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I believe that's 400 people who told Peter that they would be possibly interested in contributing something back when he first floated the idea. I was one of those 400, but when th…

Which distribution of Linux? Do you use compositing? If so, what compositing window manager are you using? What's your typical uptime? Do you use multi-monitor? Have you used an 80…

Oh! It's so easy. I can't believe I didn't think to do that before. ... but every time I do find a bug, I am surprised to find it. Thus it stands to reason there are bugs I have no…

Hail, god amongst men. Once upon a time I thought I was a very good C programmer. Today I know myself to be a terrible programmer. I surround myself with safety mechanisms such as …

To say that wingo has forgotten that systems software needs to be written is both insulting and flat-out wrong. He is a language implementor (Guile). Of course he knows that it is …

Oh, and I forgot that I had to disable powersave for the iwlagn driver in order to get any kind of performance out of it. I'm using the Intel 6300AGN; I tried to buy a 6200AGN from…

tl;dr: don't believe it, at least not for any recent Intel ThinkPads. I have the ThinkPad T420 with Sandy Bridge graphics that they list as "Certified" under 11.04. This is at best…

Intel fabs chips here. They assemble electronics in China. Edit: And that's assuming that they assemble electronics at all, which I wouldn't bet on.

"Also, I think the parent post was referring to the fact that Steve Jobs is now CEO of Apple which IIRC does most of their manufacturing overseas (SE Asia)." Does Apple have any ma…

"And the US can still complete as both a low-cost and a world-class manufacturer." Assuming that you're referring to the type of electronics manufacturing that NeXT was doing at it…

I'm assuming that you have relatively recent experience in order to make this kind of statement. If you are happy with the cost, quality, capability and flexibility of your US-base…

Hidden features in a programming language? Granted, most of these aren't "hidden", but they're nonobvious because the language is incredibly complex and it's difficult to predict f…

Isn't this the whole problem? 90% of the web is crap. If Google can't deliver the non-crap, I'll be looking elsewhere.

Beyond the flood of SEO spam and Demand Media-style content mills, there's another search quality problem I have with Google: torrent sites. I will frequently search on the exact n…

This is HN, so I'll give an example related to my startup. We make a wireless (802.11g) flash drive called the AirStash, which works like an ordinary USB SD card reader on a PC and…

Not that I've seen, but I might have a different view of what constitutes an organized crime syndicate than you do.

Ah, but we did live through it in the '80s with the satanic abuse hoax, and we didn't learn anything. In fact, the people involved in pushing the hoax were rewarded with higher off…

"since Colin presumably doesn't want to raise his prices to pay for actual review" Speaking as a Tarsnap user, he ought to. The service is seriously underpriced right now.

As I said, 0x lambdas can do that... ... but you probably shouldn't: don't use a macro where a function will suffice, and if you need to use a macro, write a macro that syntactical…

Yes, it'd work with 0x lambdas; however, the situations where this occurs in C are much less common in C++. Consider the "max" example given, as written in C++: template T max(T a,…

``I would presume it saying "the power brick is defective" is a really, really good specification about what the exact problem is with regard to a "safety issue."'' I'm suspicious …

It wouldn't be self-regulated; there are already laws about declaration of origin on products. The "Made in China" stickers on devices aren't there because the manufacturer is givi…

"I am willing to pay more money if you build your products in the US / Europe / Japan" No, you aren't. Well, you might be; I don't know what your means are, but you probably aren't…

Maybe it'd be a one time fee for somebody like Cisco that can afford the intermediate CA process, but I've looked into this for my own company and there's no way we can afford this…

Perry doesn't work for VMware. He has his own business that offers training on VMware products.