He suggests that it might scale logarithmically, not linearly.

The Korg Volca Beats is pretty cheap, $150 iirc. The whole Volca series is very inspired by the Roland TR series.

As a European, the need for this baffles me.

Offices often have caching proxies, right?

God no, nearly every caching proxy I have seen installed has been ripped out because they break the Internet in some annoying way.

What I am suggesting is a P2P self managing cache which isn't going to mangle Internet packets.

Having single points of failure is bad design in my view.

I use cmd for meta, there is an option for that:

    (setq mac-option-modifier nil
          mac-command-modifier 'meta)

I'll have to try that. Is this with the regular emacs in the Terminal app? Does it interfere with shortcuts like Cmd-N to open a new Terminal window?

That config is not for terminal Emacs. It's only for when you are running a native cocoa Emacs (like http://emacsformacosx.com). For terminal I always enable option as the meta key and use the OS Character viewer for the rare times I need to type a unicode character into the terminal.

Having option as meta is useful outside of Emacs, as "bash" (and other shells) use Emacs keys by default (M-d, M-f and M-b are all essential for me when I'm using bash).

I wish the OS would let me use the Fn key for doing fancy unicode characters (maybe Fn+option or something)—that way I could have good unicode input and my precious meta key.

I use https://github.com/andymcd/cmd-key-happy which swaps option and command, and which lets you whitelist keys (iirc Cmd-N is among the defaults) to be exempt from that swapping.

Iterm2 will let you swap option and command. I also cheat and use Keyboard Maestro to UN-swap Cmd-Tab and Cmd-` so that application switching and window switching still works.

You can make it so that F-keys are F-keys by default, and the other actions require Fn. It's in the settings.

At Spotify, we have a lot of team-rooms which seat 8-10 people. They all have a lounge area with whiteboard walls as well as a small conference room for design discussions, 1-1:s etc.

Have you tried Rust?

Read some code thanks to your comment. I think I will try it.

I installed Ubuntu 13.04 on an old LG F1 Express Dual. Everything works, including repeated sleep. Sleep did not work on it with 12.10. It also has two finger scroll with inertia, even on this old craptop.

Like this? http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd.aspx