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Nothing! All could go wrong, went wrong already...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The idea that TDD damages design and architecture is not new. Because the foundation is too stable?
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Plus details on strict limitations for UWP apps running on the Xbox One. It will pause the Windows Update service?
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Quote: According to Walston, UWP apps and games can only use four the Xbox One's eight shared CPU cores, 50 percent of the system's GPU power, and just 1GB out of 8GB of system memory.
Windows universe is shrinking nicely 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Hmmmm. that's odd, but II(vaguely)RC isn't 1GB of ram the amount that the OS holds back from games? Makes me wonder if UWP apps are running in non-game mode and resource neutered to avoid bottlenecking gmaes even if they are games.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It will pause the Windows Update service?
Jeremy Falcon
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Amazon boss Jeff Bezos wants to start delivering packages to the Moon. According to The Washington Post, Bezos — who also owns private space travel company Blue Origin — has written an internal report arguing that a good delivery service will be key to establishing a functioning lunar settlement. Deliveries will take 2-5 days with Super Saver Shipping
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In interviews I ask "Do I get my own office?" and "Do I get a parking space?"
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Open offices are cheaper, so don't expect them to go away.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Metallica at 3pm sounds good to me. I fail to see the problem with open offices. I'm sure there's still meeting rooms if you need to do something private, or quite probably the option to work from home if you need peace.
Maybe people associate having an office with status and like to view others as 'beneath them'.
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Programmers surrounded by people who moust constantly be on the phone, groups of coworkers that talk loudly from one end of the office to the other of soccer or movies... the perfect environment I'd say. Then one asks why code quality sucks.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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...and then everyone gets Dragon Naturally Speaking...
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Wastedtalent wrote: Maybe people associate having an office with status and like to view others as 'beneath them'.
Noise, Man!
You can't institute a STFU rule, and you can't expect people not to use phones.
If all you do is surf the interwebs, fine, but if you have to focus, open-plan offices* are a nightmare
* The correct term, which the article writer seemed not to know
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I much prefer to work in a lively environment than somewhere silent when I need to focus. If I don't want distractions then headphones and music works fine.
I guess it's personal preference.
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Wastedtalent wrote: I guess it's personal preference.
Yup.
I don't even want music, when I'm working.
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I think the open office environment only really works on a department or team basis. I've been sharing with a call center (noisy AF), sharing with other devs and testers (both single and multiple teams) and now work from home. Sharing a work area with other like minded people feels like it was the most productive and satisfying place to work, especially when working to a common goal.
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And size matters. More than a handful of cow-orkers is too many.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ideally yes, but I was in an office of over 30 devs, testers, PMs and a systems architect working on 3 seperate projects but all for the same system and they was great.
Disclaimer - Previously us 30 IT guys were in a room with about 150 call center staff so my opinion my be a little bias.
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Matt.L wrote: Previously us 30 IT guys were in a room with about 150 call center staff
I'd keep a machete on my desk.
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There are multiple types of "open" offices; cubicle farms, the same without the walls and what the author describes, which is where you are all sitting around the same physical table without much in common task-wise.
In my experience, the latter two work if you are on the same team and doing roughly the same thing, though it still works far better in the research and design stages, versus actual development.
I actually prefer cubicles EXCEPT when I am in full-blown coding/engineering mode, in which case a private office is preferable. I like being able to be reasonably private, but still being able to hear technical conversations from team members.
BTW, one problem with music in "open" offices is that to the people sitting at a distance from the source, it becomes unpleasant noise, make worse when there is more noise coming from the other direction. The photo of Facebook makes me cringe since it will be prone to echoes. That constant background noise is very destructive to productivity.
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I found that, and the New Yorker article linked, quite interesting actually. I'm not renewing my existing contract pretty much for the reasons outlined in these articles! Where I work now is a nightmare for interruptions.
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Here, I will present a behind-the-scenes look at Microsoft and its developer technologies—then and now–as told by some of the people who have experienced it—are still experiencing it—first hand. "They're the people that you meet each day"
Just in case you want to know who to blame
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Three pretty women and some dude. Good enough.
Oh, and Kasey...give me a call. 
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There was a cacophony of sound from all the telephone conversations and the clacky "special" keyboards with coloured keys for "sell" and "buy", etc. (despite being for developers) echoing off the hard surfaces of the room. 
and I responded with a request for double that amount 
which, luckily, they declined - although I got the impression they had thought about it for a while first! That was a close call! 