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You have listed good points here but no matter how much money big companies(in this case wireless carriers) put behind lobbyists all it takes is just one company to stray from the pack.
Why aren't in the US for example T-Mobile and Sprint trying to change their standing(# of customers) by actually providing something users want and need?
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I guess you need to talk to people to calibrate your expectations before looking. $750/month is simply not much in Copenhagen, I'm sorry to say.

I've looked a bit lately, and it is easy to find nice, 100sqm, modern flats with elevator etc. for 2000 Euros/month. It is possible but more difficult to find them for 1500. And to pay less one has to look for smaller, less modern etc.

However, the buildings in Copenhagen are generally about 100 years old (the one I live in now is from around 1920). And elevators are very rare in these old buildings. And there is a large body of old, small appartments with tiny bathrooms like the one you describe (around Copenhagen they are even called "Copenhagen bathrooms") - so if one looks at flats in the cheaper end of the spectrum that is what one will find. With eg. postdoc salaries after tax around 3000 Euros it is possible to find a place to live for most expats.
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I thought they were going to get rid of explicit saving. The current state is automatically saved, as well as some or all history.
Just because you don't know how to invest doesn't mean other people don't. In 1999/2000 I was telling everyone the market couldn't sustain itself and to get out, and I was just out of high school! I also called the dip in 2006. When the market tanked in 2009 I bought in & have made 50%+ on those investments.

The message is that there are plenty of people who can invest wisely.
During the dotcom bust and during the 2008 crash, EVERYTHING went down. In stock trading, 80% of it is getting your timing correct. So sure, if you can get the timing down, then you'll make great money, but that's also the hardest part that not even 80+% of money managers get.

I'm not sure there's a ton of people who made money during the bust, especially those that owned mutual funds like what the author claimed. There certainly were people that made money but they are few and far between. One of my coworkers at my current company made $500k shorting 3COM and YHOO.

The point is that the author didn't even show a year of flat stock earnings... every year they went up! During 2 crashes! And he never got burnt enough to start thinking that stock investing was dangerous or foolhardy when he had no steady job. It just seems fishy.
Sure about that? There is a nice graph at http://www.peoplemov.in/ . Don't know about their sources, but Finland and Singapore seem to have around the same amount of emigration/capita (6.2 - 6.3%). Granted, Finns go more to United States and wealthy Europe (probably a bit more weighted towards skilled labor moving...) than singaporeans. But I would not say those levels qualify yet for significant brain drain. From Hong Kong, the percentage is closer to 10% and S-Korea has only around ~5% of emigration.

I said Finland could be fairly prone for brain-drain if stuff would get significantly worse in the future. (Like what is happening at Greece these days.) But right now I'm pretty sure that the progress will be, though not outright good, less bad than most of the world. A safer bet, to say.

And healthy amount of emigration is good for a nation. People go abroad for a few years or decades to make money, gain experience and positive influences and then can bring 'em back home.
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True but if you consider that all those icons come from the Apple store, most(if not all) were created after Apple used it for the mobile me icon. Following the Golden ratio doesn't explain it all, why aren't any of the icons symmetric(another one of those things people find beautiful like the golden ratio), why do all the icons have flat bottoms. There is more similarity than can be explained by the golden ratio.
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Not to mention that although the Pictos cloud glyph and the iCloud version share the same 4-cloud structure with similar shape proportions, they are definitely not the same icon. The Apple version's 2nd cloud on the left (the small one) has a decidedly flatter curve to it than the same cloud in Pictos which sticks out further. If you overlay these two icons (which should have been the first thing the author did in his entry, but chose not to) this difference and other very small differences would have been made obvious.

Having the same general shape and layout is one thing but being exactly, pixel-precise the same is quite another.
I don't think they are engaged in "willful disingenuous bug-eyed goggling".

I think the author is using the term "didn't understand" as in "I don't understand why you use LOC as a measure of a developer's productivity".

Being a little deliberately obtuse can be nicer, less judgmental, and less confrontational way of disagreeing with someone than saying outright "that's a bad way of doing it". And Finns do tend to avoid social confrontations, in my experience.
You can't really change a culture though.

Changing cultures happens all the time. I am a fifth-generation descendant of my family living in this state, but I think and act considerably differently from my great-great-great grandfather and his son who first settled in this state before the Civil War. I differ pretty substantially culturally from my late dad, really, as does America as a whole from his generation to mine.

One thing that promotes cultural change is interchange and communication among different cultures. Individual human beings are acculturated by their upbringing in one culture or another, but also pick and choose what cultural practices they desire to follow among the cultural practices they know about. Leadership of a school system (or of a country) involves urging people to follow cultural practices that will be to their long-term advantage, and setting up incentives so that individual human beings are nudged into following those practices.

