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To all sarcastic commenters: Hey, dudes: he built a bunch of cool and famous software, some of which you are using without paying a dime for, and even making money with. He has no blog. Can't be found on Facebook. Apparently doesn't even like surfing web. But there is a wiki page about him and he gets recognized while walking down the street. His name is Richard Stallman. What is YOUR name? What have YOU built?
And Donald Knuth doesn't use email. Maybe there is a lesson here? Hint: timewasters, interruptions, multitasking vs productivity...
Funny surprise: the results from the 486's room were slightly better (than the results in other rooms). Hypotheses: people in the 486's room were thinking twice before launching the slow compilation (leading to less compilation errors), as opposed to launching it often in other rooms (with probably more compilation errors). Bottom line: increasing the focus reduces waste of time.
And Donald Knuth doesn't use email. Maybe there is a lesson here? Hint: timewasters, interruptions, multitasking vs productivity...
There were 4 rooms for my first C++ class at uni: 3 with brand new Pentium II's and 1 with the old (and slow) 486's. No wonder, nobody wanted to be in that latter room for the exam at the end of the semester. So the teacher had to randomly dispatch people in those 4 rooms. Funny surprise: the results from the 486's room were slightly better (than the results in other rooms). Hypotheses: people in the 486's room were…