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I agree with you, but there is a flip side. More people might start asking themselves what the point of Windows is, since everything they need is available on Linux.

"Why bother paying the Windows tax? Everything I need runs on Linux natively."

Threats of job security might not be the only threat they see. In a society with a lot of automation where you need a high level of education just to get a job, taking in a lot of unskilled immigrants means very few of them will be able to land a job, and overall poverty will rise.

Poverty is detrimental to societal security.

I would recommend that you just use the US layout when coding. It's not like you need åäö when writing source code. The only time I use the Swedish layout is when writing emails or chatting, and a keyboard shortcut to change layouts quickly solves that for me.

Kickstarter campaigns often charge people extra money for getting access to Alpha and Beta builds. People are impatient, many want stuff sooner rather than later, so they pay for it.

You could offer a modified version of this; allow premium customers access to new features earlier, but roll out the updates to your free subscribers eventually as well. After a delay of 3 months perhaps?

It will gently encourage people to upgrade, but those who don't want to pay won't feel cheated as they will get the features eventually as well.

Fair enough, I'm surely being overly sensitive here. It's just that, here in Sweden at least, being 'lactose intolerant' suggests there is something wrong with you, when the truth in fact is just that your lactase persistence[1] is more akin to that of the rest of the world.

It carries connotations here. I'd say it does in the US as well, given the jokes about it I've seen on shows like the Big Bang Theory.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence

From my own experience, I'd say that the right amount of salt is highly dependent on your diet. For example, when I restrict my carb intake I notice I need to add more salt to my food or I will get cramps and feel generally dehydrated. Drinking more water doesn't help, I just go to the bathroom more often. Adding more salt to my food works, however.

Unfortunately, I can find absolutely no scientific evidence to back this theory up. I just try to listen to the signals from my body, and it works for me.

I don't like the term "lactose intolerant". It implies that having difficulty digesting lactose is differentiating you from some loosely defined norm.

In fact, the opposite is true[1]. As the article states, being able to digest lactose is a recent genetic adaption. What it doesn't state is that still, even in the West, a lot of people experience lower tolerance to lactose as a natural process of aging.

I would therefore say that the correct way of labeling it is that adults in general have different levels of _lactose tolerance_.

Anecdotally, I can add that my level of lactose tolerance was very low for two years after drinking half a liter of milk that was two weeks old (don't ask). I assume that it severely messed up my small intestine. After I cut carbs and gluten from my diet for a month and a half, I could suddenly digest lactose again. As with lactose intolerance, I believe gluten intolerance is a misnomer, as all people are sensitive to excessive amounts of gluten, though here the case is not nearly as clear cut. My intestine finally being able to repair itself might instead be due to the fact that I didn't eat many carbs at all during this period, and so avoided the gastro-intestinal allergens known as FODMAPs[2]. Wheat contains the FODMAP fructan, which might be the reason many people say they feel better on a gluten free diet[3].

[1]: http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/04/03/over-75-of-ea...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FODMAP

[3]: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/22/314287321/sensit...

Just put Linux on it. Seriously.

My sister and I have the same Zenbook, and while my trackpad runs like a dream in Elementary OS, her trackpad is among the worst I've ever had the displeasure of using on a laptop -- and this is solely due to the shitty Windows drivers.

She's been nagging me to put Linux on her computer as well, and once Freyja is released, I will.

Seriously. Copyright infringement _is not stealing_. It has even been decided in court:

http://falkvinge.net/2013/12/23/reminder-1-copyright-monopol...

Stop abusing the word.

Fair enough. But I would also wager that a vast, vast amount of piracy is of big studio content, and not the small startup-like businesses you are arguing for.

Calling it stealing is wrong. The producer of an item doesn't lose the original item when someone _copies_ it, compared to e.g. stealing somebody's car.

At most, you could argue that the producer loses an opportunity for a sale, but I think you would have a difficult time proving that. It is far more likely that the potential consumer would just refrain from procuring the item if it were not available for free (as a copy).

I'm surprized nobody has provided a link to Dell's XPS 13 "Developer edition" laptop.

http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt...

I bought one after using an Asus UX31E for two years and the Dell laptop is better in almost every aspect. To wit:

* 1080p IPS screen

* 5+ hours of battery

* An amazing keyboard (imho better than Macbook keyboards, which are by many considered among the best laptop keyboards)

* Weight is only 1.36 kg

* Comes with Linux (Ubuntu) pre-installed

The only thing I preferred with my Zenbook was its trackpad, which was smooth and metallic, since my sweaty fingers have a tendency to stick on the XPS trackpad. On the other hand, I _hated_ the Zenbook keyboard, and would choose a good keyboard over a good trackpad any day.

> What prevents me from considering Linux as a desktop or laptop OS includes: horrible battery life times (worse than half for a friend's thinkpad when compared to it running Windows), how difficult it is to get Bluetooth and Wifi working, really bad multi-touch for trackpads.

Not sure where you are coming from, to be honest.

Bluetooth and Wifi have unerringly worked out of the box for me since 2009 or so.

While multi-touch, and the trackpad in general, is _horrible_ on my Asus UX31E Zenbook in Windows, it is very pleasant to use in Linux.

