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Post by GloriousKoji »

beachy wrote: post #108
pleasantpeasant wrote: post #46

I hate when Quora pops up from searching for something. I loathe Quora and wish they never existed. They make searching for things a lot more annoying.

Many have made this observation, but I wish there was a way to blacklist sites from my search results. I literally never want to see results from Quora, ExpertsExchange and a bunch of other grotty spam dens with low quality user generated content. I don't get why Google is not doing this. If I could block these sites, I'd get much more value out of Google, and it would be sticky value - because over the years I would…

There's plenty of browser extensions and user scripts that will do this.

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Post by tikhonj »

cj wrote: post #30
iamwil wrote: post #26

Has anyone tried using VR for work? What, if anything did you discover that worked, and what didn't? I know of some VR companies that do all their meetings in VR, whether its their own, or in a game.

No experience using it for work. But I bought a Quest when it first came out, and used it for about a week before shelving it. Wearing it for longer than 10-15 minutes is physically difficult. Dizziness, nausea, headache. This is a common issue people have with VR. Also unsure if it’s a fixable problem. Until then, I cant imagine it seriously used to facilitate remote work.

From what I've heard, having a consistent high framerate helps with this a lot. I've seen people who report feeling sick with older generation of headsets, but feeling comfortable with the Valve Index.

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Post by dang »

preommr wrote: post #50

I made an honest effort to read that and I just couldn't. I actually can't imagine any kind of reading medium that's worse. There's chunks of text interlaced with a bunch of visual noise, random images, links to separate threads which are huge images and bigger than the surrounding text.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23647028.

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

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Post by dang »

ardit33 wrote: post #106
Waterluvian wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How on earth can this individual’s speech vex you to such an extent that you need it silenced?

It adds 0 to the conversation. It is very weird, almost borderline autistic behaviour... 90% of links, have some kind of: "doesn't work on my mobile... format sucks, i don't like the colors, etc... etc.." comment. It is pure infantile/juvenile bikesheding and distracting from the point of the conversation/link that has nothing to do with formatting.

We could consider adding a guideline asking people not to post such things. The problem is that sometimes such comments are helpful for the owner of a site, who either shared their own work or happened to be on here when someone else did.

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Post by dang »

pldr1234 wrote: post #112
rootusrootus wrote: post #88

I expect there to be a momentary burst in attempts to go remote-first, or at least hybrid. Senior executives will want to level the playing field between expensive areas and cheaper ones, and use that to drive down salaries overall. But then, there are plenty of managers who really see a lot of value in spontaneous face-to-face interactions, or even planned ones, because so much communication happens just in body lan…

You expect humans to be human and for there to be cycles of preferences. Incredible insight. Truly, how does such inane commentary end up on HN?

Can you please not be an asshole on HN? That's worse than being inane.

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Post by simonswords82 »

halotrope wrote: post #118

The following is slightly off topic and very subjective. I remember Quora when it first launched. So many interesting answers from people that „have been there, done that“. Like first hand experience from working on IE5 in the browser wars or working at Nasa. Quality was very high in general. Today it has become a shadow of itself with generic questions and answer that are just marketing plugs. It makes me a bit sad…

Reddit (so long as you subscribe to good quality sub reddits) is my go to for long form information. Quora is garbage now unfortunately - I don't know how but they completely lost their way.

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Post by marvin »

pldr1234 wrote: post #111
waheoo wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Im still waiting for the rebound back to a cubicle. Fuck open plan. I really wish people would get it through their damned thick skulls that their heads are not the same as my head. And my head is not the same as her head. And her head is not the same as their head. We all need our own accomidations. Some people like open plan, some people hate it. Some people thrive in an office environment, some people thrive at ho…

You're holding contradictory positions. Everybody has a valid preference, but you can't wait for companies to implement yours (cubicle)?

I think they’re saying that cubicle is less restrictive than open-plan for accomodating different personalities.

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Post by RomanPushkin »

waheoo wrote: post #90
rootusrootus wrote: post #88

I expect there to be a momentary burst in attempts to go remote-first, or at least hybrid. Senior executives will want to level the playing field between expensive areas and cheaper ones, and use that to drive down salaries overall. But then, there are plenty of managers who really see a lot of value in spontaneous face-to-face interactions, or even planned ones, because so much communication happens just in body lan…

Im still waiting for the rebound back to a cubicle. Fuck open plan. I really wish people would get it through their damned thick skulls that their heads are not the same as my head. And my head is not the same as her head. And her head is not the same as their head. We all need our own accomidations. Some people like open plan, some people hate it. Some people thrive in an office environment, some people thrive at ho…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21990253 - "Personal cubicle is going to be a new dream of many software engineers. People will start hating open space."

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Post by aeternum »

hawaiianbrah wrote: post #96
aeternum wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My company has made the hybrid model work. We've had a mix of fully remote along with two physical offices. It's really not all that complex, conference rooms have to have a video conference system that is added by default to all meetings. Ad-hoc meetings can start video with a single button press and a short code/url sent over slack. We strongly encourage employees to keep discussions in 'public' slack rooms rather…

Meetings where some/most of the people are in a room and some are dialing in suck for those dialing in. We started requiring everyone to dial in, even if one person was, and it levels the communication playing field immensely.

Why does it suck? We try to ensure that everyone's voice is heard plus remote members have some advantage in that people in the room can see them unmute as an indicator that they have something to say. Some also use the text chat attached to the meeting allowing them to raise a point without verbally interrupting the person speaking (although this is more rare).

Seems pretty extreme to require everyone to dial-in even if they are present in the office.

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

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Post by rexarex »

mb7733 wrote: post #71
vechagup wrote: post #41

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And perhaps when enough of these like-minded remote workers are living near each other, some of them will find that they enjoy working in the same physical location at the same time. Then some of the space in the community can be turned into hubs for in-person collaboration, or offices!

Not sure if you're being dismissive, but that still sounds great. It would lead to many small, livable communities with opportunity dotting the country. As opposed to everyone living in suburbs and and making long commutes to a small number of massive urban centers.

You ever try living in SF? You seem to have described it in a sense.

Also see this great South Park clip for an analogy: https://youtu.be/a3ezyTXFgYM

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