filePro Programmer

[Fairlight]

The honourable and venerable Joe Chasan spoke thus:
> part of the problem with job postings to this list is that most of the
> replies come from people who want to telecommute remotely, whether on 

You say that like it's a bad thing.

> permanent or per-project/contractor basis.  that works for some, but 
> not others.  there are some positions that still need in-house/in-person 
> contact. with technological advances going as they are hopefully that 
> need gets smaller, i doubt it will ever go away completely.

In over a decade, the only reason I've ever needed someone physically at
the location to do something was to either read me the line off the console
that gave me the vital information about which piece of hardware just
failed, or to have them insert media.  I needed a simple power cycle of a
system -once-, and that was because I overlooked one thing before a reboot.
It wasn't a huge deal.

Unless someone is in a co-lo environment, there's generally someone already
handy that knows which way to orient a floppy or tape in a drive.

Some people may have a higher comfort level with it, but I don't think it's
the dealbreaker you'd make it out to be.

And that's for administration, where hands-on need would potentially exist.

In a -strictly- programming scenario--there's almost nothing you can do
on-site that you can't do between email, phone, fax, modem, and network.
Programming alone simply does not require a physical presence.  That's a
fallacy invented by people that fear, or just plain don't understand
telecommuting, IMHO.  With today's technology, you don't even need a
physical presence to do training.

mark->
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