n.b. this isn't just a cheap thing. Dropbox turfed their ceiling tiles, Facebook and Google both designed their headquarters around never having any. These are the results tech companies are getting out of spending 7 figures on hotshot "office" "design" firms like Geremia. They are literally spending more in order to have ****tier working conditions.

Add to that the whole permitting process. Not sure how it goes in the Bay Area, but in NYC and the area around, former warehouses have so many occupancy and fire code issues that they become time and money vampires to reclaim them for residential and business. When artists moved in, it sorta worked out (not really). But these places simply don't have the facilities for something like running miles and miles of wires.

Google has a workplace in Chelsea (on the west side of Manhattan) that I visited since I have a friend that works (full-time) there. The place was a former cookie factory. It's incredibly horizontal, which worked in favor, I assume, for moving large equipment and assembly-line cookie production. But now, this becomes awkward since moving between floors required taking a crowded freight elevator and everything was just weirdly spaced out. Using a scooter became the place's "thing" and the horizontal layout invites "inclusiveness." Not sure how that works out since there is a mix of real workers and those on contract who will inevitably be pushed out.

Great food tho.

I don't know, I'm too tired to put the pieces back together. I'll just go to sleep and hope for the best.

Mars would never put up with this.

Mars will never be free until the sands run red with Earther blood.

That's neat. Where'd you get them COGs?

Oh, I don't know if you'd know 'em... Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Lawrence. They wrote 'em for me.

Now that's a helluva deal.

Oh yeah. The readme credit says "Written in Notepad by Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Lawrence."

Okay, I'll just jump in here.

space_willie, who wrote the extremely famous phrase, "a Kroko high on krokodil drives a mighty automobil, a Kroko on a shark just wants his dick to spark"?

Uhh.... I give up.

The answer we're looking for, GBK, is Doctor Worm.

Who's Doctor Worm?

Nobody.

So shut up.

Oh, ok.
Anyway, I'm sorry about Silent Hills. That must really hurt.

It did, UNTIL I FIGURED IT OUT!

Take a look at my diagram:

When they "cancelled" it, I felt real torment.



Like where?

Where does that happen?



SILENT HILL.



It's all a part of their plan, which I've labelled the MISERY ENGINE.

Is that ....****?
Whose **** is that?

It matters to ME.

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/me looks down

This is a work of art. Look how trendy this place is. It's totally the next office 2.0. We're really building culture here.

What's the problem guys? Programmers don't need to concentrate and focus on their job. Oh, and they LOVE being interrupted by a PM asking "how is that going?" or a coworker sliding his chair over to ask another employee if he needs a reach around- I mean what the end point to that API. Because documentation nobody has time for. Since every week is a sprint and its more important how something look than how it functions. We don't need privacy and we need communication. This opens those doorways to better communication obviously because there is no doors or walls.

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N.B. how well psychology influences value


I hate being in that sort of artificial lighting, give me some old school sunlight goddamn

Originally posted by zanardi:

This is a work of art. Look how trendy this place is. It's totally the next office 2.0. We're really

building culture here.

What's the problem guys? Programmers don't need to concentrate and focus on their job. Oh, and they LOVE being interrupted by a PM asking "how is that going?" or a coworker sliding his chair over to ask another employee if he needs a reach around- I mean what the end point to that API. Because documentation nobody has time for. Since every week is a sprint and its more important how something look than how it functions. We don't need privacy and we need communication. This opens those doorways to better communication obviously because there is no doors or walls.[/QUOTE]
tbqh if i worked there i would bring a laptop and work in the bathroom alone

"Not a team player"
"Poor culture fit"

maybe i'm not suited for corporate life because i'm pretty sure if they said i'm "not a team player", i'd remind them that programming is not "a team sport"

actually going by office space logic, i'd probably get promoted to management for having that attitude

Then they call security because you were waving a katana around, making "sweesh swosh" sounds with your mouth.

that was never a part of the simulation!

besides everyone knows that the wakizashi is the superior sword for the conservative japanese fighters. jet fuel can't melt folded steel beams

disclaimer: i didn't even know that the wakizashi was a sword before i googled it, to preemptively dispel any possible inferences that I might be a weeaboo

This thread delivers.

Yes, it is. Very much so.

You get promoted to management by being good at your current non-management job. Which, actually, is worse than promoting at random like you suggest.

You beat me to the punch.

I just googled it... is it a katana for midgets?

Hogwash. Don't you guys know that elaborate software is routinely written by a single person?