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Open floor plans have been really fun at the jobs I didn't care for and just wanted to goof off with my buddies all day. So I guess I am a proponent of them.
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Rabble posted:My company is reconfiguring the entire office from 6 foot cubes to 4 foot cubes and adding a lot more glass instead of drywall. I'm sitting in one of the new areas now and it's actually pretty great because there is a lot more light but I still have a cubicle desk where I can do work. The started putting them up at my work place, touting how it was improving collaboration and efficiency and looks so much nicer etc. Then the people in the cube started complaining all over the place about how anyone walking by their station would instantly disrupt them regardless of the level of noise the person made.
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Wafflz posted:Aren't flavorless food squares/paste a key part of pretty much every sci-fi dystopia story? "Sci-fi distopia" describes the Bay Area p well
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Jan 16, 2015 23:18
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Nerds grew up with dystopian sci-fi poo poo. Instead of getting the right idea and try to avoid creating the dystopia they just want to be in charge of the megacorporations. In short, gently caress them.
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Jan 16, 2015 23:24
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I got a job offer last week from a two-man social media start-up that proposed to make me CTO on the condition that I receive shares in company stock, not cold hard cash.
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Jan 16, 2015 23:26
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You're gonna feel silly when those dudes are dotcom jillionaires!
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Jan 16, 2015 23:27
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when i worked as somebody who had to write a lot every day, they moved me out of the quite office with all the programmers and into their new open-plan office with all the sales crew, lol.
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Wafflz posted:Aren't flavorless food squares/paste a key part of pretty much every sci-fi dystopia story? The whole startup machine basically is trying to create a tech utopia no body wants. Al Cowens posted:I got a job offer last week from a two-man social media start-up that proposed to make me CTO on the condition that I receive shares in company stock, not cold hard cash. A friendly reminder that 90 percent startups fail completely, so it's basically a choice of worthless stock or actual money for your time.
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Jan 17, 2015 00:28
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last time i worked at a startup their accountant was on vacation for a month and they couldn't pay me (the miserable wage that I earned there) til she got back.
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Jan 17, 2015 00:36
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thathonkey posted:last time i worked at a startup their accountant was on vacation for a month and they couldn't pay me (the miserable wage that I earned there) til she got back. Getting paid on time is for a boring regular job.
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etalian posted:Getting paid on time is for a boring regular job. yeah they let people wear flip flops and shorts to work unlike those corporate tie slaves. fair trade-off if you ask me.
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poo poo had a good dystopian idea. You know how people scam rich cowards who are afraid of death with cryogenic services? Enter Trans4m - a service that uploads a dying person's brain to an encrypted 40 TB file to be used when suitable robot bodies are invented in 'the future'. The recently-deceased person's consciousness file will peacefully slumber on the military-grade servers & be maintained by a secret celibate order of CS engineers for centuries to come. This is already probably something real =/.
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Sancho posted:celibate order of CS engineers you don't need to say it twice, man
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Sancho posted:secret celibate order of CS engineers So basically any CS engineers
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Monkey Fracas posted:you don't need to say it twice, man 
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god i want a poster of that so bad
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From yesterday but...Pulp Can Move posted:I will not be happy until my microwave knows to shut itself off when the popcorn stops popping and also thinks that dinosaurs and humans coexisted. Mine does! My microwave (7 year old Kenmore Elite model) has a popcorn button with a steam sensor that detects when it's done and always pops popcorn perfectly. No burns, very few unpopped kernels etc.  I think it's also more intelligent than the people who think humans had to hide in caves to avoid getting eaten by dinosaurs too
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It looks like someone has thrown a pair of bloomers into the machine.
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Al Cowens posted:I think I'd like this more than soylent but it's still gently caress off expensive cool can i get a dispenser for my office that spits these things out when employees press a lever? maybe put it at the end of a maze, to encourage lateral thinking?
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paranoid randroid posted:cool can i get a dispenser for my office that spits these things out when employees press a lever? maybe put it at the end of a maze, to encourage lateral thinking? Dude, you can't make one come out every time or people won't work as hard pulling that lever
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thathonkey posted:god i want a poster of that so bad Sex can wait I'm a engineer 
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Jan 17, 2015 02:31
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Al Cowens posted:I think I'd like this more than soylent but it's still gently caress off expensive Subscribe to this food product beta test and save big: 
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SpaceGoku posted:Subscribe to this food product beta test and save big: lol Cheaper than average food budget! 
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It doesn't look that bad. For the same amount of calories you'd have to eat like half a box of granola bars which would cost about the same. The price seems decent enough if they taste okay.
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Jan 17, 2015 02:38
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Only $510 a month to avoid revolting, labor intensive actual food. Will probably be a big hit with SV workaholics.
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Jan 17, 2015 02:42
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Using it as a complete food replacement is dumb as hell, but everyone misses a meal once in a while.
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It looks like MRE food
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Germstore posted:It doesn't look that bad. For the same amount of calories you'd have to eat like half a box of granola bars which would cost about the same. The price seems decent enough if they taste okay. "We really surprised ourselves when our prototypes turned out tasty; this was the point that we knew we had to share it with others." I think the key word there is "suprised" which means, "wow, this batch doesn't taste quite like dog poo poo anymore"
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Germstore posted:It doesn't look that bad. For the same amount of calories you'd have to eat like half a box of granola bars which would cost about the same. The price seems decent enough if they taste okay. Hypothetical person who thinks "half a box of granola bars" is an acceptable meal is probably the exact market this product is targeted towards.
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its not an inherently bad idea, but like all the other stupid food-disruption products its pitched in a way that makes its target market sound like the most insipid useless idiots ont he planet
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if i was an engineer i'd be really mad about how things targeted at me assume i'm like a well compensated gollum
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paranoid randroid posted:if i was an engineer i'd be really mad about how things targeted at me assume i'm like a well compensated gollum my precious startups we wants a facebook buy out
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old dog child posted:It looks like MRE food It actually is. It's the same basic idea as the Army D-ration from World War 2 except with different ingredients. Except the D-ration was meant for emergency use during combat, not for every day nutrition. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Jan 17, 2015 |
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paranoid randroid posted:if i was an engineer i'd be really mad about how things targeted at me assume i'm like a well compensated gollum Not all of em are like that! Just a higher than normal number Crossbreed in some libertarianism and you've got a bunch of gently caress You My Precious type people who think they're inherently superior to everyone else and can apply what they know to everything, which doesn't always really work out
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whats cooking precious we eats our conies raw & wriggling, in the ball pit
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Work life balance? It burns us!
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:It actually is. It's the same basic idea as the Army D-ration from World War 2 except with different ingredients. Except the D-ration was meant for emergency use during combat, not for every day nutrition.
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*decides not to become an engineer so he can have sex* *complains about engineers making lots of money*
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old dog child posted:It looks like MRE food at least you get delicious M&Ms with an MRE edit: I don't read things I guess
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