lesdeuxmagots

Sounds like a justification for performance enhancing drugs.

It's only fun in theory. What's not fun is when you have to answer to investors, which give no shits about you or your employees, and only dollars, or what they perceive will increase their returns. Often, this is aligned with what management wants to do and what the employees want to do, but in a situation like this, the incentives can be heavily misaligned.

This feels incredibly Silicon Valley centric. Hybrid Command Line only serves to increase friction in the messaging process, particularly for normal users. Press reviews have already noted that there is a learning curve, that the experience is better with a smaller friends list. This sounds like it is set up to fail to get broader adoption.

FYI: DuckDuckGo primarily leverages the Yahoo BOSS api in the US.

That's breakfast, lunch, and probably 5% dinner (a small minority of HQ), including cleanup costs (washing dishes, etc). You have to have some over-capacity as its a cafeteria - you can't run out of food at any time, so throw in an extra 10% - 20% food.

Then add in snacks and drinks, which come out to a few dollars a day per employee, including stocking costs, running the coffee bars, etc. That's a few drinks from the fridge, a coffee or two, a few bags of snacks a day.

And I don't know anyone working at any SV tech headquarters who don't eat the food every day. Personally I've maybe eaten not at work for breakfast and lunch...10 work days in the past year?

While the HQ gets economies of scale, smaller offices are more expensive. Y! SF catered for a long time before finally also switching over to Bon Appetit. Y! NYC provided a daily seamless stipend before they finally built out the in-house dining area.

Add in non-full time contractors as well, who generally get the eat at the cafeteria as well.

Bon Appetit is a standard, albeit higher end, food services company. They serve colleges as diverse as Cornell, Oberlin, the College of Idaho, Lewis and Clark, etc. It's the same company used by Google, Oracle, and eBay. It's hard to describe them as over-priced and overly-luxurious.

Opera went on an acquisition spree over the last few years to buy and stitch together what is now the largest independent mobile ad network. Pretty much went from nothing 2 years ago to the vast majority of their revenues this year.

Which is to say the Opera most people think about, the browser, isn't where the money is being made. In fact, Opera MediaWorks, their mobile ad network, isn't really connected to the browser in any way, and the business is structured as a nearly separate entity.