It's the price of a beer, come on! As developers in this community we must understand how much hard work goes into these things and we should not cheapen the work of fellow devs making innovative projects.
This will be interesting to follow. France is a great place, but needs to work with their rules around taxes and social obligations from employer to employee. It is too scary to be an entrepreneur in France and there is a lot of overhead. I hope they find a good model for startups since the country needs that energy and has the talent.
Sorry if a repost, I could not find original if it exist. I found this interesting, and more startups / companies can use these sort of planning with risk assessment and plans of actions given different scenarios.
Agree, funny how most comments focus on the money aspect of the conversation. He wanted to feel socially responsible again, did not like the impact that his game had on people's psyche / addictive behaviors and pulled the plug because of it.
In fairness, the three games he's currently working on follow that same mold of being super easy to learn and super hard to beat--not a good recipe for warding off addiction!
You have a point there. The article states he wants to introduce reminders to take a break, though that sounds like the usual excuse feature in such cases.
I agree, the motto of 'we don't have a vacation policy, just take time off if you need it' creates usually the wrong sort of culture and dynamics, leading to guilt, etc. Lack of clarity around expectations is commonly a source of anxiety and stress. Whenever possible I encourage that people take 1 week off per quarter.
My employer is currently transitioning from ~25 employees a year ago to ~50 now. When I was interviewed last year, the policy was that there was no vacation policy. By the time I was hired a few weeks later, that had changed to a maximum 10 days of vacation a year. They used the argument of 'it leads to people taking less vacation' to justify their new abysmally small policy. Of course, if that was their true intention, then they would implement a minimum vacation policy. But that obviously isn't the case.
Yes, it depends people by people, it IS OK to take that amount of time off if the 'non policy' allows it, but most people don't do that out of fear / guilt.
Can be a bit of a catch 22 in today's world, where new cities and developments are created assuming high volume / usage of cars.
You can see how dense cities can work very well with very few cars in places like Amsterdam, but there city setup and infrastructure eases walking / biking and is very unfriendly to cars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Amsterdam#Car
One of the best engineers I have worked with is on his 60's. When I worked with him, the rest of the engineering team had an average age of 23 or so (me being 32), but this guy could give everyone a run for their money.
This is not about age, but about staying current and sharp. Keep learning, and you won't have this issue.
Sure, a guy fresh out of school has a ton of energy and works crazy hours, but as an Engineering Manager and Product Manager I knew that if I needed something to be really done on time I could always trust the older (and quite frankly way smarter) guy.
