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Our company comprises 2 of us doing dev work, 3 on the phone doing support, a couple of directors and an intern. We're all in a big room all together, it can get pretty distracting. I have high quality, over ear isolating headphones. I mostly listen to music but I'm also a musician so that can get pretty distracting. When I really need to concentrate, I go to simplynoise.com and put on some brown noise. Works a treat.
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Open plan is pretty much the norm in the UK, I've worked for a fair few large tech companies and private offices seem like a rare thing for everything except for upper management. Even when we have partitions they are usually low enough to see and talk to each other over. I don't think we put our devs on pedestals so much as it seems like you do in the states (although I kind of wish we did). There was one guy I used to work with at T Mobile who I would frequently see lying on his front under his desk like a kid.
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May 17, 2014 14:45
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v1nce posted:your work-wife Your what?
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Munkeymon posted:I just want to thank you profusely for this. My brain has been tricked into thinking I'm sitting next to an ocean for the last couple days. "Brown" (technically red noise, I think) plus oscillation = ocean You're welcome. In between trying to code in a noisy office, and trying to do a part-time degree in a house with a gaggle of noisy house-mates, that site has been an absolutely godsend to me. I can't deal with the oscillation though. That stops me from zoning it out. Without the oscillation, my brain tunes out the static within a few minutes and it's like working in perfect silence. (except if I'm over-tired, then I start hearing music and voices in it, but we're not going to talk about that)
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