Comments on: Our Team Room

By: bob

bob — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:33:40 +0000

Looks like huge crowded walk-in to me.

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:35:15 +0000

We had it special made from a design by one of our team. Decadent but fun. The table was really designed for pc laptops, large dual monitors with docks. As the team grew and we had more variation in heights and contemplated a move to macs it became less optimal. Still, a great table. The team has all moved on. Don’t know what NBC/Universal is doing with it now…

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:50:19 +0000

Hi – where did you get the desk from?

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:40:49 +0000

Desktop replacements definitely have a price/performance hit. We used the fastest drives we could get at any particular time. We pair with pair switching mid-day. We also frequently remote. You can also tell from the photos that we’re space constrained (offices in Chelsea in Manhattan). Of course, our continuous integration server was centralized and hosted in a data center so the team was almost always doing partial builds on their machines. Finally, despite whatever performance hit, the developers didn’t raise laptop performance or build time as an impediment. So in our particular circumstances it worked.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:16:52 +0000

I’m surprised by the choice to go with notebooks. In what ways was that good? We typically find the performance unacceptable, primarily because of disk access during builds so I’m wondering what the advantages are beyond portability.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:35:22 +0000

It was on the todo list. Before Bob got his sweet job at RG/A.

By: Luke Melia

Luke Melia — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:28:45 +0000

We also should have done posters for our other products.