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Inside Everyblock's furniture-less Chicago office
- blhack 17y agoUhmm? There's furniture there, one of the lines from the article actually commented on them having just bought a conference table, and the pictures in the article show desks. Am I missing the point here or something?
- brandnewlow 17y agoI didn't mean they literally don't have any furniture, just that the place is really sparse, which I thought people on here would appreciate.
- tjic 17y ago15 years ago, when I worked for one of the first ecommerce startups ( OpenMarket.com ), one of our founders was quoted in Fortune that the reason we didn't have any chairs in the conference rooms was that it "kept meetings short". In fact, the chairs just hadn't been delivered yet, and the journalist missed the joke.
- adrianh 17y agoIt's not that we don't have furniture, it's that the space is much bigger than the furniture we have... Adrian @ EveryBlock
- steveplace 17y agoAnticipating hiring or are you making a roller rink?
- deadwisdom 17y agoDidn't MSBNC give you some money to decorate your office? Tell them you are getting hammered by the press and need a trip to IKEA or something.
- dreyfiz 17y agoedit: pointless knee-jerk reaction deleted.
- tptacek 17y agoShocking that "Your Definitive Neighborhood Guide to Northcenter, Lincoln Square and Ravenswood Manor" would miss the distinction between a web programming framework and the language it's implemented in, isn't it?
- dreyfiz 17y agoYou're right, there's no reason for my comment. It was knee-jerk.
- jcsalterego 17y agoAs one of the creators of the programming language Django, which is widely used by Web site programmers around the world... :(
- pchristensen 17y agoCut them some slack, it's a neighborhood news blog.
- djb_hackernews 17y agoWhy? I'm thinking office space is like hardware. If your memory isn't full and your cpu pegged, you aren't getting your moneys worth. So many questions.
- jrockway 17y agoMaybe it's what you don't do with the space, rather than what you do with the space.
- vouchey 17y agoAwesome to have your readership! On the "Django" point: I know the difference between a web framework and a programming language and a scripting language. I use them. But most of our readers don't, and the paragraph it would take to explain just didn't serve the story or our readers - who are decidedly non-programmers. Mike @ Center Square Journal