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by mh_yam 13y ago
Having the ability to retreat to a quiet area is critical. Many people don't have the option of going to a 'quiet room'. It's just one big, chaotic workspace. Personally I have discussed this with coworkers/managers
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by mh_yam 13y ago
QA / PM routinely underestimate how much inefficiency having developers blocked while they deal with queries from QA/PM generates.
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by mh_yam 13y ago
"Maybe one or two in ten people have trouble working in that environment because they're too distracted." How do you know? Did you actually ask everyone "Do you have trouble working in this environment because of the dis
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by mh_yam 13y ago
Let me share some perspectives on the 'other side'. 1) I don't want people to be able to see me all the time. It's extremely nerve-racking and I feel like an animal in a zoo. And from my experience, people usually don&#x
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by mh_yam 13y ago
I tend to believe that people are paid commensurate to the degree of value they create. Bill Gates, in my opinion, has created much more than 100,000 times the value of what an average American creates. That doesn't mean he is a better
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by mh_yam 13y ago
I agree. My family income was in one of the bottom three ranges, and I had a score much higher than what is displayed for the top range. Looking back, it is a huge factor in where I've come from there.
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by mh_yam 13y ago
Does this person actually leave 1 hour early every day he eats at his desk?
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by mh_yam 13y ago
Worked with an offshore team in India, can confirm this. Very irritating.
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by mh_yam 13y ago
I almost got a seizure x(
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by mh_yam 13y ago
I used the Wolfram Alpha iPad app in real-time during mathematics / statistics lectures to check the notes on the blackboard and to try out alternatives. Very useful in the classroom.
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by mh_yam 13y ago
"In reality, Wolfram Alpha queries are more often for the sake of fun than for the sake of discovery" In advanced math classes (upper undergraduate or graduate) it is almost impossible to check results or do a complex operation on
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by mh_yam 13y ago
If Obama can receive it, then I don't see why not Snowden.
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by mh_yam 13y ago
Do you talk to your team members for 8 hours a day? I don't. I may catch up with them in the morning for something, perhaps go out for a coffee, or do some pairing when debugging etc but 80-90% of the time I am working on something alo
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by mh_yam 13y ago
Not surprised at the number of INTs. Fair number of ENT as well.
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by mh_yam 13y ago
I have perfect pitch and I find it to be generally enjoyable. It's useful, to some degree, in a musical setting; I find it very easy to hear music and reproduce it immediately (including chord/key analysis, etc). It's fun to
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by mh_yam 13y ago
This wasn't the case for me. I managed to get a 30%+ salary increase (alas, the new company didn't have bonuses so this wasn't a ridiculous increase) but I had no room to negotiate vacation days.
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by mh_yam 13y ago
"And yet everywhere I've spent time has been in favor of open offices" Most office layout decisions are made by upper management--who usually (conveniently) end up with private offices while the rest of the employees are forc
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by mh_yam 13y ago
"you can have constant interaction with other people. You can scan the room quickly to see who's busy, who's concentrating, who looks available for a quick chat, etc" This is precisely why I hate open plan. I don't
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by mh_yam 13y ago
A lot of factors. An education system designed to produce worker-bees rather than independent thinkers. A stagnate economy (although this is improving) leading to high unemployment for young workers and people taking whatever job they can g
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by mh_yam 13y ago
As a Japanese native who went to college in America and moved to NYC to escape the societal pressure back home, I'm glad to see this. Maybe I'll move back someday.
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by mh_yam 13y ago
Who are you to decide what is enough?
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by mh_yam 13y ago
Oh really, ya think?
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by mh_yam 13y ago
Communist countries tried to do this in the 20th century and failed.
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by mh_yam 13y ago
Haha, that is great. My Python would be at like 2 then. lol
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by mh_yam 13y ago
It is ironic; management who want open plan offices almost invariably all get private offices, usually surrounding the perimeter of the floor, and usually with the window facing the open floor plan.
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by mh_yam 13y ago
Or two years.
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by mh_yam 13y ago
It's all about state of mind. People who actually want to make a living, start businesses, create wealth, and live responsibly VS those who just want to be parasites. Attitude is what matters...
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by mh_yam 13y ago
So good.
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by mh_yam 14y ago
Meanwhile, Obama gives citizenship to illegal immigrants.
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by mh_yam 14y ago
I work as a software developer. I would say that I read other people's code quite often, depending on what I am doing.

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