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I think this may be the first practical use of QR codes that I've seen, nice!

first rule of usenet. come on people..

i think you might want a better font for the "I use it" links, they were difficult to read on my screen (it could also be the contrast between the text color and button color)

I think we have gotten to the point where "irregardless" is acceptable, it's been used for 100 years and is in just about every dictionary.

Hm, not a lot of linux laptop love so far so I'll throw my hat in. Last December I bought a ASUS U31 (U31SD-A1 Intel Core i3 2310M 2.10GHz 13.3" 4GB Memory 640GB HDD NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M) and I absolutely love it.

The only thing that didn't work with stock ubuntu was the optimus video but with bumblebee it's fine, i only use it to switch off the nvidia anyway since 2d works fine on the intel chip. Also if you give windows a partition it's great for games too.

10 hours of battery life which is probably the most important feature. I never need to worry about bringing a charger when i travel on the weekends. I decided to replace the internal drive with an intel SSD which was spendy, but even after that the price was well below 1k.

It does, the video says ~7 days on one charge. Not bad but not great either.

I'm not sure how this is any different than a pastebin service over https. The data is encrypted in teh browser meaning that someone won't be able to snoop (if that's a concern for some reason) but there is nothing stopping the server admins from seeing your data as long as the server is storing the encrypted data and the decryption keys. Am I missing something?

If Daisey's story wasn't politically charged, if it was just a whimsical autobiographical human interest story I wonder if people would care as much? I think everything I've read indicated that most if not all things he described actually happened, just not in the way he described or to him. Does it matter that much how he tells it? I don't really think it does personally, to me it was just an enjoying story and even now it didn't sound like he was creating fabrications out of nothing. Ira wants him to to be more explicit about what is truth and what is fiction but does he demand it because this crosses the line from theater into journalism? Since these autobiographical dramatic performances are a regular occurrence on the TAL maybe they should start putting disclaimers on each one? I wonder how much Sedaris and other contributors exaggerate and invent for the sake of comedy and drama?

I feel like the default twitter bootstrap color and style scheme is starting to get ridiculously overused, maybe it's all the new startup sites using it or maybe it's because I've been looking at a lot of hacker news links. I doubt that's the feedback you were looking for though :)

Nice! Happy to hear that there is another person running Linux. I honestly get a good 10 hours (or at least that's what the power manager reports). It boots so fast with SSD I don't think I'll ever go back :)

Last December I bought a ASUS U31 (U31SD-A1 Intel Core i3 2310M 2.10GHz 13.3" 4GB Memory 640GB HDD NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M) and I absolutely love it. I don't know if the same model is available but I would definitely look into it if you can find it. For Linux I use Mint and you although it uses the Optimus stuff for video bumblebee works great. You don't need to run in NVidia mode to get 3D effects either I only use bumblebee to turn it off. I get 10hours+ of battery life, the keyboard is awesome (chicklet style). I did replace the internal drive with an SSD drive which makes it boot much faster, less than 5 seconds. Also dual boot windows for games and the NVidia graphics are great for that.

EDIT: removed some of my !!!!s since they made this sound like it was written by a teenage girl. (I really do love this laptop)

not in the tech industry...

I would hesitate putting my head against a flat surface, maybe sitting down would be a better alternative assuming that a few broken bones are OK but serious head trauma is a lot worse.

i doubt this audience is going to be receptive to a site that requires a facebook login. it's probable you have other demographics in mind though.