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Am I becoming an old fart?

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  • S Super Lloyd

    Ok, with such a bait I can foresee the huge YES response... Joke apart, at my job we are a huge open office. And there often some people on the other side of the floor having humongously laugh every 30 seconds.. (particularly today) I find that very annoying! :mad: wonder whether this is a common reaction or not...

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    den2k88
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    I'm surrounded by people who must be at phone to do their job, and a sales department with very little to do apart from talking about soccer and fantasoccer.

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    • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

      HAHAHA I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN BRO! HAHAHAHA HAHA BRO :D

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      Lost User
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      Begone, servant of Mordor! :-)

      The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
      This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
      "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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      • D Daniel Pfeffer

        Vunic wrote:

        Usually people of lesser worth talk loud & laugh loud (@ work).

        :thumbsup: The HR and the marketing droids are usually the worst offenders.

        If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill

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        Eytukan
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        I dread this word "HR". The most useless part of any technology company.

        Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

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        • S Super Lloyd

          Ok, with such a bait I can foresee the huge YES response... Joke apart, at my job we are a huge open office. And there often some people on the other side of the floor having humongously laugh every 30 seconds.. (particularly today) I find that very annoying! :mad: wonder whether this is a common reaction or not...

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          megaadam
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          Super Lloyd wrote:

          becoming

          Are you sure that is the right word? :cool: Seriously I suffer with you. 9 months back or so I fired off a rant right here demanding suggestions on things to buy [headphones, baseball bats, etc]. The place was driving me crazy so in the end I quit. :mad:

          ... such stuff as dreams are made on

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          • S Super Lloyd

            Ok, with such a bait I can foresee the huge YES response... Joke apart, at my job we are a huge open office. And there often some people on the other side of the floor having humongously laugh every 30 seconds.. (particularly today) I find that very annoying! :mad: wonder whether this is a common reaction or not...

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            Oshtri Deka
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            If I you had to ask that question then you probably are. :) But if you want to be sure, take a loud music test[^]. Old or not, open space is :thumbsdown:. Perhaps you should invest in good pair of headphones. I did it. Good luck!

            Mislim, dakle jeo sam.

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            • E Eytukan

              I dread this word "HR". The most useless part of any technology company.

              Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

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              Daniel Pfeffer
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              Vunic wrote:

              "HR". The most useless part of any technology company.

              FTFY :)

              If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill

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                Begone, servant of Mordor! :-)

                The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
                This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
                "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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                Sander Rossel
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                Did they just change the Matrix? I had a deja-vu...

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                • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                  Did they just change the Matrix? I had a deja-vu...

                  arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly Sander's bits - Writing the code you need

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                  The agents are coming for you. :-)

                  The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
                  This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
                  "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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                  • D Daniel Pfeffer

                    Vunic wrote:

                    "HR". The most useless part of any technology company.

                    FTFY :)

                    If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill

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                    Eytukan
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                    Lol thanks. I had actually worked on different types of companies. Even the ones with the assembly line productions, interacting with contract labors. I feel HR definitely had a role there, there'd been a lot of labor issues everyday, right from cafeteria to sanitation. None of the worthy employees dare spend time on these trivial issues. HR shines there. :)

                    Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

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                    • S Super Lloyd

                      Ok, with such a bait I can foresee the huge YES response... Joke apart, at my job we are a huge open office. And there often some people on the other side of the floor having humongously laugh every 30 seconds.. (particularly today) I find that very annoying! :mad: wonder whether this is a common reaction or not...

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                      MarkTJohnson
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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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                      • S Super Lloyd

                        Ok, with such a bait I can foresee the huge YES response... Joke apart, at my job we are a huge open office. And there often some people on the other side of the floor having humongously laugh every 30 seconds.. (particularly today) I find that very annoying! :mad: wonder whether this is a common reaction or not...

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                        Andreas Mertens
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                        Over time we all become old farts... :-D 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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                          Over time we all become old farts... :-D 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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                          Super Lloyd
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                          Andreas Mertens wrote:

                          Over time we all become old farts... :-D

                          Indeed! :laugh:

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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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                            Super Lloyd
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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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