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Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture

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Re: Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture

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post #18

Off topic, but is it not crazy that there are ads plastered on just about every possible place of this write up, yet there are 0 pictures of the actual office?

There were a bunch of blank spots in the article, I assumed my ad-blocker was blocking the images. So I turned it off and surprise surprise, it was all just spots for ads.

Definitely crazy.

Re: Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture

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Am I crazy ? ..didn't GitHub pretty much pioneer working from home (called "remote work" then) way way way before the pandemic? Definitely before 2016. They were one of the first to scale salaries to where you lived and set a lot of the common industry standards. It was all about dogfooding their own product and working remote using Github itself. They were all about NOT having an office. I never even realized they h…

I think that was gitlab

OP is definitely thinking of GitLab.

Re: Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture

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post #18

Off topic, but is it not crazy that there are ads plastered on just about every possible place of this write up, yet there are 0 pictures of the actual office?

There were a bunch of blank spots in the article, I assumed my ad-blocker was blocking the images. So I turned it off and surprise surprise, it was all just spots for ads. Definitely crazy.

Couldn’t read the article due to it being paywalled. Are you telling me that that's the experience they give to people who pay? Jesus f'ing Christ.

Re: Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> once the novelty wears off it's still really hard to beat working from home For you, it’s really hard to beat working from home. For some people, it’s really hard to beat working from an office.

He didn't say it was for everyone, did he?

> Sure it might make the office a nice place to be but once the novelty wears off it's still really hard to beat working from home.

That was definitely a general statement

Re: Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture

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post #4

Photos (originally from user Manjuuu in a previous submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36107267 ) https://officesnapshots.com/2015/04/06/github-san-francisco-... https://www.officelovin.com/2014/05/inside-githubs-san-franc...

OMG, those barstools with the flat bottoms. Painful after 10 minutes. Who does this? I see this in co-working spaces all the time. Whoever designed them does not actually do any deep work. I just want a great chair and 3 monitors.

Re: Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture

#28
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> once the novelty wears off it's still really hard to beat working from home For you, it’s really hard to beat working from home. For some people, it’s really hard to beat working from an office.

He didn't say it was for everyone, did he?

> it really is funny how impressed people used to be

Yes, he did. By talking about "people" he obviously meant everyone or at least a clear majority.

Re: Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture

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Am I crazy ? ..didn't GitHub pretty much pioneer working from home (called "remote work" then) way way way before the pandemic? Definitely before 2016. They were one of the first to scale salaries to where you lived and set a lot of the common industry standards. It was all about dogfooding their own product and working remote using Github itself. They were all about NOT having an office. I never even realized they h…

I think that was gitlab

Yup, it almost certainly was. I know a guy who started working at Gitlab back then.
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