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You can't accurately price a Lenovo machine unless you are using epp coupons:
http://shoplenovo.i2.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/ibmeppfrie...

I got the same X1, but with base 3 year warranty and no upgrade on HDD for $1,449.27 CAD, and you can easily put in a 120gb Vertex 3 for an extra $260.

At least here in Canada we've got RedFlagDeals.com that always has an ongoing discount thread for lenovo, and sometimes you can get way better discounts than above.
> To me, the main limitation of the MBA is that it can only have 4 Gigs of memory. If it wasn't for that, it would be the perfect laptop. Relatively inexpensive even, as the article points out.

Couldn't resist pointing out that I have a 4GB MBA, and I have yet to encounter any memory issues whatsoever. I have run some hefty software on there - e.g. photoshop + iWork + Pages all at once. Granted, it's not the same as VMs, but it seems that the ultra-fast SSD makes swapping a non-issue. Maybe someone who does run VMs on an MBA can chime in?
> You occasionally drop a few hundred lines of code on github and then think you are a contributor to Free Software?

Yes I do. Github being is so successful these days is proof that FOSS matters. FOSS is not only about kernels, compilers and emacs. Those things were just the start.

Being able to use a fully open stack from the bootloader to the javascript library and be as productive as with closed platforms means a lot, and it owes not only to FSF's activism, but also to the software community.

Rails wasn't born out of the desire of spreading ~free software~ ideals. It was born out of the desire of changing the world of web development. And why is it open source, then? Because it was the best option, and still is. A community was born around it and the results are as good (or better) than anything a company could make just by hiring.

Today, with things like GitHub, the barriers to free software are pretty much gone. Everyone can contribute. This is infinitely better than Stallman's 'cathedral'. I can not only look at, thinker and modify somebody else's code: I can effectively give back to the creators in a matter of seconds, and then, suddenly, I become one of the creators myself.

Seriously, your post full of fallacies.

Everyone is free to criticize Stallman on this point. Don't try to invalidate their criticism just because they haven't written a GCC or an Emacs.

So, yes, I am part of free software, but I don't want anything to do with FSF or Stallman. I want to win this open vs closed fight by fighting with my code. Not by pissing on someone's grave.
I think the streak refers to the number of consecutively successful films and not the dollar amount. Apple has released many successful iPods, iPads, Macs, and other products but there have been relative flops such as the Apple TV and the iPod Hi-Fi.
So many different answers. We really don't know much about how our brain really encodes the data and we are so far away from actually reproducing it. Scary when you think all of us have a copy of this memory structure.
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This is fantastic. Many thanks for sharing.
i get the following error in system.log:

com.apple.kextd[10]: Can't load /Applications/Private Eye.app/Contents/Resources/Private Eye.kext - no code for running kernel's architecture.

my MBP is from 2006 so my kernel is still 32-bit
I agree with forking the FSF, but not just having someone whose nice is necessary. It needs to be led by someone who gives a damn about user experience. This is an issue with not all open source applications, but many. It is getting better, but I still prefer Windows or OS X to using Gnome, KDE. I've never needed to use any of the bundled software with Ubuntu (except the settings apps, gedit, and Firefox). It can't just be about open-source alternatives, because most people don't care if something is open or closed source, they care if it gets the job done well.
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I have been working on a hackintoshed Dell for the last year or so. Initially, I tried to work with Windows 7. It really is not bad at all, but my brain seems to be hardwired to use a Unix command line (and Vim) at this point, so after a while, I had enough and sought refuge in Linux-land. It didn't last long though. After fiddling with the Nvidia drivers for a while to get a multi-monitor setup working, I decided that I could just as well invest that time in getting it hackintoshed. Amazingly, that worked flawlessly (nearly: network and sound didn't work. A USB-ethernet adapter and a USB sound card did the trick, though). Then came Lion and that broke my App Store on the hackintosh. So it's back to a genuine Mac for me.

It nearly worked, though. I wish you the best of luck.
For other python web developers, what front end test tools do you other than selenium? Anything better out there?
To me too, OS X is very important. The way it works and everything else that is not objective and deals with "taste". On the objective side of things, I like the ability to be in *nix environment, run proprietary software (such as Adobe CS, a reasonable Skype, iTunes, MS Office or iWork - I definitely don't like OOo or forks, etc.) amongst other things. On the middle ground of objective and subjective, I like the fact that my OS doesn't keep slowing down with time - this can be measured but I'm not aware if someone has.
Ubuntu runs great inside VMWare Fusion on my MBP, so that's always an option if a bare install or dual boot is giving problems. (Still wish there was an Air with 8GB. Hmm, could one make a RAM peripheral that attached through Thunderbolt, to serve as a big 'outboard virtual memory', even faster than a usual SATA SSD?)
I suspect OP (both here and at Reddit) would be interested in pointers to some providers who share PayPal's low cost of entry with hopefully much better service. I know I would be :-)
The problem seems to be about kernel architecture compatibility. I'm going through the build settings etc to see if there's some reason this happens. I'll keep this thread updated.
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Run a Windows VM with Visual Studio. That will need at least 1.5 Gigs. Then run some heavy stuff on OSX too and it will become slow. If you have an SSD, it won't become unbearably slow, but clearly straining.

