So, it's not a bug. It's a feature!

Because JSTOR wasn't bad enough!

Some Realforce keyboards have variable weight on some keys, for instance 35g for the keys under the pinkies and 45g on the rest.

Has anyone tried it on Debian and other distros beside Ubuntu?
please post you experiences.

As an Argentinian I drink Mate.

Thinking about the computers on the 80s. Computers at that era booted right into BASIC interpreter.
Kids had magazines with programs on source code, and many of those kids probably learned something useful, besides just paying games.
Nowadays devices rarely come with any language interpreter at all (batch?).
Linux does, but you're probably an advanced user and already introduced in the CS universe.
I don't much see probable that a kid with a pc or mobile device steps on a programming language by chance.

And you would have been right about the first thing.
I don't know the GP about the second thing, though.

Yes, a keyboard for real programmers

I haven't, but it surely look like crap. Supposedly the top of the line model, but
The keyboard is all wrong, their chiclets may not be that bad but the layout is awful.
And what about the display? I shines like glass, I don't want to see my face on the display, I'm not a vampire!
It's like they made this model to experiment introducing changes that will make the thinkpad just like a macbook with no rounded corners, I hope nobody buys it because I don't want future thinkpads to be cheap apple clones.

A while ago they introduced some small and well studied design changes (T400 keyboard, new touchpad). But, WTF is this? Find out why people choose your computers and improve it, don't fuck it.

Be thankful. If it weren't for C, we'd still be programming in OBOL, BASI, and PASAL

In fact, Scala, Clojure and probably some other, are languages that compile to Java Bytecode that runs on the same virtual machine.
Also there are interpreters for many languages that were made in java (Ruby, Python, groovy, js), some of these interpreters support JIT compilation.

Java popularity may be decreasing, but its platform it's becoming more popular.
It may still not be as fast as native code, but runs on most platforms and has acceptable speed.

You can contact This guy, as I'm told he fixed any kind of keyboards with Alps switches, specially Northgates.

Otherwise you could try to fix it yourself, as a mechanical keyboard you could replace the broken spring with the spring of another switch (a less used key like Scroll-Lock or PrintScreen).
Alps switches can be disassembled without having to desolder from the PCB, give it a try.

The difference is that tomorrow Microsoft will own Nokia's patents after it bankrupts.

From TFA: "The world is a constantly changing place, the Google spokesman told AFP, "and keeping on top of these changes is a never-ending endeavour'.'

tell me about it.

Search for Cherry MX Brown Switches, that should be what you are looking for.
That or a Realforce keyboard.