City could shut down Hacker Dojo

It actually sounds pretty reasonable. The article says they've been operating since 2009, have 300 programmers paying $100 per month and the city wants them to have a fire alarm, sprinklers and compliant washrooms. There are pretty good reasons for these codes to exist and for them to be enforced.

What a load of crap.

"If they would have come into the city and said, 'Here's what were proposing to do,' we would say, 'Here's the kinds of things you need to do to comply with the building code,'" Berns said.

F%@# that, when somebody wakes up in the morning and decides to do something cool, they should not be required to have "Will the government allow this?" as their second thought. As noble a cause as fire safety is (and I was a volunteer firefighter for a decade plus, to I'm close to these issues), the building code should not be rammed down their throats at gunpoint by the heavy hand of government.