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b"Hosts: John Sextro, Chad Etzel and Darryl H. Thomas\\nAudio Engineer and Post-Producer:\\xa0Darryl H. Thomas\\n\\nReleased Friday, January 16, 2015\\n\\n\\nTweet Shoutouts\\n\\n\\n@jak @iohyespodcast why oh why!\\n\\n\\u2014 Soheil (@soheil) January 9, 2015\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n@jon_m_hill @iOhYesPodcast you're too good to me\\n\\n\\u2014 Jason Kozemczak (@jak) January 10, 2015\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n@iOhYesPodcast just found out @jak is leaving. Not cool man\\n\\n\\u2014 Doug Whitmore (@gooddoug) January 11, 2015\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nThe Discussion\\n\\n\\n\\n The Open-Office Trap published in the New Yorker, by Maria Konnikova\\n\\n 1997 - The University of Calgary study (before, 4 weeks after and 6 months after)\\n\\n Disruptive, stressful, cumbersome, dissatisfied, resentful\\n Productivity fell\\n\\n\\n 2005 Study\\n\\n When workers couldn\\u2019t change the way that things looked, adjust the lighting and temperature, or choose how to conduct meetings, spirits plummeted.\\n\\n\\n johnsextro\\nThis article sounds like a bunch of crying from a pretentious primadonna http://t.co/x3jDzAerwC\\n Types of open floor plans\\n\\n the blank slate - just tables and chairs\\n moveable walls - rolling or sliding walls/whiteboards used to create separation\\n Team Area / Pit / Bullpen - semi-private partitions, not easily reconfigured\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n John\\u2019s opinions\\n\\n Cubicles, they suck\\n\\n False sense of privacy\\n They don\\u2019t contain nor block noise\\n They get in the way and are a waste of space\\n\\n\\n Offices, slight better but still bad\\n\\n They can contain and block noise\\n But they are a terribly inefficient use of space\\n Stifling to collaboration and fascist\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n Darryl\\u2019s opinions (read: facts)\\n\\n Open floor plans, they suck\\n\\n Amusing article (http://verynicewebsite.net/2015/01/be-yourself-as-long-as-its-your-best-self/)\\n Workers are left with no sense of personal space as a company grows\\n The universally proposed \\u201csolution\\u201d to noise is headphones, read: OTHER NOISE\\n People feel free to interrupt your workflow in person, as if IM and email wasn\\u2019t bad enough\\n Note: I think this actually works well for teams up to 10 quiet people (no phone calls, etc), beyond that, it\\u2019s untenable\\n My favored compromise solution: Bullpen cubes (cubes that can accommodate teams of 4-5 people)\\n\\n\\n Cubicles, I hated them until I no longer had them\\n\\n I miss my partitions\\n Cubes actually do affect noise levels: they discourage yelling across the room and deflect and diffuse/absorb audio a bit (when built properly)\\n\\n\\n Shared offices, I love \\u2018em\\n\\n Office with up to 3 occupants\\n Can get cramped, but with good office-mates, it\\u2019s pretty harmonious\\n Especially good if your office mate is always going to meetings (and you aren\\u2019t)\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nOpen-Source Project of the Week\\n\\n\\n\\n Sleipnir, BDD framework\\n\\n Sleipnir is not dependent of NSObject\\n Sleipnir is not using XCTest\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nPicks\\n\\n\\nDarryl\\xa0Follow @dh_thomas\\n\\n\\n\\n 30th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (#csun15, San Diego, March 2-6, 2015)\\nAs the name implies, this is a conference related to technology and how we make it accessible to those with disabilities. I\\u2019ll be attending for the first time. Traditionally web-heavy, there are a few iOS-specific sessions this year in addition to several sessions that are universally useful regardless of platform.\\nEarly-bird registration ($455) ends February 3, 2015\\n\\n\\n\\nChad @jazzychad\\n\\n\\n\\n UICollectionView initial content offset sol\\u2019n\\n\\n\\n\\nJohn Follow @johnsextro\\n\\n\\n\\n Ninjevade - developed by a friend of mine, Matt Burton. He just recently released it to iTunes.\\n\\n\\n\\nAlternative show title suggestions\\n\\n\\n\\n Rail against the environment\\n Bullpen\\n 5by5\\n Code of Conduct\\n Rage coding\\n Do that thing\\n You and your damn physics\\n There was a \\u2018B\\u2019 somewhere\\n Those germs can move"