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minasss

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minasss··on Ask HN: What is your strongest argument against remote work?
> A great way to approach this is to build trust incrementally. Small projects where responsibility is given to individuals to own work end to end with reviews and feedback. After a few iterations, everyone will get used to it.

Thank you very much for providing a useful practical advice!

minasss··on Ask HN: What is your strongest argument against remote work?
> a company is not disciplined enough to communicate well, especially across teams. This may be the case if a significant number of business decisions are done in side conversations

this is a very very good point! but I don't think that being remote or not make this communication problem worse or not.

minasss··on Ask HN: What is your strongest argument against remote work?
Thank you for your points!

> You need to be cut out for it. You need to be self sufficient

Instead of saying "People are not cut to it" why cannot we say "People have not enough experience with it"?

Even working in a classic office space requires some experience, trial and error.

> and be OK with working alone.

well, there are co-working spaces, working hubs etc

minasss··on Ask HN: What is your strongest argument against remote work?
I can assure you that it is possible to not trust people you see every day, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
minasss··on Ask HN: What is your strongest argument against remote work?
"The office" can be the building where you may have your desk, does it mean that the desk must be owned by the company you work for? or that everyone in the room must work for the same company to build a relation ship? :)
minasss··on Ask HN: What is your strongest argument against remote work?
> One thing I find difficult in remote teams is the ability to ask a coworker a question quickly.

Why is it so important that your colleague HAVE to respond quickly? Have you ever considered that your colleague may need some time alone to finish her own task before she can answer your super important question? (sorry for the mood of my answer but it is so bad on purpose :) )

minasss··on Ask HN: What is your strongest argument against remote work?
I can say by experience that being in the same building does not imply that you are building a relationship. Meetings are meetings, you still have to prepare, you still have to communicate well, you will have your turn to speak, if it does not work it is not because you are behind a webcam
minasss··on Ask HN: What is your strongest argument against remote work?
this is a real issue even with in office presence; not everyone is in the loop and the solution, in my opinion, is not to keep everyone in the same room but to spread information in the company
minasss··on Ask HN: What is your strongest argument against remote work?
it will require a bit more effort for sure, but teaching (not training, we are not puppies) is hard anyway, even if you are an awesome teacher
minasss··on Ask HN: What is your strongest argument against remote work?
On average, people are bad at office work too
minasss··on Ask HN: What is your strongest argument against remote work?
so you are saying that you need someone else to decide what is private or not in your life?
minasss··on Ask HN: What is your strongest argument against remote work?
remote work does not mean you have to stay alone, there are co-working spaces all over the world
minasss··on Halley: Lightweight Game Engine Written in C++14
link to samples is broken (octo-cat 404) https://github.com/amzeratul/halley-samples
minasss··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2017)
Location: Italy

Remote: Yes, please

Willing to relocate: no, thanks

Technologies: Python (automation, services, web), C/C++ (embedded, video games), Clojure/Common Lisp/Elixir/Go (junior but really interested in switching to these stacks), Ruby/JS/PHP/C# (have done "things" with these but not so excited about), relational and NoSQL databases experience, linux server setup and maintainance

Résumé/CV: http://francesco.pischedda.info/cv/

Email: francesco.pischedda@gmail.com

minasss··on Ask HN: Best Firefox phone to get?
thanks for the link (and phones review :) )
minasss··on Obscure C++ Features
for example int a = b = c = 0;