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Never had any trackpad problems. On rare occasions sound problems occur when using x64 distros. Only Ubuntu 10.something was able to put one of my laptops to sleep/hibernate successfully. I have never managed to do the same with other distros and laptops.
These are some of the features I'd like to see in an RSS reader (I've actually considered trying to learn to program just to build a reader that has these features):

* Import a list of feeds from a simple text file. I find it strange readers don't support this. If I have a list of 50 rss feeds, I don't really want to enter them one by one. Importing from a file another reader has exported is great, but I'd like to import from a text file too.

* Filters. Per-feed and per-category. Again, perhaps naively, I imagine this would be simple to implement but I don't know of a web-based reader that does this and I usually have to resort to Yahoo Pipes or similar, which is a pretty clunky solution. Filters like: Only show entries containing "bar", or don't show entries containing "foo". Bonus points if I can edit a multi-line list of filters, so if I want to filter for 50 separate words I don't have to enter them one-by-one

* Sort-by-newest that works properly across categories. I currently use feedly and somehow in category view posts 12 hours old show up ahead of posts 3 minutes old.
Linux just doesn't seem to do laptops very well.

I used to have a little Asus EEE PC, for which I downloaded a community-generated EEE-specific Linux. EEE Ubuntu, I think it was. All your EEE-specific drivers pre-loaded, no extraneous junk, no funny business! So I had high hopes for this one, on account of the very limited number (3!) of different hardware configurations the distribution had to support. Surely nothing could go wrong!

Once I'd installed it, I found trackpad touch-to-tap didn't work. At all. Well, OK, the trackpad has buttons, so I suppose I'll have to live with that.

It wouldn't detect my wi-fi network, and in fact as far as I could tell wi-fi simply didn't work in the slightest. Fortunately, I have a long network cable, and I mainly used it fairly near the router anyway.

When I tried to suspend to disk, it claimed it was out of swap space, and proceeded to just shut down normally. Hmm, never mind, I can just close the lid and leave it plugged in, it's no big deal.

When I closed the lid, it crashed.
You can also bring him out.
I use an rMBP full time at work as well with no trouble using an Apple thunderbolt display, a 27 inch dell display (via mini displayport), and a fourth 1200p display via HDMI. I'd definitely suggest going for displayport if possible over the finicky DL-DVI adaptors.
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my favorite:

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I'm impressed that Dell have created a laptop aimed at developers, but I've stopped buying Dells completely as I've had an endless string of issues going back ten years with their power supplies.

And it isn't just me either, everyone I know has had similar issues with the power supplies splitting (and eventually failing) right at the bend as it enters the laptop... Then the replacements are $100.

I'm buying laptops to last. Dells simply do not. Even their "high end" Latitudes and XPS laptops are cheaply made.

I won't buy another Dell until I see an improvement in the quality of the power supplies and ideally a single universal power supply across their entire range (why does one range have two new incompatible PSUs a year?).

Apple and Thinkpad/Lenovo both have much higher quality power blocks and both have universal power supplies within the same range. I buy two Thinkpad Txxx or Macbook Pros I can interchange the power supplies!
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At least, from the stacktrace, we can see that it's using Wicket, OpenEJB and it's probably running on TomEE.

EDIT: oh snap, it's an OpenSource project, so we can see what's been used in the code :) https://github.com/Athou/commafeed
> Sometimes I wonder how much more productive Apple could be if they used a language other than Objective-C.

I'm not sure where you get the notion that Apple doesn't use languages other than Objective-C; good engineers use the right tool for the job, including assembly, C, C++, python, ruby, javascript, prolog, lisp, perl, ... and sometimes even Objective-C.
I'm very happy with my XPS 13 so far. I'm running 13.04 and I've encountered a few issues... however, Dell has been very responsive to my bug reports. Also, on 13.04, there is no need for the PPA. Dell's changes have been incorporated into the standard kernel.
A version number of 0.0.5 is about the most untrustworthy and suspicious version number I've ever seen.
If you're only going to support Chrome, you should at least show a screenshot or have browsable documentation or something on the site.
ah, I forgot that Dell 3011 has a displayport, thanks for the tip!
Not really, unless you picked bad hardware Linux works like a charm on notebooks.
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> HEY, HEY, LOG IN TO YOUR MOUSE NOW
> Lastly, every single update to the software requires that you reboot the entire machine.

I only used the software once, a few years ago. I never logged into anything, it never required internet access, it never frequently updated and it never required a reboot.

You realise you don't need the software right? You can use the mouse perfectly without it. All the software lets you do is change the sensitivity (any good OS will let you do that), turn off the light, and program the "bottom" button. The light is under your hand 90% of the time and is off when your computer is off. It's a non-issue. The button the bottom is in an irritating position and I have never needed to use it. Sure, you could configure it to change sensitivity during a game (consider running and gunning vs. accurate sniping, perhaps?) but in reality no one is going to lift their mouse during an computer game to adjust the sensitivity.

