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Or you get used to it early by moving to a place like Adelaide, Australia, where you 3 or so have 42C plus days in a row in summer and they already have built a desalination plant during the last proper drought.

For all the people dealing with shitty dell customer support on the phone, try using their @dellcares twitter account. Had a broken acreen glass and later a faulty fan on my 2014 xps 13, and they sent around a technician each time, all via twitter. Much less painfull than hanging on the phone. Excellent customer support.

Or, like when I interviewed once at a very large broadcasting org, they put you in a meeting room with a laptop (windows 7 which I never used before, bad keyboard, bad editor, no internet or reference), give you some half arsed questions and piss off for 30 minutes without you being able to ask what they actually want. Then 10 minutes later someone else comes in and asks you what the hell you're doing in that meeting room, you have no way to contact your interview partner, no idea where he went, they hassle you for about 10 minutes about it, and when your interviewer comes back you haven't been able to even get into the task, let alone write some code ...

Waste of time also, especially if you factor in a 2 hour commute each way.

haven't tried yet, i think samsung sells an hdmi thing that needs power via usb and connects to the galaxy tab micro usb port.

Question is whether the tablet could only mirror it's own resolution on linux, or run at a higher monitor resolution, with usb connected mouse and keyboard. That's make it a really useful device all of a sudden.

Well I have two candidate devices, a Z3 and a Samsung galaxy tab s2. Is there a way to hook up a second screen somehow?

he said a sony phone, but which one did he use?

Works well, but I cannot figure out to browse the likes of follwers and followees, which is one of my main ways of discovery. So back to the website.

Yep, an article from 2012 is totally accurate and nothing has happened since.

I'm not into php dev anymore, by any means, but glancing at the improvements that have come through lately, even i have to admit that there's been a massive leap from 5.3 or so.

Of course, a society where tuition fee is not totally free market is automatically socialist. Like Germany.

Am I missing something, or is what the article describes something that doesn't look that far from from React components, really, minus many of its benefits like shadow dom, being reactive, JSX being easier than strings?

So you render all this on the server, and then the client does what, or are is this only targeting static pages?

Just build the dom in JS, like so: React.createElement( string/ReactClass type, [object props], [children ...] )

I was wondering the same. The original chance wasn't mentioned, only that it increases by 87%.

Maybe include an instruction on which keys I am meant to be using to move around?

I couldn't figure it out because I died to fast every time, and gave up after 3 or 4 tries.

To give a counter example, I run Ubuntu 14.04 on a NUC with a Dell U2713H via displayport and a samsung 24 inch via HDMI. The whole thing was a matter of install, and be ready to go. No command line dances needed.

I think it comes down to picking hardware that is supported well, i.e. Intel stuff. Apple of course for the most part knows it's hardware and doesn't have to include a gazillion drivers for graphics boards of all make and model.

I have been in the business for 15 years now.I started as the guy that did the table-and-frameset static websites, and if I look back now there's a myriad of things that I had to learn and 75% of that I have probably forgotten again. The myriad of protocols, languages, frameworks, toolkits that you have to keep up to date with. Fashions in what the devs think is cool and what the customers ask for.

The most amazing thing to me however is what the browser and web technology now allow you to do. The way I see it, browsers are not document viewers anymore, they are akin to operating systems, and the web dev skills you have let you make awesome stuff you'd never dream of 10 years ago.

I have been tinkering with packaged chrome apps and UPNP, and in my mind it's nuts that I can do this, me, the humble web developer.

So to echo one of the sibling posts here: Just go and build something. Doesn't matter what. In the end what matters is whether people use your software or not. If you blogged and it made a difference, don't let anybody rubbish that for you. You're already a cut above the rest.

No problem. I am tinkering with them anyways. My github handle is @pascalopitz

Great work. You should totally bake that into an installable chrome app. Hit me up if you need any help ;)

try using a newer kernel, fixed a lot of issues for my xps13 (not the latest revision).

http://askubuntu.com/questions/119080/how-to-update-kernel-t...

I so very much hope you are right.

Personally I perceive the shift to a more and more locked down platform (appstore, gatekeeper) a betrayal of the crowd that made OSX a viable desktop alternative through early adoption. I refuse to accept that I have to sign up to the app store before I can get a compiler (xcode).

So I canned OSX for a 2014 xps13 after my most recent mbp meltdown, and finally put my money where my mouth is.

The pain is obviously when I need an iDevice simulator. Unlike MS with its IE compatibility images, Apple hasn't yet taken steps to make this available for everyone.

> The idea that German drivers are aware or tolerant of bikes is absolutely ridiculous – though of course they may be more aware and tolerant than Australian bikers, but I don’t know that (:

Trust me, they are.

Do you think there is a correlation between lack of usable infrastructure (even in the past) and rule breaking?

When I grew up in Germany, infrastructure was good and people obeyed traffic signs etc, when I lived in London it was every man for himself, as abiding by the rules was often more dangerous than not, and sometimes not even possible.

I am talking about perceived risk of cycling as a hyperbole vs actual risks that don't get mentioned. I'm pretty sure more people get killed by cars mounting the sidewalk.

In the overall road toll, hardly any fatalities are caused by cyclists. In fact, most accidents involving cyclist are caused by drivers.[1]

Don't get me wrong, all of it counts and is sad and regrettable. I do however think there is an anti-cyclist bias ingrained in the perception and reporting of it's dangers, that's out of whack with the real numbers on accidents.

[1] http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/cyclesafety/article3758...

Very sad. However, you kind of made my point. That amounts to 0.8 pedestrian fatalities a year caused by cyclists, with a population of 8.4 million people.

The transgression of cycling through a red light is much more visible than lets say speeding, mobile phone or dangerous driving. Yet it is also much less dangerous than any of those things. Even if we assume that there is a massive level of red light jumping going on part of the Sydney cyclists, fatalities or serious injury as a result of this are extremely rare. Sadly the same cannot be said for cars hitting people.

While I totally understand that it must've felt menacing to nearly have been hit by a bicycle, do you _really_ think it would've killed you?

I also think that cyclists shouldn't ride at speed on the sidewalk, but even if, cyclists causing pedestrian fatalities is extremely rare. It has happened, but it's statistically insignificant when compared to cars killing pedestrians.

There is a big difference between getting hit by 90kg at 30km/h vs 1900kg at 45km/h.

Got any hard numbers on the menace part, and how it compares to cars as dangerous machines, or is that just anecdotal "evidence"?

From what I have seen Sydney has a really obnoxious anti-cycling culture and a dismal level of cycling infrastructure.

Sadly I get an error "Cannot find module './block-statement.js"

Good call!

This must be karma for bitching about Apple, but I just opened the lid of my XPS13 and it has a crack in it. I cannot believe it. It feels like groundhog day!

In any case, I shall report back on how they handle it. Fired off a twitter message to @DellCares and they asked me for the service tag. Go on Dell, impress me!