Who Killed the Junior Developer?

Re:Who Killed the Junior Developer? by collyw on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @05:16AM (#16374815)

I am surprised no companies offer noise cancelling headphones for staff. They are relatively cheap (compared to restructuring an office building) and could increase productivity a lot for some people.

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Re:Who Killed the Junior Developer? by Game_Ender on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @07:38AM (#16375307)

Those headphones only block constant background noise, not conversations. In order to do that you have to put your hearing at risk with enough actual noise to overwhelm the rest.

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Re:Who Killed the Junior Developer? by collyw on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @08:29AM (#16375541)

I have tried some decent quality ones. They don't block out conversations completely, but it does sound a lot quieter. They are definitely an improvement over not wearing them.

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Re:Who Killed the Junior Developer? by Declanomous on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @08:31PM (#16381240)

I tried this, and my problem was that I would end up with "listening fatigue" or whatever you want to call it after 6 hours of listening every day.

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Re:Who Killed the Junior Developer? by gulperxcx on Saturday February 17, 2018 @02:34AM (#16399549)

I think he meant "conversations" as in someone walking up and interrupting you to have a conversation

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Re:Who Killed the Junior Developer? by dte22 on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @04:38PM (#16379681)

Yep.. my Bose QC35's are amazing!

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