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We Pay Our Rent By Buying Coffee

Posted by michael on from the 1000-lines-per-cup dept.

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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  1. Decaf? by ravenspear · · Score: 5, Funny

    As long as it's not Java.

    1. Re:Decaf? by Durandal64 · · Score: 4, Funny

      No one develops Cocoa with Java. :)

  2. I'm not much of a coffee drinker.. by neoee · · Score: 5, Funny

    its really a shame they don't have Wi-Fi at my local bar. Paying rent in beer sounds like a much better option.

  3. Coffee? by DrNibbler · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here I thought that mac developers would be drinking hot cocoa

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  4. Re:Delicious Library by sg3000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    > 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.

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  5. Re:Decentralisation by ratnerstar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Office building?! HR Manager?! What horrors we suffer in the name of success....

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  6. It's not as good as it sounds by MrAndrews · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

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  7. Re:No different than any other virtual company by TheHornedOne · · Score: 5, Funny

    That and their software is probably infinitely cooler than yours was. Have you ever used or seen Delicious Library?

  8. Re:Easier to go insane, yes by ruvreve · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  9. Re:No different than any other virtual company by jcr · · Score: 4, Funny

    insufferably precious Mac-Seattle-GraphicDesginer disease.

    Somebody's jealous...

    -jcr

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    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
  10. No... It's actually assembly. by siokaos · · Score: 5, Funny

    0xDECAFBAD

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  11. Re:A real company needs an official mailing addres by wjsdelicious · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!