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Proportional to its number of users, Common Lisp probably has more libraries than any other language in history. The problem is described in the article: all of the libraries are half-baked "trivial" implementations that cover the author's use case. Very few, if any, CL libraries are continuously maintained. Even fewer have usable documentation. Fewer still are feature complete.

Check out the list of EIGHT GTK+ bindings for Common Lisp:
http://www.cliki.net/GTK%20binding

And yet, the last time I attempted to write a trivial GUI application using GTK and CL, I could not find a single usable library. I tried four and they were all unusably broken on my platform. (This was some years ago. Clearly at least four more implementations have come around since then.)
I was one of the beta testers for this laptop, so I've been using it for the last few months. [If anybody has any questions about it, I'd be happy to answer them - I've used many different laptops over the years for comparison.]

I couldn't be happier with it - I have a larger laptop that I use as my "main" computer at home (essentially as if it were a desktop), and the XPS13 is what I take with me everywhere and use for presentations, developing on the go, etc.

I've used Linux as my main OS for some years now, and for me the main appeal of this computer was the size/weight/battery life when compared to my larger laptop. If you've been waiting for a Linux ultrabook for portable development (or even just ultra-portable general use), this is it.

Compared to my work computer (a Macbook Air), the difference is enormous. Hardware-wise, the XPS13 just feels slimmer, even though the difference in size/weight is negligible. The biggest physical differences are the keys and trackpad - I'm typing this now on a mechanical keyboard, and I've gotten so used to the Das Keyboard that I can't stand the feel of chiclet-style keys. However, the shape of the XPS13 keys (slightly indented) alleviates some of the annoyances I have with most laptop keyboards (the Air included). The trackpad is highly sensitive, and I like the texture slightly more than that of the Macbook Air.

Battery life is great, even with Bluetooth turned on (though I usually leave this off - I still haven't found a real use for Bluetooth on my computers!).

I should mention the display - it's the perfect size for me. I actually dislike the Macbook Air on this one point - it absolutely kills my eyes by the end of the day (both the default size and default brightness/contrast). I have neither of these problems with the XPS13, but it's still crisp enough that I don't feel like I'm missing anything.

Overall, I'm incredibly happy that I got it, and I actually get slightly annoyed now when I have to use my Macbook Air for work - I wish I could be using the XPS13 instead. Aside from the fact that I'd rather be using Linux any day, hands-down, the computer just feels more physically appealing in itself. Even at its price[1], it's worth every penny.

[1] I should note that I received my testing laptop at a 20% discount, though after using it, I would be willing to pay full price for it if I'd had to.
I don't blame them. The presentation of hardware at Best Buy is absolutely horrible lately. It's all cabled down, price tags are often tattered or missing and most of the devices can't even be turned on to try them.

I'm sure they could stipulate presentation requirements to some degree, but the current state of affairs is not exactly how I'd want my hardware presented to customers.
Things will break, I fully agree, but for the most part they work really really well. I have installed Linux on scores of laptops , and I have seen some stuff just not work, but in general ( and I think you will find this to be the consensus around the community ) it works great and most laptops work with nothing more then a fresh install of your Distro of choice .
>> But there always seems to be some kind of small issue

Another Toshiba (Satellite L650) owner here. I had major issues with wifi and display. Drove me mad.... Ubuntu forums were helpful, but ultimately ineffective. If I installed it on VMWare... no issues though.... what in the name of heaven is going on.....

>> It means that if you're a linux expert and can spend some time fixing things each time they break

And I didn't have that liberty either, plus you really shouldn't be doing this kind of thing at this day and age, if you know what I mean.

For Linux, I still have to fire up the VM, the RAM usage goes up, the machine heats up.... and the family has a field day teasing me about my obsession with Linux... Frankly, some days I wonder it it's all worth it to jump so many hoops.
Thanks for the feedback. Corrected.

Call this a hacker’s laziness + Yahoo chat room era slangs.
I remember owning a small laptop from Sotec. (Yes, Sotec, Google it; it's a brand that no longer exists!) I bought it in late '99 early '00 and it had this resolution.

I am not shitting you, I'll try to find an old CNET.com link for the review.

What is a laptop in this day and age coming with such low resolution?
Press hits.
Americans getting defensive ITT
> In my experience, the linux kernel handles no swap at all very badly, so you need a small amount.

Why?

