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by edw519 15y ago
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| Interesting | Boring |
| Work | Work |
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| Nice || Heaven | Read |
| Office || | HN. |
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| Bad || No one | Kill |
| Office || cares. | me. |
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- patrickyeon 15y agoJoel Spolsky's argument for going all out and treating their devs well is that interesting work and good pay might get them the top 1% devs, but adding a nice workplace gives them access to the top 0.1%. It is, of course, an optimization that can only really be applied once you've got "interesting work" and "competitive pay" locked down.
- gte910h 15y agoI disagree. I've had jobs where I can't think because the building is too hot, even though the work was interesting, etc. Neither of these lines are binary either. I've been on projects which were kinda, but not really interesting, etc. Lastly, your health makes that a much bigger deal. Your back starts hurting, you want a solution, which may entail a job change.
- mgkimsal 15y agotoo hot? I wouldv'e committed a small crime for heat. I came in to my office in July 2007 and it was 62f. It warmed up to about 66 after I ran some space heaters. (this was in the US, not the southern hemisphere!) :)
- gte910h 15y agoYou can locally heat up a cube. There isn't really an effective cooling substitute that's localized. I would have killed for 62F. My house is 68F year round (I work at home now). (My bedroom is probably 64-66 or so).
- mgkimsal 15y agoMy fingers couldn't type or mouse very effectively. 100+ people worked in frigid temps so a few people on the other side of the wall could have mid 70s - the thermostat was on their side of the wall. :/
- sethg 15y agoObviously, what you needed was a heated keyboard: http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/heated-keyboard-keeps-fingers-toasty-whilst-typing/ http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/heated-keyboard-keeps-fin...
- chc 15y agoHeck, you can locally heat up a cube just by compiling and keeping Flash videos running constantly.
- arethuza 15y agoDepends on what you are used to - 62F is 16.6C which seems like a nice warm summers day here (it is currently 13C and not very nice at at all). We haven't used the heating at home since May or so and probably won't until September/October.