dirtyvagabond

I don't think that's the message. The message was, "You said you couldn't imagine a scenario where this goes well. Here's one simple example of it going well, and that was easy to think of."

Author here. Definitely didn't mean to condescend. I used "like a European" as short-hand for, "this is an employee who regularly chooses to take off far more time than the typical American would generally be expected to take off".

This section of the article was meant to speak directly to management who may be concerned about using this policy due to this particular possibility. The following text is attempting to answer their concerns. That is, don't worry so much about this. Rather, judge the results, as you should be anyway.

Fantastic article. And nice demo of Drake. ;-)

I felt like he was sharing a lot more than that, especially his personal story. So I found it a very worthwhile read.

Also: "Make me re-think the “wisdom” of the food pyramid, “low fat” diets, and nutrition vs. exercise"

I thought that was a great one liner... I believe that critical, honest analysis of official dietary guidelines and conventional wisdom around our diet is something we need much more of.

another way to look at this is: we didn't say to ourselves, "we have to be on the JVM, so which JVM language should we use"?

instead we asked, "what would be a great language for this project?" and arrived at Clojure based on the above.