Rails in the Large: How Agility Allows Us to Build One Of the World's Biggest Rails Apps
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TW sucks
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Christopher Churchill
Comfortable workspace?
by
Hermann Schmidt
However, with all respect, the workspace in this project is TERRIBLE! 40 people crammed into a room, each with less than 1 meter distance to his neighbour. Background music you cannot escape from, like in a supermarket? The blinds are down and the artificial light is on! Why? Apparently because the projections would otherwise not be readable.
You can't be serious.
The submarine comparison is quite valid. But what is so terrific about working in a sub? It is one of the worst places to be that I can imagine.
It is no surprise to me that Neil emphasized "fun stuff" so often, because the fun is not apparent at all, at least for me. I can't be fun working in a chicken farm like this 10 hours a day. The silly Starbucks cup thing looks more like a desperate attempt to me.
Answer yourself a simple question: can you imagine spending your professional life (yes, that's 30 years and more) in such an environment? I bet you don't!
Re: Comfortable workspace?
by
Ryan Slobojan
Your comment was deleted because it added little to the discussion, and it was in a very negative (non-constructive) tone. Please feel free to find a way to express what you were trying to say again, but in a constructive manner - your previous comment appeared to be a series of potshots with nothing else of benefit, and which was only very loosely related to the discussion in this thread.
Thanks,
Ryan Slobojan
Chief Editor, InfoQ.com




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