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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 ido »

constant_change wrote: post #26

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 t…

isn't that more of an American/English thing? I've never seen that style anywhere in continental Europe.

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

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Post by sopooneo »

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 realize not everyone has this luxury, but the market is still very hot in Boston/Cambridge around me. And I'm sure others can second that for their cities. I have at least fifty restaurants within a fifteen minute walk. I'm not trying to taunt and life has a location hold at times, but if you can make the jump, we as developers are in a very fortunate position right now, and you can have a job within days/weeks around here if you've got the skills. Best to you.

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

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Post by king_jester »

BCM43 wrote: post #58
king_jester wrote: post #48

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> Incidentally, I don't mean to call you out in particular, but when you call grownup female programmers "girls," lots of very cool women will decide to hang out somewhere else -- sort of for the same reason black men in the US aren't going to love it if someone calls them "boys." I agree with you that calling female programmers and coworkers as girls is demeaning, but it IS NOT the same as calling a black man a boy,…

which has a long history of racist oppression. And there is no history of sexist oppression?

There is a history current state of sexist oppression, just as with racism. I didn't mean to imply that there is a mutual exclusion: racism and sexism are active parts of our culture and society, both today and in the past.

I only want to point out that racism and sexism, while related, are distinct and different. Referring to women in professional circles as girls is a very different kind of thing compared to calling a black man "boy", and attempts to draw parallels between the two are problematic, as we get into the territory of identity and experience erasure.

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

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Post by untog »

nutjob123 wrote: post #28
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/

Right now I'm working in Chinatown. Phenomenal lunch options. Shortly, I will be moving near Times Square- I'm in two minds about it.

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

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Post by tibbon »

TylerE wrote: post #39
anonymouz wrote: post #27

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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.

And now they have non-minimal expenses, and they are unlikely to have another hit of even half Minecraft's success ever again - Minecraft was a HUGE outlier.

I'm guessing that the expenses probably still aren't bad compared to their income. Just one day's sales of Minecraft probably pays for the rent there. The furniture was a 1-time expense, etc.

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

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Post by untog »

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.

I like the idea of it, especially for companies that have clients/customers outside of tech. We're all comfortable in hoodies all day, but when you all have to turn up to meet at a government office you'll suddenly find that the suit you haven't tried on in over a year doesn't fit right, or has a stain you'd forgotten about.

"Practising being formal" makes sense, I think.

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

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Post by bduerst »

_djo_ wrote: post #45
TylerE wrote: post #39

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And now they have non-minimal expenses, and they are unlikely to have another hit of even half Minecraft's success ever again - Minecraft was a HUGE outlier.

Erm, 0x10c?[0] That's shaping up to be potential Minecraft-level success, if Notch can deliver what has been promised. [0] http://0x10c.com

Am I the only one who sees this as a giant performance nightmare?

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

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Post by tibbon »

An interesting observation, on Kotaku the comments are focusing on a weird jealousy over Notch's success. Comments about people suddenly regretting buying a license to Minecraft, saying how tasteless the offices are, or how bad things are in Africa.

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

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Post by Muzza »

mhomde wrote: post #41
Shorel wrote: post #31

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Can you elaborate on the bad connotations? Prohibition era gangsters?

The theme they picked (this is from an article that ran in swedish media) is a british "Gentlemen's club". I don't know about you but for me that is a male-only upper-class establishment. I'm not so sure that's a vibe you want your indie gaming company to project. Then again, you can't politize everything and it's probably meant to just be different and be in "good fun", shrug Guess the good thing about having your o…

There is a great deal of absurdity in modern society, which demands that everyone have spaces which they can call their own - except whites/white males, whose spaces must be open to everyone. Tell me, do women-only gyms also have bad connotations for you? What are the connotations of the "no whites allowed" workshops during the recent(ish) gay-pride idiocy in Gothenburg?
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