@Magisch I just look at the questions on my sites, don't really do anything else... only started coming to chat recently just because I couldn't understand why some users were leaving
@Kilisi Monica is one of our site moderators. As for the Twitter, haven't you heard the news? It is used to change anything you want at Stack Exchange...
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I'm a software developer and quite frugal. I could quit my job right now and wait a year before getting another one without going broke. But SE is personal, I spent hundreds of hours of my free time which is very valueable to me here
@gnat it appears I'm a sheltered schoolgirl, never actual gone on twitter, just heard the name
@Magisch I can understand that, I donate quite a bit of time as well, just have no intention of letting it upset me...
you may not believe it but people have tried quite hard to upset me on SE, just that my English isn't great so it just amuses me a bit rather than bites deep.
I always had a vision of putting on a suit and it puts you in a virtual world, where your physical condition is the limit
so basically your skills and stuff come from your real life ability to fight and stuff, but then you get stats, equipment and all that (cosmetics of course, how else am I going to make money)
Because IT people have a stereotypical low activity workplace, so even if you're an active person outside work, you're still spending a lot of time not moving.
I think my US friends said it's not common there for children to just play in the street so idk about other countries but it used to be super normal for kids here to just be outside and play.
Like imagine being the king/queen of a mmorpg world which you're engaged in. And everyone just follows you about like a God hahaha all the power you wanted but in the game
@Summer I agree yes, but in my workplace, everyone except the IT people at least get up from their desks occasionally and fetch stuff from the printers, or go talk to people in other offices or deal with packages etc. The IT People just dont do any of that at all.
The most walking around I do in the office is making myself a coffee
If they make VR into a full on simulation, like people can pay to go into simulation chambers and its just a massive game but you dont need equipment its all holographic around you
Do you know that feeling when in hindsight you should have just called in sick a few days ago because now you have to deal with not taking a break when you needed to?
@Summer yes! when you get to work and after making your coffee and sitting at your desk staring at your screen, you realise you're brains just not going to play ball today.
but it gives you the opportunity to develop things that wouldn't exist irl, weapons etc, no laws. Or maybe laws but you could actually fight the law hahaha
It's not what it used to be but still pretty active
I started again because I just liked that I had a group to walk with but I do actually enjoy it for the hour a day. Don't play it much outside of work though.
try setting up some racks, UPS's are 50kg each, never mind the servers and the rack itself. Then you still got to do the switches, patch panels and cabling once you got it set up.
Engineering is a big field, I do pretty much everything from cabling to networking. So all infrastructure, all configuration, server builds and maintenance, that sort of thing. Then end user support.
I'll sweep their floor if they want to pay my rate... hahaha
I would probably have stuck around for a bit if I worked in their building, but I am really not prepared to start socializing that much after my work hours
If a business does that kind of thing, it's nice to have a set day, like Wednesday nights or Friday nights where there's something planned, or just a trip to the pub. Then you can plan to be social. As apposed to random social events.
Dipping in and out, mostly out. Took my car in for a service this morning and picked up the courtesy car. Turns out theyve given me the worst car in the entire Porsche range.
We're at a pretty small service shop and they don't have porsches as courtesy cars actually. They only do porsches though so come to think of it that's actually quite weird.
@Twyxz I can deal with it..as long as it's reasonably confined to a lunchtime window. Had a minion once who crunched effing carrot sticks 7 hours a day, 5 times a week
Open-space offices have clear disadvantages. What motivates software companies to use open-space for developers?
It is not --
Cost. Employee compensation is far more than office rental costs
Misbeliefs that open-space offices are more efficient. That may explain some cases, but in a free mark...
@Kilisi most don't, no. They are status symbols, not driver's cars. They generally corner like dogs. That said, the Cayman is a beautiful track day car - blows the other 911's out of the water
But you have a set desk then I guess? It's all 'flex' here, even though everyone usually sits at the same desk. They'd still be sorta allowed to use your chair.
It's actually the desk that's the problem, they are about 5cm too short, so everyone either slouches or slides their but forward in their chair and puts a whole ton of strain on their backs. I just purchased a chair that could both recline and drop to toddler height
Oh, yea people can grab my chair if I'm not using it, I don't mind that. But it's mine.
Mmm I do that so I can have my arms flat on the table, it limits the amount that I slouch... I like the desks that have a bit of a cut out, but they are rarely as good as they could/should be.
heh... Back to the VR from earlier, get VR! that's totally going to fix this workplace ergonomic stuff! Ya know, type on an invisible keyboard in mid air :) <troll>
I bet there would be a business in designing art for VR workplaces. Every week your company has a new board room with a new outlook. Meetings at the top of Everest or Angel falls. That would be cool
The PR and optics of this discussion could not be worse and less fortunately timed if someone tried to orchestrate it that way.
Some things happened yesterday that caused a need for us to (quickly)
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What hap...
Open-space offices have clear disadvantages. What motivates software companies to use open-space for developers?
It is not --
Cost. Employee compensation is far more than office rental costs
Misbeliefs that open-space offices are more efficient. That may explain some cases, but in a free mark...
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