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I have one of these for work (but I have the first iteration, with the lower resolution.)

I agree with just about everything in this article. When I first got my machine, it would literally hard-freeze several times a day. I tried playing with kernel PPAs, upgrading my BIOS, etc. Eventually I contacted their support, and the next day a technician came and replaced my motherboard. It works almost perfectly now (still hard-freezes maybe once a month, but what can you do.)

I have not used any of the neato-sounding "developer tools" this computer comes with (the cloud thinger, the profile tool thinger, etc.) Perhaps I would, but then again, chef/puppet/vagrant are the de-facto standards for setting up dev environments, and they translate better to how I'd deploy something on prod.

EDIT: okay I just looked at juju. seems absurdly cool and useful. has anyone else used this?
Reminds me of another project done in Java Processing. It implements a similar curtain effect except you can tear it to pieces, http://bluethen.com/wordpress/index.php/processing-apps/curt...
That's a commonly held misbelief.

If it's an honest mistake, there's no requirement to sell it, and beyond that most email confirmations say something like this from Amazon:

This e-mail is only an acknowledgement of receipt of your order and your contract to purchase these items is not complete until we send you an e-mail notifying you that the items have been dispatched to you.
> The MIT/BSD/Apache 2.0 licenses are about trust and cooperation, not force.

This is the best description of both the purpose and the result of the license I've yet seen!

To me, it really aligns well with humanity. It matches the way people naturally work with each other. If you have a friend, for example, who always demands fairness with every situation, it can be a true trust mindfuck. For example, people who exactly split the bill at a restaurant down to the penny and the tax percentage based on what you ate. Or, people who will spot you $10 for a movie, but will force you to write an IOU first. I don't enjoy dealing with these sorts of people, since they make the assumption that I am untrustworthy. This is a type of negative reinforcement for your humanity. They make you feel bad simply for doing normal things. This is the GPL in a nutshell.

However, some people are the opposite: generous, giving, and the picture of unselfishness themselves. For example, picking up the entire check at a restaurant, or just splitting it evenly even though they had a smaller dish. Or spotting you $10 and saying "don't sweat it, I know it'll come back around." They make the assumption that you are trustworthy, and understand that you're human and fallible, but have good intentions. They make you feel good about yourself and about them, and you want to be friends with them; it's a positive relationship. This is what MIT/BSD/Apache feels like.

The second person might get burned sometimes by their unselfish generosity, but in the end, they make a lot more friends, and those friends like them and want to give back. Overwhelmingly, they receive more than they give because of the sheer multitude of positive relationships they build.

In the software world, I can absolutely feel this effect. When I see a project that's been GPL'd, I actually consciously and willingly resent them for it. I perceive they're being selfish with their work, they don't trust me to contribute back naturally, and thus they're making a bunch of pre-judgements and demands on me before they hand over the code. It's bullshit. I might use it if I have to, and I'll contribute back because I have to, but you know what? I won't enjoy it. I love open-source, but I can't shake that feeling of ill will.

MIT/BSD/Apache licensed software is the model of unselfishness. It's software being nice to me. It's software that trusts me and gives me the benefit of a doubt. It's software that I want to contribute back to, and I do, all the time. It's software that I choose to use over any alternative, because it's so much lower maintenance. It's software that's fundamentally cool. And furthermore, it's software that's likely to be higher quality, since it's more likely to be used by more companies with real large-scale projects. It's overwhelmingly better in all respects, and I recognize that in no small way.

If you're arguing for the GPL because you don't trust people who use your code to "give back fairly," then you don't get it.
Good reference. Seems a far cry from "almost always false".
Eventually you might end up writing a database, if you start building on top of a shared filesystem.
I also hooked it up with a Dell 30" display 90% of time using Apple's $100 dual-link DVI adapter. The adapter fails 3-4 times a day - display loses signal for a couple of second and then back to normal. It happens to another normal MBP with another Dell 30" display in our office as well. So the problem probably resides in the adapter not the display nor the laptop. That's probably the worst 100 dollars I was forced to pay in a couple of years.
Certainly there's a better place to report this, no?
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It it is an obvious failure, and a general 90% discount clearly is, contracts may be canceled at any time. Additionally, if you read the terms, online orders are often just a request and need to be approved by the other contract partner first. Since Germany and UK are both within EU, law may be quite equal. I think this is a pretty fair rule.
The parent post just stated that he made 5-6k per month off of a single iPad app. Can you back up your claims with facts?
It is evident in this case. However, with almost any crime, the right of the people could be considered to trump the suspect right.

