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> The most annoying thing about marijuana is fucking idiot stoners representing the brand.

this so much - most people associate pot with braindead pathetic existences in the fringe of society, who are the loudest of the crowd. i've met senior software engineers, doctors, managers of all levels and so on doing it recreationally, for decades and having a normal life. those using alcohol for similar relaxing effect after hard day ended up in worse state, and it costed them much, much more in long term
They could've used a temporary dropmail acc or something more convenient like protonmail to avoid that problem. I mean, what do they expect?

Of course emails are intercepted, that's the easiest thing to do with that unsecure protocol.
Two devs from my current company got themselves Razer keyboards, which look very much like Model M keyboard, albeit it's all-black.

If it were not for video surveillance, I would've already covered them in construction-foamed them shut. They are obnoxiously loud.
"If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient."

- Lady Catherine de Bourgh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Catherine_de_Bourgh
KDE3 fork: https://www.trinitydesktop.org/
कैसे पता लगाएंगे आपका मोबाइल नंबर आपके लिए लकी है या नहीं। Learn astology
I tried an XPS15 and gave it up after 2 months.

1) Constant problems with Broadcom wireles. Supposedly they employ someone to work on Linux drivers but I never heard back from them.

2) As has been mentioned HiDpi support in Linux is not good, I ended up using 1920x1080 anyways.

3) Defects. I did not have coil buzz, but accidentally shaking the laptop too hard (e.g. in one's bag, or tapping the bottom) would cause screen/gpu to glitch and require a hard restart.

4) Dual video support on Linux is also quite poor. In practice running Bumblebee gave only marginal improvements.

Compared to a MacBook Pro: build quality is worse, it is heavier, battery is worse, wifi problems as mentioned. I would stay away from any Dell products in the future.
My only problem with the Pixel is the storage. 64GB is a bit on the low side for me as a Java developer with a local Maven repo of 17GB.

If SD storage was reliable, which in my personal experience is not, then that would be a killer machine indeed.
If open plan hadn't dismantled our offices and cubicles, we might still be typing on good keyboards at work.
I like all of these except number 10: avoid distractions.

I can't support the claim myself, but I have seen a startup succeed as a professor's side project with his brother (lasted 10+ years, IPO).

Going all-in on your startup from day 1 might seem efficient, but it may not be most effective.

For instance, if I have an idea for an EduTech startup, I might e-mail some players/professors in the field and chat with them about the idea, and try to see why most startups in the field fail.

You have to wait until they respond, because your entire assumptions might fail! Keeping the youthful spirit is good, but talking to people who dedicate their lives to these fields is often invaluable. Don't build on top of unsteady assumptions.

"Launching fast" might not be the only way to test your assumptions.
It's work-in-progress, but you can also emulate an IBM Selectric. Much classier and much, much more annoying.

https://github.com/rbanffy/selectric-mode
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Anybody here got invitation codes for keybase ?
Chromium Issue 608203: CTRL – W should not work on pinned tabs
I wrote up something similar a few months ago called "Everything I Have Ever Programmed": https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/everything-i-have-ever-progra...

I recommend taking a bit of time to do a similar write-up, it comes easily and you'll probably be surprised by the sheer amount of stuff you've worked on, and might see some interesting patterns.
My employer previously supplied me with a Lenovo 440s, with a low res (1440x900) display, a dual core i5, and an inability to power the 4K monitor I had at home above 30hz, that I throughly despised. When I moved over to a new team I got given my current rMBP, which I enjoy considerably more.