Which is to say, 4 Gigs are fine for a VM every now and then, but not for everyday use. At least not for me.
1. My opinion, but it seem unfair to dismiss the glossy screen for outdoors without actually having used it. I'm writing this on a MBA right now and I regularly use it outdoors without any problem, as do most of my coworkers.

2. If he's going to claim the battery life is better with extended battery, he needs to add it into his estimated weight as wel (which I don't believe he has.) Seems like at that point the X1 would be close to twice as heavy as the MBA, at least 1.5x.
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All I got from this is that Lenovo has laptop called X1 which is supposed to be like a Macbook Air and costs about the same. Looking at it on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69V1XkZ-FeQ

It's still that crappy plastic PC feel with the stickers on it.
Sorry - I meant 'thought' and not 'though'
Because people want to tear apart the fact that, essentially, Anonymous writes code. They can't leave it alone.
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Ooh, no, I beg to differ. Reality is quite different. Lenovos are near perfect Linux machines - everything including power management, various buttons, suspend/resume etc. works great.

MBA is far from ideal Linux machine - Apple's EFI implementation is well known to be crappy to the point Linux kernel developer mjg59 routinely blogs about it. Power management sucks - for example - it runs hotter, battery dies in 2-3 hours tops. On my X220 I can get 6+ hours and it never gets hot.

[EDIT]: Check this out http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1810275 for the pain involved. In comparison my X220 had one minor issue that occurs under heavy load but can be easily fixed.
This looks rather cool, and I’d be willing to outsource the guts of my bog to Google+, leaving me with just the UI. But it looks to me like there’s still no way to post to Google+ via the API, which makes this a non-starter for me.
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I thought it interesting that the author didn't mention the 50% increase in clock speed in his "only buy the X1 if..." section. If you need clock speed, then the X1 has much more to offer in that arena.
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The only contender seems to be (as it's linked in the reddit thread) http://www.stripe.com.
Agreed: The best thing about OSX is that it combines a great graphical interface and support for commercial software with a Unix command line.

You can achieve something similar with Windows 7 and a Linux VM and some file system mirroring tool (VMWare sharing or Dropbox or something). But nothing beats OSX for slickness.
I know everyone is doing a comparison of checklist specs but to me things like design of the body, it's durability, touchpad area, etc. along with OSX which supports gestures on that touchpad and other things that make my computer usage considerably pleasurable, etc.

Edit: On a side note; good thing that the MBA is coming out competitively priced here but even if it was a bit costlier than it's competition, I wouldn't mind paying that little extra for making me not pull my hair out using my computer.
The biggest advantage of choosing a Mac over a PC is that it's the only machine on which you can develop apps for all the important platforms.
Check out Sikuli, it does pattern matching on images with a bit of OCR thrown in. It has its own quirks and isn't nearly as mature as Selenium but is neat because it doesn't care at all about the underlying layout of a page.

http://sikuli.org/
It's worth noting that the brain changes as we learn - for e.g. when we learn maths the brain's structure is altered in discernable ways:

http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2011/june/math.html

So quite possibly the data storage used by a person with one particular upbrining/education would differ from a person with a different one.

In addition, different parts of the brain are likely storing data in different ways.
Just curious: Have you actually developed an app for that platform?

Did you submit it to the review process?

Was it approved or rejected?
Yes, it's not about the how, it's about the why. Here is a bit of more perspective: http://method.ac/blog/design/programmers-designers.html
I know they say a MBA can only have 4GB of ram but that isn't necessarily true.

I had a Macbook (White) from Fall 2010 that claimed could only have 4GB of ram but was able to install 8GB successfully.
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WePay has a dead simple to use stores product and we just released a new API (with iframe checkouts - https://stage.wepay.com/developer ). Our goal is to be the 'anti-paypal' by providing over the top support, and making it really easy to get integrated.
> A value was placed on wellness much like a value will eventually be placed on education.

Then how are obesity rates at all times highs?
To many people (myself included), any current generation processor will do. Processors are not the bottlenecks any more for most applications.
This is mainly caused by the false intuition that

@foo ||= bar

actually expands to

@foo = @foo || bar

which, to many a surprise, is not the case.

