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Dropcam CEO's Beef With Brogramming and Free Dinners
waderoush writes "Plenty of technology companies serve free breakfast, lunch, and dinner to their employees, but Dropcam CEO Greg Duffy says that's a form of mind control designed to get people to to work late. To keep employees happy, Duffy says, it's better to make them go home to their families for dinner. Some other suggestions from the San Francisco video monitoring startup: don't fill your engineering department with young, single, childless males (aka brogrammers). Keep your business model simple by making actual stuff that you can sell for a profit. And don't hire assholes. Why pay attention to Duffy's advice? Because Dropcam has a 100 percent employee retention rate — no one who has joined the 4-year-old company has ever left."
To keep employees happy, Duffy says, it's better to make them go home to their families for dinner.
That's fine for regular employees, but assuming sys admins want to go home to their families is just silly.
http://xkcd.com/705/
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde
Isn't it a crucial part of Agile to tell others they are doing Agile wrong? :)
Wait... people do that sort of thing? I mean the walking and the looking at things that aren't pixels?....
Whenever a player quits EVE to go play WoW, the Average IQ of both games increase.
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Depending on the quantity of VC available, it could be profitable to rent ~20 cars and park them in your lot overnight.