Pager duty for developers?

[DanielRibeiro]

http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=11791

[marssaxman]

I've never heard of such a practice and it sounds unfathomably strange. Is it just a web development problem?

A couple of my employers have given me a cell phone, but that's no big deal - I just leave it in the office when I go home.

[DanielRibeiro → marssaxman]

It is one of the contention points here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101876