After working remotely for over a decade for multiple companies my conclusion is the biggest issue is finding managers who grok remote working.

If the person in charge doesn't know what he's doing the rest doesn't matter.

Regarding your options:

1. Hardly any different than on site. 2. Not an issue at all. 3. Huh? 4. For some.

Do you have any suggestion on how to spot a "bad manager" in that regard?

My recent experience left me a bit scarred.

There's chiselapp.com, but one of fossil's strengths is you don't need that kind of service. Just drop the fossil binary anywhere convenient and off you go.

This is an excellent vi-like editor. I've been using it for a while as a lightweight vim alternative and have few complains.

The name choice is unfortunate, as it clashes with the vis(1) command, which has existed since 4.4BSD

Yes, and the BSD vis is part of MacOS which quite a few people use.

There was a homebrew package for 0.2 but it was deleted. Not sure if was replaced with a different name.

How about vi9 for a name? Or Vine. Pretty easy to type since the 9 is just above the i on the keyboard. (qwerty)

If being easy to type is the criteria, I would suggest vij, vio, vil, vid or via, since that's where your fingers are likely to be after typing vi if you are touch typing.

I was a member of rentacoder, which was eventually acquired by freelancer.com. My account there dates back to 2002.

I haven't been active there in a couple of years. The signal to noise ratio makes the website useless. Not enough quality projects and not enough projects with realistic budgets.

But the problem with fraud is beyond serious. I am very careful with who I do business with, and screen customers as much as possible, but their platform really makes it easy for fraudsters to screw you over. I got a couple of issues there over the years. They both were very small amounts, like $200 or so. In one occasion the customer just reversed the payment, stole my code and freelancer.com did absolutely nothing to stop him. In another incident, the customer did not release the payment after completion of the project and I had to settle to accept only his initial deposit as payment, which was like 20% of the agreed price.

The company is also very fee hungry. There are hidden fees everywhere for everything you do in that website. The website itself is also terrible. Customer support is the worst I've ever dealt with.

There are much better ways to find customers than these kind of websites. On the other hand, if you are looking for developers there are plenty of good ones there, just avoid all the Asian body shops and your chances of successfully finding someone are actually not that bad.

You made me think of Smeg's 50's Style line of appliances. Not only are they, by far, the best looking appliances I've seen, they are also built to last a lifetime. Modern technology, retro design and built like they don't make them anymore, what's not to like?

Was? Italy is one of the main heavy machinery producers in the world. They own CASE and New Holland.

No eggs = no mayonnaise

Have you tried it? To me it tastes closer to homemade than the brands that do use eggs.

It's been a long time, but Marco Cantu's books are widely considered some of the best Pascal/Delphi resources available. Essential Pascal is his introductory book.

I've found his stuff while searching for resources but it is Delphi focused. Is that a big issue? I know there are VCL items that are not in the LCL but other than that is there a big difference? If I could use Delphi resources then it would be much easier.

For the better or the worse, Delphi has become the defacto standard Pascal implementation. Free Pascal aims to be compatible with it and Lazarus is pretty much a clone of Delphi 7. If memory serves right, neither Cantu's Essential Pascal book, which is a brief introduction to the language, nor his comprehensive Object Pascal Handbook cover the VCL but focus on the language itself.

You may want to ask these questions in the Free Pascal community, this stuff is too uncool for the HN crowd.

Thanks for your help. I'll take a look at Cantu's book.

It's surprising how weak the Spanish government is. The obvious course of action would have been to arrest the entire leadership and charge them with treason and sedition. In Germany the parties promoting this movement would have been declared illegal and dissolved long ago.

It all boils down to a regional government using taxpayer's money to stage a mock election as a means to usurp the functions of the democratically elected national government.

And suddenly those who respect the Rule of Law are the bad guys.

Maybe the Spanish government is just waiting for them to actually declare independence to bring down the hammer.

> treason and sedition

What is this? Treason to what? Something they do not believe in?

Sedition? By definition, but not necessarily with the negative connotation of your word choice.

Regional vs national government? This is exactly what Catalans are trying to sort out.

Taxpayer's money? This is one of the issues that Catalans are complaining about (rightly or wrongly)

Your whole arguments boils down to: "things are as they are, and trying to change them is bad because that would mean things do not stay as they are".

> And suddenly those who respect the Rule of Law are the bad guys.

So what is the legal path to independence? You can claim it's illegal all you want, but unless there is a legal avenue to pursue then legality is irrelevant.

That is indeed the core of the problem. Catalans have so far only been offered fake alternatives: "Reform the Constitution", for which they will never have a majority.

In Turkey they arrest journalist following the rule of (their) law.

In Spain, the paramilitary police injured 800 citizens who wanted to vote. Following the rule of (their) law, of course.

That's because Canadians proved to be much better at designing aircraft than at keeping communist spies out of their defense projects.