> the default behaviour is some pre-Windows-95 we've-just-invented-scroll-wheels one-pixel-per-rotation insanity.

I have never experienced this problem. I don't know what you're talking about.
Who do you think I am? Goldman Sachs? I'm just a lowly peasant who has no say in the political process and the manufacturing of our laws, like most americans (and voting is much as a say in the political process as convicted felons chances at getting a job after being released from prison).

Well if the FBI has to release photos to the public for people they were already well aware of, I'm sure anything they call evidence would suffice, much in the same manor Netanyahu could parade in front of the UN with his Wile-e-Coyote poster.
I don't have any experience with multitouch touchpads, but everything works out of the box on my Latitutde E6500 as well as on my coworker's various other Dell laptops. This laptop has the nVidia display (I historically have avoid nVidia, but the company is opening up and the non-proprietary drivers are getting better), bluetooth, WiFi, SD card, etc. all Just Working. I am running 12.04.2 with the 3.5.0-26-generic kernel - I installed the linux-lts-quantal package to pick up the updated kernel and xorg drivers (better nVidia support).

Thinkpads historically have been very compatible with linux (our family machine is a T61 I bought off of eBay very reasonably). Also nVidia display (very nice resolution LCD).

I also have a [edit] XPS M1210 vintage 2006 that also works very well, has since I bought it. I initially dual-booted, but then never used the WinXP boot and ultimately booted it off the island.

The only niggling problem I am having at this point is getting the bluetooth mouse running after a suspend/resume. Something is not coordinating in xorg - the work-around is to flip to a different virtual console and then back to the primary X11 console (<CTL><ALT><F1> <CTL><ALT><F7>). There is also something wrong with the bluetooth mouse battery display in the applet which can crash the machine(!) on resume on my XPS13. I'm not seeing that on my other laptops. The work-around is to not turn on the mouse until the machine has fully resumed. This problem came in with the linux-lts-quantal software upgrade and I expect it to be fixed Real Soon Now.

The key is to get a fairly generic laptop. I don't buy Sonys, for instance, because they have a long history of using oddball proprietary peripheral chips/configurations that don't work well with linux.
What is "bad hardware"? I tried putting Linux on a Toshiba laptop and I experienced the trackpad and sleep/wake problems, and persistent problems with wifi.
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Does it have a docking connector?
Regarding (1), many (most?) readers support OPML, and you can use OPMLBuilder[1] and similar tools to create a file from a list of URLs. Unless you're regularly import new lists, it seems a decent solution.

[1]: http://reader.feedshow.com/goodies/opml/OPMLBuilder-create-o...
And unfortunately some more basic features. :(

I've been using GIMP for the last eight years now, and I still run up against:

* Bad text handling. Can't kern individual letters, just coarsely set tracking for the entire block; this is particularly bad given Linux's decidedly average font rendering.

* Fuzzy Selection needs a lot of manual cleanup.

* CMYK. I have to jump over to Adobe tools on the Macbook whenever I want to work with things destined for print.

I'm not a professional graphics/design guy; I'm a mostly-backend web developer who dabbles in graphics and print design on occasion. I want to love GIMP, I really do. :(

(I'm running GIMP 2.8 on Ubuntu 12.10; I've been a Linux user since Red Hat 7.2, so it's not a Noobuntu issue.)
> It's an impressive achievement, and it's also a sad comment on the overall viability of Linux as a consumer-facing operating system for normal people. I don't think anyone is arguing that Linux hasn't earned its place in the data center—it most certainly has—but there's no way I'd feel comfy installing even newbie-friendly Ubuntu or Mint on my parents' computers. The XPS 13 DE shows the level of functionality and polish possible with extra effort, and that effort and polish together means this kind of Linux integration is something we won't see very often outside of boutique OEMs.

This is not extra effort, though. The same effort is required to make their Windows computers work. What you are experiencing is the realization that for most computers, there is no effort made to have them run linux well

Linux's biggest problem is one of perception. Because people are used to their Windows and Mac computers "just working", they think that is the steady-state of OSes, and that Linux is somehow failing to achieve normalcy.
Especially when the general public main source of intel is flipping to CNN or Fox between a Honey Boo Boo commercial breaks.
But more importantly Google doesn't know what kind of content something is. Or what questions the content answers.

I'm not sure I agree with this. Google may not know it explicitly but it can effectively know it, perhaps in some cases even better than the average human would if given the same search keys. It is the difference between knowing what a word means by the way people actually use it versus by looking it up in the dictionary.

