A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus

Post by triangleman » Wed, May 17, 2017, 2:31 PM UTC

triangleman wrote: post #106

cowardlydragon wrote: post #31

Corporate campuses... where CEOs go to live in a fabricated simulation of a world that doesn't exist... where their rapacious extraction of resources, exploitation of people, and destruction of the environment is glossed over in manicured lawns, antiseptically maintained buildings, and secretaries with plastic surgery.

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Post by accountyaccount » Wed, May 17, 2017, 2:56 PM UTC

snowwrestler wrote: post #353

valuearb wrote: post #230

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Child care is a competitive business that can almost always be provided better and cheaper elsewhere. So it's much better to use stipends to subsidize employee child care. Having child care is also an expensive distraction and liability for management. Do you want to deal with employee complaints over childcare hours, personnel, facilities, etc, or do you want to spend your time thinking about how to better sell prod…

This is a classic HN conversation, a bunch of people trying to reason about something off the top of their head from their own personal experience. Childcare in businesses is a solved problem. Thousands of businesses do it, as do many government agencies. Here in DC there are in-business childcare centers at places like the Smithsonian, Holocaust Museum, FDA, World Bank, HHS, etc. Heck the public middle school in my…

Post by sobani » Wed, May 17, 2017, 4:15 PM UTC

kuschku wrote: post #411

snowwrestler wrote: post #405

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Cheap public transit is an actual solution. Parking meters are just one way to get people to use it, and not a very good one: by the time people find out there are meters (when trying to park), it's too late to take the transit! The money it cost to install meters would have been better spent on a marketing campaign to raise awareness of the transit option, or subsidizing the transit prices.

Modern parking meter systems are very cheap — especially because you just put up one ticket automat every 200m where you can pay with cash, phone, debit card, etc and get a little printed slip of paper saying date and time until when you can park, and then put that in your car. Veeery cheap compared to actual meters. And no, no marketing campaign or subsidy can be as effective as the parking costs. As long as parking…

Post by lallysingh » Wed, May 17, 2017, 6:32 PM UTC

Markoff wrote: post #289

lallysingh wrote: post #30

When looking at the practicality of this thing, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. But it does as a monument to Steve. Then again, I'm not in design or architecture. If it's really significant in that context, it's a shame that it'll be inaccessible to people outside of Apple.

so he will be remembered as guy who wanted boring massive circle like designed in 80s? i am not big fan, but even he doesn't deserve something like this

Post by Markoff » Thu, May 18, 2017, 6:58 PM UTC

nemo44x wrote: post #403

Markoff wrote: post #293

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now i am not sure which of these two buildings it's more boring, box or circle?

If you consider scale and the engineering that has to make those happen and exist then they're both exciting. The Sears tower was at once the tallest building in the world. The design behind it was revolutionary. It's many rectangles! The Apple building is interesting in it's own right - 100% self sufficient and a new concept of what an office can be. Not everything can or should be "La Sagrada Familia". That doesn't…