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marginalia_nuyesterday at 3:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

If programmer speed and efficiency was truly such a significant competitive factor, we wouldn't be packing them like sardines them in noisy and stuffy open floor plan offices.


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dehrmannyesterday at 6:12 PM

I've worked places that actively acknowledged they were paying a productivity tax for people to have unexpected encounters, and they'd recover the losses at a higher level.

wiseowiseyesterday at 5:30 PM

This. And there would be huge investments in productivity and reducing bureaucracy.