Google essentially crowdsources its results, taking advantage of the fact that people entering similar queries probably have similar intentions. If your users are only using keywords, with little regard for word order, I don't see how you can do better than Google on average. You may do better for obscure queries where the best search result can not be easily inferred from the keywords present, but how pages are like this? Furthermore, if there are a set of keywords where semantic analysis suggests page A is the best result but the page that most people actually click on is page B, which do you return first? What if your index doesn't even have B? This will be challenge you will face when trying to do better than Google on average. Nevertheless, I applaud your work and will definitely keep Samuru at the ready for the queries that Google struggles on.
I repeated the experiment and got different results than yours. (woot, science!)

http://imgur.com/ghYKH7K shows my results. I can't reproduce the ones you describe.

Regional variations might account for the differences. Do you live in a place where people don't eat ribs? (If so, please accept my sincere condolences)
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That would be my biggest turnoff. I would say more developers dislike that anyone else, so I'm baffled by the fact it has one.
I can't believe there is no mention of Ceylon here. Ceylon has an elegant approach to this using union types.

Typesafe null and flow-dependent typing

There's no NullPointerException in Ceylon, nor anything similar. Ceylon
requires us to be explicit when we declare a value that might be null,
or a function that might return null. For example, if name might be null,
we must declare it like this:

String? name = ...

Which is actually just an abbreviation for:

String|Null name = ...

An attribute of type String? might refer to an actual instance of String,
or it might refer to the value null (the only instance of the class Null).
So Ceylon won't let us do anything useful with a value of type String?
without first checking that it isn't null using the special if (exists ...)
construct.

void hello(String? name) {
if (exists name) {
print("Hello, ``name``!");
}
else {
print("Hello, world!");
}
}

From http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/1.0/introduction/
In the industry a hell of a lot of people think it was a marketing trick, not a mistake. I'm leaning that way too, based on my knowledge of people within Razer (though I should point out that while I know plenty of people there, I don't have any specific knowledge about this situation, just speculation).

To pull this off purposefully wouldn't even have to be too expensive, we have no way of knowing whether they are honouring thousands of orders or a couple of hundred. And regarding margins, a hell of a lot of the costs associated with a typical product sale come from distribution (the distributor takes a cut, the retailer/etailer takes a cut, plus MDF marketing costs), so this deal being through the Razer site will certainly help keep the losses down.

Also side note to jamornh: the Blade isn't available in the UK yet, so bad example - but your point still stands, 90% is definitely a loss.
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Got a link to the Dell site? I cannot find it. I did a search for "XPS developer edition" and it shows up, but the link is a 404. :-/
For what it's worth that's two seconds between when one signal was unexpectedly cut, detected, shifted to the other, windows scaled up for a mulimedia stream and the app buffered enough to decide to start playing audio again.

Something considered a two second handoff is going to result in a far longer stream interruption than that in any method I've seen used especially considering the app is not assisting with the process or getting state transition info which it could be if built with mptctp aware libs.
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Err, I thought verlet was just an integration technique? How does it translate into a "very different beast"?
There is a physics engine for threejs- it's somewhere on their demo page. I'm actually working on a physics engine as well- I'm willing to help you extend it in whatever direction.

A question, Why did you chose Verlet integration? I know it's great for particles but I always had issues trying to do angular mechanics.
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Starting programming on python? This could be useful.
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You shouldn't have to install Facebook to play any game. So you lost me 5 seconds in.
add to this, a demo page (when applicable). I find it very helpful, as people will have a direct view on the project while seeing it in action, and saves them the time to clone, compile/run the project and test it.
Something went terribly wrong. It has the Windows key on the keyboard!
Wish she had some screencasts.
Every macbook power supply (cable) will split and fray within two-three years (depending on use). However, here in Norway they have a 5 year (goverment mandated) warranty, so no problems just bringing it in and going back out with a brand new adapter.
Does this mean that Tsarnev has the right to remain silent and just won't be told about it, or does the public safety exemption mean he can actually be compelled to speak?
| I'm just a lowly peasant who has no say in
| the political process

You could just start a group based around your ideas. Once you get enough people together the group becomes a political force.

| Well if the FBI has to release photos to the public
| for people they were already well aware of

You do realize that there was a shoot-out with police, in addition to multiple other felonies committed after they released those photos. The guy doesn't even need to be convicted of the bombing to spend serious time behind bars.

Additionally, they don't need to know who someone is to have evidence that they did something. They could have a video of him planting the bomb, for example. Just because they don't know who it is in the video doesn't mean that they don't have evidence once they connect the face with a name.
Extremely interesting links, thank you. Was anything significant ever built on this model?
It depends on the manufacturer. For example, I haven't had any issues running Linux on ThinkPads (currently T420).

