am I supposed to ignore GNOME's outstanding interface designs?

Which ones would those be?

GNOME 2 had some good ideas.

Strange, I've never seen or heard of Kelvin bits being used in place of kibibytes.

Sport is only "expensive" because cable sports channels have upped the bidding stakes.

Rank by "Page views" rather than "Harmonic centrality" (whatever that means). John Lennon is at number 122 among humans, with Jesus trailing at 123. Biggest musician seems to be Ariana Grande at number 1 (only Robin Williams is bigger than her).

I guess there's a point to the "1532 have blocked this number" except that ALL the people you want to block come from undisclosed numbers/PABX/skype anyway

I get quite a few calls from known numbers belonging to my credit card company's marketing department trying to sell extra services or increase my credit limit. But Android already had the ability to set the ringtone for a contact to NONE.

There was no congestion charge in 2003.

The London Mail trains are basically running between the mail sorting centres and the major rail stations (for mail going and coming from London) and major post offices (for within central London). Unless Royal Mail also rents this company space in those locations for setting up their distribution network, their existing network is not going to be much use for them.

If he's been on a $1M salary for some time, he should own his house outright and have some investments outside of his own business tucked away already. In a perfect world, all CEOs should be on modest salaries, and get most of their incentive from bonuses and stock. They are ultimately responsible for the performance of the business after all, and a 7 figure basic doesn't give them much motivation to perform.

Yeah, that's pretty much how it goes. I don't normally wear jeans to work though.

In some workplaces that could be considered inappropriate, in others it may depend on your style of underwear.

The moment you throw in a few spaces to line something up on a non-tab boundary (say, to align a second line of arguments with the first argument), then you have a mess

It is trivial to avoid this problem by configuring tab-width to 1. Yet again,newbie configuration wins over decades of experience.

Except that for people who are not working alone, there are more commands that need to be considered basic in DVCS than in traditional VCS.

The biggest threat to free and open source software is, and always has been FUD. What this article is saying is that previous FUD did not work, so it is trying to come up with new FUD.

And if you tap quickly on one of the other items in that menu multiple times, you get a real Easter egg, the contents of which depend on the version of Android (for Lollipop it is a flappy bird type game, other versions have been animated histories of Android versions, or static images related to the current version in 2.x).

It would only be like Apple Records if they already had an out-of-court settlement agreeing that Apple the Computer company would never get into the watch business, and Apple the aspiring watch company would never get into the computer business so lets both agree to let the other use its trademark in its own space.

It's really not clear what fully open source alternatives you are talking about here, as I'm not aware of any alternative web development environment comparable in scope to .NET today that lacks Unicode support.