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Ironically, I greatly admire the Finnish system. They got something very, very correct if their teachers can get a bunch of "unmotivated Finnish children and teenagers" to score so well in so many exams.

As a Singaporean, I would amend the original statement to say 'we treat our schooling very seriously'. But, yes, we do treat our academics very seriously - in fact, I personally believe we take it too seriously to the point of obsession.
Poll: If you ruled Earth, would you let the sell of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1?
Apple is suing Samsung for patent and design infringement [0]. Apple has tried similar tactics in the past without success [1]. Things are going better for Apple this time. What is your position on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_10.1#Apple_patent_lawsuit
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_v._Microsoft
I would ban it.
I would allow it.
No opinion. I am confused :-(
I would ban the iPad instead!
What countries were those?

Have you mastered the language?
a link to support your argument on Miller's law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_...
What else did you expect? That a single leaked posting from a fairly visible blogger employed by a company whose size is best compared to an oiltanker under full power is going to cause a major change in direction?

If Larry Page would have written that email it would still take a couple of years before you'd see the effects.

Steve is possibly spot-on with his criticism but at the same time he has no idea about the top priorities to management at the moment. Simply writing this up will not change those priorities.
Very Nice Ariticle :).
I havent fount article related to wikipedia before!!!
This is why Dropbox exists in my opinion.
This has been my experience with MIT OCW too. Or trying to figure out which textbook version applies to the course version that's online as opposed to the current registered class.

It's been awhile since I made an attempt, but at the time I thought it could use a little attention.
Criticism about price from people who aren't actually customers is worthless, particularly because you don't even know who your customer is. You'll find out when you launch something.

Price is also a way to pick your customers. You want to deal with people who have money and value your product, or critical, complaining cheapskates and ingrates? Pushing yourself to lower your price pushes you to commodify your product and strip out what might be creating all the value.

You can also A/B test your pricing on your landing pages to graph out a demand curve for your service that will let you optimize your pricing to maximize yield, but I think pricing based on value creation and cost of substitutes is a better way to go.
I moved to Copenhagen from the UK in February and had no problem. You just approached it terribly -- Copenhagen is not in America, and different places have different ways of doing things. You can't just expect foreign cultures to play by your rules. You have to do your research and find out how the locals do it. I got to see several nice apartments and they were decently priced, and am spending approx. 10% of my monthly wage on rent.

"Donating half of my paycheck to the taxman in order to live in a city overpriced by any measure is one thing."

Copenhagen has some of the highest wages in Europe. It also has fantastic levels of social welfare, income equality, universal education and healthcare, etc. Whining about high taxes also just comes across as so bloody stereotypical.
My least favorite bit is the part that says "I'm now seriously considering to cut my losses, call it quits and fly back to civilization.".

As if civilization is determined by the housing situation and/or your own efforts required in order to get affordable housing, and any place that doesn't instantly give you a place to live within your means is not civilized.
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The situation you describe seems very recognizable througout a lot of european caitals or bigger agglomerations. During my last searches I encountered all the points you mention in Utrecht/NL, I hear comparable things about Amsterdam , Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg or Paris.

So, welcome to a european capital! 1 hour travel to work, 5th floor without lift is the way to go: older houses far outside of the big cities. The suburbs are already filled with locals who do not want/cannot afford to live in the centers. I'm completely unaware of the situation in Denmark, but just looking on google maps tells me that maybe Roskilde or Farum could be places to look for.

Also: you move to another country: other habits. If it's the situation on the housing market I cannot tell, but the million ways of being (un)friendly or (not) answering mails/letters, dealing with business transactions etc are the things which makes relocating difficult at heart, they are not just annoyances. I live in "another" country for some 20 years and will move to another one this month: I expect (and already experienced) a lot of impedance mismatches which could trigger a "considered harmful" post, but in the end I will have to adapt to enjoy the good things of it.

Good luck anyway!
What the hell, not even one external git repo?
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Fashion is not about what you have; it’s about working on what you have. You don’t need to study rocket science to pull this off. Let your creative juices flow and you will be your own celebrity.
I noticed the age of the stock CentOS kernel the other day when trying to build something that used timer FDs - 2.6.18 was released in 2006.
> managed to reinforce just about any stereotype of an ignorant, unprepared American

Thanks for the compliment but I'm a fellow European, not American.

