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Users are human and such generalization is what we "lusers" slip into when we're so radically disturbed by something.

The post is a rant alright, but I'm pissed just the same that Apple's maps doesn't recognize "The Music Academy" in Chennai. It knows my local street, shows a hospital nearby on the map (with correct name) and yet when I put in the name of the hospital in the box to find directions, it can't find the location! The search results are total crap and unaware of the location from which I'm searching (though I've already told it that [edit: I'm in India and it gives autocompletion results to destinations in Austria ... by walk!).

I could go on .. but then again, this will be a rant as well. Here is a "constructive" comment to Apple - put in a new maps app and refine it over time alright, but let us keep the Google maps app alongside. Is that too much to ask?
One of my colleagues who is a foam at mouth rabid Apple supporter said he is switching to Android because of this. He lives in San Francisco and uses the public transit stuff extensively and now is screwed.
French entrepreneurs talking about failure? Yes, please
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1). Depends on ACPI support

2). Depends on the hardware, but surprisingly yes. Even the free Nouveau drivers do pretty decent 3d support.

3). Yep, configure it to suspend on closing the lid.

4). Depends on the wm you want.

5). Usually yes.

6). Pretty good, in fact you can enable the two finger scroll pretty easily.

7). More configurable.

If you are considering a switch, I'd recommend installing Fedora or Ubuntu, they usually have pretty amazing defaults. However, if you are considering this using a Macbook/Mac, be prepared for a lot more effort.
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For me it was a combination of things. For one, I use emacs and a Norwegian keyboard layout, and Apple handily ensures that '\' is only possible to type using both shift, option and 7. Now, since I'm an emacs user, typing meta+\ should mean command+option+shift+7. As if that wasn't bad enough, I never found a way to configure neither Terminal.app nor iTerm2 or whatever it's called such that I could get both option functionality and a meta key (perhaps this has been fixed later? been a couple years), so when ssh-ing I had to use esc, then option+shift+7.

Combine this with how difficult it is to get a real dev environment set up, on debian-based systems you just apt-get install build-essential etc., similarly on Arch Linux, whereas on a Mac it was installing that whole XCode from a CD which included a bunch of stuff I never needed, then waiting for hours for macports to compile gcc etc. (I never understood why macports didn't go with precompiled binaries, mac's are so uniform compared to linuxes it should be _easier_, shouldn't it?). And then waiting for hours every time gcc etc. got an update, thinking "I thought I did this already, what is this, gentoo?" And the annoyance of having to install GNU sed and ensure it was before OS X sed in PATH because OS X sed was horribly slow on certain regexes (I think they had a \1 in them, can't remember), it felt so … inelegant.

And most of the projects I use and like working on just seemed to have better Linux support; of course I could rant about how OS X is a POSIX too and they should support it just as well as Linux, but, well, I chose convenience. For the sake of my fingers and my patience.
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Please don't believe this piece of useless blog spam. All of its advice should be taken with a large helping of salt.

1. If your team pays more attention to your presence than the work they are doing, there is a problem. You need to be able to get people's attention, but they shouldn't pay attention to whether you are in their peripheral vision.

2. There is a short path from worrying about whether you are "in the loop" to micromanaging. A micromanager may feel that they are doing lots of stuff and contributing value (because hey, that effort has to be worth something) but they are wrong.

3. A manager who is more concerned with the presentation of employees than what they are actually doing has the wrong priorities. At least if you're managing people in IT.
To me, this list comes off as "Signs Your Employees Do Not Consider You the Alpha Male".

Some of the best managers I've seen "fail" at at least one of these.

#1 - People don't immediately drop their work to brown-nose you? Good.

#2 - People know their stuff well enough to work autonomously? Good

#3 - Your rules are considered unnecessary/counterproductive and are ignored? Discuss the necessity of the rules with your employees instead of banging your chest and hooting at them.
I've never used Barman and would love to hear more from people who have used it.

