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I've noticed this change as well.

My fear is that the toxic startup culture (open-plan offices, Agile) will spread into Corporate America proper and make those jobs just as bad as the SV-funded startup jobs.

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As we've told you many times, you're banned from HN and can't do this here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12950423 and marked it off-topic.

Why in the world would this comment be marked off topic?

Not the specific comment, but past activity by the user (and associated accounts, apparently)

bdcravens is correct. It's not that comment, it's the subthread (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12950743) in the context of a long history of abuse.

Who were they originally?

This is Michael O Church. Writing style so distinctive you can tell with about 1 sentence.

Ah. That's a shame, because he made a good point in that comment.

Open office and Agile are already well established in corporate America.

> Open office[s] and Agile are already well established in corporate America.

Corporate "agile" is often a misunderstood and cargo-culted version* . Same with big-company open offices: An open office for a team? Probably OK. A (single) open office for 300 developers in a department working on different things? Not so much besides a recipe for noise and distraction.

* My employer uses an "agile" process, it was designed by a bunch of PMs and middle managers. Team empowerment was not on the agenda.

Agile is terrorism for people who aren't technical enough to make bombs.

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