(Basis of knowledge: many-generations European-American who has lived overseas in east Asia twice in his life, married to a spouse who grew up in east Asia of east Asian ancestry since earliest historical times. We have a pick-and-choose blended culture in our family, and note that we have genuinely multicultural relatives, friends, neighbors, clients and work colleagues who pick and choose what cultural influences they follow.)
I looked at "Elder Scroll series" and "Fallout series" and wondered how these met the 30 hour rule. Then I remembered that the advice also suggests skipping all side-quests. If you're only playing the main-quest stuff in those games, though, you're missing out on the best content.

I'm not a big fan on limiting game play in this way, but I also recognize that different things work (or don't) for different people.
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The first thing I'd like to see on a programming language's website is a handful of short examples, like on http://ruby-lang.org. In this case examples are hidden a bit deeper: http://shenlanguage.org/Documentation/Tutorials/Shen-in-15mi...
Everyone was calling for a crash, but it took years before the markets actually started crashing. Anyone can make a prediction when there's no money behind it. Obviously everyone thought the market was toppy in 1999/2000, but if you followed your advice and shorted it, you would have lost plenty of money from 1999 to 2000. It probably would have bankrupted you.

For the record, I also made money after the dotcom crash and after 2008, having avoided buying anything during the boom and buying blue chip in 2001. As well, I sold all my investments in Sept 2008 and picked up more blue chip in March 2009. Selling all my investments in Sept 2008 was more luck than anything else, I sold because I thought October was going to be the 80th anniversary of the Big Crash in the 1920s, but I was off by one year, it was 1929 not 1928. Better lucky than good.

My point is, anyone who made money on the way up, which it sounds like the author did, didn't believe that the markets would crash. The author didn't even show flat returns, it was always net positive before, during and after 2 crashes. It just doesn't sound right to me.
Well, look at the figures for percentage of people who believe something really whacky: creationism. Something like 40% (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/20/40-of-americans-sti...).

It's going to be hard to have a national curriculum without either watering down subjects like biology or US history to the point that they're totally useless, just rote memorization of falsehoods.
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I cringe at CouchDB. Gimme good, old PostgreSQL.
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Most American rentals are unfurnished, but it comes with a fully outfitted kitchen and bathroom(s). The bedrooms and dining room typically have light fixtures in the middle of the ceiling. The only room without lights is typically the living room. We also have closets which are a great deal less common in Europe.

Another big difference is that most American apartments have "wall to wall carpeting", something apparently so unusual in other countries that I often have to explain what on earth that means to foreign friends (the carpet is installed as part of the floor and nailed down). In your typical American apartment, you have vinyl flooring in front of the front door, in the bathrooms and in the kitchen. All other areas have wall to wall carpeting. From what I gather, wood, tile or similar flooring is far more common in other countries. I have respiratory problems and allergies. I wish I could find an apartment here with wood floors. Wall to wall carpeting is something I loathe. In the US, if you want wood and tile floors throughout the home to accommodate allergies and respiratory problems, you pretty much have buy your own house (or possibly live in New York, which I have no plans to do). In fact, wall to wall carpeting is so common here that even if you buy a house, you probably either have to rip out carpeting and install your own flooring or have the house custom built.

I am betting that the lack of carpeting is something the author of this article would view as proof of being "a dive"/slum. Lack of carpeting does occur in some older American homes, often ones which were never upgraded. So it tends to get interpreted by Americans as a mark of poverty. Given my health issues, I tend to side more with some of my foreign friends who are sometimes appalled at the idea of wall to wall carpeting and find the idea disgusting and unclean.

Last, I will note that I have lived in five different US states and every rental market has its quirks. I lived from age 3 to age 20 in the same town. When I first left home, moving to another part of the US was something of a shock as well. In short, anyone who feels strongly that the rental/housing market should behave X way should just stay where they are. (It won't stay the same where they are either, but the changes are likely to be more gradual and thus less shocking than moving elsewhere.)

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"the #1 reason for any "How I did <anything regarding money>" is really, "I am cheap.""

I read it as "what happens when you invest intelligently in a booming real estate and stock market" (especially the former). I don't think this path is open today.
Damn lazy Apple designers.
I thoroughly agree with this. Mark might not have trademarked "Dive into.." but in this space everyone would think there is a link. I have no problems with people starting a business to transfer knowledge, but I think it would have been better under a different name
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This form almost certainly comes from the Norse "kirkja".

It actually comes all the way from a Greek word that means "the Lord's," short for a term for churches that means "the assembly of the Lord" or "the house of the Lord."

