> Why are "open offices are bad" stories so popular on HN? I often say that programming is 8 hours high-performance mind sport a day. Every serious high-perfo

> Why are "open offices are bad" stories so popular on HN? I often say that programming is 8 hours high-performance mind sport a day. Every serious high-performance sportsperson would be furious if he/she were forced to perform training with, say, cheap sneakers from the next discount supermarket. So it is quite logical that programmers get furious about open offices.