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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…
How about actual offices? You know, rooms with walls and doors. My yearly salary could build a comfortable home for a family of 4 every single year in some of the cheaper places in this country, I'm pretty sure my company laptop at several of my employers has retailed > $4000, yet 4 feet of desk space and a chair that seemed to have lived a hard life on the streets has been my most common accommodation. Surely an off…
It really is amazing that Quora still exists. In the very early days it was interesting, now it just seems like Yahoo Answers 2.0.
I'm not particularly prophetic when it comes to how businesses play out, but I remember thinking that quora was a cool idea on a small scale but knew that it would turn to garbage as soon as it got popular. For the entrepreneurs out there: Everything doesn't have to be social. Sometimes you can build a business around great, curated content and it can be beautiful.
Examples? I can't actually think of a curated content business that has no social features. Social is textual gold. People love interacting with other people.
Certainly not an information content business. Perhaps curated physical products.
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How about actual offices? You know, rooms with walls and doors. My yearly salary could build a comfortable home for a family of 4 every single year in some of the cheaper places in this country, I'm pretty sure my company laptop at several of my employers has retailed > $4000, yet 4 feet of desk space and a chair that seemed to have lived a hard life on the streets has been my most common accommodation. Surely an off…
Your revealed preference is for this job and not one of the remote jobs or any of the private-office jobs. Perhaps employers are responding to your revealed preference over your stated preference.
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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)?
Oh no i did it again, somebody stop me.
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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.
My guess is that's pretty unusual, and that if you looked at a sample of, like, 20 of them, in at least 19 cases whatever was being complained about would remain the case on the website in question, indicating that the site owner did not get value from them. Meanwhile: those comments really are a pox on the threads; it'd be better if users were in the habit of downvoting them to keep the top of the thread clear, whic…
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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…
Are you one of those working fully remote or in the physical office?
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My guess is that's pretty unusual, and that if you looked at a sample of, like, 20 of them, in at least 19 cases whatever was being complained about would remain the case on the website in question, indicating that the site owner did not get value from them. Meanwhile: those comments really are a pox on the threads; it'd be better if users were in the habit of downvoting them to keep the top of the thread clear, whic…
Care to suggest a wording for it?
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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.
While some people will never be able to handle VR, the choice of equipment can have a massive impact on the comfort of the user. One of the worries repeatedly expressed by people on subreddits such a /r/vive|valveindex is that companies releasing cheaper, less capable headsets "poisons the well" by convincing people that VR just doesn't work well, or makes them sick etc. Believe it or not, some people claimed VR was…
Don't get me wrong, Quest is suited for completely different games than Index but for titles like Beat Saber and Superhot it's the perfect hardware and they are also the kind of games that will bring VR to the masses. Also of course the fact that you can just put it on and start playing without any setup whatsoever.
Subjectively I disagree with "Hand tracking" and "Head tracking" (you have duplicate bullet points for 2). I haven't noticed inside-out tracking being inferior at all when comparing. It works much better than I ever would have expected.
I also think talking about feeling ill being something common is doing VR a disservice. It used to be a common problem most people experienced but not anymore. I'm not saying people can't get ill or feel dizzy nowadays but the problem is not in the same ballpark as before. However, if people do experience the same even on the Quest they should definitely try the Valve Index before dismissing VR completely.
I'm planning on getting a Valve Index myself soon so I'm not a fanboy.