I've used WAL-E[1] in production for almost a year now. It was painless to setup and configure and has been working flawlessly for the entire time. I've had to do database recoveries, point-in-time recoveries, and database upgrades, and WAL-E has worked through all of them.

[1]: https://github.com/heroku/WAL-E
Obviously it wouldn't be an internet, only an iranet.
"I spend 70% of my time in a terminal, and 30% of my time in a web browser"

One didn't have to wait till 2012 to be able to do that.
Actually - no offense - I'm looking for specific info on the drivers on this system than a generic response. I've heard far too often 'depends on driver/acpi support' to go down that road again :)

Which specific system are you basing your answers on? Can you be more specific on (6) - how many points does the multitouch support?
Look at the new Lenovo Carbon X1 - from what I've heard it pretty much ticks all of those boxes.
agreed. the guy barely even mentions why he decided to move to linux, just that he did. or do people just like the sentiment?
Thanks for pointing that out. I really dislike that they got rid of user thumbnails, makes the GitHub experience feel less social.
I think you are right on point. It is because of credits.
I understand the sentiment, I am unable to traverse your distance.

Firstly - I'm not sure if this is part of the topic at hand.
Secondly a good response is going to be pretty detailed, since you've touched on a huge topic.

Technology has moved faster than legislation. Which is fine and expected. The technology brings up intricate questions which take time to answer, let alone decide on what/how/if something is to be legislated.

Thats the part which is relevant to the original discussion. Technology may leap ahead, it doesn't mean that legal understanding wont catch up and be good at it drawing the line.

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A more detailed response on your assertion that Zynga is a 21st century drug dealer. While I think social games do raise some important and concerning issues, I think the responses will fall short of the distance you travel.

Zynga's games, and a large group of social games for example; are cute skinner boxes. I don't see how legislating against that aspect will be viable.

At most I can see rules laid down to ensure that the slot machine/random aspect of it, has some clear cut pay out schemes that must be enforced.

Nor do I see how I can make a case where ".. are designed to turn people into clicking-addicted machines." Its a skinner box. People have an ancient immunity to things like this, namely boredom.

Over time, people get bored and drift away. Witness the share price of Zynga and dropping engagement rates.

I've also played with, and worked alongside a lot of those psychologically vulnerable members of society - they've all pretty much gone on to kick the 'habit' or manage it like entertainment.

I've also been looking at data or articles that come out on internet addiction and gaming addiction; most people can barely agree that this is a condition. Only a few people are categorized as being victims, compared to the large number of people who play video games or use the net.
Wow. That's a bit frightening. I too have been struggling on the job front, but have a less impressive background. Admittedly a huge chunk of my problem is having purchased an expensive program purporting to teach me how to get rich and find my dream job. If I didn't have a four-figure debt due to that (and another few hundred bucks due each month), I'd have a lot less stress.

One thing that I have found is that while it's a tough job market for fulltime work, companies are a lot less conservative about hiring people on a freelance basis. Non-tech companies have been an especially bet for me. Many restaurants, bars, independent realtors, are making money and haven't updated their sites in a long time. It's been a very slow process but I have gradually been getting better and better referrals from it. When I bid, I generally take 20-40% up front. For someone in your situation, that could make a big difference.
Gettig my sister to make one ASAP
I certainly understanding wanting to have control over what you want private. But stars and forks are the main things I use to evaluate a project I'm unfamiliar with. If a project has 1000 stars and 100 forks I know it's pretty solid. If those metrics were disabled by default Github loses a lot of value, since the majority of users would stick with the defaults.
you're looking at about two and a half hours to run through the entire keyspace

That's a little faster than howsecureismypassword.net's estimate (154 octillion years on a desktop PC to crack "correct horse battery staple" (without quotes)).
I upvoted this article, not because I think it's good, actually I disagree with everything in it. I upvoted it because I wanted to hear what the HN community had to say about it.
Reminds me of http://mongout.com/
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Sophos tell me that this site is blocked because of Troj/Unif-B.
Did it happen to anyone else ?
Great work. Like it. I can see myself using this on slow days. Did you post this to reddit?

