Open Home Office (YC S17) Raises $7M To Bring Office Distractions To Remote Workers Nationwide
June 21, 2017 PALO ALTO - Enjoy working from home, but yearn for the interminable stimulation and irritation of an open office? There’s an app …
Etsy Launches Marketplace for Artisanal Machine Learning
June 19, 2017 NEW YORK - Eager to cash in on the machine learning gold rush, this week Etsy threw its custom-embroidered hat into the ring with the …
Office Tensions At All-Time High After Engineering Team Member Switches To Mechanical Keyboard
June 12, 2017 CHICAGO - Normally sporting a jovial and collaborative atmosphere, the office of a downtown software company descended this morning into …
LinkedIn Now Allows Recruiters To Send Recordings Of Unintelligible Noises And Pantomiming As Cold InMail Messages
June 9, 2017 MOUNTAIN VIEW - In response to overwhelming demand from recruiters who prefer to invest the smallest possible amount of effort when …
GitHub Reminds Companies Who's In Charge By Intentionally Causing Temporary Service Outages
June 6, 2017 SAN FRANCISCO - In response to a growing number of customers who seemed to have forgotten their place, version control giant GitHub …
Software Engineer Entertains Erotic Fantasy About Rewriting Entire Codebase From Scratch
May 26, 2017 PALO ALTO - Already waist-deep in what was certain to be another daylong slog through the company’s ghastly GitHub repository, …
Rideshare Passengers Descend Into Awkward Silence After Driver Misses Glaringly Obvious Turn Six Blocks From Destination
May 23, 2017 SAN FRANCISCO - Less than one mile from reaching the final address, conversation between four Uber passengers came to an ass-dragging …
Smartphone Stubbornly Clings To WiFi Signal Long After It Should Have Given Up And Switched To 4G
May 22, 2017 AUSTIN - Area resident Paige Hoffman was dismayed to discover on Monday morning that her smartphone, yet again, pigheadedly refused to …
EXCLUSIVE: JavaScript Creator Reveals Brain Hemorrhage As Cause Of Language's Most Hated Features
May 18, 2017 In an interview with Brendan Eich, creator of the first version of JavaScript, the distinguished software engineer revealed that the …
Software Companies Seeing Dramatic Improvements Following Shift To Reading Chicken Entrails For Project Completion Estimates
May 17, 2017 SAN FRANCISCO - Frustrated by the consistently dreadful ability of developers to predict how long features will take to finish, a faction …