Stack Exchange's Really Big Monitor Setup
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Stack Exchange's Really Big Monitor Setup
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Re: Stack Exchange's Really Big Monitor Setup
#2I kinda expected more from a group hosting millions of conversations a year and undisclosed$$ derived from it. Think bigger, like Visa's NOC big...
Re: Stack Exchange's Really Big Monitor Setup
#3I kinda expected more from a group hosting millions of conversations a year and undisclosed$$ derived from it. Think bigger, like Visa's NOC big... http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/visa-headquarters.jpg
NOC-style dashboards seem hardly appropriate for the first thing you see when you walk into an office..
Re: Stack Exchange's Really Big Monitor Setup
#4This sort of thing was popular during the dot-com boom.
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#5Why 3x580 instead of a single eyefinity Radeon? Would seem like a obvious choice for such project.
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#6Odd that half the screens have couch-style content and half have desktop-style content.
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#7Spolsky's interview technique here is flawless
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#8I kinda expected more from a group hosting millions of conversations a year and undisclosed$$ derived from it. Think bigger, like Visa's NOC big... http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/visa-headquarters.jpg
I used to design and build NOCS as a network management consultant, and we found one thing to be universally true at every NOC we designed:
1.) Even though the person who hired us fell in love with the set of NORAD from the movie Wargames with walls of giant monitors, not one of the NOC analysts sitting at their desks ever once looked up at the big screen (unless it was late at night and they replaced the network map with a first-person shooter) to do their job. They always look at the event viewer at their desk.
The big wall of screens is purely to impress customers/investors during visits.
Re: Stack Exchange's Really Big Monitor Setup
#9I kinda expected more from a group hosting millions of conversations a year and undisclosed$$ derived from it. Think bigger, like Visa's NOC big... http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/visa-headquarters.jpg
Very Wargames ...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/
Re: Stack Exchange's Really Big Monitor Setup
#10Why 3x580 instead of a single eyefinity Radeon? Would seem like a obvious choice for such project.
Since you don't need 3D acceleration, maybe a single Matrox card would be more appropriate. e.g. One of these http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/m_... can drive 8 monitors.
Edit: whoops, didn't notice it was $$$$.