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Old Posted Apr 14, 2021, 11:27 PM
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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV View Post
It's done all the time (see e.g. the Linux kernel, or most open source projects). I spend ~2/3 of my time writing software, and most often the people I work on software with are at other universities. Doing stuff in lab / mentoring grad students / colloquia etc. are things that don't work remotely nearly as well.
As I said, what I called the engineering of it--writing software as you seem to be describing it--seems doable to me remotely, but how about the decision making as to what features need to be in the programs and so on? I'm really thinking especially of things like games where creativity is key and group brainstorming seems like it would be really important. I guess I'm not saying these things can't be done remotely but I am thinking they could be done better with the group of people together in one space and team leaders are going to come to prefer that.
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