As for power savings, have a look at TLP: http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-linux-advanced-power-man...

Using TLP, battery life on my laptop is about the same as in Windows.

This can be fixed by editing your pulseaudio settings:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#Automaticall...

I do agree, though, that it is weird that this is not enabled by default.

This, so much this.

People say I'm weird when I say I don't follow, nor care to follow the mainstream news. It seems hard for them to understand that I gain nothing from "keeping up to date with current events".

It's all just so much pain and misery, and I can't speak for anyone else, but my life is better without it. I prefer to seek out my own news, pertaining to things I like or am interested in. Hacker News (the irony of the name is not lost on me), for example, is very relevant to most of my interests.

1. When I set up Git on my Linux server only the user that initiated the repo had access to it. It was too locked down, seeing as external users didn't even have read/cloning permission. (A minimal amount of googling solved all my problems, though.) Your problem sounds to me as another PEBCAC on the part of your coworker.

2. I'm not making all the assumptions you claim. First of all, as soon as you clone a repo you have a local copy. You need this clone in order to be able to even work with the code, so it would be quite weird if employees deleted their clone after editing, committing, and pushing their changes. I'm not even sure what you mean with "mix it in with their code". It's a VCS -- if you don't like a change reverting it is trivial.

All in all, I understand why users might have problems with Git. It has a steep learning curve. I think it has a horrible command line UI. It might not have worked well for your company, even if you had a competent admin set up the repos. However, I would prefer if you could argue your point based on the actual merits and faults of Git, rather than based on ignorance.

> We decided to leave it when we realized any individual coder could wipe out our local repository with a wrong command.

What?

1) You can configure your repo so only select users may use destructive commands on certain branches.

2) It's a _distributed_ content versioning system. Even if someone wiped out the main, "central", repository, all users will have a full local copy, a backup in effect.

Git has a horrible UI in many ways, but your apparent dislike of it smells more of incompetence and a naive buy-in of the full Microsoft ecosystem than anything else.

BTW, I didn't know what TFS was before checking on Wikipedia, but -- somewhat ironcially given your gripe -- TFS seems to have decent support for Git[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Foundation_Server#Git

[EDIT]: formatting

No, I would say showing screenshots from all "supported" platforms is a good idea. The cost is very low, and preventing people from feeling marginalized is a win for you and your software.

Anecdotally, I can say that I am going to have a look at the software, and this just because the author was willing to consider us Linux users.

Yeah, sorry, but that's you. I can bring my own anecdotal evidence to the table and say that for me, compilation, linking and algorithms were very secondary to the thrill of typing in "commands" to the computer and have it do all the work for me automagically. Programming, which I learned in college, was a very pleasant method of getting around all that boring math by letting me figure out how to solve the problem and then having my computer do the mechanical calculations.

I never understood why people usually rush to board the plane, only to end up sitting in a cramped airplane chair and breathing stuffy air.

I usually opt to sit and wait outside the gate until I can assume that most people have gotten to their seats inside the plane and won't crowd the aisle. The seats are assigned anyway, it's not like I'd get a better spot by being early. So why not wait outside where there's plenty of space and (usually) fresher air?

No, the only reason I can think of is that people want to make sure they have place for their oversized carry on (as the article alludes to). If that's the case I have no sympathy for them, and hope they all get stuck next to a fat person with a cold.

Wheeler might not be the problem. But the Obama White house isn't the root of the problem, either. The American two party duocracy is. Sadly, it seems that the only viable option is to vote for either of two equally corrupt parties.

Actually, the world is getting to the height of how humans were pre-agriculture, at around 6 feet. As Asia and ancient Rome has proven, high carb low protein diets do not make for great height.

There is also reason to believe that a height in great excess of 6 feet is not optimal, however. Our physiology - bones and joints - don't allow for it.

Finally! While I like GOG, other distributors like Steam, humble bundle and desura have Linux support, so I've bought games from them instead. I'm glad GOG decided they want my business again.

All my computers run UEFI if possible, and all of them run Linux.

I have no problems with UEFI whatsoever; in fact, I think it's a nice improvement to the dated BIOS technology. The Microsoft thing called "Secure Boot" might pose a problem, but I never activate that anyway.

People need to stop confounding UEFI with Secure Boot.

You inadvertently proved his point:

"This item is not available in your country".

The doctors were uneducated, he was not at all becoming pre-diabetic.

Misrepresenting much? We don't count carbs in lettuce. We generally don't count carbs at all. We just stick to eating lots of above ground vegetables, lots of fat, and only slightly increased levels of protein compared to a regular "balanced" diet.

Oh, and we avoid refined sugar for the plague it is.

But it might work differently in your part of the world.

So your reference is a guy posting stuff on a blog? Well, here's a counter for you: I've lost 7 kgs on a ketogenic (low carb, high fat) diet. I eat as much as I want until I feel full. And according to body measurement scans, I lost mostly visceral fat and almost no muscle, which is amazing.

Yeah, try telling me you get fat from eating proteins and fat.

There is already a patch out for Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1274349

Both. Squatting makes your bowels more relaxed which helps emptying them: http://wellnessmama.com/wp-content/uploads/InfluenceofBodyPo...