Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER

[Steve Mynott]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 07:11:58PM +, Paul Makepeace typed:

 I'm surprised you think food cheaper is cheaper in UK, unless you're
 comparing LIDL with Trader Joe's. Finding somewhere decent to eat
 requires some thought in London; requires no thought at all anywhere
 I've been in California (OR seems pretty good too)

I thought Trader Joe's was quite cheap!  Although this is relative
to Whole Foods.  UK Whole Foods has to have the silliest prices
I've ever seen and any street market anywhere in the world is
going to be cheaper than a supermarket for most things.

As for finding places to eat doesn't everyone just pull up reviews
from rating sites on their smartphones?  I've usually found eating
well in any country or city easy now and usually the reviews are
spot on.

 Your other points seem to show US is cheaper/ends up more $ in your
 pocket, which I'd agree with and come to the conclusion I'd come to is
 as a developer you're massively better off financially in the US. (Of
 course, irrelevant if you don't want to live there.)

That's the conclusion I'd draw from this thread.

Most people's money goes on housing not food anyway.

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Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER

[Adrian Howard]

On 11 Dec 2011, at 20:46, David Cantrell wrote:

 On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 05:23:40PM +, Adrian Howard wrote:
 On 9 Dec 2011, at 13:16, David Cantrell wrote:
 This idea that with the right magic pixie dust teleworking can be made
 to work regardless of the company, the colleagues, and the employee is a 
 nice idea, but I have seen no evidence whatsoever that it is true.
 A whole bunch of CSCW and social science folk have looked at how teams 
 produce work, and distributed teams come out worse and so called radically 
 colocated teams come out best (war room type setups where everybody on a 
 project in in the same room).
 
 Of course, if your people are made of pure Awesomium then you might be OK
 with taking that performance hit because you're still coming out ahead
 despite your people being in Narsarsuaq and Tataouine compared to if
 you'd employed less awesome people happy to work with you in a damp
 basement in Preston.

Of course ;)

Although it might be worth considering how much _more_ productive you might be 
if they were all in the same room (I've know a couple of orgs who fly folk 
together for a month - paying hotel, etc. - because it's _worth_ it). 

Telecommuting also wins against folk who have terrible work environments (the 
stereotypical noisy half-cube farm for example).

Cheers,

Adrian
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