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0 pointsgobengo7y ago0 comments

In the last ten years I have also seen 'backplane' be:

* A protocol for helping web widgets on a page communicate and share data https://openid.net/wg/bp/ . We used to support it at Livefyre to interop with certain Janrain products, but the ecosystem wasn't so big at the time. It wasn't under OpenID at the time.

* This roller coaster of a social network startup https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/06/the-backplane-black-box/

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pizza7y ago

I remember being at a hackathon of theirs (the Lady Gaga backplane) years back and seeing dozens of what looked like Herman-Miller Aeron chairs all over the office. Maybe they got them for cheap, maybe they weren't actually Aerons, but also maybe this pretty small (I don't actually know how many employees they had..) startup had a couple tens of thousands of dollars worth of office chairs

driverdan7y ago

The cost of a good chair is nothing compared to other expenses like salaries. Aerons aren't my favorite chair but I sure as hell don't want to work for a company that makes me sit in a terrible $50 Office Depot chair.

Besides, you can get Aerons for much cheaper than retail if you look.

xnyan7y ago

Even if you give zero shits about your employees, the $50 office max is going to fall apart fast with daily use. HM sells somewhat stripped-down cheaper versions of certain models specifically for the bulk office drone employee market and in bulk the pricing is competitive with other makers.

pizza7y ago

I don't disagree, I just somehow got the impression they had way more chairs than employees

cpeterso7y ago

Backplane was also an internet services company founded by FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD developer Matt Dillon:

http://backplane.com/

HEHENE7y ago

Backplane the social roller coaster was a different company.

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0 pointsgobengo7y ago0 comments

In the last ten years I have also seen 'backplane' be:

* This roller coaster of a social network startup https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/06/the-backplane-black-box/

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pizza7y ago

driverdan7y ago

Besides, you can get Aerons for much cheaper than retail if you look.

xnyan7y ago

pizza7y ago

I don't disagree, I just somehow got the impression they had way more chairs than employees

cpeterso7y ago

Backplane was also an internet services company founded by FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD developer Matt Dillon:

http://backplane.com/

HEHENE7y ago

Backplane the social roller coaster was a different company.

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