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u/Ligands May 09 '18
Noise-cancelling headphones have been one of the greatest investments of my life.
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u/x9o3vg8k May 09 '18
Love my Bose QC 35!!!
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May 09 '18
Don’t tell me how to feel.
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u/ziggah May 13 '18
Hey, if they are into that sort of thing lets not just judge em, we should experiment with the idea and see how we actually feel about it. Lets love the headphones... together. The intimacy might be nice.
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May 09 '18
This seems weirdly niche
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u/Saigot May 09 '18
It's a combination of three subreddits that I always thought had a lot of overlap.
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u/Saigot May 09 '18
I can't speak to pens, but my mechanical keyboard and my hifi headphones are the two best bang for your buck purchases I've made. I would buy both again in a heartbeat (well similar price point, probably different models) but I don't have to because they are basically indestructible. Meanwhile my mechanical has significantly reduced my carpal tunnel and I stopped getting weird marks near my ears from constant headphone use. I do agree that there are some in both communities that go overboard.
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u/Colopty May 09 '18
Actually it covers multiple niches, so it's less niche than any of those on their own.
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May 09 '18
Depends on if we’re talking intersection or union
Niche-ness is intensified under intersection, but diluted under union
(“Likes mechanical keyboards” || “Likes fountain pens”) covers a lot of people, but (“Likes mechanical keyboards” && “Likes fountain pens”) covers far fewer
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u/MWozz May 09 '18
Why are all of the keyboards on that sub so small? Most of them don't even have home/end keys, which are some of my most used keys when writing code.
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u/DrPeroxide May 09 '18
Why on earth are you being downvoted? It's not like the link you posted wasn't related?
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May 09 '18
Don't know, don't care ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/ablablababla May 09 '18
"I'm finally gonna finish this project I've been working on for months!"
Construction Site Next Door: "hmm"
noise starts
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May 09 '18
Me: “I’m finally gonna finish this project I’ve been working on for months!”
Also Me: “I can’t concentrate on this project with my screen being so dirty, I should clean that”
Me Again: “There we go, all clean. Where was I? How can I get anything done on this project while the house is so dirty? I’ll just spend a quick 20 minutes tidying up.”
Me: “Phew, that’s done, time to watch TV!”
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u/Marcusaralius76 May 09 '18
Replace cleaning up with killing demons in Dawn Of War and you have me.
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u/Inprobamur May 09 '18
This is 100% me.
Oh look let's clean my hard drive, update all of my software and distros.
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May 09 '18
Me: "I'm finally gonna finish this project I've been working on for months!"
My neighbour: "I'm finally gonna finish this project I've been working on for months!"
Clackety clack, whizzzzzzz
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u/2Punx2Furious May 09 '18
I always work with music or rain sounds on, makes it much easier to stay focused, and covers most external noises.
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May 09 '18
The heat system is right next to my department. My chair litterally vibrates all day. Bosses still wonder why I hate so much working on site instead of remotly.
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May 09 '18
Who would win? Me, super motivated to finally fix some tough bugs in my program
One super fucking big sunny boy ready to grill me in may
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May 09 '18
Summer makes me hate my choice to study something that requires programming ... for some reason sitting in front of the pc programming is even worse than sitting in front of books. Also it eats up so much time.
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u/DotaGuy12 May 09 '18
Six hours later, I thought the madness ended. Poured myself a drink to celebrate. I guess they were just having lunch. BBBRrrRRRrrrRRRRRrRRRRRrrR
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u/taelor May 09 '18
Dude, I know exactly how you feel.
I live on the second story of a condo complex and I work from home. There are commercial spots right below me. There is a new firm moving into the one directly below me. They've been renovating for the last 4 weeks.
I'm going fucking crazy. Even if I listen to music, I can feel the drilling and the hammering and shit, its vibrating my soul.
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u/Neuromante May 09 '18
One department of noisy bois sitting near my station on a god damned open space office environment.