I think that moving forwards an Apple laptop is going to be a hard requirement before I work for an organisation. It's not that other companies don't make good laptops, it's that Apple doesn't make bad laptops, so I know if the company has a policy of buying them I'm guaranteed to get something good, instead of the POS Lenovo that the IT department bought.
Yeah, I think I'd move companies if I had to sit next to this noise all day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXJzmky2DaI
I'm not sure if it's still the case, but a few years ago a good reason to buy from Dell's business line was that they came with a completely unmodified copy of Windows - no crapware, no "helpful" add-ons, not even a Dell specific desktop background. That was lovely.
I'd argue that the Macbook Pro has the right balance between a consumer and business device
have a look on Lenovo X260 and below. I've read in some articles that some Kernel developers are using this kind of laptop series for their work. Best battery life I've seen on a Linux laptop so far (over 8h, X220 experience).
In economics, the Jevons paradox occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the rate of consumption of that resource rises because of increasing demand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Take a look at the Surface Book.

It's the most impressive laptop I've ever used. Great 3:2 screen, excellent build quality, a real touchscreen (i.e., multitouch, pen support with pressure, etc), MacBook-tier trackpad. Convertible tablet mode is far more useful than I anticipated and is nice for showing off. The new Linux subsystem is still a bit buggy but is very impressive (I was able to compile and run emacs with a GUI as if I was running Ubuntu natively, for example).
What makes you think that it was the Russians, or, more specifically, the Russian government?
I've never had any other notebook as a "business" one. I only bough used ones, as they are pretty expensive new, but sometimes you get one still in warranty. And that's the best thing there is about business laptops. Your laptop broke? Next day there's UPS guy picking it up, and the day after you have it repaired/changed. No need to deal with a classic warranty, taking it anywhere, etc...

Oh, and the ease of maintenance. To open it, you get one screw on Dell Latitude, maybe two on Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad. 10+ on acers/asuses and whatnot. Not to mention you can't even open some of those. And with the NBD warranty comes that they will just send you parts you request and can replace yourself, without taking the notebook from you.

The build quality is also somewhere else. I would never a buy a "consumer" laptop, nor I would recommend anyone to buy them. I'm convinced they are intentionally designed like crap.
Gmail and Hotmail are looking more at engagement as an indicator of an emails spamminess. If people are opening, clicking, moving from spam folder to inbox then they will conclude that an email is good despite the content.

Then, they look at the reputation of the IP address/email domain that you are sending it on. If a lot of emails coming from a specific IP address/domain have low engagement you may run into problems even if your content is squeaky clean.

And if you’re sending a lot of emails to invalid email addresses or receiving a lot of complaints, then Hotmail/Outlook will block your IP and domain. You can use to Outlook Smart Network Data Services to check your reputation https://postmaster.live.com/snds/index.aspx and then take the decision about what you should fix based on the report.

Also, below are some other tools to deal with delivery issues to Hotmail:

https://mail.live.com/mail/services.aspx and
https://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx

P.S. Most deliverability problems don’t start where many people think they do. The reality is, though, that list source is the root of deliverability success and deliverability problems. Where did those addresses come from and what do the people who gave them think you’re going to do with them?

So, the first step to diagnosing any delivery problem is to look at the list. All of the things ISP use to measure reputation measure how well you’re collecting addresses. Changing IPs or domains or content doesn’t change the reason mail is being filtered. It just means the filters have to figure out something new to key on.
XPS15 is not a good choice for developer. I went with a Precision 7510, which is more massive, but better in a lot of aspects.
I don't need an emulator :) I still think my buckling spring Unicomp (basically a Model M) is the best keyboard I've ever used since the IBM unit that came with my original PC:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/duncanbayne/12295182336
All laptops have that issue, I have it on Asus Zenbook and Lenovo Thinkpad (had it on Win8, also present on Win10).

Luckily, it's easy to disable all wake up events in Windows. But for average user this is a deal-breaker!
Cherry MX brown keyswitches are they usual recommendation for tactility + quietness, but the tactility is pretty subtle, no comparison to a Model M. I've heard several recommendations for Matias Quiet Click keyswitches [0] as having much more satisfying clickiness while being very quiet, but sadly haven't yet been able to try them yet.

Strictly those aren't exactly "keyboard" recommendations, but as well as selling keyboards Matias also sell the switches separately, so you can get a keyboard base to your preferences and solder keyswitches of your choice to it yourself, typically on a group-buy site like Massdrop. Eg I'm currently waiting for the Ergodox infinity drop[1] (split, non-staggered, open-source hardware and firmware, reprogrammable), but there are a bunch of more conventional keyboards available with a choice of keyswitches as well.

