Personally, I think that telecommuting rules, and working in an office sucks. :)
However, here are some valid counterpoints to ponder:

1. The Agile Manifesto states that -- "The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation."
2. Any job you can do well from home, someone else can do from Bangalore, at a fraction of the cost.

I am an amateur with a Computer Science degree, working on the Hamiltonian Cycle problem.
Here's a site where you can try out my code. I will be releasing it under an open-source license this year.

Right on! Google was attacked from within China. Change.org was attacked from within China when they were supporting a petition to release Ai WeiWei. Are these attackers government sponsored? Let's hope so! If not, our predicament is even worse -- If relations between the US and China were to deteriorate, the Chinese government would try a plethora of other alternatives to meet its objectives, before escalating to full cyberwar. An independent, cybervigilante group would escalate to cyberwar much sooner. After all this, denying not just the possibility, but the very existence, of cyberwar, is wilful ignorance.

People always get a government they deserve, even when it is a dictatorship. Nothing guarantees a good government. So your statement is saying nothing at all.

Q: A Quantum Physicist was in bed with a paramour, when his wife walked in. What did he say?

A: Wait, I can explain Everything! It's not what it looks like!

Dr. Negroponte has convinced Google to sponsor OLPC. Google becomes a group of educators, hackers, tinkerers, who wander the globe and organize the world's information, and make it easy for everyone to use. Something like the primer in Diamond Age, or the million copies of a comprehensive, integrated education and training program. A million kids in India, a million in China, and so forth. There's real critical mass behind this idea. A kid turns on their XO, or XO2, and there's Google, ready to educate them, as the content provider. Primary colored LEGO's, open-source, ABC, 123. Google manages the complexity of the world, and explains the world to you. The localized content is designed to boot up a new human mind. It's like a planetarium show, that says, "This is the Universe; these are superclusters of galaxies; this is our galaxy; this is our Sun and the solar system. You are here in space. These are the various places on Earth. These are the people who inhabit these places and speak different languages and eat different foods. This is the history of Earth. You are here in time. You are here in cultural context." Google can integrate, sponsor and execute OLPC better than Intel. Once you get past certain details, hardware doesn't matter so much. It is educational content that will succeed in helping people add more value to the collective pot. Google can foster a fun, science-based learning environment, in which hackers get children enthused about hacking the Earth, and exploring the Universe."

The OLPC gains economies of scale by launching in wealthier, and more populous countries such as China and India, first. China has a long history of expertise in making inexpensive copies of anything that can be manufactured.

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