I'm pretty sure we disable swap at Google. Maybe swap was necessary back in the days when memory was really tight, but it seems like a terrible idea now. Especially since the scheduling is completely oblivious to swap AFAIK, which means that a heavily swapped system will spend most of its timeslices just swapping program code back into memory. It's the worst kind of thrashing.
The OP doesn't want to enable the bad uses of Tor, nor do they want to get into legal trouble for it. It's demonstrated that by running a Tor exit node, you are at a high risk of the former and at least some risk for the latter. Both carry significant costs. By not running a Tor exit node, you eliminate these risks to yourself.

The risk that your neighbor will use your knife to kill someone is far lower by comparison. Additionally, the risk that there is a legal threat should they choose to do so is also quite low.
You are right. The best solution is separation of services. But for a startup than runs 7-2 services like this – it’s a close call. You’ll often have to run 2-3 services together, else $100 * 7 machines is too much burn
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or if your site isn't worth the $30 just use your registrar's free dns.
Except Microsoft, at this point, has to rely on OEMs. They don't have a big enough foothold to get components as cheap as some of their OEM partners, which means their devices, on the whole, will be more expensive.

Plus, a major source of their revenue is OEM licensing, so like it or not, they still have to deal with them.
It's a good first attempt, but it's going to need some work. The screen is pretty bad, but the one thing that puts me off is pretty much any Dell I've used has had a terrible keyboard and trackpad, but I've not used one for a while now so I'm hoping they've fixed that for this.
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I have quite a few friends (through the music industry) that know Hunter pretty well and have told me quite a few stories about him, his actions, his personality, etc. I also know a small handful of girls that had photos of themselves posted on his site IsAnyoneUp. And at one point, I was even almost referred to him to work on IsAnyoneUp, BUT I quickly made it obvious I wanted absolutely nothing to do with that type of site.

I honestly consider a person like Hunter, a true psychopath. After hearing the stories about him, he just reminds me of the joker in The Dark Knight. With that, the quote "Some Men Just Want To Watch The World Burn" fits him very well. It sickens me that someone can actually get such a head high over ruining other peoples lives. It also frustrates me so much because I saw first hand the pain and hopelessness he caused some of my innocent friends (the girls that had their pictures posted) over the content he had on his site. I will never understand a person like this and why they do the horrible things they do. :/
Like: What happened to the street when a dump truck loaded with 8500 tons of paper drove down it leaving deep trenches through the pavement.

4,294,967,290 at one sheet of paper per share is about one entire freight train of box cars. Depending on the paper.
Only if you put it back onto the same Nook, because the DRM uses your device identification number to lock the file to one specific Nook.
>And second, it just isn't as interesting when you have so much more you can do with XSS, and tampering with password managers is a narrow vector.

what can be better than GETTING PASSWORD(=full power). I know it was known.
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And I wrote a blog post about something similar, but it hits a lot more bases than just using Tor. Tor has issues of its own.

http://bernsteinbear.com/a-quest-for-anonymity
I just got a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon[0] ultrabook 2 days ago and installed Xubuntu 12.10. It really is stunning how the hardware just works. I didn't have to fiddle with any of it - I had out of the box support for the video card, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc. Even multitouch trackpad gestures work (although I personally prefer the trackpoint). The laptop itself is nothing short of amazing[1], especially once you wipe Windows from it. In fact, Lenovo TrackPoints have never worked the way I like in Windows (where you can use the middle mouse button for both middle-clicking and scrolling), but they do in Linux.

I thought I would dislike the new chiclet keyboard, which deviates from IBM/Lenovo's two-decade old keyboard design, but unbelievably, I actually like it. Having used chiclet keyboards on MacBooks, I never liked them, but Lenovo seems to have done it right.

Edit: there's one other issue, but this seems to be a (depressing) trend in the industry: decline in user serviceability of laptops. You can't replace the SSD (it's soldered onto the mobo), and replacing the RAM is not recommended. The price is quite high, especially if you upgrade the SSD (not recommended; just get a 2.5" USB 3.0-powered external HDD - I got a 1 TB one for $70 just a few days ago) or RAM (recommended; 8 GB is always good to have these days, and there's only one slot, so if you replace it later, you'll still have to buy 8 GB), so watch for sales/coupon codes (there was a good one for Black Friday) or use your college .edu address to get a student discount.

Edit 2: Lenovo also changed the power connector to a rectangular shaped one, because the X1 Carbon's profile is too thin to use the old, circular one. This means all your old ThinkPad power cables are now useless.

0: http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/x-series/x...