[0] http://matias.ca/switches/quiet/

[1] https://www.massdrop.com/buy/infinity-ergodox
You can do Cantor's diagonal for positive integers. It's still true but seems ugly to most people. Higher math is filled with just as many ugly as butiful ideas, but they are simply less talked about.

Infinity MOD X is undefined... How sublime.
This laptop model have sometimes problems with sleep/wake but your mileage may vary, widely. I had to return mine because it wouldn't wake from deep sleep on battery, sometimes even after trying a hard reset. No problem with the second unit I got.

I confirm there's sometimes a slight squeak when I press the left of the spacebar but it's hardly a dealbreaker.

So overall I'm very happy with it: gorgeous 4k screen, reasonably powerful dedicated GPU, firm keyboard with enough key travel.
I hear NixOS (linux distro based on functional principles) solves the package management problem for Haskell.

* https://ocharles.org.uk/blog/posts/2014-02-04-how-i-develop-...

* https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1vghgw/nixos_a_gnu...

* https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/nixos-jfp-final.pdf

* http://fuuzetsu.co.uk/blog/posts/2014-06-28-My-experience-wi...
I use a Das Keyboard, which I think is probably similar. I actually felt bad for a while and asked all of my coworkers if it was too loud and I should use a different keyboard. They all insisted that the noise doesn't bother them. Now I just type with abandon.

It's a lovely keyboard. It feels like silk under my fingers. Lovely, clicky, noisy silk. It was actually left in the company by a former employee, and I nabbed it at once.
The Chinese government issues 10-year multi entry visas for business and tourism.
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If it were there, you'd have to assume that Bob Zeidman would have found it. He's spent enough time looking. He therefore feels safe in offering $200,000 for it, which makes the whole thing look like more of a publicity stunt....
I really enjoy the original Apple Extended Keyboard II. I'll be honest that I haven't used an actual Model M, but it's got a wonderful feel and not so horribly loud that you'll disrupt the world.

Unfortunately I've found that I hit the key rollover limit while typing certain words. For the past year I've been using one of these: https://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=keyed_up_labs,te... — and while not perfect, I really do enjoy it.
Well, somewhat, if you mean an electric only compressor. Turbos actually increase efficiency because besides intake compression, they extract energy from the exhaust with the turbine.

Formula 1 cars have a mixture: there's an electric motor / generator in the turbo, so that the turbo can be spun up when there's not enough exhaust yet, but the engine needs a lot of air (when you start accelerating). Or the opposite: when there's excess exhaust energy that you don't need for intake charge anymore (when you've stopped accelerating), you can run the motor as generator providing electricity for batteries. Since the turbo rotation speed is so high and torque small, a relatively small motor-generator will suffice.
Not only are their keyboards great, their support is superlative too. I'd have bought more, only the unit I bought six years ago is still going strong :)
There are plenty of secure options to use for mailing.

Though having your mailserver under your own control is step 1 they skipped here. I tend to find it sad when (tech, and specially security/audit) parties don't (if they can't or don't want i don't care so much about) host their own mailserver and simply house it at google or similar party.

Actually while writing it, it should be slightly embarrassing for them, a security, auditing company they can't even tell what actually happened with their email communication.
Add to the Model M the acoustics of a typical open office plan found at most startups and its unbearable. Its not uncommon to have a startup in a concrete loft type space with a group of people who insist on using whatever the modern $200 hipster version of a "buckling spring" keyboard is. It's "cred" man.
Project is in development right now, only a few functions of it work properly. You can read features part of the project to see what has been done for now.
Gotta say i love the old KDE3 tarball organization.

Once you have Qt and some other dependencies in place you build it up layer by layer.

present day KDE seems to have taken a page from Gnome, and now is a sprawling mess of tarballs.

