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Who are the blowhard hustlers talking to? What are they talking about?
oh man youre really setting everybody straight today
Batting 1,000 so far.
Tell HN: Don't bring your loud mechanical keyboard to the office
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Re: Tell HN: Don't bring your loud mechanical keyboard to the office
#32So I need to type on a slushy dome-switch or butterfly keyboards because the aural distractions for you are so greatly terrible? How 'bout you just get some headphones so you can't hear the staccato clickity-clack of me making progress on my typewriter while you are busy acquiring another neurosis. I'd like to be able to type properly please. If you were typing too instead of complaining, you'd learn why we need swit…
There's excellent rubber domes and people have been typing properly on them for 30 years. You don't need mechanical switches, you just like them. I keep a few nice 90s' ones from HP and IBM. Sun's sucked yet people typed a lot on those. There's been decent ones from Dell and you can still get older IBM/Lenovo Preferred Pros. They're fine. I don't think switching to rubber domes back then was a cost cutting measure, t…
> Mechanicals are great for gaming.
They are also excellent for typing. I can type much faster and more accurately when I have tactile feedback like: https://www.cherrymx.de/cherry-mx/mx-special/mx-clear.html#t... I don't even game at all.
> If you shared a lab with 30 people banging on Model Ms you'd agree.
What if you shared a lab with 30 Selectric typewriters or couple line printers? I did. People complaining about the "noise" from Cherry clears and similar are over-reacting.
> you just like them
I do! And you don't! and guess who's keyboard it is? This is why I'm testy. People like different things. When that happens: mind your own business and cope.
It's no more inconvenient for you to hear my (not that loud) "silent" cherry clears than for you to impose on me to have to type on a keyboard that doesn't work for me.
And we can all agree that the guy that cooks fish in the microwave is our shared enemy.
Re: Tell HN: Don't bring your loud mechanical keyboard to the office
#33So I need to type on a slushy dome-switch or butterfly keyboards because the aural distractions for you are so greatly terrible? How 'bout you just get some headphones so you can't hear the staccato clickity-clack of me making progress on my typewriter while you are busy acquiring another neurosis. I'd like to be able to type properly please. If you were typing too instead of complaining, you'd learn why we need swit…
Sounds like you're a bit neurotic about keyboards. Rubber dome keyboards work just fine, for everyone, and are in fact considerably better for lengthy typing sessions than mechanical ones. Enjoy your RSI, nutjob.
> Sounds like you're a bit neurotic about keyboards
Sounds to me like you're a lot neurotic about telling other people what to like.
> Rubber dome keyboards work just fine, for everyone
Because you know what everyone should do and like? They don't work better for me.
> are in fact considerably better for lengthy typing sessions
Not a "fact", for me and for about half of the coders I know. Please stop assuming that the way you perceive the world applies to everybody else.
> RSI
Ah, you're my doctor and physical therapist, too? I didn't realize it was you.
> nutjob
Name calling because I like a different keyboard than you? Yea, office noise is not the biggest problem in your immediate work area, I'll bet.
How's this: you type on what you like and stop telling others what to do. Everybody needs to deal with background noise (AC, telephones, conversations, squeaky chairs, clicky pens, etc.) in their own way and keyboards (clicky or not) are only a tiny part of that problem.
Re: Tell HN: Don't bring your loud mechanical keyboard to the office
#34I might be biased for being old, but this is how all keyboards sounded for a long time, and headphones mostly stayed at home. You'll be fine. What you should really be addressing are people who burn popcorn and microwave fish in the office. Those are the real monsters.
I ended up marrying the chick who stank up the office with microwaved fish. Not sure what the lesson is although we’re still married after 30 years.
>Not sure what the lesson is although we’re still married after 30 years.
That you fell hook, line, and sinker for her. That or you're avico-pescatarian: you like "chicks" who eat "fish" [/Erlich Bachman joke]. Cheers to you both!
Re: Tell HN: Don't bring your loud mechanical keyboard to the office
#35honestly for me mechanical keyboards make an office bearable since it drowns out people talking and shuffling around and being actually distracting in the background
are you so sure about that, try to sit next to someone using model M buckle springs all day
Re: Tell HN: Don't bring your loud mechanical keyboard to the office
#36I can't hear the keyboards due to the blowhard hustlers talking on the phones. WFH has many advantages in addition to avoiding long commutes.
This has been the problem in all the early stage startups I join. It's fine when it's just the founders, but once a sales team comes in, they tend to be loud and visible.
There's a maturity stage where engineering is put into separate offices from sales. Then all you get is the symphony of coffee smells, click clacking keyboards, with the occasional stand up comedy or Taylor Swift coming from the CTO's speakers.
Re: Tell HN: Don't bring your loud mechanical keyboard to the office
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I ended up marrying the chick who stank up the office with microwaved fish. Not sure what the lesson is although we’re still married after 30 years.
> Not sure what the lesson is although we’re still married after 30 years. That you fell hook, line, and sinker for her. That or you're avico-pescatarian: you like "chicks" who eat "fish" [/Erlich Bachman joke]. Cheers to you both!
it's actually pronounced aviato
Re: Tell HN: Don't bring your loud mechanical keyboard to the office
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> back in the day I guess you wouldn't have been able to be employed in an office environment The idiotic transition to "open offices" (places where people work without walls or even cubicles separating them) has led to an enormous amount of noise pollution that didn't exist in the past.
Computers were not situated in quiet offices for the most part, they were mostly in rows, or located near much louder equipment like tape spools.
The hum of equipment is not as intrusive as the bursts of noise from keyboards and calls.
Re: Tell HN: Don't bring your loud mechanical keyboard to the office
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Computers were not situated in quiet offices for the most part, they were mostly in rows, or located near much louder equipment like tape spools.
The hum of equipment is not as intrusive as the bursts of noise from keyboards and calls.
Impact printers make pretty good bursts of noise when they're doing intermittent work. When they've got a nice long print job, you can tune it out, but it's still pretty loud.
Re: Tell HN: Don't bring your loud mechanical keyboard to the office
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
The hum of equipment is not as intrusive as the bursts of noise from keyboards and calls.
Impact printers make pretty good bursts of noise when they're doing intermittent work. When they've got a nice long print job, you can tune it out, but it's still pretty loud.
I love that sound. ZZZZZEEEEEERRRRRRPT. And then you get to tear off that paper strip on the edges, oh man.