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Well if you read what Joel says about working conditions and look at the office pics where you can see that in practice it just makes sense that fogcreek can attract the best people. Look how everybody has is own office.

I still dont get it why people keep thinking that to cram puzzlers on a noisy heap with all possible (social, visual, audio) distractions saves money in the end. If Joel can offer programmers sane working conditions in NY, so can every office around the world.