The closest i have come to KDE3 on the GTK side is XFCE.

Similarly, while i understand that breaking things down to multiple tarballs have made developer life easier over at Xorg, building it requires compiling a pile of small tarballs.
Unicomp does make keyboards in the same form factor as their model M clones, but with rubber domes instead of buckling springs, though they're considered silly. The brandname is 'QuietTouch' or something.
If people here are interested in Linux and are not convinced about the Dell XPS developer model, check out their precision models:

http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt...

I am using a previous generation model (Precision M3800) and am quite happy with it so far. I get ~4 hours of battery on Linux. This includes a lot of browsing, watching a few videos. I also have the ability to get a higher capacity battery (from 60Whr to 90Whr) in the future. It is also quite easy to take apart and upgrade any internals you want.
Had this happen on a HP. It drained the battery to the point it would no longer charge. And when I went to HP about this support said the battery was a consumable and not covered under warranty.
They actually aren't clones. IIRC, they took the original diagrams, plates, etc., from IBM, who wasn't using them.
Did you go to waterloo? I'm in the exact same boat =P.

I'm currently dual hatted as a system's engineer and software developer, so people are always inadvertently right when they ask me that question.
Note that you don't need keybase.io to sign your commits: https://help.github.com/articles/signing-commits-using-gpg/
I have an older model of a Das Keyboard:

http://www.daskeyboard.com/

It's lovely and noisy. The clicks augment the joy.
Most of the houses look like semidetached houses where one half has been demolished.
Well I have the previous generation "Precision" M3800 which is supposed to be the top of the range "serious" line from Dell, and I can vouch for that generation's coil whine too (It's fully loaded including the Nvidia quadro card). That said, I cannot find any fault with the build quality as per this review. Mine is rock solid, nothing squeaks, nothing feels loose. It's rock solid. So other than minor coil whine I am very happy with this (older) machine. The only issue is the perennial problem under Linux with graphics card switching (optimus), and also scaling is terrible under all window managers in Linux, and under Windows, with the built in 4k screen versus the external monitor. Nobody gets this right except Apple.
Yep. 28. Email me at [email address redacted].
Alas, I can't seem to build this. It doesn't find the OpenAL libraries in Ubuntu, even though I installed them:

/tmp/bucklespring/main.c:255: undefined reference to `alSourcePlay'

/tmp/bucklespring/main.c:256: undefined reference to `alGetError'

etc.
You can probably replace that --no-recursion option on tar, with '\! -type d' on find.
Chemists to get their own preprint server ChemRxiv like ArXiv for Physics and Math
We, the people of Eastern Europe, already know this geopolitical Satan intimately!
At a low level isn't this about how you deal with foreign functions? You have the same issues of typing, validation and conurrency that you do with something like ctypes in python.
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I'm glad people are doing reviews of laptops from developer perspectives.

It amazes me that it's 2016 and none of the windows based laptop makes have come out with anything that approaches the macbook pro. Microsoft seem closest with their surface book line, but that seems beset by driver issues, and Razer might have something with their Blade series, but that doesn't seem to be available in the UK 3 or 4 years on from launch. ASUS also seem close but again beset by a few odd build quality issues.

If I knew anything at all about this kind of thing i'd be tempted to do a kickstarter to fund the development of a quality developer laptop that was windows/*nix based that aped the macbook pro as much as possible.
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Right. It's a creation of the DoD [1]. The Fed just supplies the extra money for VC's and home loans.

[1] https://steveblank.com/secret-history/
Thoughts about a WebGL-Next
I used to work for a company that had a box full of Model M keyboards that people didn't want to use. I knicked one when I left, and unfortunately It's since died.

If you work for a company that bought any IBM servers in the last 20 years, there is a chance you'll find something similar (probably not actual model M's, but still damn good keyboards!) in the server room spares boxes.

Speak to your friendly SysAdmin and see if you can strike a deal :-)
>He found no evidence it was copied and reported his findings in a piece titled ‘Did Bill Gates Steal the Heart of DOS?‘.

