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loboman

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    Comment #5644774

    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 conten…

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    Comment #5452531

    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 …

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    Comment #5452233

    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 …

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    Comment #5227297

    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 questi…

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    Comment #5075800

    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. De…

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    Comment #5070182

    > 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 h…

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    Comment #4925688

    Just curious, in what context did you ask Bill Gates that?

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    Comment #4920904

    I'm sorry. Best wishes for your wife and you.

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    Comment #4900183

    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.

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    Comment #4891784

    I would have preferred the story.

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    Comment #4850251

    Is this the announcement Nasa was talking about, or is this unrelated?

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    Comment #4805726

    Doesn't work to me... it just shows the booting screen, then it does nothing.

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    Comment #4805648

    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 …

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    Comment #4783640

    The solution is here: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/13664q/skype_vulnera...

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    Comment #4778780

    "In the same way being an hobbyist programmer will never give you the same skill set than a CS degree." Never? Despite the countless examples, including Torvalds and Carmack? I rea…

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    Comment #4766660

    I asked if he could either remove my account or comments. He said that the comments are part of other people's conversations, so he didn't want to remove all of them (later he aske…

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    Comment #4765777

    Interesting that you mention that. hhm was my previous username, but I lost its password now. Probably after switching accounts some years ago, after becoming a little paranoid abo…

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    Comment #4759406

    What about using acquisition costs vs. profit per customer, and ads to get people to use an app?

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    Comment #4743882

    > We've over 10,00 Over 10,000?

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    Comment #4712975

    Valve in cooperation with Canonical. Now we know why Ubuntu needs to have some secret projects.