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Inside Everyblock's furniture-less Chicago office

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Uhmm? 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?

I 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.

15 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.

It's not that we don't have furniture, it's that the space is much bigger than the furniture we have...

Adrian @ EveryBlock

Anticipating hiring or are you making a roller rink?

Didn'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.

As one of the creators of the programming language Django, which is widely used by Web site programmers around the world...

Cut them some slack, it's a neighborhood news blog.

Why? 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.

Maybe it's what you don't do with the space, rather than what you do with the space.

Awesome 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

edit: pointless knee-jerk reaction deleted.

Shocking 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?

You're right, there's no reason for my comment. It was knee-jerk.

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