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We Pay Our Rent By Buying Coffee
Wired is running a story on Delicious Monster, a startup Mac software company whose main office is a Seattle coffee shop. Hope they're drinking decaf.
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As long as it's not Java.
Their website is run on a Motorola 68000 chip embedded in a biscotti. Try not to spill, fellas!
How much coffee will they have to buy to pay for the bandwidth bill?
its really a shame they don't have Wi-Fi at my local bar. Paying rent in beer sounds like a much better option.
I bet they drive to work on their Segways.
Here I thought that mac developers would be drinking hot cocoa
Sean.OutaHere()
I'm not going to elaborate since the vendors have only just been notified last week, but expect a major vulnerability in most vendors' implementations of IPSec to come out next month. It basically allows anyone to decrypt your traffic with only an hours worth of captured packets.
Holy crap, if you're not astroturfing for these guys, I'm the queen of England...
> Holy crap, if you're not astroturfing for these guys, I'm the
> queen of England...
Greetings, your majesty!
I don't know these guys, and I've never seen them in a coffee shop. I don't work in the software industry.
I paid full price for the software application over Christmas (to try to find some additional use for my iSight). So, no astroturfing here.
I mean, no astroturfing, your grace.
Insert simplistic political, ideological, or personal proselytization here.
Office building?! HR Manager?! What horrors we suffer in the name of success....
Just because you sold your soul to the devil that needn't make you a teetotaler. --The Devil and Daniel Webster
I run four companies from my local coffee shop. Sit in the back with my powerbook and always look like I'm waiting for someone to show up. But the downside is that you can easily be tempted into vanilla lattes every hour, which costs as much as a 15th-floor corner office, and will likely get me a kidney transplant in five years.
Now if only I had products I sold that earned money, I'd be breaking even...
The world's only surviving livewriter.
That and their software is probably infinitely cooler than yours was. Have you ever used or seen Delicious Library?
Uh oh, now that it's been slashdotted we can expect a lawsuit from Monster Cables any time now...
The irony being that you have a hamster cage sitting on your desk and the furry creature inside is still planning his revenge against the monster that put him in the dungeon and tricked him into running for hours in that little wheel.
insufferably precious Mac-Seattle-GraphicDesginer disease.
Somebody's jealous...
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
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You bastards...
I was wondering why my latté tasted funny.
"Don't you worry, as soon as they have serious money in the bank, they'll feel compelled to set up shop in a regular office building,"
Maybe they'll start by moving up to office space at a strip club.
September 2011: Looking for Cocoa/iOS work in Boston area Cocoa Programmer Quincy, MA
... companies who buy Macs can't afford office space.
I have found that a micro recorder, obviously on and recording, placed on my table and then turned in the appropriate direction does wonders. Works for cell phone calls as well.
We use my house as a base of operations -- extra scanners are stored there, along with our MacWorld booth, and, if I have my way, that giant TV we had at MacWorld.
All these assets are guarded by two fierce attack-cats, so don't try looking up our address of incorporation and breaking into my house! You will emerge fuzzy, my friend. FUZZY!
It would certainly help them "think different"
So, strictly speaking, you couldn't ACTUALLY name it, right?
That was classic intercourse!