abelsson

I personally would get an Air over a x220 after having used the x220 for the last 6 months. The x220 is my fourth Thinkpad over the years, and it looks just like the X30 I got 10 years ago.

And honestly, the design has not kept up with the times. For its weight class, it's pretty big, thick and clumsy. The trackpad is atrocious (that's not a problem if you like trackpoints, but my fingers end up hurting after an hour of using them). I also found the x220 quite slow, and the fan spends a lot of time running even with just basic browsing. Battery life is decent though, it probably won't break just by you looking at it sideways, and the keyboard is good - its a classic Thinkpad. But next to a modern Ultrabook it looks quite dated.

However, if I were to spend my own money, the Dell XPS 13 Ubuntu edition looks appealing. I haven't had a chance to try it though.

For the good of their users? To not fall behind gcc? Anyway, specific features were finalized and accepted (or dropped, such as concepts) well before the final spec was released. The spec for varadic templates for instance was basically done in 2007 - five years ago.

C++11 is indeed a new language, but C++0x was being defined in public (And well, it's not like Herb Sutter would lack inside info either) and it was decently well known what it would contain years in advance. So it's not like the compiler team only could start implementing it last year.

Popular vendors taking many years to implement new language standards is a huge problem. It means fragmentation and lack of progress for years to come.

It only presents stats for entire days, so it'll show today's hits tomorrow (it updates an hour or so after midnight GMT).

It's been on my todo-list for a long time to make stats.grok.se into something more useful and present more info there - for example graphs over (longer) times. Also the design is a bit dated. :)

I do have about three years worth of Wikipedia article traffics stored, so I could do long term tracking and some interesting data mining, but I keep getting side tracked into other hobby projects.

I was more or less a random passerby. The source zip was posted on his website and I download the file because I found the project somewhat interesting and wanted to examine it. This was before he removed the link to the source.

I have been in communication with Zdenek Kalal this morning however and he has requested that I delete the github repo for the time being, which I agreed to do after hearing his reasoning. Though hopefully it'll be back up soon with an official repository - that seems to be his intention, so I am willing to be patient and wait for a bit for him to sort out and set up a real project.

I did think about the ethics of posting it or not, and yes, it is a difficult issue, but ultimately decided that since the original author had willfully licensed and distributed the source code under the GPL the choice to allow distribution of that version had already been made.