btw,

> FlipMeme let's you browse images posted on Imgur & Reddit

Should be "Lets", no apostrophe. Being a reddit oriented site, gotta take more care. Else the grammar nazis gonna get y'all.
Hmm, I don't think the app store is "for" app makers at all. It's for end users exclusively - the paying customers. That app makers are required to keep a fully stocked app store is an implementation detail.
Call me Gangnam, maybe
Reminds of the lol turtle FB Open Graph meme viewer phenomenon...if you'd really like some virality, I'd highly recommend OG.
Snagit is worth a look: http://www.techsmith.com/snagit-mac-features.html

It doesn't support Dropbox and it's not quite as good on the whole as Skitch was, but it's the closest thing I've found (and it does video capture too).

If you don't need the annotation tools and just want to get a screenshot online fast, Droplr is the best I've found: https://droplr.com/hello
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Anything Lenovo usually does. I've got a T61 and an X220 tablet here which everything in Ubuntu 12.04 works fine.

The only problem I've had was connecting to an SSTP VPN but that was resolved easily with an ssh tunnel.
One more thing about bad managers is their ability to take decisions. Most bad managers I know just can't take decisions and own things. They either ask their sub ordinates to take the risk of a decision or try to toss decision making stuff to a layer above them. The modus operandi is something like this. They would like to be a part of success, but not failures.

In general most managers just aggregate or distribute information. Or just toss around a schedule for which they generally will have no justification.

In many companies managers are part HR. Much of their time goes is performance evaluation, ratings, hiring etc. That included, it gives them complete space to run their own gangs.

But if you are looking for value building, wealth creating, directing teams, taking tough decisions and working to make things happen. Such managers are rare enough to be exceptions to prove the original rule.
How do you know that? Apple and Google had an agreement which expired this year. Any side can be responsible.
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I am about to launch my new startup and I am having a bit of trouble finding a dead simple way to automatically send out my beta .apk to anyone who submits their email on my site.

I have had limited success with Mail Chimp, I can get it to autorespond, but I cant edit any of the message.

The ideal solution would be a text only reply saying thanks for trying us out with a link to the .apk

Any thoughts?
Wow, that's a nice site... works on mobile too, thanks for pointing it out. I still have much to learn it seems.
So, specifically:

1. 4 hours depending on workload(sort of an air form factor with a core-i7).

2. Yes, all supported, and still using my apple magic mouse. Used Skype, Vidyo, and Google Hangouts.

3. Can't say for sure, no reboots so far, wakes just fine.

4. Using an external monitor at work with my apple display port -> dvi adapter, so pretty much worked no problem. I was worried about the display being lower res than an air, but it hasn't been a real issue.

5. Yes, work fine.

6. The trackpad is ok. functional, but more temperamental than the mac pro.

7. I like the keyboard better, but I've never liked the mac keyboards.
I didn't mean spam, as in by bots, per se. What I've meant is, explain why "if you like this, you will love that" - are they similar, talk about the same things, etc... Some context. Otherwise I just have to rely on your word, your subjective opinion, and no arguments. I don't know if what you're saying is true, unless I actually click the link.

Btw, I wasn't commenting on MMM, just on the content of your post. I find MMM quite interesting too (thou I can't really learn much from it).
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I didn't really get the glue part, but the,results of this study point to some really interesting conclusions that,could be huge for copy in the future.
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If I were Google and my main stream of income was ads, I would not give a shit about platforms and release map apps with ads for any relevant platform.

Not like Google makes significant money off of Android itself.

But, the more apps and platforms switch off it, less eyeballs will see your ads. A bunch of apps switched to OpenMaps already, right? The whole GMaps API bruhaha already forgotten?

