Re: [9fans] Purism laptops

2016-11-11 Thread James A. Robinson
No, although I imagine you could just buy upgrade parts separately and put them in yourself. They appear to have designed the laptop to make it fairly easy to open up to add your own parts. What really disappoints me is how they are backordered for 1-2 months on the 13" and 6-7 months on the

Re: [9fans] Purism laptops

2016-11-11 Thread Ryan Gonzalez
Those things really aren't cheap, are they... On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:51 PM, James A. Robinson wrote: > Have folks seen https://puri.sm/ ? Their description of how they are > trying > to put together "open" hardware (not 100% there yet) makes me wonder if > it'd be

Re: [9fans] Purism laptops

2016-11-11 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 11 November 2016 at 18:51, James A. Robinson wrote: > Have folks seen https://puri.sm/ ? Their description of how they are > trying > t > They look quite nice

[9fans] Purism laptops

2016-11-11 Thread James A. Robinson
Have folks seen https://puri.sm/ ? Their description of how they are trying to put together "open" hardware (not 100% there yet) makes me wonder if it'd be open enough w/re to hardware specs to make it a target for Plan 9 porting/support. Jim

Re: [9fans] Job interview questions

2016-11-11 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 10 November 2016 at 06:59, Kurt H Maier wrote: > > 7) Explain Dependency Injection > > This is what we call passing arguments. > In the newer ASP.NET Core, they've ramped it up by extensive use of reflection, so your program ends up trapped in a hall of mirrors,

Re: [9fans] Job interview questions

2016-11-11 Thread Sevki Hasirci
brilliant. On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:16 AM Sergey Zhilkin wrote: > Well done ! > > 2016-11-10 10:08 GMT+03:00 James A. Robinson : > > Priceless, thank you for making me laugh! :) > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 23:01 Kurt H Maier wrote:

Re: [9fans] Job interview questions

2016-11-11 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
Well done ! 2016-11-10 10:08 GMT+03:00 James A. Robinson : > Priceless, thank you for making me laugh! :) > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 23:01 Kurt H Maier wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 07:03:24PM +1300, Andrew Simmons wrote: > > I’ve just been asked to