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I'm very happy with xmonad. I'm running a very minimalistic desktop consisting of fast applications that do one thing, do it well, and can be controlled from the keyboard (zsh, urx…

It is also compulsory if you follow the International Baccalaureate program, under the name of Theory of Knowledge. I think this is extremely useful for future social / natural sci…

org-mode has a pretty good phone app for iPhone & Android for when you're on the road: http://orgmode.org/manual/MobileOrg.html

Well, Janellia is actually in my research area, so you pretty much nailed it.

The major problem with Academia (actually the Academia subset where I'm unfortunately stuck in) is entirely different. Here it is very rare that people above grad students and perh…

This would be brilliant. Does any other framework support this? (outside Clojure)

Thanks. Care to elaborate on this? It's difficult to leak details and make an impact. Academia is really screwed up. 90% of what gets published is a blatant lie, but nobody seems t…

I wholeheartedly agree with this. I work at one of the top cancer research labs in the world, and you'd be surprised how dysfunctional our organization has become. It's perfectly d…

As a zsh user, fish looks fantastic thanks to its lightness, responsiveness and default settings. I'm only slightly unhappy about fish requiring python (actually python2 in Arch Li…

Well, running a lightweight desktop helps. I cannot say how much, though. Try monitoring wakeups using powertop while your machine is iddling. Anything above 30 or 40 is bad.

If your connection drops often it's a nightmare.

I only recently discovered isync (mbsync), which is sad given that it is crazy fast and written by the mutt author. offlineimap is cool, but it is sadly quite slow and crashes ofte…

Mutt / Notmuch + isync (mbsync) / offlineimap works fine...

I always go back to mutt. It does one thing, read email, and it does it well. The key is to set it up appropriately. Don't use mutt for downloading your email, especially if you wa…

These are my energy tweaks for a 2008 MacBook, I don't have my x220 here, although they are machine independent: echo 5 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_wr…

Just 3 things: - Install powertop and enable all suggested tweaks - Depending on your kernel you should downclock your i915 graphics card and force pcie_aspm - Later kernels (>3.6?…

I'm not saying I would. I prefer the trackpoint. But they should provide a decent trackpad or get rid of it altogether. I don't need both. This would make more space for palmrest, …

Have you tried diagnosing with powertop?

It runs fine (i haven't tried many multitouch gestures). Most hardware is Intel (except wireless card, which is a b43, also supported). With a few simple tweaks I can achieve equal…

My favorite options are the Air (11 / 13) and Thinkpad x220. Other options include Thinkpad x230 (newer than the x220) but worse keyboard, x1 Carbon, Dell XPS, Chromebook Pixel, As…