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by simoncion
3762 days ago
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> Maybe we just need some kind of flat "only talk to people 2 hours a day" rule for developers... I'm not sure if it was Brooks or if it was another one of the guys who were doing investigation into engineer/programmer productivity at the time that discovered something along the lines of: "The most productive workplaces allow and encourage their engineers to switch off their desk telephones whenever the engineer requires it.". [0] Maybe in a hundred years we will have learned that lesson for good. [0] Remember, this was back in the 1980s or so, so you got desk phones, intra-office mail, or walking down to talk to a guy. |
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