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> (they said it's measured by keyboard usage).

Which is not well-correlated to being productive.

I should get a job at Microsoft and play a mud all day. I'll be principal engineer in no time.

If you’re a parent, you might end up getting real shit done when your kids are asleep.

Or because they wake you up. Send a lot of 11pm emails because baby needs a late night change and it's the wife's turn to sleep in.

If I’m still working at 10pm, there’s a good chance it’s gibberish due to falling asleep at the keyboard and drool, or me waking up really fast as my face hits it.

Even in an outage or emergency, I’m probably bored, exhausted and useless before then. Assuming I started at my standard 8am, of course.

maybe this is a veiled reference to their offshore employees.