Hardly a "false intuition", since that is how this syntax works in other languages, e.g., perl[1].

[1] http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/perl/prog3/ch03_17.htm
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Why are we even having this discussion? It is just a bunch of companies who want a subsidy because.. well because they want a subsidy.

The best way to end it is to slap them with a higher tax until they shut up.

But that would require both balls and common sense.
So, which one is the crappy laptop? The Lenovo, or the Macbook?
But... But... you ARE satoshi... unless you are claiming that case matters here... :-)
Even at a base level.

128 gb SSD. Core i5 ULV. and 13 inch screen outperforms an
X1 and X220 primarily in terms of usability and is within 100 dollar price range. X220 has fantastic battery but is not ultraportable...
I'm often surprised that the value of OSX and its built in conveniences is not factored into a comparison. Preview, built in file extraction, TimeMachine (which does not really have any comparable alternative on windows IMO), Calendar, Mail etc.

Some of these apps are built into windows (but not with the same modern feature set) and most are available for free, but OSX seems to have hit a good selection of apps that you can use out of the box.

Edit: Also that I upgraded/time machined from my 2008 white MacBook to my current generation MBP on Lion without loosing any performance, apps or data was a remarkable time saver.
I have worked for ISPs where people who are making decisions about "bandwidth" _do not understand_ the difference between "bits" and "bits per second."

These decision-makers would say that "Our costs for providing backhaul / transport / whatever is going up - no matter how much we upgrade, its capacity is exhausted either immediately or very quickly. We have to recover that cost somehow, or we won't be able to continue providing any service."

However, they don't understand that their equipment and transport are constrained at the level of "bits per second at peak" and not "sum of bytes transferred during a billing period." So, they end up making bad decisions about "charging $x per GB after y GB transferred per month."
Don't listen to advice.
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Somewhat infuriatingly, my simple IR->"Intermediate Representation" was my highest ever scoring comment, and the one that pushed me over 500...

Lesson learned : Make something people want.
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Sure, think you're on the dot. Here are other plausible ways of looking at it:

http://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Markets-ebook...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevenient_grace
I believe the SSD on the MBA is technically user replaceable, but it's a weird proprietary format (which some enterprising manufacturer may have cloned, not sure). Sadly the RAM is soldered; the 4GB cap is the blocking issue for me on considering one (thank you, Eclipse).
In the last 20 years or so Steve Jobs often deflected praise from himself to the teams who worked on products. I have never seen him take any personal credit for any product he has introduced or discussed and always uses terms like "we", e.g. "I'm really excited to show you what we made."

Without excusing his behaviour I'd like to remind people here that perhaps we have all acted selfishly or done things we are not proud of when we were younger (high school or college aged).
I don't think it was anywhere near offensive, but once people start loudly complaining about how offended they are, the conversation inevitably focuses on their feelings instead of our freedoms.

In the end, they will win. Either RMS will tone down to focus on the "real" stuff, or he won't, and his influence will wane in favor of more widely-acceptable voices. In this as in many other parts of life, watered-down moderates will be the only ones able to maintain relevance, and uncompromising advocates will be marginalized.

It's just how humans are.
It seems unlikely that we're going to hit the target of having Chapter 1 done a week from today, especially for anyone who wants to do all the exercises. Time to recalibrate?

Ass-kicking makes sense only if there are slack resources that haven't been allocated to this, but could be. Is that your case? What do you think would make a difference?

One idea that occurred to me is a buddy system wherein two people would agree to nag each other and perhaps review answers to exercises, or at least confirm that they were done. Another is to leverage public commitment somehow. If I promise to do something, and don't do it, I feel bad.

Let's not forget the power of the forces we're up against. :)
This page has the 'Google Groups disease' that's rapidly spreading across Google's services. If you are completely logged-out of Google, you can access it. But let's say you have a login elsewhere with Google - perhaps even one still good enough to retain your search prefs, and offer instant access to other services requiring login. Still, visiting certain other pages, like this one and before it Google Groups 'public' archives, triggers a request to login. Annoying and kind of creepy/bossy: "either reconfirm who you are on demand, even when visiting 'public' pages, or you have to log out of all our services".
If clock speed is a primary concern, you probably don't want an ultraportable. It's one of the tradeoffs with having a smaller, more portable machine. Sure, some will do better or worse, but if you NEED the extra processing power, there are better alternatives. For ultraportables, a good-enough processor is usually good-enough.
What's the difference between X1 and X220, again?

