand that there are variations in how things are done, but if you're doing "standups", the whole point is: keep it short and sweet. Otherwise, call it a "morning meeting" and run it as long as you want.
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Re:Ask HN: How much you make working remotely? by kethinov on Monday November 03, 2014 @02:20PM (#8552824)
Ah Scrum arguments.

The biggest source of No True Scotsman fallacies on the internet.

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Re:Ask HN: How much you make working remotely? by Mandatum on Monday November 03, 2014 @02:12PM (#8552768)
Also do daily standups - if someone wants to go into more detail about something they do it only with the people necessary.

We take about 10 minutes/day.

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