b1twise

Yes the fact that you were inside the loop enough to be part of the presentation side of re:Invent means your experience is abnormal. You've got the right contacts and profile for them to brag about you.

Having said that, we pay for their 500$/mo support offering and the responses are pretty good. We're also split between AZ's etc as recommended.

I tried Soylent 1.0 and had severe gastrointestinal issues with it. In doing research I came across 100%FOOD--a Soylent alternative. The texture is a lot less appealing than Soylent at first, but I got used to it. My body agrees with it much more. They shipped within hours, not months. It's produced at a vegan facility and uses a lot more 'natural' products as components. Chocolate is definitely recommended. Oh, and they ship internationally.

1. Google drive for collaboration/sharing of docs and other work 2. Skype for chat, group chat, and calling into conference calls. 3. Conference calls. We're using uberconference now, but it has been less reliable than is acceptable. We're going to try our own skype server. 4. We host our own git repos. 5. I do most of the project planning in org-mode and Redmine. 6. RT for bug reports

I liked the ChromeOS experience, but the hardware was very lacking. Office workers want a nice 15" screen. The HP 14 screen was really bad, and that's as close as it gets. There's no way I'd want to use that screen all day. The only option is the Chrome Box with a decent screen. Also, I frequently went into swap with only 2GB of RAM.

I'm from TX originally, but spent over a decade in Silicon Valley. I responded to a craigslist ad that said I could telecommute, so I took that to an extreme. I chose .ph because of previous experience with people, research, and the ease of maintaining a visa. I'm a director at an ecommerce company. I love it--it's allowed me to tailor my life around the things I like and that make me most effective as a person. I don't miss home--I am not an overly emotional person. Filipino food is awesome :)

I've lived in the Philippines for 5 years now, in different locations. I'll monitor this for 24hrs and answer any questions you might have.

The solution to it running warmer with Ubuntu is to run a utility to manage the fan speeds and keep it cooler. It works just fine for me that way.

I've had a few Thinkpads running Ubuntu and now a MBP running Ubuntu.. and I prefer the MBP.

Asking for a code snippet seems to break the question--I can't imagine anything you paste making much sense without context. My honest answer would be to quickly mention that you're not able to paste the exact code because of confidentiality with the previous employer, and then to begin talking about the code and why you're proud of it.

I ask a question very similar to this when I interview, and I'm looking for applicants truly interested in the work they do and computer science. The occasion to apply an obscure algorithm, refactoring code to improve it dramatically, unusual elegance in a solution...

I've just been through a round of hiring--and it was more painful than it has ever been. It was a telecommute position for US candidates only. The quality of applications was abysmally low. The majority of applications were Java programmers who couldn't be bothered to a) read the instructions on how to submit their application or b) write a cover letter AT ALL.

I don't care if you have a degree. Write a good cover letter, have a resume that isn't all HR keywords spam and actually tells me about your skills, and PUBLISH somewhere. Have a blog that shows me what you're doing and that you can write. Publish some code on Github or contribute to a larger project so I can go look at your work.