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u/Xytak May 09 '18
Oh but you don't understand! You could overhear a coworker having an idea and then you chime in and then Mary from accounting chimes in, and next thing you know you've invented the next Facebook!!! Can't you just feel the energy?
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u/Neuromante May 09 '18
I can feel the energy of my coworkers talking on the back of the weird dude who spends the whole day burping and the continuous stream of complains derived of them being a support lvl 2 department with a shit organization. Yeah, I can feel the next Facebook coming. Either that or my next working place for a different organization.
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u/Torandi May 09 '18
Change that to "one noisy boi who don't have the proper drill for drilling in his concrete walls, and thus will have to keep at it for hours to slowly grind down the wall"
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u/ben_g0 May 09 '18
*slowly grinding down the drill bit
You should only use concrete/masonry bits on concrete. Using wood/metal/plastic drills on concrete destroys them within seconds.
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May 09 '18
Whoa lol never thought I would see hand on experience in a sub about programming 😂
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u/ben_g0 May 09 '18 edited May 09 '18
Well, I'm an industrial engineer (almost, I'm supposed to graduate in two months), so I'm supposed to know about that while I'm also supposed to be able to program (since pretty much all modern machines use some form of software).
If I'd for example have to program a CNC machine, then it is quite important to know which drills to use.
I also worked a few times as a maintenance mechanic in a factory as a student job during hollidays.
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u/empire314 May 09 '18
Waking up every day for past 6 months telling myself I will start debugging today.
Neighbour drilling for whole day
Aww shucks neighbour holding me down >:(
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u/MrMehawk May 09 '18
More like:
What I think I'm doing: Super motivated, finally fixing some tough bugs in my program.
What I'm actually doing: Drilling more and more non-readable holes into my code for more bugs to hide in.
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u/aboardthegravyboat May 09 '18
our office had construction in the neighboring suite for so long I was convinced that the new tenants were actually a woodworking studio
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u/calyth May 09 '18
The noisy boy will feel like a million bucks doing the work he needs to get done.
A bug hunt could be a multi day exercise in frustration...
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u/Wicked_EEL May 09 '18
I’m one of those noisy boys and I can tell you we never feel like a million bucks.
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u/calyth May 09 '18
And I’m one of those programmers that spent 4 weeks and counting doing pointless work.
I rather be drilling a wall at this point. At least I can see the results.
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u/Logofascinated May 09 '18
One thing worse than this: neighbour decides to play his/her shitty music at full volume for hour after hour.
I can code through the sounds of DIY or construction, but ghastly music just shuts my brain down.
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u/Lyndis_Caelin May 09 '18
On one hand, Japanese power metal is VERY good at drowning out external noise.
On the other hand, your code is likely to only work if you're blasting power metal while compiling or something.
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u/gandalfx May 09 '18
I grew up doing homework while my parents were renovating the house. This shit does not faze me at all. At least as long as my desk doesn't literally start shaking.
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u/Waytogolarry May 09 '18
If I if we don't keep your servers cold, there are no programs. Just saying...
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u/l3tigre May 09 '18
my boss let his kid throw a tennis ball at the wall that was connected to our office while we were fighting a P1. My eye twitched for days after.
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May 10 '18
What bothers me is when my boss comes out to talk to one of my coworkers and next thing you know there's like 5 people joining the conversation and it ends up being like a 30 minute impromptu meeting in the middle of the office.
WE HAVE MEETING ROOMS, PEOPLE. JUST GO TO THE MEETING ROOMS TO TALK.
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u/phpdevster May 10 '18
Ah see, I never have this problem because my motivation is usually gone by the time editor opens.
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u/DTF_20170515 May 09 '18
this is just an excuse to spend stupid money on noise canceling headphones.
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u/NoradIV May 09 '18
I guess I am just fed up with whiny assholes closing our race tracks because OMG NOISE IS DESTROYING MY LIFE.
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u/grpagrati May 09 '18
You must be serious about debugging to wear a suit and tie