It is a normal and sane that a society scrutinise those cases, to make sure the exceptional stays exceptional and not the first step down a slippery slope.

There is an argument for fear in this case. The amount of exception done for terrorism "seems" quite big, compared to, for example, the cases of proven criminal let go for technical reason. Yet, there does not "seem" to be the same amount of exception to avoid due process in the name of public safety.

Also, other exception, like arresting money instead of the people in case of the war on drug. It has been proven many time that this quite clever exception, has been widely abused.

(disclaimer: "seem" between quotes because lack of hard data, and skills to find them. Would be interesting to have them though.)
> The trackpad does two-finger scrolling (with inertia!) without having to add some random crazy guy's PPA and install extra packages. It picked up my Wi-Fi network and joined it without requiring me to do anything other than supply the passkey.

> Is it bad if I say that I was impressed that sound worked right out of the box?

> The XPS 13 easily handled repeatedly being put to sleep and awakened without throwing a kernel panic or otherwise exploding.

Is this the usual experience installing Linux on a laptop?

(Not trolling, I've only ever used Linux on desktops/servers)
Exactly. And I think that's pretty fair, too.
Maybe. That is just based on my experience with java stuff, it is always complicated. I agree though that the instructions seem easy enough.
I've had this feature for at least a month now on Chrome Canary for Mac. It's definitely useful but its still buggy.
I agree with many of Assange's positions, but I disagree on one fundamental position: anonymity.

Anonymity is where wikileaks breaks down. All of the lies and deception Julian speaks of are possible because there is no systemic transparency or accountability in the information ecosystem. All of those lies are abstraction events in the cognitive plane of existence and require action in the physical plane to manifest any outcome.

At the end of the day, I think people must step up to the plate and say, "no, this happening, it needs to stop and I am cosigning this information with my community identity on the line." At that point, a wise community should support that person through any life interruption or transition, if the individual cannot.

The thing about living a lie is that it is extraordinarily expensive to sustain or scale because the lie must defy nature and reality. The internet news information systems make it easy to proliferate small/trivial lies in/for a short period of time, but it makes any non-trivial lies much more expensive to sustain. People need more information, more transparency and more accountability.

If you have the accountability, you won't have the "boy crying wolf" problem at scale because of the individual cost of lying.

Ironically, one such platform exists and is six months into beta, but this community hell-banned it in week one. Think about how that will look, PG, in a couple of years. I have screenshots and the record won't be going away. nwzPaper is lean and will be here, it will continue getting better as an application and stronger as a community.
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This made me think that often giving money is not the best way to help. Microcredit has been tried and don't fix everything. A development economist made a strong point showing that micro deposit was more likely to be helpful, for example incountries were it was not culturally acceptable to hold some tangible wealth when some neighbours are in need (in some parts of Kenya, people tend to eat all their corn once harvested as fast as possible to avoid having to give a part of it to... faster eaters).

Also, buying goods from peasants in poor countries is a more sustainable way to help. Just imagine an Amazon or a Taobao where you buy spices or coffee straight from the producer.

edit and move: In fact, a part of the pleasure of eating a good baguette is because you bought it to the boulangerie and met the guy who made it, or his wife. Same with cheese, or even more with wine (the summun of wine-snobism in to drink bottles that you got from the chateaux' cellar)

The Nescafe coffee I drink don't give me any pleasure of this kind, because I am not (or try not to be) emotionally affected by brands and commercials. But reversing the arrow: I would be fine and happy with buying my coffee grains from a Watsy-like website, choosing the guy and his family from a picture and short description (which is weak, but better than nothing). At least I would know who to curse if I found roaches in the bag (happened to me with industrial cereals).
I guess then you haven't met me and another friend hehe as I do both the architecture and sys admin. I feel that recruitment within the IT industry is shifting to having people that do more than one thing rather than an individual who is very specialised. This obviously would save companies lots of cash. E.g. Front end and back end developer merged into one.
Granted that their model for upright walking is very basic.
But if their basic premise is sound and valid and taking their claims at face value, it could potentially explain how more complex behaviors like walking may emerge from the simpler examples in their demo.
God bless Sichuan!

Will donate when I go back home.
Miranda stems from the 5th amendment.
Search engine optimisation....takes time but cheaper and effective.
I have a very niche app that brings in a small but fairly consistent revenue stream, whenever I hear crickets in the sales department I raise the price from .99 to 4.99 and slowly come back down every week tripping the "app on sale" wires. Usually works.
I ran one for Yahoo! Messages the other week and it was super simple. Really great work on these.
Why did you opt for the DL-DVI adapter rather than a mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable? I have my rMBP plugged into a Dell U3011 most of the time and this seems like the most straightforward way.
It takes a lifetime to understand life.
The 64GB Pixel is priced nearly the same as the 13 rMBP and other than the unique aspects of a touch screen and LTE, is almost half the performance of the Mac. And if something happens to your laptop, who do you really want to call for support, Apple or Google?