Also, in my experience, there's a higher chance of Linux compatibility if you stick to the business lines.
Regarding the trackpad, I had a regression going from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 a couple of years back where the trackpad would freeze without fail during the first few minutes after booting. It took a couple of weeks for an update to fix it. The general support level seems to be improving now though.
Damn you Norwegians have it good! :D
http://i.imgur.com/MPDDoht.jpg

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Less catchy of a title?
Actually, I think not.
If you don't buy a brand because of previous flaws, then you don't buy products of any brand out there. Remember the power supply of Macbook Pro taking fire? Guess that's even worse.
I think this article shows that Ubuntu is suitable for the desktop world if manufacturers support it. Am pretty impressed that someone who seems to have had problems with Ubuntu before actually likes it.
So you agree that it doesn't matter who the author is?
Verlet integration uses an object's change in position at time t to determine the velocity for t+1- it is typically used for particles not full rigid bodies.
Google helps when you don't exactly know what's the name of the thing you're looking for. That's in my case 85% of all searches.
I often see arguments like these that basically go "well if only some extraneous event would have gone slightly differently said person would not have had to resort to this". The propensity to lay blame to pathetically extraneous phenomena, and remove all idea of human agency from analysis is representative of our modern "touchy-feely" idea that if only we'd all love and hug and sing kumbaya, bad stuff wouldn't happen. WRONG. At the end of the day, this guy - of his own will - decided to harm others by the multitudes. They strategically picked a venue with an incredibly large gathering and they CHOSE to commit this horrendous act. Now I'm not saying you're wrong and that the stigma of being a "loser" in immigrant communities may indeed been a factor in leading them to commit such a heinous attack on other human beings. What I'm saying is it's no excuse for it and if that's the case, then every homeless guy, riff-raff, and just anyone who plain isn't satisfied with their lives should feel free to commit mass murder 'coz y'know "they made me a monster". At the end of the day, while extraneous phenomena should be taken into account in analyzing a situation, the deed that gets done, usually is done out of one's agency.
If you're wondering whether it's worth it, definitely sounds like it probably isn't for you. Like all fulfilling things in life (I imagine like getting a PhD, eg.), it's freakin' hard-- so you better go after the things that you think will be worth it & more, IMHO.
Insert obligatory "year of the linux desktop" wisecrack.
He's also stated a few times that the only thing he likes about it is the screen. Everything else is merely meh. Of course, he then went on to say the screen was so awesome that it easily made up for everything else.

Still, I'd kinda call that a glowing review by Linus, since he has a bit of a habit of hating stuff for the smallest of reasons. Even being "meh" without drawing his wrath is kinda an accomplishment.
It's the UI that's the worst aspect of gimp. I must admit I hate photoshop as well - it's just as bad. I much prefer paint shop pro for doing light graphics stuff - it's much more intuitive for the most part, and takes a lot less time to do stuff.
I don't disagree, really. Some positions obviously aren't made for "unicorns" but, that said, have found that just because someone is brilliant doesn't mean they're necessarily a pain in the ass.
Not quite every aspect, but the lion's share, yes. Precisely so.
Thanks! Not sure what you mean by "exit money," but hey-- I'll take it.
I think the extra effort he means is that Dell had to hack in additional fixes for the trackpad, wifi, bluetooth and monitor brightness: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-hwe-team/+archive/sputnik-k... . They were all merged upstream, but if Dell had not done it, it would have been the customer spending hours on google or reading through threads on the ubuntu forums (I can speak from experience).
thanks Jonathan!
The parent also said that particular app is well established and that his newer apps do not fair as well. While paid apps might not be dead, they are significantly harder to get noticed these days as he also mentioned.
I actually had to return two of those and got my money back at the end. The screen can never be truly black which is a "no go" if you spend half of your workday in the terminal. Other than this, it's not so bad. Oh, some of the keys are unevenly illuminated. Anyway, it's definitely a bit cheaper than MacBook Air, but for a good reason, I think. Unfortunately, only Apple pays tons of attention to every little detail. The only great (but heavily underspec'd) laptop I've found was Aspire S7. The new Kira laptop from Toshiba looks decently, but we gotta see and touch it to tell.
Totally-- hard when you're starting out, but definitely starts to click over time... thanks Cole!
Great idea. I'd actually submit Rochester, NY as a candidate (I'm from there, but live in Seattle now). The property taxes are high, but the cost of living is very low, power is very cheap, land is cheap and there is RIT and University of Rochester right there pumping out fantastic engineers (an hour away is University of Buffalo, not quite as good, but has a few gems). I know a few people doing startups there (it's tough because of funding, but these guys self fund). It's also not too far from Boston / NYC if you needed to grab people from there.
I'm not a designer, so this may be terribly ignorant, but looking at some of the packaging materials in those photos made me wonder: did Microsoft's push for "flat UI" design start a trend? Or did someone else do it before them? I feel like I've been seeing it everywhere now.