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I oh so HATE open office concept. When I first started here I was on one side of the building that had proper full height walled cubes. Then a reorg happened and I was placed under a different manager on the opposite side of the building where they didn't have cubes but a snake of curved table sections. I went from having shelves and drawers to a table section that was barely big enough to hold my monitors.
Then we moved buildings, my table is a little bigger and I use my stack of books (big thick things made of paper) as a partial barrier, it's almost 3 feet tall. The visual distraction of people moving about is almost as bad as the auditory.
Yes, I have a big pair of over the ear headphones. They don't always have something playing in them but they are always on my head.
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Now that you remind me of it.. open space is not much loved.. for that very reason! haha!
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Over time we all become old farts... 
No, I find that I am the same. I think though that as we become older and (hopefully) more proficient at our profession, we tend to need to sink deeper into that "zone" to do the more complex design and architectural tasks. Which requires deeper concentration and mental resources to accomplish. Thus any external distractions become a more critical disruption to our work.
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Andreas Mertens wrote: Over time we all become old farts...
Indeed! 
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Friday's coming up. Any thoughts on our next coding challenge? We need a simple task, easily coded, and easily tested.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Pick someone's homework question from Q/A...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Did I mention it has to be well-defined?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Unlike last week's?
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Oooh, yeah, I like the one about Pascal's Triangle the other day. 
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Chris Maunder wrote: Friday's coming up. Any thoughts on our next coding challenge? We need a simple task, easily coded, and easily tested.
Where's the results from last weeks challenge? Did it work?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I'll announce Friday
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: I'll announce Friday
I wasn't asked to test it, so it can't been known to work.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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You weren't drunk when it was written so your testing would be off anyway. 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I, for one, do not have access to Chris' Big List of Mickisms with which to test mine.
Without The List -- and sixteen (!) years worth of posts -- none of us can perform a proper stress test of our codez.
I also don't want to melt down my system.
modified 30-Nov-16 8:46am.
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Chris Maunder wrote: We need a simple task, easily coded, and easily tested.
Technically, that is how all projects should be implemented -- broken down into simply, easily coded and tested, tasks.
So I wonder, what would the weekly coding challenge look like if there was an overall story arc, ideally where only you know what the end goal is, and as an additional game, we could guess.
Which gets me to wonder next, does the coding challenge have to be stand-alone or can it involve some third party API or existing open source code base?
Regarding the story arc, I would probably avoid something that creates a product or website. That said, simulations are always fun, for example, I've always wanted to write something that models the gravitational interaction of objects. Simple games are also fun, though that probably gets into the "product" arena too much.
The point being, coming up with interesting (and useful!) coding challenges is actually quite a challenge, especially given that the idea of a story arc comprised of coding challenges requires, well, some management. 
So, other than that, no immediate ideas right now. 
Marc
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An arc could be interesting. Do one component of a simple game, or other task, every week, and put it together at the end. Or recode the entire codeproject site, one step at a time  oh wait - I meant 
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A financial transaction categorization engine with customizable categories and custom matching expressions.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Idea: Rotating an NxN matrix in-place, maybe?
Question: What exactly are the answers graded on? Creativity, complexity, simplicity, or some other metric?
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I have come to the conclusion that (depending on what you are actually doing) you don't need to actually rotate an NxN matrix -- you need only apply a transformation to the X and Y coordinates of the desired cell to access a cell as if the matrix had been rotated. 
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I know some people that use a similar technique with work
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That's a hardware problem.
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Josephus problem solver
Collatz sequence generator
An Angular2 SPA app that allows managing certain entities. And just for testing purposes, use Node for server side.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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A Collatz generator could be interesting since there are optimizations available but the Josephus problem already has an extremely simple solution using binary. I doubt it would yield any interesting programs except maybe the language used. Not a fan of the app since that specifically targets only people that use both AngularJS and NodeJS. Just my 2 cents
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Jon McKee wrote: Not a fan of the app since that specifically targets only people that use both AngularJS and NodeJS.
I was just being smart here to get my work done.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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