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Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history

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Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history

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Post by solatic »

jdavis703 wrote: post #74
handedness wrote: post #69

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Not to say that's Dropbox's reason, but in my experience many, many large companies host servers in places that are far from being the most cost-effective option.

Bloomberg used to have (maybe they still have it) a data center at 525 Market Street, a skyscraper in the heart of the Financial District. Sometimes cost effectiveness isn't the sole option companies use, maybe it made sense for Bloomberg to have servers close to their customers.

The financial sector isn't the best counter-example. Every little bit of latency matters in HFT, so there's probably a competitive advantage to running servers there compared with the countryside.

Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history

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Post by ajeet_dhaliwal »

kaishiro wrote: post #24

This is tangential, and I'm not a designer so this is just one dev's opinion, but I found Dropbox's latest rebrand (dropbox.design) to be a bizarre departure for them. It was so off the wall I just assumed it was some sort of parody site until I realized it was official. I'm in no place to determine if it's "good" or "bad", but it's certainly an...interesting direction, if nothing else.

My first impression when the new logo appeared on my iPhone after an update was 'dropbox uglified' but after a few days the design is really growing on me, I now quite like it.

Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history

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Post by j_s »

kaishiro wrote: post #24

This is tangential, and I'm not a designer so this is just one dev's opinion, but I found Dropbox's latest rebrand (dropbox.design) to be a bizarre departure for them. It was so off the wall I just assumed it was some sort of parody site until I realized it was official. I'm in no place to determine if it's "good" or "bad", but it's certainly an...interesting direction, if nothing else.

So did most of HN a week ago: Evolving the Dropbox Brand | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15393684 (Oct 2017, 67 comments)

> mugsie: Wow. that is (from my perspective - but only mine) terrible.

> supernintendo: This is the worst UX I've seen in a long time. Not only that, it's visually garish.

> chrissnell: That typeface is just dreadful.

Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history

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Post by kayoone »

santaclaus wrote: post #97
chimtim wrote: post #58

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1) managing an office building is a lot of hassle. 2) startups are always growing or shrinking. no point putting so much significant capital unless it is an established in for a long haul at a location where talent is surplus. 3) if you indeed have that much capital, you can pretty much dictate what you want and get some tax benefits (amazon, second HQ) or work with a city build a new building suitable for your long-…

> startups Dropbox is a decade old, at this point...

this. At >1Bn revenue and >1000 employees we shouldn't use the term startup anymore.

Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history

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Post by filipn »

jbermudes wrote: post #21
alexnewman wrote: post #20

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What competitor of dropbox has no linux client?

Google Drive

I have used https://www.insynchq.com/ on Linux, found it to be much better than grive, you do have to pay a one time fee though.

Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history

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Post by vnchr »

codecamper wrote: post #139
dx034 wrote: post #132

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I just wonder why all of them have to be in the most expensive part of the US. Tech talent might be more accessible in SF but support staff and marketing shouldn't be. Having offices in a cheaper location would not only save the company money but also be potentially nicer for employees. It would probably cut most people's commute time and increase cost-adjusted salaries.

Isn't that the part that is built on landfill & so the buildings will simply sink into the earth during the big one?

So you're saying Dropbox is going to drop...into the ocean?

Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history

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Post by freehunter »

giobox wrote: post #71
cat199 wrote: post #66

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except that is way more a 60's / 70's look..

Agreed - far too "Mad Men" looking in style, color, font choices, there's nothing about this that makes me think 80's. The response from 'ordinary' users on Twitter has been tepid at best, I guess people just want their files reliably synced, rather than "inspiring creative energy" (Dropbox's word choice, not mine!).

The pinks and blues and pastel colors, coupled with the pictures cut in half or quarters and mashed onto other pictures has a very vaporwave feel. Go on Google Images and look up vaporwave and you'll see what I mean.

Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history

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Post by freehunter »

fortyten wrote: post #27
selectodude wrote: post #15

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Which says more about why the real estate market in San Francisco is such a disaster.

Because people keep using valuable space for offices instead of affordable housing? This is exactly why SF sucks to live in. You have to live there to be close to work, but you're in competition with your damn office. Talk about screwing over your employees.

Sideways is not the only way buildings can grow. Even if horizontal space is at a premium, vertical space is virtually unlimited.

Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history

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Post by e40 »

vnchr wrote: post #146
codecamper wrote: post #139

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Isn't that the part that is built on landfill & so the buildings will simply sink into the earth during the big one?

So you're saying Dropbox is going to drop...into the ocean?

No, the landfilled earth will turn into a liquid, briefly, during a big earthquake and the buildings will sink into them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_liquefaction

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