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You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

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Re: You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

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Post by lucaspiller »

thingie wrote: post #16

No, what I admire most isn't the office itself, though it's quite nice, it's the location. I can imagine that you can, for example, get some nice restaurants and few other option to get a real food within a walking distance. From my window, I can see just three freeways tightly surrounding this place-less office park from each side. And I am hungry, right now, there are just two ugly canteens that close by 2 PM anywa…

Here in Europe business parks aren't really that popular for tech companies (unless you work for something like IBM, but I'd guess they'd have their own canteens), most are based in the city centre which is nice for lunches.

Re: You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

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Post by catshirt »

Tyrannosaurs wrote: post #7

Nice is clearly a matter of opinion. The space is great, the facilities and the culture they're obviously trying to create through them but let's just say it's not to my taste. Which is a polite way of saying that to me at least the place looks foul.

foul? really?

Re: You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

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Post by rmc »

lucaspiller wrote: post #21
thingie wrote: post #16

No, what I admire most isn't the office itself, though it's quite nice, it's the location. I can imagine that you can, for example, get some nice restaurants and few other option to get a real food within a walking distance. From my window, I can see just three freeways tightly surrounding this place-less office park from each side. And I am hungry, right now, there are just two ugly canteens that close by 2 PM anywa…

Here in Europe business parks aren't really that popular for tech companies (unless you work for something like IBM, but I'd guess they'd have their own canteens), most are based in the city centre which is nice for lunches.

Exactly. Most small tech companies that I've worked for have always been in city centre locations.

Re: You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

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Post by [deleted] »

lrm242 wrote: post #12
dkhenry wrote: post #5

You know what the first thing I pick up on is? Everyone is dressed nice. I don't know if that's just for the camera, but I see suits and vests all around. They look classy in a classy office. I wonder how the office would look if notch was wearing cut off shorts and a wife beater.

They don't dress that way all the time. From what I've gathered they have "Formal Fridays". At first when I saw Notch mention this on Twitter I was a bit confused, but now I see it goes nicely with the theme of their office.

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Re: You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

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Post by constant_change »

I appreciate seeing an office for a successful indie company that doesn't consist of brick facades, exposed ventilation and a big open room filled with people, computers, video game consoles and foosball tables. I just appreciate the slightly more mature look than I'm used to seeing glorified in office pictorials for tech companies.

That being said, I don't see ANY computers there, so maybe they just didn't picture their brickwork in this photo shoot.

Re: You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

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Post by anonymouz »

gilrain wrote: post #14

Time will tell, but this is beginning to sound like echos of Ion Storm[1]. We've already got our Deus Ex out of Mojang, though -- my girlfriend and I still regularly play Minecraft together -- so I can't really feel any enmity for them. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Storm

Seems to be quite a different story to me: Mojang has, with minimal expenses, already created an extremely successful (and profitable) game. It seems that they are now using some of that cash to get a really nice office.

Ion Storm on the other hand basically used their fame and some promises of a future product to get a load of cash from investors, and spent that on a very nice office.

Re: You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

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Post by nutjob123 »

thingie wrote: post #16

No, what I admire most isn't the office itself, though it's quite nice, it's the location. I can imagine that you can, for example, get some nice restaurants and few other option to get a real food within a walking distance. From my window, I can see just three freeways tightly surrounding this place-less office park from each side. And I am hungry, right now, there are just two ugly canteens that close by 2 PM anywa…

Not to brag, but the midtown Manhattan food selection is outstanding.

http://midtownlunch.com/lunch-by-food-type/

Re: You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

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Post by lucian1900 »

thingie wrote: post #16

No, what I admire most isn't the office itself, though it's quite nice, it's the location. I can imagine that you can, for example, get some nice restaurants and few other option to get a real food within a walking distance. From my window, I can see just three freeways tightly surrounding this place-less office park from each side. And I am hungry, right now, there are just two ugly canteens that close by 2 PM anywa…

I got into the habit of making an extra portion for dinner that I take to work as lunch for the next day. It's quite low effort and I get to eat tasty food every day.

Re: You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

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Post by hk_kh »

thingie wrote: post #16

No, what I admire most isn't the office itself, though it's quite nice, it's the location. I can imagine that you can, for example, get some nice restaurants and few other option to get a real food within a walking distance. From my window, I can see just three freeways tightly surrounding this place-less office park from each side. And I am hungry, right now, there are just two ugly canteens that close by 2 PM anywa…

As much work and sometimes (depending on the office) isolation as it generates, I would go for bringing food from my home, and reserve canteens for just 1 or 2 days per week.
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