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=church

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Church#Etymology

(Basis of knowledge: student of Biblical Greek, native speaker of English, sporadic student of various Germanic and Ugro-Altaic languages.)
"that's far better than making 15-25% in the stock market because there's no risk"

Not really, because clipping coupons won't ever make you enough to retire.
Is there a something like Foreman[1] for Chef ? Something able to create and spin up new VM and execute receipts after install ( by using just a "web browser" ).

[1]: http://theforeman.org/projects/foreman/wiki/Screencasts
Why is it flat on the bottom and bumpy on top? To answer my own question, to follow the baseline of the text and also to fit our preconceived notion of a cloud icon.
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There's a nice introduction here, which is aimed at experienced functional programmers:

http://shenlanguage.org/documentation/Tutorials/Shen-in-15mi...

Shen appears to be a strongly-typed functional language with a Lisp-like syntax. It supports pattern matching:

(define sum-list
[] -> 0
[H|T] -> (+ H (sum-list T)))

...partial application:

(* 3) ; returns (/. X (* 3 X))

...as well as macros that can alias function names:

(defmacro logmacro
[log N] -> [log N 10])

There's also an embedded "Prolog" implemenation, though I don't know how complete it might be:

http://shenlanguage.org/documentation/prolog.htm

However, there doesn't appear to be an object system or a monad library, and the "lazy evaluation" system uses a typical promise/force approach, which every Scheme has had for decades. So Shen may not be well-suited to the kind of fun tricks available in Haskell and (to a certain extent) Scala. Still, it's definitely an interesting language.
Interesting. Yesterday this other one (Gitlab) showed up on HN as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3114447
Dunno if by PGP you literally mean the PGP/GPG toolkits or something else. I think most of us agree that PGP/GPG suite is too difficult to use.

What are the challenges with using public-key encryption with a changing group of people? Key exchange? Remember we're in a more-centralized, always-connected world now wrt email than we were in 1995 (remember offline email writing?). The problem should be simpler now if anything.

People have false notions about their email and web traffic in general. The closest previous analogy is shipping packages and letters. There're laws preventing USPS from snooping. People seem to reasonably assuming that that's the case with electronic letters too.

And nobody in the mainstream is disabusing of this notion (encryption is mostly shown as being used by terrorists and swindlers). When they become aware of how naked their communications really are, they'll learn how to cope with encryption (including your mom :)).
What are your requirements? There are a couple good VPS providers out there that offer up-to-date OS options. Look at Linode if you haven't already. (They've added London and Tokyo datacenters in the recent past, so if geography was a factor those might help.)

You can actually run unofficial/custom images on Linode with the pvgrub bootloader, too, though of course it's a little more work. People have even been running FreeBSD.
Thanks for the attention to terminology detail. The anglo corporation is the finest outcome of the anglo capitalism. If you build a system around anglo capitalist rules, you end up with anglo corporations. The reason is that the anglo capitalism prides itself economic freedom and turns a blind eye to the political aspect of the economy. The fundamental problems with anglo capitalism are:

1. Money, an economic concept, and the freedom to accumulate as much money as one can possibly do, an economic freedom, wield real political power. The political power then acts as a positive feedback over the economic field resulting in an unstable polarized system.

2. The system assumes infinite resources. This is blatantly false both in the short term, economy grows only at X% annually, and in the long term, there is just one Earth and one Sun. This places people on the lower rungs of the economic system on an intrinsic inferior bargaining position, as their very existence is under question. This time the effect is that people on the top ownership rungs have more economic power, which acts as a positive feedback resulting in an unstable polarized system.

Historically, anglo capitalism has been controlled via a number of negative feedback loops:

A. Democracy, as a counterweight to point 1. The 99% used to have a significant share of the political power. Not anymore. There is no more democracy in America, it's a political market where the deepest pockets but the most representatives.

B. Trade unions, as a counterweight to point 1 and 2. Trade unions used to have enough money to match the 1% contributions to politics. Trade unions used to give the 99% some bargaining power. Thanks to Reagan and the modern Republicans, there are no more trade unions to speak of.

C. Taxes, as a counterpoint to 1 and 2. There used to be taxes, that both detracted from the ability of 1% to wield unfettered political power and served at building a safety net that improved the bargaining power of the 99%. Not anymore, we now raise about 25% less in taxes as a share of GDP as we used to (19& -> 15%), and the trend towards "smaller government" is only accelerating.

We observe how the finest anglo capitalism economic entities have more and more power, both economic and politic. These economic entities are called "corporations".
That's how 5 year olds draw clouds.
Any new language needs the ability to dynamically load and bind with C libraries (so/dll) and once that works seamlessly, then everything is done.