But this doesn't fit into that nerd-rage fueled platform war narrative, so disregard. First OS to include a neckbeard trimmer wins.
The console and pc video game industry makes plenty of money just by charging for their software. I think App developers need to stop this race to the bottom thats killing everyone. I guess its fueled by this idea that on the internet the number of users is paramount to everything. Which I think is a silicon valley culture thing that seems like its going to cause or has caused a bubble.
Thanks man :D! It's definitely not ready for prime time, I still need to fix a bunch of small details and fill the database with more image links. One more week and I'll let my baby out in the wild.

Thanks for catching that typo BTW.
I dont see much incentive for Google to release an app right away. The people who are going to install a native app from the app store will use the web version anyway. And Google can still get to serve location based ads on the browser for places.

I wouldn't be surprised if they just improve the web version some more and call it a day. If you want good Maps, they might want to make you switch to Android.
Never seen any of these.
I've got Xubuntu on an X220.

1. About 5 hrs of web browsing (though I've gotten more once I was on a cabin w/o electricity and turned off wifi etc, there's a nice hardware switch to turn off all radio on the X220). About a year ago, there was this famous Linux Power Regression, where you had to append some stuff to your grub command line and worry about crashes. I tried it, and never got the crashes, and then they fixed the regression and I now run it unmodified with the same power usage.
EDIT: there's several battery sizes, I think mine is the "medium" one, it sticks out a bit in the back …

2. Bluetooth: Tried it once, seemed OK. 3D: I don't really play games, but it seems to work w/o problems. Graphics just … work? Sleep/wake works just fine. No trouble with wifi. Webcam seems to work, but I've never tried video chat. I actually haven't tried the internal mike, maybe I should some day …

3. Yes.

4. Never tried. What's display rotate? It is unfortunately only 1366x768, yes. I tend to have one window on the left half and one on the right (got some keyboard shortcuts that do this for me even though I just run xfce).

5. Yes (isn't this handled by the hardware?)

6. Hehe … the trackpad is a bit weird: the buttons are on top. Takes a while getting used to. But it has the famous red Lenovo ball in the middle of the keyboard, which is nice for typists. And it has three mouse buttons! Scrolling works fine btw.

7. Infinitely better. You will never want to go back. If you really need OS X, buy a Lenovo and install it in Virtualbox, the keyboard is that good.

Annoyances: it doesn't look as good, and on lending the computer to other people, they often take a while before understanding the trackpad buttons.
Agreed - But is it feasible to put this into our own server and link in from say the readme (is there anything user generated on profile (on iPhone now))

it's not a great solution but hack away till Preston-Warner gets the feedback I say - if there is a readme on profile I might try it
I think your ad was a win, simply because you're learning by doing. This is very valuable.
> 1. What's the battery life like?

Very typical to get 6-7hrs. If I turn down brightness and don't use power hungry apps (Chrome, Firefox), 7-9hrs.

> 2. Are all devices supported with drivers - Bluetooth, 3D, graphics, sleep/wake, 802.11n, webcam, internal mike, ...

Everything works out of the box. I haven't had to tweak a thing. I don't game at all, though, so I can't speak to the 3D in games.

> 3. Does it do instant sleep/wake like a Mac - 100s of times without crashing/rebooting?

Yes. I had some crashes in wake just before 12.04 went final, but nothing since. Hibernate works as well, you just need to turn it on.

> 4. How does it handle external displays? Plug and play like a Mac? Does it handle display rotate? The internal display is only 1366x768 ?

Seamlessly. I haven't rotated the display, but I've heard it works.

> 5. Does it detect a headphone and switch from speaker to headphone automatically (speaker driver?)

Yes.

> 6. How's the trackpad compare to a Macbook Pro?

I prefer the nub, however, the macbook pro trackpad is still the best I've seen. I don't think this one compares, but it isn't bad, just not great like the MBP.

> 7. How's the keyboard compare to a Macbook Pro?

