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Seeking alternative compression. Hopefully wrong on average. Shameless. Started @getcognito and @bloom

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    1. -- ----------‏ @djmicrobeads Jul 31

      basically the point of working at a startup is that you use a shitty rental office where all of the chairs have a unique defect that makes them painful to sit on

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    2. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 31
      Replying to @djmicrobeads

      If you get in on the ground floor though you get to be one of the guys who breaks a chair

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    3. Omar Rizwan‏ @rsnous Jul 31
      Replying to @backus @djmicrobeads

      Also they're like $2000 right?

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    4. -- ----------‏ @djmicrobeads Jul 31
      Replying to @rsnous @backus

      hahhahahhhhahahhhhahhah yeah maybe the ones you cool silicon valley types use

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    5. -- ----------‏ @djmicrobeads Jul 31
      Replying to @djmicrobeads @rsnous @backus

      I can confidently say I have never sat on an office chair that cost $2000 at a startup in the UK. There is however a whole load of knockoffs and chairs that sort of look like Aeron chairs.

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      John Backus‏ @backus Jul 31
      Replying to @djmicrobeads @rsnous

      FWIW I haven’t either in SV

      2:14 PM - 31 Jul 2018
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        1. -- ----------‏ @djmicrobeads Jul 31
          Replying to @backus @rsnous

          Huh. Well then I take back my previous comment about "cool silicon valley types" :p

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        2. Amit Patel‏ @redblobgames Jul 31
          Replying to @backus @djmicrobeads @rsnous

          the silicon valley chairs I had at work were around $700 which is a lot more than I had spent for my own chair at home, but it convinced me to buy a much better chair at home

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        3. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 31
          Replying to @redblobgames @djmicrobeads @rsnous

          Crap maybe I should stop screwing around with Ikea

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