garage

A shed out in the yard, a room over the garage, even a rented desk in town.

You're saying to heck with that and jumping over the fence right near the garage entrance and popping straight in.

If a team really need quiet time at such an event, they usually retire to (the basement/a hotel/someone's garage/a coffeeshop).

The real fix will require much more intervention than just a firmware flash at the garage.

We would still have startups, but the days would be over for 2 guys in a garage starting a successful company.

They still could have designed the individual terminal layouts better though, as the road and garage layout of Terminal D shows.

You know, even though you're busy being a startup and all, it honestly does not take that long to clean up a garage.

It is a garage door sized gateway to selling against your competitor's weaknesses.

Otherwise you're proposing to put servers in your garage (or wherever) which is precisely the complexity this service is attempting to get away from.

I just can't see garage dreamers plunking down that kind of cash without guarantees.

I agree with the article and propose that we should be doing the exact opposite - finding a way to fund more garage tinkerers.

For example, if you go looking in my garage for aliens, the absence of evidence is pretty compelling evidence for the absence of aliens in my garage, but it's extremely weak evidence for the absence of aliens in the universe.

What I mostly see though is high-tech university type stuff rather than "guys hacking in a garage".

All that stuff about "commodore 64" and "garage startup" sounds a bit like a smokescreen.

> I think the informal economy mainly exists for tax avoidance Garage sales and lending your buddy five bucks are also part of that "informal" economy.

OpenCV is an awesome Swiss-army steam-shovel (thank you Willow Garage!) In the 90's, there was Kai's Power Goo (now owned by Corel) and probably something similar used by Conan O'Brien's art dept.