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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.. ;-)

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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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