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Re: Joel on Software: The new Fog Creek Office

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mynameishere wrote: post #35

Having my back to glass would drive me insane, and evidently all of the offices are like that: http://picasaweb.google.com/spolsky/FogCreekSNewOffice#52853... Check out all of the famous series 7 chairs: http://picasaweb.google.com/spolsky/FogCreekSNewOffice#52853... It's got that not-quite-a-prison institutional look to it. That's great if you're running a high school in the poorest district in Mississippi, but give…

>That's right. It's 300 dollars.

Wow; apparently my old highschool should sell the chairs in lunchroom to raise a quick million dollars.

Re: Joel on Software: The new Fog Creek Office

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Post by iamelgringo »

petercooper wrote: post #43

Awesome! I just can't even imagine how Fog Creek makes enough money for all of this from mostly a single product. They must have tens of thousands of paying customers - which strikes me as incredibly strong for a niche as small as software development - kudos!

The shrinkwrap software business is good.

Re: Joel on Software: The new Fog Creek Office

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Post by demallien »

spolsky wrote: post #23
spolsky wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have to keep reminding them that women usually do NOT want to hear about the problems they were having with their barcode scanner scanning in their comic book collections

to be fair neither do i

Yeah, but Joel, that's because you're a whiny emo girl... ;-)

Re: Joel on Software: The new Fog Creek Office

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Post by akronim »

robertk wrote: post #41
spolsky wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By the time we left the old office, it was costing us 2% of revenue. The new office is not full yet and is somewhat more expensive, but I expect that in the long run our real estate costs will be around 4%-6% of revenue, which is the norm for office-based workforces. The specific upgrades we paid cash for will probably end up costing 1% of an employee's salary, averaged out over everything, over the lifetime of the l…

Just curious, how come your profile is written in 3rd person? Is this really Joel Spolsky, or a representative?

It's not written in the 3rd person! That would be more like "Joel thinks that the savings blah blah".

Re: Joel on Software: The new Fog Creek Office

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Post by cosmok »

it is surprising that a story about someone moving to a new office makes into the front page of HN! the new office might have all the fancy features, but, there are a few things that annoy me: 1. I don't really care for all those fancy features and if I were considering joining a company those fancy features will be the last thing in my mind before I make a decision. 2. If one still has the urge to know who moved where and what they have got there then they can always find that in other sites (hardly HN stuff IMHO) 3. And the most annoying bit is that this story got to the front page while a lot of other threads that I found interesting and would have helped me become a better Hacker usually get a couple of points and pretty much no discussion at all.

I love HN and the community and still read a lot of interesting stuff here, but, I am beginning to feel that HN is slowly slipping away to be a site that also has a few genuine and invigorating posts/discussions about entrepreneurship and programming.

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