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by jon_black 14y ago
Sadly my site went down very early, only 150 visits showing up in my analytics. Now my site is back up...barely...and my post is #89 on HN. My five minutes of fame are gone. Sigh.
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by jon_black 14y ago
Hehe. That sounds familiar. I have sound isolating ear-buds which do a decent job of blocking out noise. Somtimes, however, even my own music is distracting. In a previous job my desk was next to the printer. You can imagine how that was.
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by jon_black 14y ago
People ineed use it as an excuse, but sometimes it's a valid point that's disregarded because others, especially when it's a consensus, don't agree that the environment causes a problem. You end up with people being labelled as "anti-social
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by jon_black 14y ago
Good job!
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by jon_black 14y ago
I pretty much concluded at the end of the article that offices should accomodate both collaborative open-planning and leave-me-to-concentrate cubicles. You're right that shutting yourself away is impersonal, and I would certainly never want
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by jon_black 14y ago
Sadly not. I'm both proud to have a popular article and disappointed that no-one can read it....is this the HN-effect? :)
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by jon_black 14y ago
I do the same with email. Some people don't grasp that communication has a priority. The panic I see in people's faces after ten minutes when a text message goes unreplied. If it's important, call them!
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by jon_black 14y ago
Looks like my website can't handle being on the front page of HN. I'm talking with my provider to try and get it resolved. It's showing up in Google, but there's no cache link. Apologies to those trying to access the article.
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Open plan offices are a nightmare(jonblack.org)
35 points by jon_black 14y ago|59 comments