I got to visit the StackExchange office in New York a few weeks ago. The development floor is divided into hexagons. Two walls are glass (including a door), the other 4 walls are white and double as whiteboards. Each office is given two large desks which can be raised or lowered electrically.
Essentially it's another experiment in PeopleWare architecture by Spolsky. I liked that each developer had a private office, but I found that without decoration the blank walls made it feel too much like the set of a 70s movie dystopia.
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I got to visit the StackExchange office in New York a few weeks ago. The development floor is divided into hexagons. Two walls are glass (including a door), the other 4 walls are white and double as whiteboards. Each office is given two large desks which can be raised or lowered electrically.
Essentially it's another experiment in PeopleWare architecture by Spolsky. I liked that each developer had a private office, but I found that without decoration the blank walls made it feel too much like the set of a 70s movie dystopia.
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/stack-exchange-office-tour...
I can't believe they actually posted 15 megapixel pictures for the slideshow. 37 of them. Made my connection slow to a crawl for quite a while.
Made my hard drive swap, 2GB ram 90% filled.
Chromium seems conservative about large resources.