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by p4wnc6 11y ago
In fact, supposing it was a true case of something like misophonia, this attitude towards Person B ought to rightfully be considered a form of physical discrimination. I know that would not hold up in our current system, which is tragic.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I agree that some places do not. If you've bootstrapped yourself entirely and have been based in Boulder, CO, and now you're opening up an office in SF, yeah, it might be a while before you can give everyone an office. Of course,
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
You make many good points. However, I find that some of them still affect remote work too. For example, people still make efforts to "appear" to be working. They will make spurious commits to version control. They will ration out
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
And just look how successful Joel's endeavors have been. It's almost like there's something to this idea of really investing in your employees... Do you think Joel would not attribute a significant amount of the financial ret
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
My personal belief, after having had a 100% remote job, is that there is a lot of value in having people physically co-located at the same physical office. This isn't always true and I would never want to enforce it dogmatically. For s
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Status once again. There's actually quite a lot of formal research on this, such as here: < http://homepages.se.edu/cvonbergen/files/2013/01/Reversing-t... >
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Office rent is more expensive than open-plan rent. Nobody disagrees. Office productivity, morale, collaboration, and communication are higher than open-plan. The degree to which those things are higher is enough to more than make up for the
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Yes, tech workers often are just pieces of office furniture these days, and so getting to be cool rustic armoir is better than being a lame ottoman. This is an important lesson for undergrad CS majors. Instead of working really hard to mast
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Except that all of the studies suggest the headphones / earplugs option doesn't help very much. Most of the damage is done because of lack of privacy and noise is a secondary (though still large) effect. The headphone solution i
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Plenty of collaboration happens in quiet environments. It's just often digital collaboration. In a lot of software settings, that is precisely how you want it to be. You don't want people using their meat flaps to hit your hea
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
It is absolutely about status. "Programming" is a low status activity. "Inking mega fucking cash dealz" is a high status activity. If I ink mega fucking cash dealz all day, then of course I deserve a better physical st
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
It's totally possible for people who are more extroverted to find an interactive setting more pleasant. You could round up all such folks and let them sit together, since they get energy from that. But clearly for the people with more
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The answer is really simple, and has been well-known at least since the time of the book Peopleware and the studies it cited. Provide a real office environment for every knowledge worker. You know ... a door that shuts ... a window ...
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I can't tell if this is satire or not. Office "cultures" that involve inane things like alcoholic drinks, free boutique meals, or dog-friendliness have absolutely nothing to do with getting work done. They are things you have
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
"work at companies that care about diversity" ... and then a huge number of the job listings are for Quora -- famous for their absurd ban of Michael O. Church.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
This is a very underappreciated point. For example, in pharmaceutical drug discovery, what often matters most is the ability to play around with different modeling assumptions, and to do large-scale "search engine" work on differe
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Interestingly, SGI seems to be doing alright with their supercomputer business, such as UV. The market certainly shrank on them, but what's leftover doesn't look like commoditized or cloud computing will be able to compete it away
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I've literally never experienced any negative repercussions from not having a LinkedIn account. I deleted it years ago and switched jobs twice since. In all of my applications or interviews, I just say that I dislike the way LinkedIn c
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
"Entry level" "full-stack" together at last
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
They plan to finally, once and for all, settle the timeless question of if you can order beef, chicken, or tofu as the protein, and if you can order broccoli, mushrooms, or peppers as the vegetable, and if you can order white rice, brown ri
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I agree with this, except that I think in the presence of Agile what you are calling "poor management" is the norm, largely because of Agile and the way it structures thought and planning. I think it's very important to mak
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> So, this is neither good nor bad, just a shift in where the competitive opportunities are. Many see this shift itself as a bad thing. Instead of having career options in stable companies, most people (who necessarily can't all b
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> This is perfect though! In two weeks, you discovered the wrong thing. Maybe I didn't describe it very well. 12 days was perhaps a poor choice because it is convenient to a sprint cycle, but in my comment it was meant to function a
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The trouble with this is that it assumes very particular kinds of projects. For example, I once worked on a user-facing mobile and web application that did forecasting and prediction to dynamically steer students through online college cour
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Sometimes things need to be on a different order of magnitude than a few weeks. Sometimes a single sprint should be months, especially when the subtasks involved require novel research and pilots / prototypes (which is way more often,
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Attempted pure adherence to the commonly stated Agile principles, via common scheduling and reporting events in Scrum. Any vague attempt to do that, even with customization and variation within a given company, has always resulted in the sa
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I've only experienced Agile lengthening delivery cycles, but more critically Agile also greatly reduced quality, because the lack of global context and long term planning caused the products to suffer. All of the micro-planning to make
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
When companies lose value (or are overvalued) why don't we ever highlight it when they use Agile / Scrum? Since those techniques are expressly marketed as value- and productivity-enhancing techniques, I think it's very fair t
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I strongly agree with the comments about doing your own projects and going to meetups. When I began to just submit applications and then stop thinking about them, it freed up much more time to actually do programming. This in turn made me f
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Didn't Arcade Fire say this years ago?

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