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Its a real shame that people will seek any excuse to misrepresent what one says-- as you do-- because they choose to feel offended.

If you'll read what I wrote, you'll notice that I was granting a possibility to the people who disagree with me about open plan office spaces-- and there are a number who have done this in this thread-- by saying that maybe for some types of work the interruptions are not as expensive.

Rather than accuse me of saying something I didn't say in an attempt to feel superior, and thus bring down the quality of hacker news (as seems to be the trend these days), you could have taken what I said, considered it in context and responded. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe designers need as much flow as programmers do.



Yeah, you said their work was "light enough" that distractions don't matter. That was condescension.

If you want to backpedal, you actually have to take the pedals and run them backwards. Otherwise it's not effective.




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