loboman
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Comment · 13 years ago
I get you are joking but... That's just as bad as thinking that the most popular answer is the right one. The best you can do is to decide which one is best by analyzing the contents, not the % values.
Comment · 13 years ago
When I was using it I used to notice a slight delay on some actions (maximizing a window, doing alt-tab, opening the task bar, etc.), that I never had on Gnome Classic.
It must be said, however, Cinnamon is really nice.
Comment · 13 years ago
I tried Cinnamon for a while and I was very happy with it... except for its performance; it is quite slow; I recently went back to Gnome Classic, and although it is not as nice as Cinnamon, it is much faster.
Comment · 13 years ago
http://www.pangeaprogress.com/1/post/2010/09/einstein-edison... 'While in Boston, Einstein was subjected to a pop quiz known as the Edison test. (...) A reporter asked him a question from the test. "What is the speed of sound?" If anyone understood the propogation of sound waves, it was Einstein. But he admitted that he did not "carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books." Then he made a larger point designed to disparage Edison's view of education. "The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," he said.'
Comment · 14 years ago
Yes, I understand. I don't mean that all such remote workers are bad. What I mean is, that kind of thing is a filter that removes good people who wouldn't do that kind of thing. Developers do much better work when there isn't anybody spying on their shoulder. It is the customers who get worse results when they don't understand that (except for programmers who won't work unless somebody is looking at their shoulder... but then you really don't want to hire those).
Comment · 14 years ago
> Remote workers are more OK with having odesk take screenshots of their desktop so I know they are working for the time I paid them.
Probably not very good remote workers if you have to do that, and if they accept you to do that. (I otherwise agree with most of your points)
Comment · 14 years ago
Just curious, in what context did you ask Bill Gates that?
Comment · 14 years ago
I'm sorry. Best wishes for your wife and you.
Comment · 14 years ago
Because it is interesting. Actually it is more interesting and novel than much of the other news items that you can see in the front page.
Comment · 14 years ago
I would have preferred the story.
Comment · 14 years ago
Is this the announcement Nasa was talking about, or is this unrelated?
Comment · 14 years ago
Doesn't work to me... it just shows the booting screen, then it does nothing.
Comment · 14 years ago
If you do it right, you are never getting paid the value you provide. The model is always: generate value, get a slice of that, repeat. Think of a very rich person; if this person is so rich, it is because s/he provided much more value to others than the value it captured for him or herself. (Except for conmen)