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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
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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.
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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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Yeah, right. That's the facebook/marketing version.
This[^] is probably closer to reality.
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That's more women on one product than I've met in my entire professional career.
I guess that's why I'm having trouble understanding Visual Studio 
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imho, Thurrott has spent much more time being a MicroSoft talking-head gad-fly, cranking out reams of prose-de-jour, (now a shill ?) than he has being a developer.
It strikes me as odd that the people he interviews in this piece, while all (of course) wonderful, and good field-commanders for Redmond's micro-serf hordes ...
... are not the technical principals who contributed their experience and genius to the key ideas and implementation of the .NET eco-system: FrameWork and CLR, Platforms, Languages, and the Visual Studio IDE.
Hypothesis: Thurrott did not interview Mads, Anders, Scott, Eric, Miguel, etc., or Chris Maunder, or Jeff Atwood, because the likes of them don't have time for the likes of him.
I hope my comments have offended any of you with tender feelings 
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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For the first time ever, the price of one bitcoin has surpassed the price of one ounce of gold. Don't try getting a ring made out of that bitcoin though, it won't be appreciated
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Best Bitcoin[^] explanation. You'll totally understand how it could inflate! 
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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Researchers, cyber-security experts and policy wonks ask themselves: What could possibly go wrong? When asked to comment, one researcher replied, "Mwahahaha"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What could possibly go wrong?
The answer would be shorter if they ask: What is being / going to be good?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I should be on that panel. I'm good at disasters.
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According to new Georgia Institute of Technology research, uninitialized variables - largely overlooked bugs mostly regarded as insignificant memory errors—are actually a critical attack vector that can be reliably exploited by hackers to launch privilege escalation attacks in the Linux kernel. What? They don't run a static checker on it?
And elsewhere, presumably.
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Not possible. Linux is flawless and Linus is a genius. We know, because he told us so.
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NASA has just published its 2017-2018 software catalog, which lists the many apps, code libraries and tools that pretty much anyone can download and use. In case you're a rocket scientist
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Robots dressed in human flesh would benefit people who need tissue transplants, Oxford University researchers have said this week. "Underneath, it's a hyperalloy combat chassis, microprocessor-controlled."
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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! 