I'd love to see some serious competition to Apple, but it's not there yet.
This is totally a competition, although the bar is probably pretty low.

If Clang is feature complete, compiler and library, and GCC takes ~N years more to be feature complete, compiler and library, then Clang could win. People might say, "I'm tired of not being able to use feature X, it's been implemented in Clang for two years", drop GCC, and install Clang.
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I have a dell xps 13 and the trackpad responsiveness is a disaster. I have tried endless combination of drivers (both Dell and third-party) and sunk 20 hours into debugging. I strongly recommend you do not purchase an XPS 13 if you do not plan to use it primarily with an external mouse.
Oh, ok, if you're spidering.

But here's what the OP said: "All of Upcoming's events and venues use autoincremented ids, making it dead simple to generate a list of URLs to scrape."

So if you go from 1 to {current_id} you get them all, and you have the list at the start.
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Did they really have to use the Spiderman logo font for the keyboard?
Find a way to take advantage of the Upcoming shutdown.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for your project :)

At minimum, get email addresses.
I have a DeathAdder. The mouse itself (the hardware) is great. However, the software (the thing that really makes the mouse functional and configurable, which is what i thought i was paying for) is one of the most absurd and infuriating things i have ever had to deal with.

The configuration tool was designed in the vein of Steam — it requires an Internet connection to use it. At all. So before you can change the mouse settings, before the mouse will even LOAD its settings, you must create a Razer account and sign in to their online service through the tool. Only then will you be able to do anything with the mouse.

Also like Steam, there is an option to 'go offline', but it (perhaps unintentionally) doesn't seem to persist across sessions. So if you lose your connection and then you reboot the computer or the tool crashes (which is semi-frequent), you're back to where you started — a log-in prompt.

In addition to that, just from a usability perspective, the software is a disaster. It is a mass of grey-on-grey text, modal panes, near-full-screen sliders, and unexplained icons that i dread even thinking about using. In addition, the tool adds an ugly menu-bar icon that you can't get rid of, and once you install the software you can never close it — if you try to kill the tool or any of its background services, the entire thing will respawn. And just to give you that extra punch in the face, every time the tool starts (at boot or because one of its background services crashed) the giant black-and-green blob pops up on top of everything else. HEY, HEY, LOG IN TO YOUR MOUSE NOW

The scroll wheel is also apparently non-configurable on OS X, which is incredible because the default behaviour is some pre-Windows-95 we've-just-invented-scroll-wheels one-pixel-per-rotation insanity.

Lastly, every single update to the software requires that you reboot the entire machine.

I am not exaggerating when i say that i loathe using this god-damn mouse.
What rights should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get and why does it matter?
Now what if I told you that even giving things away for totally free could sometimes be selfish?

Instead of thinking of "selfish" as the thing you were scolded for as child (i.e., a bad thing), think of it as "self-interested". In and of itself, self-interest is neither "good" nor "bad".

Using your example, the person selling you bread is selfish -- the price you pay probably covers their production costs, plus some additional profit for their take-home pay. If they just started giving the bread away for free (i.e., they're no longer self-interested), you may see that as a good thing -- but what happens when the bakery closes down because it can't pay the bills any longer? Now, you're forced to bake your own bread, at least until a new bakery opens (if ever).

So, to re-iterate my earlier point with this new definition of selfish:

Taking somebodies code and not contributing back is self-interested. Some manager may see this as an easy way to get ahead, without realizing that they may actually be _worse off_ by not contributing back to the project (e.g., the project stalls out and now they're stuck using stale code and trying to maintain things themselves).

Using the GPL because you want to "get a return on your investment" is also self-interested. The self-interest there should be obvious, but for bonus points compare it to the definition of a cartel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartel
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It's currently the most popular license, and it had a head start in popularity I think. But the tides are changing, as the original article studies.

I think open source as a concept is successful. Open source encourages community development, giving back to the community, creating things for fun, working on interesting projects, and making things people can use for free. These are all good things that lead to successful projects.

My argument is not that the GPL is unsuccessful—that would be absurd. I'm saying, for a given market, would a project me more successful with a more permissive licence, and thus a broader audience, regardless of whether the majority of users contribute changes back?

