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9 lat temudiscuss

Hmm, so after reading the article I searched for: dell linux laptop and clicked the first link to dell.com

On the product page for the 13 inch XPS Linux I saw a notification: "Sorry, this item is not available anymore for purchase online. Please see our recommended replacement product." And a quick Ctrl-f for 'recommended' or 'replacement' turned up nothing. When I went to the product browser and clicked Operating System the only choices were Windows 7 and Windows 10.

After this experience I'm not entirely convinced Dell actually sells Linux laptops.

9 lat temudiscuss

Interesting, what would you say are the legal / TOS ramifications of a service like this?

10 lat temudiscuss

For anyone interested in a surprisingly pleasant to use front-end MVC framework I am a huge fan of http://mithril.js.org/.

It espouses a (I believe?) slightly more traditional MVC interpretation where your Controllers are usually extremely light and in most cases completely optional. It encourages a MVVMC (Model View View-Model Controller) approach to encapsulate view-state.

11 lat temudiscuss

Hmm, today I learned America has never had a riot before.

Although I seem to distinctly remember my city of Philadelphia rioting pretty good after the Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series...

11 lat temudiscuss

I'm not sure; I think it's telling that Instagram, arguably one of the most popular / trafficked and supported (Facebook) websites out there, thinks it's unnecessary to even show an ERROR page if a browser has JS disabled.

12 lat temudiscuss

Hire better engineers?

12 lat temudiscuss

I don't understand whenever there is a HN article about some injustice being done to Tech Workers somewhere there inevitably be this post

> "I can't find sympathy for people making $x/yr."

Why not? Where do you draw the line of people deserving sympathy vs. those deserving none? If they made $59,999/yr would you "get worked up about their plight"? Can you point out an article on HN (ostensibly a site related to the Tech Industry, hence the posts about Tech Workers) about a factory closing down where there was explicitly no sympathy?

12 lat temudiscuss

I'm not a really vindictive person, but I'm so glad this guy is going to jail; hopefully for the rest of his life.

12 lat temudiscuss

What does how other countries deal with protests have anything to do with the US Army's guide to dealing with protests?

12 lat temudiscuss

I see no blame anywhere in the article, and claiming that:

> army people [...] are normally pretty isolated from social issues and don't have very well informed opinion of their own.

is both untrue and offensive.

EDIT, never mind I see you took the bold stance of commenting from a throwaway.

12 lat temudiscuss

How is the actual print / ink quality?

I recently took advantage of the Flickr 10 year (feels old man) anniversary to print a bunch of books and was disappointed with the quality of the pictures.

12 lat temudiscuss

It seems like they heavily turned on scroll acceleration. If I scroll 1 "click" of my mousewheel the scroll bar only move a tiny almost imperceptible amount.

If I scroll a lot the bar will fly off the top / bottom of the scrollable area and slowly come back.

Feels like it needs a little work.

12 lat temudiscuss

No one in the US goes to prison except low level drug offenders.

Everyone else is too big to jail.

12 lat temudiscuss

There was recently another post on HN about Machine Learning that was also presented on Wayfarer, the UI for this website is very confusing and many of the posts in that submission were also:

  * I don't know how to use this / using this is actively painful
  * Is this content sponsored by Wayfarer or just hosted on it?

Not sure what Wayfinder's use case is supposed to be? Also wayfinder.co has no about page or actual content to speak of.

12 lat temudiscuss

"In other words, no one had any reason to worry that Eich, a longtime executive at the company, would do anything that would negatively affect gay Mozilla employees."

You know, except for contribute to Prop-8?

12 lat temudiscuss

Typical people, using tired anti-other-people sentiment to make glaring generalizations.

Seriously, please take this nonsense elsewhere, many of us are well aware of the issues regarding law enforcement in this country.

12 lat temudiscuss

What about North Korea?

I think that's still just a slogan.

12 lat temudiscuss

True, but still seems like lying by omission, or at least for PR gain...

12 lat temudiscuss

I am not a graphics / engine programmer but I know a decent amount of what goes into programming a game, and I have to call "suspect" on the claim that low level graphics API programming was heretofore only available on game consoles like the Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360 and Microsoft Xbox One!