Thank you for your insights! While the idea is interesting, the images on top of the SOCi article support your sceptism: Three programmers gathered around a tiny laptop screen is awful. You can always increase the font size though - I regularly work with a fairly large font as it is not as straining for long periods, but how do you persuade your coworkers to that? It takes quite some getting used to the diminished screen space.
That said, I would never want to join a company that has phrases like
> The mob disbands, either to sleep, or to their individual work
and
> [...] full 8 hours of programming [...] minimum expectations [...] additional time is expected to be put in
That said, I would never want to join a company that has phrases like
> The mob disbands, either to sleep, or to their individual work
and
> [...] full 8 hours of programming [...] minimum expectations [...] additional time is expected to be put in
in what is basically their job description. Also, six to eight hours of non-stop webcam is horrible! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24718640