I have to agree. The Ecobee3 is seriously underrated, probably just because of Nest’s marketing machine.

The article mentioned this briefly under things you can’t change, but I think location deserves to be its own major item, maybe it should even be the #1 factor.

It saddens me greatly that this is the top voted comment on this article, because it's largely useless. (Okay, maybe not useless, but it's not remotely sufficient.)

"I used to be a trained auto tech"

These are fun debates, but for one second I need you to put the koolaid down next to your false equivalency. :)

Okay but you can get a 4K monitor for only like $400, so let's not focus on Dell's silly pricing too much.

This is actually a topic worth exploring — what about small form-factor PCs mounted to monitors? Would that count for this?

Out of curiosity, how "fine" does you 2007 iMac work these days? I'm sure it's not going to mechanically break down anytime soon, but what do you use it for? Anything beefy? Will it still run current versions of productivity/office software, image/video editing software, etc? Games?

I really need someone to help me understand the benefit of a 5K screen to the 95%+ of the population that isn't a graphic designer. I'm honestly not being (very) cynical here, I just really don't get it.

These are solid strategies, but the biggest challenges I've encountered haven't been with fully remote teams, but rather with partially remote teams, where maybe half the team is local and usually together in the office, but the other half is distributed remotely.

No subscription. It's a one-time purchase.

Nothing against Adam Dachis, but I've used Seconds (Pro) for years for interval workouts, among other purposes. To your point, it lets you assign a different playlist or track to each interval. You can also customize the background color of each interval, for a more overt visual cue instead of or in addition to the…

Sorry, but yes. Just yes. For the record, I said unit testing, not crappy unit testing. Don't blame the concept of a hammer just because most of the hammers you've seen were made of glass and broke on most nails. :-)

Really? I think the image of the hyperactive programmer who types 150 words per minute is overrated.

A couple more from my own experience:

And what types of jobs are these for, if you don't mind?

Yikes, I must strongly disagree!

I tend to have the opposite problem — once gave a couple bucks to one lousy charity and now I get address labels in mail several times per year. And I haven't donated to any of those charities (including the original one) in nearly a DECADE.

If you want to look at it that way, you can, but to most people, "gambling" implies a very low likelihood of winning.

Maybe, but by that logic, you're "gambling" every time you step up on a stepladder, or cross the street, or even step out of the house. You have to "gamble" a little. You can't live in a bubble taking zero chances of anything ever. You have to take reasonable risks to have a reasonable life.