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		silvestrov on Jan 10, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things Is a windowless basement that much worse than the open officies of Facebook? I'd rather have a small room with silence than work in a well lit factory with tons of noise like this: https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/imag... There isn't any dividers or other stuff that blocks noise.

jbullock35 on Jan 16, 2025 | [–]

I worked there a few years ago. It was almost always easy to reserve a room if you wanted more quiet or more privacy.

ghaff on Jan 10, 2025 | [–]

Offices were pretty much for managers. The standard was (high-walled) cubicles. Although a lot of the people involved here were in hardware so a lot of their work was in open labs.

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