It's a complex question and it might vary quite a bit depending on a lot of factors. In my example, you have a largely company-dominated market with few users interested individually. The Rails ecosystem is very similar to this: lots of companies use rails, and the GPL would change that market enormously, in my opinion for the worse. In fact, I'd venture to say that the rise of Ruby and Rails have accelerated our current software boom more than any other projects, if only for setting an example of how open-source and corporate worlds can coexist and reinforce each-other positively. This specific result was almost entirely due to the choice of the MIT license.

In that sense, you could say that the huge success of MIT-licensed software (in many other measures, such as the extremely fast rate that the community grew, the rate of software improvement, the use of the software to create real economic value, and the driving of the growth of the software economy) proves you wrong, also.
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How can they trademark the words "Liquid Helium"? The first search I did on Samuru was for Liquid Helium and it brought back about a half million results, all of which I assume are violating its purported trademark.
90% pretty certainly means they were selling them at a loss, but I would agree that it's probably not as huge a loss as a 90% discount would suggest. In the "enthusiast" branch of the market, I would guess that a margin of at least 50% should be pretty standard. A $250 mouse very certainly costs far less than $250 to produce, although you always have to factor in their other business cost - advertisement and design to establish an "enthusiast" branch might even exceed what they pay on manufacturing. (This is also why you see them do so many sponsorships - it's simply a very, very cheap way to get exposure.)

I would think that it's not impossible that this was planned.

1234 as a coupon code is even something that people might find by mistake, meaning you wouldn't even have to try hard to seed the rumor. Just put it into the system and know that somewhere in the future, you will get a huge PR without much effort (other than stopping it after a certain period of time and accepting some losses).
Who said anything about fair? This is a business, not a charity.
Ok, I get that now; but in this particular project every event id is known (see my other comment below).

A webapp would simply need to receive a list of ids and download one at a time (with a comfortable delay between each call so as to not trigger Yahoo's security).
Vittana works in a very similar way except they are focused exclusively on helping to fund education.

http://www.vittana.org/
I had that problem a few years ago, and it turned out to be a precursor to the adapter failing altogether. I got it replaced under warranty and the new one has been working fine for years. So it might be worth trying to get yours replaced.
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So you actively and intentionally promote inefficient production strategies, or want to be sold a fake image of pre-industrial cottage production that doesn't much exist, especially as prices you'd want to pay. That is not the way to lift people out of poverty.

Better to buy cheap cheese and then pay someone to make bread for his neighbors.
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"when I say 'libertarian,' I mean true libertarianism . . ."

Talking about "true libertarianism" is no different than talking about "true conservatism," "true feminism," "true Marxism" or anything else -- these terms are all historically fluid, and accusing one another of not being "true" is one of the main activities among communities who unite under the supposed unity of an ideological stance.

Richard Stallman, it should be noted, has also been called a libertarian (http://actonline.org/act-blog/archives/1147).

But yes, you're probably right in the main about their not liking to be pushed around by others. Still, that describes a vast cross-section of human society.
I had my boss order one for me and it should arrive next week. I'm really looking forward to it after reading this article. It feels good to not pay for a Windows license that will never be used and instead support a company that appears to see the benefits of FLOSS.
Older 30" screens tend to only have DL-DVI ports.
Civil liberties under the constitution are by and large not ironclad protections. Their scope has always been full of exceptions, because they date back to the privileges of englishman, as decided by common law courts. It has always involved a balancing between the exigencies of the situation, the need for an effective police, and the protection of the accused.

They're not ways of skirting civil liberties. They are ways of defining the contours of their protections.
It is no worse than random selection. The blurbs are basically all the same fluff anyway.
Unfortunately it is not, especially concerning the trackpad behaviour, it is usually a bit dodgy, unreliable..
X really can't start that early. It depends on too many other pieces being started first.

But in Fedora we do have early access to the framebuffer. Plymouth uses that to display the animated Fedora logo and to prompt for any encryption passphrases.

The hardware needs to support it though, so you may not see this, especially when running in a virtual environment.

When it works right it looks pretty nice, you get a mostly seamless graphic screen after grub2 until gdm. And you can always hit ESC to see the scrolling systemd startup messages.
Linux is a low priority for hardware manufacturers that target desktops, which sometimes leaves drivers lacking or non existent for such hardware. Many drivers are maintained by the community instead of the manufacture.

A few years ago, I had purchased a "new" laptop with an audio chip that wasn't detected by the latest kernel. I emailed the manufacturer of the chip, who assigned a developer to create a patch that was later submitted to the community driver maintainer. In this case, rather than ensuring driver support prior to release, they waited until a consumer complaint came in!
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There'll also been some awesome chiptune artists playing: Cheap Dinosaurs and Animal Style.