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I think this may be the first practical use of QR codes that I've seen, nice!

first rule of usenet. come on people..

i think you might want a better font for the "I use it" links, they were difficult to read on my screen (it could also be the contrast between the text color and button color)

I think we have gotten to the point where "irregardless" is acceptable, it's been used for 100 years and is in just about every dictionary.

Hm, not a lot of linux laptop love so far so I'll throw my hat in. Last December I bought a ASUS U31 (U31SD-A1 Intel Core i3 2310M 2.10GHz 13.3" 4GB Memory 640GB HDD NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M) and I absolutely love it.

The only thing that didn't work with stock ubuntu was the optimus video but with bumblebee it's fine, i only use it to switch off the nvidia anyway since 2d works fine on the intel chip. Also if you give windows a partition it's great for games too.

10 hours of battery life which is probably the most important feature. I never need to worry about bringing a charger when i travel on the weekends. I decided to replace the internal drive with an intel SSD which was spendy, but even after that the price was well below 1k.

It does, the video says ~7 days on one charge. Not bad but not great either.

I'm not sure how this is any different than a pastebin service over https. The data is encrypted in teh browser meaning that someone won't be able to snoop (if that's a concern for some reason) but there is nothing stopping the server admins from seeing your data as long as the server is storing the encrypted data and the decryption keys. Am I missing something?

Politics in the general sense of politics of power and social activism (not all politics need to involve governments). I didn't read the NYT article but I've probably read enough snippets online to get the gist of it. I guess I'm more skeptical of dramatic stage readings (which this was) more than the average guy on teh street. Also I have no doubts (probably can't prove) that Sedaris makes up stuff that never actually happened for the sake of drama and comedy. Non-fiction just isn't that funny (here is one link I found related to the topic http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/press_box/20...)

If Daisey's story wasn't politically charged, if it was just a whimsical autobiographical human interest story I wonder if people would care as much? I think everything I've read indicated that most if not all things he described actually happened, just not in the way he described or to him. Does it matter that much how he tells it? I don't really think it does personally, to me it was just an enjoying story and even now it didn't sound like he was creating fabrications out of nothing. Ira wants him to to be more explicit about what is truth and what is fiction but does he demand it because this crosses the line from theater into journalism? Since these autobiographical dramatic performances are a regular occurrence on the TAL maybe they should start putting disclaimers on each one? I wonder how much Sedaris and other contributors exaggerate and invent for the sake of comedy and drama?

I feel like the default twitter bootstrap color and style scheme is starting to get ridiculously overused, maybe it's all the new startup sites using it or maybe it's because I've been looking at a lot of hacker news links. I doubt that's the feedback you were looking for though :)

Nice! Happy to hear that there is another person running Linux. I honestly get a good 10 hours (or at least that's what the power manager reports). It boots so fast with SSD I don't think I'll ever go back :)

Last December I bought a ASUS U31 (U31SD-A1 Intel Core i3 2310M 2.10GHz 13.3" 4GB Memory 640GB HDD NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M) and I absolutely love it. I don't know if the same model is available but I would definitely look into it if you can find it. For Linux I use Mint and you although it uses the Optimus stuff for video bumblebee works great. You don't need to run in NVidia mode to get 3D effects either I only use bumblebee to turn it off. I get 10hours+ of battery life, the keyboard is awesome (chicklet style). I did replace the internal drive with an SSD drive which makes it boot much faster, less than 5 seconds. Also dual boot windows for games and the NVidia graphics are great for that.

EDIT: removed some of my !!!!s since they made this sound like it was written by a teenage girl. (I really do love this laptop)

not in the tech industry...

I would hesitate putting my head against a flat surface, maybe sitting down would be a better alternative assuming that a few broken bones are OK but serious head trauma is a lot worse.

i doubt this audience is going to be receptive to a site that requires a facebook login. it's probable you have other demographics in mind though.

I would say just because one culture is more inclined to sports and social activities doesn't mean it is racist to use these things as a discriminating factors. I don't think it's possible to argue that a selection criteria is racist unless the color of your skin is the sole discriminator.

> 100 top violin players in the same class, no matter how impressive their individual applications are. Instead, they want a complete and balanced orchestra, for example.

I agree that SAT scores shouldn't be the only factor, I disagree though if you are saying race can and should be factor. Where it's legal and appropriate to discriminate on say what instrument you play it is illegal (and most would agree immoral) to discriminate on race. Proving racial discrimination may be tricky in this case though.

My first impression of this site is that the hyperlink to information ration is way too high.

I'm thinking he gets a little bit of free labor out of his kids :)

Whether or not you agree with Rand Paul if you are for civil liberties, privacy, and tired of the nanny state then this episode is a good thing. Anything that casts the TSA in a bad light or gives media attention to these areas of concern are OK in my book.

It would be nice to see carrots to work on existing open source projects rather than new ones.

> If true, women should flock to tech startups and academia and avoid big banks/corporates/government. In reality, the opposite occurs.

Maybe you missed the part where she said she comes in a little before 9am and leaves by 5. :)

How much do families fit in the with culture of startup? Would it be odd for an employee to have to leave in the middle of the day to pick up sick kids at school? Will you be a "good fit" if sometimes your family responsibilities trump work. What is your desire and inner motivation at 50? It's probably a lot different than the 20yr and 30yr old startup culture. I would say if you are 50 yr old that fits in with the younger culture and have the necessary skills you will do just fine. The reality is though that you are probably at a much different place than the majority of startup employees. You have probably see enough to know how to best spend your time and your priorities are likely different than your peers. The guy doing the hiring knows all of this and where he won't directly use age as a factor in hiring he will take these other factors into consideration. good luck.

I don't see much use for this outside the send-a-password use-case. For that it seems like one of those things that might be convenient if I need to send a password/username to a buddy but for anything at all official I don't think you will get users. Most places don't want people going out to 3rd party sites for sensitive data.