> who shouldn't even be trying to live abroad.

Too bad I've tried it successfully three times already, one being in America.
My problem isn't with balance, but with the source of the information.
>The building looked like a century old

That's because it almost certainly is. 100 years is not an advanced age for a building outside the US.

I have been to copenhagen and it is basically a paradise. You are lucky to be living there.
No, not better, in any way.

The article was about dealing with the slow start problem. It didn't seek to examine the causes or likelihood of latency in its or any other particular situation.

It had a well-defined problem: 50ms RTT combined with TCP slowstart == more round trips and significantly more time for a small transfer.

The problem was mitigated with a neat little option in recent Linux kernel versions that most people don't know about.

Your response was a very spartan, mostly off-topic, exceedingly broad statement, "a ridiculous amount of latency".

It doesn't matter that this particular situation might not have been so bad had the network been better (something we still haven't established, because all you've done is make an assumption about where the second server was located), what matters is that 50ms+ round-trip times are not in any way unusual in the general case.

You decided to silently narrow the issue dramatically to what you perceived to be the specific circumstances of the author, then make a broad statement about latency on broadband connections without presenting evidence or examining applicability to the wider Internet. This is especially strange, since it implies the author and his fellow Swedes will be the only ones reading an (English-language?!) blog, thus he wouldn't be concerned about latency to, for example, the UK, US, or Australia.

When called on it, your response was that I should have done the "research" you did, and effectively, that everyone should make the same assumptions you did.
I'm colorblind.

I see the value in this system but I'm not sure how does it actually improve my day to day in the sense that, me not being able to see colors doesn't have that big of a negative impact on my current day to day. (I wanted to be a pilot so being colorblind does have a negative impact sometimes)

A few years back I purchased a pair of ChromaGen color glasses that allow me to see the color red. That was a WTF moment.

The world made sense right then and there: Warning signs, skin, tomatoes, coke can, etc, etc. Is amazing how different (and greenish) the world is to me.

To be honest I don't use them to much: every time I wear them for long, the word is full of colors and once I take them off I return to this green(ish) reality and my mood changes immediately. I feel down right away.

I think I read somewhere that there are around 16.000.000 colorblind people in the US alone. I think this is a market that would pay big money to be able to see properly (I payed 1200 euros for a pair of glasses to just help me see the color red).

I wish someone would find a solution to this.
Nevermind that Copenhagen is arguably one of the nicest cities in the world, in one of the most "civilised" nations in the world. Ugh.
To be fair, CentOS 6.1 is current - and has a "continuous release" repository too.

But those (like me) running old installs on CentOS 4.x are pretty much stuck though unless they are running fully dedicated and can do an unofficial upgrade (tricky stuff).
You use American spelling. I call shenanigans. At the very least, your view comes across as definitively US-centric.
This might sound a little odd, but am I the only one who originally read that as Harry "Potter"?

Also, the video is quite nice!
Most of my friends live in Amager, Østerbro, etc. Anyone expecting to find affordable, modern accommodation easily in historic city centres is deluding themselves to a degree. Copenhagen has one of the more modern transportation systems in the world, so commuting is hardly an effort.
Have everyone work for free? That's a quick way to lose good people.
Erm.. it's not like the lightbulb just got invented.
Copenhagen is a wonderful city, with astonishing people.

But if civilization is determined by whether a house has an elevator or not, I'm out of words.
So which is more likely: random multiple co-invention of identical cloud icons, or someone saw the first and copied it for their cloud icon.
I must say I had a similar reaction to the post. I'm sure it's hard to find a flat in Kopenhagen. On the other hand, that's just what I would expect: big cities in wealthy European countries are crowded and the rents too high. You would have similar problems in Munich, Amsterdam or London. What is surprising about your experience is less your difficulty finding a place than your prior expectations. You thought that going to a small country (outside the "civilization" of New Jersey) you would easily find a cheap flat, without doing much research, without knowing the language or making an effort in that direction, looking for a new building in an old city (why?). My suggestion would be finding a temporary place and a fresh, more humble start, realizing that you're in a different country.
I don't know that what this quote says that relays your point. Offer solutions rather than chastising the OP.

