ttkeil

While the open-office debate has been a recurring meme on HN for some time, it seems that offering a variety of options as well as unfettered personal choice is key.

For example, my current employer has wide-open office space with pods of desks, but they also offer numerous privacy rooms for escape. As a mild to mid introvert myself, this allows for the best of both worlds the majority of the time: I can benefit from those casual, spontaneous conversations that pop up in the open space, but I can also grab my own room for an entire afternoon to crank out some heads-down work.

I think what's most important is for companies to acknowledge and respect the variety of working styles of their employees, along with the trust that--regardless of how chatting in a pod or hiding away from others might appear--more often than not they're getting shit done.

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> But the percentage of people who construct passwords by choosing random printable characters rounds to zero.

Leveraging song lyrics can be a helpful step in this direction: simply feed in the first letter of each word to create your password. Of course, you would need a fairly long lyric/phrase to exceed the benchmark noted above, but on a scale of 'hunter2' to '8%jFb#P", I'd say it's not bad :)

> There are a number of shows I've gotten hooked and then around about season 5-7 I've dropped because it became obvious they were just milking it and inventing gratuitous plot extensions instead of ending it cleanly.

This is what I'm worried about with 'House of Cards.' It feels like they might have 1-2 good seasons left, but unless Frank suddenly decides to deceive his way into becoming world dictator, I'm convinced that they need to end the show in fewer seasons than it already has.

I've been hanging on to my iPhone 4S for this very reason. The battery is nearly shot after 4 years, but I would call that a pretty good run by today's standards (Take that, planned obsolescence!).