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Zappos workspace is bad from programmer point of view. Open space with lot of crap, phones on tables. May be this workspace is good for communication, someone could feel more happy in this workspace and so on but it's terrible for hacking. It looks like this envirement encourage interraptions. 37s office much better for productive work.

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You say that, but Zappos' offices look more like most hacker personal spaces I've seen (just replace streamers with cables and turn the lights right down..) I know more geeks who live in a mess than those who adopt a stylistic, minimal approach. But maybe I know too many Unix nerds.. ;-)

Just because hackers live like slobs it does not mean that living like a slob makes you a better hacker. Maybe these hacker slobs would be more productive if they had a clean work environment.

You are confusing gamers with programmers

That's not the case (though admittedly most of them were also gamers ;-)). Most Unix beards I know live in, well, not exactly filth but "jumble."

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