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analog on Feb 1, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why We Still Believe in Working Remotely

"All big (and finally successful) ideas and ventures were born by sitting together, day for day"

Github are a distributed team, Digg's programmer was a remote employee (from elance IIRC). Linux would be another biggie.

eriksank on Feb 2, 2013 [–]

It is probably exactly the other way around. All big ideas were born NOT sitting together. If Linus were sitting in a traditional office, the linux kernel would no longer exist by now.

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