Otherwise it will enter the chicken and egg problem regarding availability of libraries.
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It can be more than that. Think safety. When I drive in Quebec the road signs are a slightly different hue than used in Ontario. I had a hard time figuring out which signs were informational - construction after 19h, and the "lane ends 200m" need different reactions.

As far as clothes, I have a "garanimals" system with numbers to match up shirts and pants and optionally ties. Hopefully my wife is merciful and matching my clothes tastefully.
Seems == not sure. :) In light of this, it will be very interesting to watch Finland, Singapore and South Korea on a macro level in the coming years.

Another cool data point would be the GDP growth and citizen sentiment over the years.
I've been using a similar technique to smoothly change color of a logo:

- There was an element with background-image being a PNG with solid-colored background and transparent cut-out of a logo.

- background-color CSS property was animated with CSS transitions and jQuery fallback.
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It's worth pointing out that this man is exceptionally frugal. It's a great strategy if you can be happy with a modest spend throughout your life.

This is why the guy who owns the laundromat down the street is a millionaire -- great stable income, but he and Mr. Money Mustache are far from having a lavish lifestyle.
Not factoring in age discrimination, you won't.
>subsequent generations absorb more of the african-american culture which shuns academia

If you're referring to the oppositional culture hypothesis, there's a whole body of research that show it isn't nearly as common as widely perceived - most recently there is this: http://www.amazon.com/Kids-Dont-Want-Fail-Oppositional/dp/06... but I also linked to some other research in this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2046616

Certainly using school money to buy more football bleachers rather than invested in academics is not just something you'll find in poor minority schools - see pretty much any US university with a Div I or II basketball, football or hockey program.
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Plastic eyeglass frames and a standard lens blank, possibly integrated, should be very inexpensive to build in volume. The primary cost is likely to be in making and possibly in installing the prescription lenses. What is needed is a low cost, field customizable lens.
Turns out the problem was an issue between APC and WP Super Cache. After WPSC tried to run garbage collection on cache files (a cron, configured in the plugin's settings), the server would end up then returning a 500 error. I'm still not entirely sure why, but I disabled APC for now and things are running as they should.
The GPLv3 tries to enforce that, earlier versions failed to do so.
I agree with the author that Chef is an incredibly powerful tool and that it has numerous benefits over plain old bash. However, I'm reluctant to actually use it because of its dependencies. Chef relies on CouchDB, RabbitMQ, and Solr, and all of those have non-trivial dependencies as well. Then, with a stack like that, I worry about the overheard involved.

FWIW, Puppet's dependencies are much simpler. I don't know much about Chef vs Puppet, but I can say that from an installation and dependency maintenance POV, Puppet wins.
For those that aren't aware of it, Drew Wilson's Pictos icon set is generally a fantastic piece of art and brilliant tool for anyone designing for the web.
"as it is very user friendly and allows for a more complete freedom of expression and ease of compilation" - I've got to take issue with this. For a new programmer, C++ is not particularly user friendly at all (believe me, I was that new programmer) but I think it's often taught as a first language because by throwing you in the deep end (with pointers, cryptic compilation errors, overflow issues and extensive but often quite primitive features) it teaches you about the logic and principles of programming. This means when you get to higher level things like Python/Perl/Ruby you can really appreciate why things are the way they are.

I think learning (say) Java and then C++ would be much more difficult than C++ then Java, because C++ gives the sort of "nuts and bolts" approach to programming, letting you do really powerful stuff but often at a reasonably low level (compared to lots of languages, obviously "level" is relative and is a topic for another day)
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It's probably from the clouds used in weather forecasts, I can remember seeing this cloud 'design' going back to the late eighties.
That is more expensive. When using epoll, you typically do care about performance.
Cooperative threads are implemented in terms of events.

GHC's thread system and IO manager is implemented in terms of epoll, for example.
The thing that "cheap" and "frugal" characterizations miss is one that I think is significant (and is noted in other comments in this thread, e.g., ebay) is "resourceful".
> google has 'points of presence' all over the globe, so if you test using 'google.com' their DNS server will hand you an IP that is physically close to you which will result in fewer hops.

For anyone intrested, it's called "Geo DNS".

On the other hand, the Google public DNS (IP: 4.2.2.1) uses "anycast" routing. You use the same IP address range no matter where you are located and the magic happens using BGP (a router protocol).

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq.html#anycast
You shouldn't rely on paypal's email anyway.

Use their instant notification API https://paypal.com/ipn to have it trigger a script on your server to notify you any way you'd like.

You get more info from the api too and it's triggered before emails.