More supporting evidence that any title that ends in a question mark can be safely summed up as 'No'.
I still can't understand the impetus behind open plan. It's abominable.
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That doesn't seem possible. A good part of the MM's ergonomics are the force feedback, and the physical click as the spring buckles. You really can't get anything like that without a click of some kind.

I've seen those quiet Cherry MX switches: they just go all the way down, no force feedback at all. Honestly, I'd say they're worse than dome keyboards.
Yep - I had exactly the same thing happen to me.

Hot summer's day, arrive at a customer meeting. My previously fully charged Dell laptop has been running since I was on the hot and stuffy underground whilst shoved in to its laptop bag. It's now a nuclear ball of fire, with just 15% battery left and how it didn't suffer a complete meltdown is a strong testament to the quality of the hardware.

This happened a bunch of times. Add to this random BSODs, keyboards that would break far too easily, the sheer weight of the thing and more inconveniences I'm surprised I stuck with it for as long as I did.

5 years ago I switched to Apple MacBooks and will never go back.
Try now! Looks like the fix for that was merged nine minutes ago :D
Those are good points but XPS are solid laptops that satisfy almost all of those requirements. It would be helpful if you could point out how XPS 15 are specifically lacking compared to other business laptops.
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I always read this as a feature, not a bug, of the constitution.
> Gmail was moderately innovative at the time

Say what now? Perhaps you do not remember that most free email providers had a 2 or 4 MB mailbox limit and you had to delete emails as soon as you read them. When I signed up, Google was offering a whooping 1 gigabyte of storage - an improvement of 3 orders of magnitude. Gmail allowed attachments of up to 25MB which only served to make Hotmail's 4MB mailbox look absurd.

Other email providers (free and paid) struggled with spam filtering (and still do). GMails spam filters are magic, as far as I'm concerned - I never get spam and I also don't even bother checking my spam folder for false positives.

These 2 innovations alone can't be "moderate" by any stretch of the imagination.
I have a 9530 model of the XPS 15 from late 2013. It's the model immediately previous to this one (I think). It also has the coil whine problem, but only when the charger is plugged in and the battery is at 100%. It also developed a small screen glitch after about a year - but I can't rule out damage by myself or someone in my house as it was stepped on, but full weight wasn't put on it.

The touchpad/clickpad/whatever drivers have been a challenge since day one. I've learned how to customize the Windows registry settings to make it mostly cooperate with what I want and they were mostly fixed by the time Windows 10 was released.

I've actually thought the device itself has been a pretty good performer, battery life is not awful but not great, and mechanically it's pretty durable. The screen is pretty amazing (I have the first slightly less than 4k IGZO panel which I run at 1920x1080).

My biggest complaint is the lack of dedicated home/end/pgup/pgdn keys. But this is a problem on pretty much every laptop made with chicklet style keyboard and it is SO STUPID.

I was considering the new XPS 15 since mine is now three years old and I have the screen glitch, but the fact that they haven't fixed the coil whine problem shows me they just don't care. (That said I've read that not everyone reports this problem.)

I've generally had good luck with the Dell Latitudes though screen quality can be a big variable from model to model and year to year. I've also looked hard at their Precision line from time to time.

I do nearly all my programming on a desktop with a real keyboard. My biggest gripe using a laptop for programming is the lack of the home/end/pgup/pgdn keys and numpad on most models.
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I don't know if I'm supposed to interpret your user name as denoting a troll account, but you're entirely too cynical. For the early years, I think that's a good explanation for the demand for pre-K. To say that's the whole system is absurd.
Another serious question. I used to love my Model M but switched to a cheap Fujitsu split keyboard. Anyone have a view on which is the best Model M-alike with a split format?

I have my own office so I don't care how loud it is.
Sounds like zerovm? http://www.zerovm.org/
They didn't want to use Model M's?

Are they programmers? If they are, check for face masks or holoprojectors: they may be dangerous aliens.

Or maybe they're just really strange.