1: http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/13/3232132/lenovo-thinkpad-x1...
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I've been looking through sysadmin and programming job ads, and I've been wondering what "equivalent experience" means. Would you mind shedding some light?
Announcement made earlier this week on the AtariAge forum:
http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/205778-atari-inc-busine...
I know what goes around, comes around, but sometimes I wish that karma would just hurry it up a bit.
The online demo of this was currently under maintenance but the project sounds very cool.
Can you provide more context for where these photos are? (I'm assuming digital?) Do you have a flickr-esque site? Mostly mobile or web traffic? etc...
> The "work hard and you may become a millionaire" undertone is a good thing.

I disagree. Few people will become millionaires compared to the general population, and many people who come into wealth didn't do so because of hard work. This undertone obscures the actual facts about wealth and who is wealthy, things which have a lot to do with social inequality.
Congratulations to everyone involved on the investment.

My mailjet wish list:
- fully implemented transactional email reporting (currently campaign only)
- email receipt and delivery acknowledgement on their event api (currently only reporting bounces, opens, and clicks )
- better helpdesk/support interface ( no way to read closed tickets, no defined process for escalating or closing tickets)
- more responsive support ( e.g. same day response for 'critical' tickets would be nice )
Don't get me wrong, for the most part things do seem to work really well, staggeringly so when you think about how much clout a free upstart like Linux should have. However, certain hardware has got poor support on Linux and people do get bitten by it every now and again, my argument was mostly your single data point, and my single data point and kijin's data point don't make a conclusive one as the same model of laptop might actually have a WiFi card from one manufacturer which craps out or one that works perfectly.

But for the most part Linux does cover hardware pretty well, and I've not seen a 'core' part of a laptop not work properly for a long while.
It's because after the destruction of the ring, everyone switched to the Gregorian calendar and added a leap day.
Overpriced and can't get in the UK by the looks. I think I'd just go Lenovo.
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It's also about race. White people think their tax dollars are going to non-whites. Hopefully that changes w/ the demographic shift
I never bought into this. When the chief of Acer (was it Acer?) made veiled threats, I couldn't help but think, "What are you going to do?" Are they going to abandon Windows? No. The only position they're really in is to make even crappier products.
Still giving paper receipt? You are so lame
Then it is fine to charge the ISPs with distribution as well. Oops, now you broke the internet.
Wouldn't a closer analogy be someone suing FedEx because you used them to ship a DVD of child pornography?
Not sure I agree that everyone is winning at the same time, but the idea that one phone exists in order to solely stop the other phone from dominating is an interesting one.

It may be the case early on, but as Android grows to dominate, the whole game from Google will have to change if we assume that Google's original goal was to prevent Apple from hegemony in the mobile space.
Google is proposing and very actively working in the WHATWG and both WebKit and V8 are open source. So you can easily access the specifications for these APIs and see how they implemented them. It's the absolute opposite of "the Microsoft way". They even hired Ian Hickson, who pretty much is the "web standards guy".

It's not Google's fault that the other browser vendors are not as fast as them. They will eventually catch up and we'll all have a better web. I'm really glad the situation has changed so much since the days of "IE 6 only" and later "we all have to wait for the slow learning kid, IE". For a web developer these days are truly exciting.
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0 out of the top 1000 Alexa domains are using dnspod.com so...
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>His suggested fix will break work for sites that use AJAX on the login forms.
I forgot about AJAX, I was wrong.
>It is however an interesting vector as it will steal the password without any user interaction or knowledge.
I am trying to say it here.
"Too much wealth inequality hurts growth" - that's just an assertion. China, for instance, would appear to defy this rule.
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The thing is, if you're operating a TOR node you should have full knowledge that people are going to use it as much for illegitimate uses as much as legitimate uses.
The most useful feature (of course, not a unique feature) of OTR is perfect forward secrecy. This means that, unlike GPG, you can lose your private key and not give up everything you have ever encrypted.

The plausible deniability stuff is probably not that useful in court, as you note.
> "Aren't there already a ton of providers for this type of service?"

So many. However, it's a very large market that is still seeing plenty of growth, and being able to reach your captive audience reliably and consistently is still a problem, especially when your customers may be in different parts of the world.

Deliverability is a different case in other parts of the world, funny enough. Different gatekeepers and even processes sometimes.
> it seems to have just transformed "kronor" (...) into "dollars".

