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2016-04-18
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yogidevbear08:04:36

On the theme of remote or not, who's heading into the office today and who's chilling at home being productive?

yogidevbear08:04:28

I'm in the office too today

thomas08:04:49

and it is a very noisy office… that is the bit I don’t like about it. Open plan sucks IMHO.

thomas08:04:42

(and my employer confirmed that with research 40 years ago… and then got rid of all the offices )

yogidevbear09:04:02

@thomas: That's why earphones were invented simple_smile

mccraigmccraig09:04:09

i'm @home, with a nice view from the south downs all the way to forest row

yogidevbear09:04:13

Sorry for delayed response, was on train and then went underground

yogidevbear09:04:31

Nice. I'll be back home tomorrow

yogidevbear09:04:42

Only issue is I'm note coding in Clojure 😉

mccraigmccraig09:04:05

@yogidevbear: purescript ? haskell ? lux ?

yogidevbear09:04:45

If only... cfml

yogidevbear09:04:06

Ha, just seen that if I drop the c it becomes fml

mccraigmccraig09:04:10

headphones are a bad idea for dev i think - research i have come across seems to show that, while music may be helpful for repetitive tasks, it hinders learning

mccraigmccraig09:04:22

there's one such experiment related in one of the tom de marco books, though i can't remember which one... hardly a solid reference

yogidevbear09:04:43

Don't think I'd wear earphones for learning purposes, but good for me for cutting out background noise if I need to get something finished for work

mccraigmccraig09:04:14

@yogidevbear: in the experiment i recall participants were given a dev task which had a non-obvious shortcut, and randomly assigned to two groups - one had to listen to music, the other no music... music made little difference to how quickly people worked or how well they performed, but overwhelmingly those who spotted the shortcut were from the no-music group

yogidevbear09:04:08

Interesting. Do you know if the no-music group were in a quiet environment or in a noisy workplace?

yogidevbear09:04:18

Would be interesting if they did the same experiment, but somewhere like a busy coffee shop or similar

mccraigmccraig09:04:23

my guess is that if you are in a noisy workplace you are screwed whichever way

yogidevbear09:04:33

Thanks for the link though. Will definitely take a look through that

yogidevbear09:04:38

Offices and remote work for everyone! simple_smile

mccraigmccraig09:04:59

lol - was bookmarking that page @minimal and my pinboard plugin suggests tags of "music i need a poo"

minimal10:04:48

Although sometimes the dead quietness of working from home can be distracting

yogidevbear10:04:10

I work remotely most days and if it ends up running over more than a week, then the isolation can be quite challenging. We have a local co-working thing going on Wednesdays which I'm trying to get into

otfrom10:04:29

I like having a clubhouse to go to. I'd prefer smaller task focused rooms, but I didn't like having an office to myself. That was more isolating than working from home.

otfrom10:04:36

I like being able to choose

yogidevbear10:04:01

+1 for choices

glenjamin21:04:48

http://raining.fm/ is a decent choice if you need to block out noise in an office and think

glenjamin21:04:11

I think I’d really like a don draper style office tbh

yogidevbear22:04:59

On the topic of music websites... http://listen.hatnote.com/

yogidevbear22:04:11

I thought this was pretty cool