Ask HN: What does your home office look like? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What does your home office look like?

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Post by leemac » Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 5:17 PM UTC

r0m4n0 wrote: post #99

leemac wrote: post #92

http://i.imgur.com/KyNniKN.jpg Mine is in one of the smaller rooms of my house that I work out of once in a while. I belive the table top is the Ikea Gerton ( http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50106773/ ) that I bought a few years ago. Such a simple desk and loads of room. Pretty heavy too.

What's the make and model on your chair? Nice setup

It's a Herman Miller Embody. Very expensive, but my fiancee got a great discount through work. Great investment if you sit all day.

http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/performance-wor...

Plenty of color options. We were told the white back wasn't possible for some reason, but somehow the woman we worked with managed to sneak it in. Very happy when it was delivered!

Re: Ask HN: What does your home office look like?

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Post by noir_lord » Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 5:24 PM UTC

yukinon wrote: post #94

noir_lord wrote: post #41

http://i.imgur.com/YlTn5cD.jpg That's my home office, I live on what used to be a working dock in the north of England but was filled in and used for housing so it has a nice feel, I love it because I'm 200ft from a massive river (great for thinking walks http://i.imgur.com/ibfcLn2.jpg , not so great when a massive storm surge nearly topped it in Dec heh - http://i.imgur.com/P2DRT0h.jpg ). I can't stand working in a…

I like the desk in the last photo, what kind is it?

It's a Herman Miller Eco-something or other.

I got it off freecycle for free, it's built like a battle ship chassis is heavy guage steel and underneath is covered with cable management, based on style and condition I'd say it's at least late 80's old maybe older.

When I finally have some money I'm going to get the chassis shot blasted and powder coated black and an identical top panel cut out of marine ply, I absolutely adore the aesthetics and comfort but it looks a tad tatty as is.

Re: Ask HN: What does your home office look like?

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Post by culturestate » Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 5:26 PM UTC

vpj wrote: post #76

Anyone tried deskless workstations (sitting on floor)?

I work from home full time, and worked almost exclusively from my sofa for about six months thanks to moving/space considerations. I don't recommend typing a lot in any environment where you don't have arm or elbow support, it's painful.

Re: Ask HN: What does your home office look like?

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Post by gdubs » Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 5:26 PM UTC

mark_l_watson wrote: post #13

We moved to the mountains in Central Arizona about 14 years ago and my wife helped setup my home office: large book cases, a huge teak desk, and an ergonomic chair. I have a view of the red rocks/mountains, which is nice. So, I have a nice home office but I don't much use it because I prefer working in different places around our house and outside, weather and available shade permitting. I use my office mainly when I…

Sounds beautiful. Love that area. How's the community? Is it totally isolated, or do you know some people nearby, etc?

Re: Ask HN: What does your home office look like?

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Post by GeneralMayhem » Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 5:32 PM UTC

binarymax wrote: post #9

I work from home full time, and live across the road from the English Channel (St Leonards On Sea), in a Victorian Maisonette. My office is on the 3rd floor with bay windows overlooking the sea. The office room itself is largish, with 1.5 sofas, and a small table for tea. I have two desks - one sitting and one standing. My sitting desk is for writing code only. My standing desk is for everything else (meetings, email…

My envy knows no bounds.

Re: Ask HN: What does your home office look like?

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Post by kingofspain » Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 5:37 PM UTC

My (hopefully!) temporary setup consists of a table over the freezer in the corner of the kitchen. Flanked by enormo-pepper grinder and box-radio. On the plus side, I'm never far away from snacks...

http://i.imgur.com/uBotECk.jpg

Re: Ask HN: What does your home office look like?

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Post by conradev » Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 5:40 PM UTC

bane wrote: post #74

jeffbarr wrote: post #42

I use an Ikea Gallant desk. My main computer (home built Linux system running Windows via VirtualBox) sits underneath, and a large-screen Asus monitor is on top, as does my laptop. I try to keep the physical desktop devoid of non-essential stuff, but this is a losing battle. I also have a video projector directed at the wall in front of me. My office is full of books, plants, my LEGO projects, and other miscellaneous…

There's something really great about the Gallant desks. Cheap, roomy, well built, no fuss. I have the version with T-Legs, but I can't honestly go back to other kinds of desks.

Totally agreed. I got myself a corner model and I love it. The cable organizer you can get with the desk works really well.

Re: Ask HN: What does your home office look like?

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Post by joshka » Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 5:40 PM UTC

pedrocr wrote: post #91

buro9 wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

8 x 3TB in one of these: http://www.qnap.com/uk/index.php?lang=en-uk&sn=5050&c=2485&s... The NAS, whilst it is feature rich, I've disabled everything other then full-disk encryption. The only thing running on it is Squeezebox: http://oinkzwurgl.org/ssods_intro

Interesting, thanks. I originally got a 4 drive QNAP but it's way too limited in terms of CPU, it couldn't keep up with rsync+ssh transfers. I ended up replacing it with a HP microserver and am very happy with it. So far 4 drives in RAID6 have been enough but it would be nice to have versions with more drives. I guess I could fit a 5th drive in the optical drive slot. Edit: I see that these Pro QNAP versions are actu…

I'm on a N40L and found that FDE taxed the CPU too much underneath a RAID 6 array to be useful. I've heard that the more recent models are CPU upgradable to CPUs with AES-NI. What sort of FDE R/W speeds are you seeing?

Re: Ask HN: What does your home office look like?

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Post by jzf » Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 5:40 PM UTC

Like Tony Stark's basement.

Re: Ask HN: What does your home office look like?

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Post by ghaff » Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 5:42 PM UTC

When I was having some renovations done a while back, I had a desk built into a spare bedroom (that I was already using as a dedicated office). Basically, its' about 10' long and wraps around one of the corners. The corner is where my 2 monitors live as well as an articulated keyboard tray with a mechanical switch keyboard and mouse + trackpad. And an old Aeron chair (which HM replaced at no charge about 7 years into its warranty when a part broke!).

One of the nice things about this arrangement is that the corner is really deep. At one time this let me use a big CRT. Now it just lets me shove lots of USB drives and so forth out of the way. I have a few computers but I really only use my Mac Mini most of the time.

Most of the remaining wall area is file cabinets and bookcases. Truth be told a lot of the paper volume in the office is essentially "legacy" paper though I have cleared a fair bit of that over the years. If I were starting today, I'd probably make more of an effort to have as much digitized as possible. As it is, a lot of the older material just isn't worth the effort.

I used to do most of my computer work in my office. Truth be told these days, I often just work on my laptop in some other room. Not sure why I changed but I find I like moving around unless I'm doing some task that's a lot better on my desktop setup.