I saw some article once, where the names of a prime minister or some such was "translated" to the name of the US president. Weird.
Are we getting astroturfed here? This is the second 'qz.com' link I've seen here today.
>This is nothing new. Once XSS has been exploited the users are already pwned regardless of password policy.

stealing password >> XSS.
This one doesn't weigh 2lbs.
The Linux one comes with Pro Support, rather than the standard. I suspect that's the difference.
> Chrome / FF now have a combined 700 million and I'd assume between 50 - 70% of the browser marketshare

They have 55% and IE has 35%, but it's much worse than that in a lot of English-speaking countries (like the USA, where IE has 43%). Additionally, older (read: richer) demographics are more likely to use IE than average. So are workplaces (read: corporate customers). IE support being mandatory isn't an "assumption" it's basically a fact. If you're writing for the public web, you probably have to support IE8, and if you're selling things or have corporate customers, it gets even more important.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201110-201210-...
the cherry here is autofill. no user involved
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=entrydns.net
This is a great point. It needs to be investigated.

But, if he is found guilty and the traffic did come from tor than this is a lot like sending drugs through the mail and convicting the post office.
Im surprised how transparent this is. Halfing response time on a system that large is no easy task.
Yep, I'm aware of some of the nasty things that happen on 4chan.

In my defense, I made it clear that I think this is one of those rare cases where Internet-vigilante justice is not only excusable, but possibly even noble. This man is a truly reprehensible human being, and may have found a way to continue to act in this way with impunity. If there is absolutely no recourse available to civil society, I really don't have a problem with him getting the worst Anonymous has to offer - which, let's face it, pales in comparison to what the state can dish out when it wants to.

In their defense, it seems like many of the high-profile, highly organized campaigns by Anonymous have been against worthy targets like drug cartels and cults, rather than some random vile post by some script kiddy on 4chan.

I could very easily see them going after this guy.
I'm curious what your experience with the Thinkpad X1 Carbon has been - I was one of the beta testers for the XPS 13 (as noted in my other comment in this thread). I absolutely love the XPS 13, but the X1 Carbon was the other laptop I would have considered getting.
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I think 4-2 is the 2011 Macbook Air. I've been thinking about getting the 2012 and putting Ubuntu on there, but there seem to be a number of semi-unsupported steps required to resolve kernel panics, you have to disable apic support and various other issues.
The creator of the word meritocracy created it to parody how people think the world is mostly just. Curious no?

It would be if it were true. The satire you're referring to, used the word as a way to criticize how the British government of the period was selecting people into an elite ruling class based on suspect standards of intelligence and aptitude. The word itself was invented as a shorthand to refer to that process and its justifications. It was not a parody of the idea of meritocracy as it is understood today.

From wikipedia;
Meritocracy is the implementation of advancement based upon intellectual
talent. Often, advancement is determined by demonstrated achievement in the field where it is implemented.

Aside from that, I'm curious, If you believe that meritocracy is indeed evidence of right-wing sociopathic behavior. What would be the Communist/Liberal/Democratic alternative? Surely you're not advocating a kakistocracy (i.e. rule by the worst).
Isn't that what focus groups are for?
Easiest and cheapest thing that comes to mind: sign up for a free Cloudflare account. They will cache your static content and actually speed up the load times of your pages. For $20/mo you get a few more cooler features and SSL if you need it.

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good analogy with copy paste
The Windows version comes preloaded with crapware that Dell gets paid to put there. This subsidises the price. Until Linux comes with all the "free trial!" garbage as well, it's likely to cost more.
Willfully and gleefully helping to destroy people's lives. My brain normally just shuts down at such a level of awfulness, which means it's probably worth trying to understand, at least at the intellectual level.

I mean, is this just straight up sadism? Is the guy just happy ruining stuff, a child knocking over blocks, except that he's in a grown man's body? Doesn't seem implausible, but I don't feel like I understand it any better.

Is it the money? A cold calculation? But he seems to be so happy about everything, and frankly, not bright enough for that. "I have nerds for days... I have nerds on nerds." Really?

Is he one of those that just can't back down from an argument? The article mentions he was recently in a physical fight. Maybe he did something jerky a long time ago, someone called him out on his jerkyness, and so he doubled down, was even jerkier, just to show that other guy. He did that a couple of times, just to prove he couldn't be called out on stuff and it became a habit. Now he's wired to seek out stuff that other people will react poorly to, because in some portion of his brain it translates to him winning an argument.

I like that third explanation the best, because there are parts of the behavior I can relate to. I can sort of understand how it could happen. But this guy is so far out there, I just have no idea. My own emotions are probably a really crappy guide for figuring out how that guy ticks.
Not arguing against your point, but there's gotta be a fallacy for this. I know people that refuse to eat a restaurant because they got sick or the food wasn't very good a single time. Or they will never buy a brand of car because they know one person that had a bad experience.

I can imagine people base their computer purchase the same way.