100 thousand million times better. I've never liked the MBP/MBA keyboards since they went chicklet style. I don't hate them, I just don't like them. The Lenovo/IBM keyboards are, quite simply, the best out there. I even bought an external Lenovo keyboard to use at my desktop I like it that much.

> Asking because I moved from Linux->OSX a long time ago, and I wouldn't mind switching back if the hardware is right and more importantly the Linux drivers work well.

The reason I bought a Lenovo x220, tbh, is because I had a friend tell me that they were at UDS in Oakland and the Ubuntu kernel team all had them. When you think about that, makes me feel pretty confident things will work correctly.
for my x220:

1. Fine. 9-10 hours with a 2 year old 9 cell battery. I run powertop and don't use unity though which is a power hog.

2. Everything works flawlessly

3. Yes but you have to enable it as Ubuntu turn hibernate off by default.

4. External display works fine. Never tried rotation.

5. Yes.

6. I don't use it. I use the nipple mouse. all trackpads make my fingers hurt as I have skin sensitivity issues.

7. Several orders or magnitude better than a MacBook. Keyboard is amazing.
In case anyone else is wondering, ISyE == Industrial and Systems Engineering.
"I used to really like Linux, and I can prove it. But I'm not willing to compromise on getting stuff done, and I can prove it. But now I can use Linux without compromising, and I can prove it."

Except he actually gives the proof.

Although anecdotal, that information is useful if you care about the state of the Linux desktop for any of a variety of reasons.

Though the real reason it's getting upvoted, I think, is: he has fabulous style. The post reads like a narrative, and he doesn't digress. And he has really clever subtitles and a great title.
You kind of just said "no you're wrong, its not for developers" and didn't really follow that up with any sort of supporting evidence, which is usually how these kind of exchanges go. If Apple designed the app store for the end user and 0% for the app makers than we would simply see the most popular app at the top and everything would be free. But we don't have it that way, why? Because if we had it that way developers wouldnt develop apps, which is why features in the app store, like actually having people pay, are built for developers.
+1, starred without the description is pretty much useless. All I read is "Random Person starred OtherRandom/random-repo". Need to save room? Group similars together. "X, Y, Z and 15 others starred X/Y, The coolest util in the world".
Anything Lenovo based in Intel preferable with internal graphics.
The few times I had to use it, I could not figure out how to turn off the chrome, though I suppose that is more of a general OSX complaint.

Otherwise, color support at least used to be dreadful. I believe this has been fixed recently though?

I think it still doesn't have proper mouse support though. Seems like a silly thing to have/want, but I find it very nice for resizing/focusing tmux panes/Vim windows, and scrolling in both.
Only if that less code and less design expresses more

I agree the loss of who works on what is poor - but it's always been hard to tell mine vs yours - I am a bit annoyed but on mature reflection I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and see them iterate out
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Is there a way to get to the original post?
For Thinkpads what you list under 2) will usually work without hiccups.

Generally, Intel is very good with its driver support, so try to pick a laptop with Intel WiFi & GPU. Depending on your needs you may want an nVidia or ATI GPU though.

Can't say anything on multitouch with the Touchpad, since I don't use it.
I heavily use this app all the time. I pulled the 1.0 out of TimeMachine. 2.0 is a mess. Don't upgrade.
I think of my job as essentially that of a statistician (data miner/data scientist/trader/research analyst/whatever you want to call it). I have never used a graphing calculator in my life. If I need to do a quick calculation I open a terminal and boot up R, Python or GHCi, depending on how I'm feeling and how complicated what I need to achieve is.
The level of detail for London looks just as bad: http://i.imgur.com/W6ksp.jpg
I have heard that Intel Atoms with internal graphics should be avoided since the graphics on those is not actually Intel's doing, though my eeepc with an Atom/internal graphics works fine.. maybe I got lucky.

I wouldn't recommend getting a Lenovo with an Atom anyway though, if they even sell anything with Atoms (mostly just from a "If you are going to spend money, spend some money" standpoint.