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"Welcome to Pathos II, your expressway to the stars. What started as a geothermal mining operation in the 60's has now become home to the Omega Space Gun."

Hey all, I saw a huge spike in traffic and tracked it back to HN. Thanks for caring.

Let me summarize a few points. I've tried to reply in-thread.

I recognize this approach isn't for everyone or for frequent air travelers, but I walk everywhere (live in SF) and like being able to take my hack context with me and pick it up wherever, whenever.

Yes there are risks: VPNs could tighten things up.

VIM is very fast, even over high latency.

Offline support is coming. I have an ubuntu running in the chromebook.

When did I ever suggest storing your SSN in the cloud was a good idea? Had I said that, I would agree, my point of view would be silly, but I didn't.

Did your regular workstation cost 250? Does it weigh virtually nothing so that you can tromp all about town easily?

Can you pick up your hacking session while at the apple store if you happen to have no computer whatsoever with you? That's worth a lot to me since i rarely travel and, if I do, my goal is to get away from computers.

Fair enough. I never travel, so the plane argument isn't really applicable. I also have linux running on this thing now so, i think that objection will go away soon.

And yes, the VPS/month is a cost, but I pay that anyway regardless the platform. I like having my contexts preserved and constant on a machine whose costs I can expense for tax purposes.

1. You should know vi comfortably. When you get on a low space embedded system vi will usually be there: emacs is too space prodigal and forget any GUIs.

2. But vi isn't the best for iOS dev or J2EE and I recognize this. But my work is usually CLI or web, so this works for me.

3. Offline: REcently I've gotten an ubuntu running in dual boot...so ... keep your eye on my site, I may post soon.

I don't think there's a market for a terminal product. I just want a terminal emulator that's pretty. Part of what I love about term + tmux development is precisely that it lacks so much visual noise.

The chrome book is extremely light. It was also 250, much cheaper and lighter than the lenovo.

I've also been able to use a local ubuntu on this machine, not that it matters too much since I'm on a VPS, but i guess on planes or something I can have code available to me by means of a git before i get on the flight (or cron or something similar).

I don't know what a system 76 is...

OP: after this there should be no complaints from Angular, Backbone, or Batman that Ember has insufficient documentation for building a real app. Between this and / or trek.github.com you should be good to build a serious Ember application.

A) Extend your runway – heh you may just find a reason to never leave, happens often there.

B) I don't know what your transit costs are going to be, SF has wonderful transit. You could make the investment in a Muni pass and be able to explore one of North America's most beautiful cities.

Many SF apartments include some of the utilities in the rent, just be savvy. SF, being an incredibly choosy market often forces 6-month or 12-month leases: this doesn't apply to you. You probably need to plan on getting a room in a house with some like-minded hackers

C) As Mark Twain said: The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. Think LAYERS.

D) Where's D go?

E) Absolutely not. Take a risk, work hard, and meet dangerous fun people. You can live a lot of fun in SF on the cheap because, well, not everyone can be rich as Lergei.

( link to web page was for context )

Very good factors you've provided here. My main concern is lack of portability of my dead-tree library. If I could save even /half/ the # of boxes to move I'd be much happier.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that they use a spell checker on this document and catch egregious errors like "Los Angels" and be it;

FURTHER RESOLVED they hire a decent copy-editor to notice further egregious errors like "closing tie."

I'm a bit surprised this is a top link off of HN, I remember it topping reddit many years ago – hardly hacker “news.”

As I said about this product then, taking 3 tabs of LSD should not be required before reading a “how to program in this language“ book. The cartoons are great, but if they had some bearing on the content e.g.

3.times{ puts 'chunky bacon' }

then I wouldn't feel so much like I was sitting through some performance from the gifted kid class which is sort of boring and semi-insulting: Why yes, imagining what it would be like to be a butterfly at Valley Forge is very creative, but is neither dramatic nor historically enlightening (cf. Beavis and Butthead watching Beck's “Pay no Mind”).

While many responses are going to be "yawn", especially in the face of the git juggernaut, a great many enterprise systems are locked into svn for the foreseeable future (given economic forecasts, IT departments aren't getting tons of budget for SCM migration / upgrade). Therefore a few extra features coming in are welcome...even if they don't begin with git-

I daresay this may be one of the big e/vi war points.

“Great application for emacs! Emacs rules!”

Vim user: Why the hell would you want to use an /editor/ to edit video? Use iMovie or something. If you want to edit TEXT then lets talk emacs v. vi.

I agree, and I should have said this, “Money as Debt” takes a conspiracy turn at about halfway. I'm a reminded of Adam Savage's "Do you mean Tesla the inventor of AC power, the genius or Tesla the nut-job?".

I very much liked your explanation in the third paragraph, but under this model what does interest represent? If I step through your logic here.....

1. I believe there is copper in that hill which has a value ( say of 60K ).

2. I ask the bank for 10K to get started

3. Thus 10K has been added to the economy, recognizing that raw materials will be brought to the economy and growing the pie of wealth

4. I go into them thar hills, mine out the copper for 60K.

5. I pay back the bank, who now has 10K actual cash in their reserves, against which they may lend. I have also put 50K of my sale of this copper in their bank, giving them 60K against which to lend.

6. At this point, I think we're balanced in terms of what's been added to the value pie.

7. OK, so what does interest represent? The opportunity cost on the hope that I would find the copper? And, alternatively, say I found nothing in those hills, what happens to that 10K that was created? Shouldn't that be destroyed?

I'm not disagreeing, but I'm trying to understand your model better.

I read _AS_ when I was 18 and I've thought about this quotation a lot through the last 20 months, as Reddit frothed about Ron Paul, Gold Standard, Banking collapse, etc.

As I've thought more and more about it, something seems off about Francisco's speech, namely: Money is _no longer_ the representation of value in green paper; no, it is the representation of transferrable obligation, i.e. debt.

http://bit.ly/14idwP

Rand's philosophical position, expressed through D'Anconia, is that money is an expression of _value_, created by a man through his labor and that through its exchange, a rational process, a rational means for motivating and directing men's labor exists, "their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun."

I don't think this works quite as cleanly if you start consider that you're selling tokens of servitude, or indebtedness.

What's the technical advantage of dropbox over, say, jungledisk?

Differentiators:

- Jungledisk uses S3 which I, in principle like.

- Jungledisk adjusts what they charge me with what I use versus charging me a flat rate when I want > 2GB frame

Non-differentiation

- Both use a snazzy multi-OS drag-and-drop widget - Storage is storage

It seems like strapping me into a one-size fits all "pro" account is a rather dated modality of charging. Anyone clear on that?

I'm evaluating this critically because I need to have a 'follows me' net-disk solution, but have not, as yet, found one that just bowled me over. This link was timely.

As _why alludes to, I think the best work being done in this area is by Alan Kay and his work with Squeak in the squeakland project: http://www.squeakland.org/

I think it could easily be ported to a variety of platforms.

And _why's totally right. My 8-bit sprite of a jumping cow for Logo was the sweetest (yes, C64's in Texas, that explains a lot about the jumping cow).