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> Birkenstock-wearing weirdos of Berkeley

Did anyone else find this as funny as i did?

Could you pick a more mainstream brand of shoe Paul?

> The restrictiveness of big company jobs is particularly hard on programmers

It depends on how you define 'restriveness'. Sure in a large company it's difficult to make the types of decisions that will affect the whole organisation. On the other hand in a small company you are typically very restricted in terms of the numbers of users who you can make a positive difference on their lives.

Startups are typically experiments to see if there is any mass appeal. Large companies actually change the world.