SF News Local Programmer Claims He Didn't Do Any Work For The Last Six Years, Just Got Fired A story that's been making the rounds, first via Reddit, involves a well-paid engineer at "a well-known tech company in the Bay Area" who says he did virtually nothing for the last six
Arts & Entertainment Valley Speak: Silicon Valley Dictionary Is The Urban Dictionary The Tech World Needs Before Urban Dictionary provided satirical definitions to ridiculous terms, Ambrose Bierce satirized Webster's list of words and phrases with his Devil's Dictionary. Bierce began the project as a newspaper columnist right here in
SF News Former Startup Castle Residents Speak, Say It's 'Like A Prison' "One of the largest estates in Silicon Valley with everything you need to live and launch your greatest ambitions." That description of the place called Startup Castle in Woodside might be more accurate
SF News Have You Heard About The Startup Castle In Woodside? Because It's Ridiculous And Sexist A huge mansion in tony Woodside has been rebrand the Startup Castle, as of about a year ago, and it's offering "monk-like" lodging for startup bros in a bizarre, stately setting, straight out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soylent Reformulated For Fewer Farts Does everyone remember Soylent, that local startup that makes a bland nutritional shake geared toward techies who don't want to leave their computers even to eat? Well, in an amusing recent development, the
Arts & Entertainment Today In Jarring Craigslist Rental Ads: $1,000 For 80 Square Feet In Bro Pad Further proof that the Mission needs an abortion: this Craigslist ad seeks a roommate to pay a whopping $1,000 for an 80-square-foot room inside an apartment with four other "grown-ass men" working
Arts & Entertainment Next Owen Wilson/Vince Vaughn Flick Is A Buddy Comedy About Google Remember when it was 2004 and the nation had collectively lost enough respect for itself to start calling its most popular comedy ensemble the Frat Pack? That was a real point in our
SF News Nerds' Newest Ventures: 'Hacker Hostels' While the newly rich continue to gobble up overpriced real estate in San Francisco proper, the budding young entrepreneurs who continue to flock to Silicon Valley, heads all filled with Zuckerberg dreams, are
Arts & Entertainment Worried You Might Be A Brogrammer? There's A Handy Quiz For That If you're one of the many dudes suddenly questioning where you fit on the Geek-Bro spectrum now that Brogrammers have come along to testosterone things up, you can fret no more. A Chicago
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Taco Conf 2012: A Conference Based On Tacos & Bicycles At long last a conference will be held in honor of tacos, the superior taqueria treat. Taco Conf 2012 brings together tacos and cycling where one can pedal around both sides of the
SF News Beware The Rise Of The 'Brogrammer' Sometime in the last ten or twelve years, the stereotypical image of the Silicon Valley programmer has shifted from socially awkward, Utili-kilt-wearing geek to something far more sinister, and fratty, and sexist. Mother
