Airly is extremely blocking access to their data. They boast with "open data" but their API is extremely restrictive (ToS) as well limited (ex. how much data you can get and how often), terms of service are very complicated and change often without notice.
Airly is exactly a case how we should NOT monitor air quality as this company sells cheap stations to (mostly) government with then high monthly fees and with closed access to data obtained from those stations, while at the same time saying words such as "open data".
With remote work, open spaces from hell are (hopefully) a thing of the past, but key learnings on proper room culture are still valid after almost 200 years. How 400 people can work in deep focus in library but cannot do the same in company open space?
Maybe it's an overstatement but I personally feel like I'm in Panopticon when working in open offices. I do not experience the same feeling in co-working spaces and coffee shops though. It just feels more productive to work with strangers in the same room who don't care about what you're working on but are aware that you need to get stuff done. On the other end of the spectrum, work-from-home setups just feels very solitary and distractions are just more prevalent.
It isn't just you. I couldn't stand having my monitors facing other people when I had to work in an open space, even though I only ever had work on it.
> How 400 people can work in deep focus in library but cannot do the same in company open space?
They're different kinds of work. People usually (to this day) work alone in libraries. People in big open bullpen offices tend to work collaboratively.
Also, those solo library workers don't typically have bosses by whom to be seen collaborating. Or "collaborating."
Perhaps with libraries people think that they should be quiet there, while it is advertised as collaboration space for open spaces and people are encouraged to talk there?
Libraries are part of a larger "research ecosystem", so they can exclude all the loud and talkative bits of research because there are other places it can live like the hallways and cafeterias and text messages people use. Open offices are undifferentiated. There's nowhere to segregate disruptive activities to because there's nowhere else to go, except for maybe some small concessions to meeting rooms. That space can't even be a good space for everyone because it's constantly serving a hundred mutually conflicting uses rather than providing specialized purpose the way a reading room does.
The work is different. Most peole working in a library are reading a book or writing things down.
Not sure about yall, but I like to talk to myself as I'm coming up with and implementing a solution. Even if I'm whispering, I'm sure others can hear me and would find that distracting.
I really like the idea of the library as an open space and the most valuable idea I would gather is to have tons of noolks and crannies where desks are spaced far apart. This wouldn't work with people sitting side by side. Even the clacking of keyboards gets distracting after a while.
We don't need to refer to a librarian that way. Yeah, I know, Seinfeld did it. It isn't funny or interesting. It is a cliché. Let's try to choose our language so that our history and language can hold onto meanings that matter.
That person isn't "meek" usually, though. They are very clear that they have the power and you will obey them. They are very insistent, without ever having to get loud, and they will force you to follow the rules.
I don't have another word for that kind of person, but I agree that "nazi" should not be used that way.
Google Maps for sure, maybe some GCP as well (as console is down, Discord and Playstation Network as well are having issues - which seems like some GCP service)
The proper comparison to Amazon's offering would be Redshift. The reason you would go with Redshift over BigQuery is if your data is already in RDS, then migrating to Redshift is fairly straight forward (just whitelist the IPs in your security groups).
As others have stated, this offering directly competes with Google's Data Studio which was recently just announced.
