this is still it, just the - is not required

power users just run chrooted linux on it and boom, fully functioning $200 computer

Or you could just buy a fully functioning $200 computer.

The hardware of $200 non-ChromeOS computers is worse; and with ChromeOS you were sure it ran Linux properly.

There is not a huge gap in difference, in terms of HW quality between a Chromebook and a normal cheap laptop (in my experience). Can you provide an example ?

I planned to buy a Chromebook a while ago and do exactly as the parent suggested, but got to the conclusion that it's just not worth the hassle (also, Chromebooks tend to have minimal storage, which is definitely not ideal in a normal laptop).

In general, Chrome OS or not, the HW (touchpad, screen and keyboard even more than raw power) in a 200$ laptop is BAD.

The Toshiba Chromebook 2 ( http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-CB35-B3340-Chromebook-Celeron-... ) has a great 1080p IPS screen, 9 hours of battery life, and, from what I can remember when I played with it, a good keyboard and trackpad along with decent build quality, for $290. It's got a decent Bay Trail 8W Celeron processor, and 4gb RAM (there are also models with faster processors). There are Windows laptops around that price range also, but AFAIK none with that combination of hardware quality and specs.

How about the Ctrl and Alt keys, minus windows key? Fucking beautiful for emacs users. This story makes me sad. :(

I got you fam load this as an extension https://gist.github.com/jashkenas/9a4d9e648eb11aab394e

this is dope, upset it didn't get much more attention. are you using zmap to find open ports and then banner grabbing and a bit of enriching on certain ports from there? what is the rate limit of the api?

yeah I'm sure a software engineer intern living in a truck definitely has a partner

Actually, he does. There's an interview where he talks about it.