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Does anyone have one of these? - I've been thinking about getting one as a slightly "occasional" larger laptop for longer trips - I have an 11' air that I take to work every day thus I don't really want to shell out for a macbook pro just to get the 15inch screen

Speccing up the triton with the HD screen and a bit more Ram is GPB500, which seems quite reasonable for a decent machine for programming and the odd bit of web surfing.

The review linked here looked quite positive, but I'd been keen to here from someone that actually has one.

+1 to this... on the effects existing on a continuum.

There was a great cartoon that the farnam street brain food blog sent out which illustrates this quite well.

http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate

>> Education is irrelevant

I partially agree.. I think that one of the challenges is that lots of blue chip firms use a degree as a gating process to get an interview.

Faced with tens/hundreds of thousands of CV's, there probably has to be some kind of coarse filter to get past that and get them down to a meaningful number that a person can review. I know some companies in the UK still use UCAS points (A-Level results) as a gate to get from one stage in the process to another.

If you don't have a degree - even if you are a superstar/10x person, then it's going to be hard to get through the scripted screens that will block you from getting your CV in front of a hiring manager.

Generally after 7 or 8 years of experience, I guess a degree counts for less and its more about peoples experience.

as a reasonably seasoned non-scala programmer who was fairly new to scala, I think that it's a combination of 3 things combined together. Implicits combined with non-alphabetic dsls (somewhat combined with the removing the dots from the method calls)

.. additionally, I always found the scala equivalent of the javadocs harder to read.

The end result (for me) was that I'd download, say an HTTP library, all the method names would be things like '/' and '?' - and you couldn't actually see what a minimally functioning code should look like due to all of the implicits flying around.

If you compare this to java, which was undoubtably more verbose, but was easier to take and unfamiliar library, squint a bit, and see how the building blocks roughly fit together, using a combination of reading the docs, and looking at the intellisense in your IDE.

agreed - but I guess they tended to choose industries with a higher proportion of casual staff (hotels, catering and cleaning trades), where I guess it's more plausable that not all the staff know who the CEO is.

its' kind of like the undercover boss program that they showed in the UK - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undercover_Boss

Not tech orientated, but lots of CEOs doing 'front line' work (e.g CEO of hotel chain working as a receptionist in one of his premises)

It sounds cheesy, but the program was often enlightening.