I really wish Lenovo would get its act together with its product lines, because it's nearly the only company besides Apple that makes hardware I can love, but it really takes time to unpack the logic behind its product lines. The other company is Sony and it has similar problems.
My point was that there isn't any indication from this report that the drones were purposefully infected. Random infections are probably inevitable due to probabilities, but deliberate ones seem quite a bit harder.
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Maybe Reinhold Messner, Neil Armstrong and someone that invents the next widely used cryptocurrency.
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Here in Aus we have always had caps. They've done nothing but increase over the years. My SOHO plan with a quality ISP is $80 for 150GB, for comparison, but you can get cheap no-frills residential for $40 for the same quota. I doubt the caps where you are will come down much, if at all.

Last year my quota was 60GB, 1-2 years before that it was 25, so on and so forth.
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You are right, that is quite an omission on my part. Just note that the higher clock speed isn't a priority in _my_ books and brings lower battery life which _is_ a priority for me.
I've heard it recommended to flip the piece 180 degrees and look at it that way. I expect great type designers don't do that, but it's given a bit of insight to me a couple of times.
Isn't curiousity enough?

When people like a creation, people also want to know about its creator(s). See also: Steve Jobs.
US-centric? They're both US companies.
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I'm a bit surprised that the Asus U36SD isn't in the comparison too; it's slightly lighter than the X1, although not quite as thin, has a better battery life with the integrated battery (and identical with the slice battery), the highest configuration has the same processor as the X1 (though I haven't found anywhere that actually sells that configuration), and a much better GPU.

The low-end configuration of the U36SD is about $400 cheaper than the low-end X1 or 13-inch Macbook Air, too, as well as having a better processor than both, although this comparison focuses on the high-end, so that's not too relevant.
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On a semi-unrelated note, that blog design is beautiful!
Let's talk in detail about 1.2 and hold off on 1.3 until tptacek confirms. Re 1.2.10, I think that's right. Because the x-coords grow by the same amount as you go from one point to the next, the y-coords must as well, giving y3-y2 = y2-y1.
That is file loading as in loading ruby source files. A problem aggravated by rails being refactored to be actually readable, but many more files.
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Resources: For myself, Hacker News and Mixergy podcasts have been hugely influential. I can't believe how long it took me to find these resources.

Lesson: Market matters more than product. Even if something seems like a cool product it doesn't mean that the market is there. I've launched products in the language learning space and the pregnancy/baby space. The pregnancy/baby market is much, much bigger and thus it's easier to be successful.
Ok, cue everyone with any background in crypto or P2P disclaiming they are Satoshi.

"I am not Spartacus."
For what it's worth, I do use an MBA (3,2) and I sometimes have problems with the glare screen indoors (have to move it around to diminish sunlight reflection).

Of course batteries add to the weight, I just mentioned it because sometimes you just need those extra hours, just like some people specifically need 8GB of RAM.
To sign up for paypal you must supply an email address (actually somebody else will have to).

But what if some other service required you to provide a copy of a goverment issued id as well as the address associated with that id?
Report of Hongkong-based NGO SACOM about working conditions at the world’s leading electronics manufacturer, 2011-09-24:

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Entirely agree. Jobs was most impressive in that he was capable of translating cutting edge technology into a language that the average person could understand and appreciate. This is the greatest asset one can bring to the technology world- it is all too easy to get lost in the hype of the best new processors, the latest graphics technology, etc and forget that all of this is meaningless if society can't understand how to use it.
Strictly from an utilitarian perspective RMS should keep his big fat mouth shut when someone -especially somebody as popular as Jobs - dies.
Sharing isn't supported on a chromebook. Typing this while I control the other laptop.

Looks solid but I fear that this attitude (let's add features) is bloating chrome which will destroy my favorite browser
The best part of GA buying Mixpanel is that maybe GA could loose the flash based graphs.
Thanks for noticing, I fixed this now. I wanted to include the X220 in this comparison but then decided to leave it out.
> Any decent CS course covers garbage collectors.

In the required core? I'm not so sure that's true. The concept of garbage collection, yes. But garbage collection algorithms would usually be presented in courses like PL or maybe compilers, that are often in the "take 2 of 5" list or maybe even in pure electives. (This is true of a lot of "important" CS "core" algorithms and concepts---every CS department includes them in offered courses but the requirements are usually structured so that not all CS majors will be required to take them.)
The downloadable package is now updated, and it should support 32 and 64 bit kernels. Please let me know if there are any more problems. Thanks for everyone's patience!

* Edit: I also emailed everyone who had contacted me about this.
> Activists raise consciouness of an issue, and he seems to be doing that quite fine

Are you sure? Afaik, he's only reaching us, insiders. If you want to convince a non-nerd about using free software, would you dare using material that RMS produced? Would you show them a recording of him speaking?

> Also, minor differences he's capable of - he's apparently given up on the hurd kernel due to the linux kernel being top dog, despite not fully approving of it.

That's super fucking nobody-cares-about-that-shit minor. Really. Which kernel you use is not what free software is about.