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I fly SFO JFK very often. VX34 there and VX27 or VX29 back are my rides of choice, since I hate layovers and prefer redeyes. The wifi is passable too (don't try to SSH over it, tho…

It's pretty straightforward, and as long as you don't modify the hardware it's completely reversible: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-fo...

> terminal with antialiased Source Code Pro Ligth font Just have an ssh-able desktop/VM somewhere with emacs, install https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec..…

Is your programming done via SSH to a linux desktop or VM? You can SSH from a chromebook no problem: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...

Operators and Things , a (supposed) first-person account of a schizophrenic who recovered from the condition and wrote about her experience. The second half of the book is where it…

A lot of people here are commenting on GitHub being 'overpriced' or 'greedy.' TPW did an interview a while ago that has insight into why their pricing structure is the way it is. I…

The BSD networking stack.

So I'm not sure if I understand correctly, but let me put it this way: with a little more git craziness, you can crack apart a commit and separate it into two. This is good if you …

> However, I could use rebase to start combining loosely related commits, trading the time resolution for clarity in the commit history. In general, your commits should be the smal…

This is great for people who are that organized. I'm not, so I like the 'just merge everything into master' mentality. See http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html

> The event-driven concurrency model makes it easier to write servers without worrying about race conditions and thread locks Well, no, you're just writing the locks yourself in an…

There's an interesting paper that came out of Stanford's WebBase project that might be helpful: http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/1/1999-66.pdf

> simple boolean logic A SAT solver[1] can automatically figure out a range of acceptable solutions for your conditions. 'I want this goal, is there a way to make that happen?' Sec…

I meant a physical wall clock, not an app. I suppose I could mount and iPad on my wall and run the app, but I don't want to spend several hundred dollars on a clock that will sue m…

On an unrelated note, I wish there was a wall clock with the real Swiss stop-to-go[1] action... Edit: and [2] would make for a great 11.5" laptop sticker [1] http://www.3quarks.com…

> on his resume. This is Apple. The resume will simply say 'worked at Apple Inc. developing software.'

Which one did you get? The Samsung 550 is the one to get IMO, the touchpad is pretty great.

+1 to the chromebook. It's now my main laptop (although I can't run windows/mac based linux software on it yet :/

"This program was originally written at Berkeley in the early 80s" This phrase gives me the same feeling I'd get from finding an old Thomas Bangalter track or something.

Mildly unrelated, but I wanted to point out the awesomeness of the K-map[1] for handling simple minimization problems like these. Unfortunately, once your dimensions get large it b…

> How can you make your HTML5 code as fast as native? https://developers.google.com/native-client/

Much easier to use blekko's 3-engine monte, since it strips formatting that might give away the source engine. Just add /monte at the end of a query: http://blekko.com/ws/hunger+ga…

Does anybody have any non-scribd links?