How do you feel about thinkpenguin? Specifically the build quality and hardware features (USB ports; display ports; touch pad quality; etc). I'm potentially on the market for a new laptop, and Lenovo's behavior recently has me considering other options. I will sorely miss the track point, though.
What model line is your laptop in? Last I heard their business lines (Thinkpad) are much better than their consumer lines. My 2007 Thinkpad is still going strong.
I regularly complain about politics or current news articles here, but this is the kind of random, in-depth stuff that often times works well even if it's not directly startup/tech related.
I also think it's interesting Reubens developed an entire plan to resurrect his career from what is typically an irrecoverable disaster.
Performing his stage show in L.A. so that someone from a movie studio will "discover" him again and get psyched about a movie project? That's really really clever.
Urgh. He didn't 'hack his reality' any more than he knitted, cooked or birthed it.
Stop misappropriating words because they sound cool, there are whole dictionaries jam packed full of superb words, and its a lazy shame to lean on tedious zeitgeisty phrases.
Seriously, though, his use of the word hack was obviously intended to disarm the GGP's implied argument. It made me chuckle, and I think was a good word choice despite it's "tedious zeitgeistiness".
I also take issue with random startup management drama being on here like the "Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing Ambitions" story.
I find "anything that good hackers would find interesting" kind of problematic. Good hackers according to who? Paul Graham? Silicon Valley capitalist culture? Please be more specific.
Also from HN's guidelines: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
The guiding value here is intellectual curiosity, which is gratified by running across things that are unpredictably interesting. HN has never been just about startups and tech. It's also about Byzantine coins, medieval manuscripts, Nabokov's butterfly expeditions, the tomb of Queen Esther, T.S. Eliot's letters, and Jim Henson's coffee commercials. Pee-wee Herman? Why not, if there's an interesting aspect to the story?
Stories that take us off the beaten track into the wild are the rare earth elements of HN, and we can never get enough of them. There's a strong tendency for everything to homogenize on a small number of hot topics. Those are exciting, but to let them crowd out the quieter, odder material is not how to optimize HN's long-term interestingness. We think it's great to have stories on the front page that defy expectation, and we consciously moderate HN to protect those when we see signs of community interest in them.
Of course people disagree greatly about what counts as interesting, but hey, if one oddball story bores you, another may hit the spot. Keep HN weird.
While I understand that everyone has their own idea of what should and should not be on Hacker News, must everything be regulated down to the gnat's whiskers?
I know everyone's afraid of the conversations deteriorating to the point that they no longer want to come here, but you can go the other direction with that too. You can regulate it so much that no one wants to come post or read.
I think there's a reasonable balance between the two (where that balance lies is something that many will surely disagree about also -- :-D ).
And, for the record, I could have lived without the Pee Wee Herman story also.
Because he has an abstinence ring and an iPad that Steve Jobs gave him and a robot and a talking chair and a magic screen and a globe that can show you maps and play music at the same time!
