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Where are the huge open floor plans with an army of developers wearing noise-cancelling headphones? One can't develop great products without collaboration! I m

Where are the huge open floor plans with an army of developers wearing noise-cancelling headphones? One can't develop great products without collaboration! I miss the offices of old... In particular, Microsoft's old policy of putting people in individual offices.

burnt-resistor 1y ago
3475 Deer Creek Rd is leased by SAP AppHaus[0]. There are so many PHB bizwords on the website, I pretty much feel asleep trying to figure out if they did anything real or if it's well-meaning MBAs who sold their bosses on the wantrepreneur cargo cult fashion of renting expensive property in Palo Alto. Interestingly, Apple re-leased the W SJ Triangle Building they used to occupy in the 80's & 90's that had a giant vintage rainbow Apple logo facing I-280. It has had a history of short-term occupancy post-Apple with Accolade (games) and various other tenants over the decades. Mega rich tech areas ought to reinvest in the future by launching teaching venues and community-focused employee-/member-owned co-op sw/hw hackspaces-library-event-makespaces if they really want to attract people who aren't interested in, are put-off, or can't afford corporate-focused/-gatekept "innovation centers". Co-working space is so commodified, it needs to be local and special rather than transactional to draw people. There is/was a church (Spark perhaps) in Palo Alto that had quite a large coworking space, and the folks there were really cool. 0. https://apphaus.sap.com/network/palo-alto https://apphaus.sap.com/network/palo-alto
FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>Where are the huge open floor plans with an army of developers wearing noise-cancelling headphones? 30 years in the future, when everyone and their dog learned to code and the market got flooded with programmers. If you look at SW from the NEXT era, there were like 1 to 5 programmers, all stallions, per SW product, so no wonder everyone had their own office.

burnt-resistor 1y ago

3475 Deer Creek Rd is leased by SAP AppHaus[0]. There are so many PHB bizwords on the website, I pretty much feel asleep trying to figure out if they did anything real or if it's well-meaning MBAs who sold their bosses on the wantrepreneur cargo cult fashion of renting expensive property in Palo Alto. Interestingly, Apple re-leased the W SJ Triangle Building they used to occupy in the 80's & 90's that had a giant vintage rainbow Apple logo facing I-280. It has had a history of short-term occupancy post-Apple with Accolade (games) and various other tenants over the decades. Mega rich tech areas ought to reinvest in the future by launching teaching venues and community-focused employee-/member-owned co-op sw/hw hackspaces-library-event-makespaces if they really want to attract people who aren't interested in, are put-off, or can't afford corporate-focused/-gatekept "innovation centers". Co-working space is so commodified, it needs to be local and special rather than transactional to draw people. There is/was a church (Spark perhaps) in Palo Alto that had quite a large coworking space, and the folks there were really cool. 0. https://apphaus.sap.com/network/palo-alto https://apphaus.sap.com/network/palo-alto

FirmwareBurner 1y ago

>Where are the huge open floor plans with an army of developers wearing noise-cancelling headphones? 30 years in the future, when everyone and their dog learned to code and the market got flooded with programmers. If you look at SW from the NEXT era, there were like 1 to 5 programmers, all stallions, per SW product, so no wonder everyone had their own office.