The idea is simple:
- OP moves to a new city
- He checks out popular rental websites to look for a rental house
- He applies to more than 30 of them without any replies
- One where he manages something is dingy and unlivable based on American standards.
- He rants

I do not see anything wrong in this. This method of finding rental houses works in several cities throughout the world - I have tried it in Singapore, New Delhi, Bangalore, NYC, Los Angeles, Sydney & San Francisco.

Also, I do not know about Copenhagen, but NYC is a very crowded place loaded with people with high income. Houses - especially in areas like Midtown or Downtown Manhattan are bound to be expensive (though you will still get responses for emails even there). However, it doesn't take rocket science to do a basic Craigslist search and check if things are cheaper in Uptown Manhattan or New Jersey.
Because game source is huge. Absolutely huge.

A bunch of friends and I wrote a rather simple game in Unity3D and our repos went to become more than 2GB.

It is not the code which isn't usually that large but you have to consider the assets, especially images (3D models usually aren't that bad, but they can still run up in a couple of MB), sound and (if you are unlucky) uncompressed video.

At too it that the binary assets can't really be stored in a version control system except as snapshots and you can see the problem.
> Copenhagen is one of the most expensive and over-crowded cities in the world.

Overcrowded? Copenhagen has 6,100 people per km2. New York City has 10,600, Paris has 20,900.

Expensive? Sure, but not when it comes to housing. Renting an apartment in the city center is much cheaper in Copenhagen than in many other larger cities.

> Considering how hard it is to find housing in Copenhagen as a Dane

It used to be hard. Nowadays it isn't that bad. But you do need to ask around. What cphhell should have done is talked to his employer - and, like you said, he should broaden his scope. If I go to live in NYC I don't expect to get an apartment on Times Square.
The problem I have with most iOS material is that it's either too simple, or too advanced, often leaving no room for those that understand the concepts but need help connecting the dots between the easy and the advanced.

Provided the OP actually knows what he's doing, and there's no reason to doubt that, I'm glad to see him doing this, as I believe that the more material on the market the better. I like learning from different teachers, even if they cover the same thing. That said, this was a bit pricey for my tastes, but that's only because I've spent so much prior to today.
Channel 9 did a great interview with him a few years ago. It was a good chance for us non-Microsofties to see the man behind the MZ.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Behind+The+Code/Mark-Zbikowsk...
He had six months to live in 2003 so I doubt that 100% figure very much.
Sure, it does fall by the wayside, but it's inexcusable. Daily commits to some remote repo are so easy that it basically takes effort not to do them. Installing a backup program is similarly trivial, taking a few minutes.

I can't fathom developers not having backups. Hell, I back everything up to SpiderOak and then to my RAIDed NAS at home which, again, goes to SpiderOak and S3. It's not that I'm paranoid, it's just that they're so easy to set up and cheap to run that I just left them there when the new thing came.
i don't understand this sudden focus on retirement. You could've had a nice programming job and done it for years with enjoyment
This happened to me in another European country, I lucked out though and solved it myself. I would ask your employer for help if you haven't already. Even in a small company an email to all employees will tap you into their social networks and might unearth a few more websites or tips. Then there is couchsurfers, share-living with students for just two months while you hunt another place etc. Stick with it though; living in another country for a while is one of the best things you can do: "spend money on experiences not things".
You're probably referring to http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/open_thread_the_interne... .
In that case, you're just trolling and your story lacks all credibility.

For starters, because you should know damn well what you get into if you try to find housing in a major European city outside the normal housing system.

Also, because there's absolutely nothing abnormal in Europe about a century old building or four floors without an elevator.

My guess is you are well aware you screwed up by being unprepared, and now you're just trying to externalize the blame, hoping the readership here won't know any better.
Can't really appreciate enough people help out others "validate" what most of us feel in our guts.
As I mentioned in another comment, the rent is not particularly high in Copenhagen compared to other cities (although living costs in general are high), and Copenhagen really isn't that crowded. It's hard to have a crowded city in a place where most buildings are four to five stories high.

As for knowing the language: You don't need to learn Danish just to get an apartment - I know a ton of foreigners who got by for years here without knowing a word of Danish. But you do need to realize that one way or the other you have to talk to people - they'll help you find a place or help you translate ads.
This follows well from last week's "Pre-orders are scams according to PayPal" on HN [1]. It goes to show that PayPal and other processors are not classifying preorders for undeveloped games high risk without good reason.

Unrelated to that, the linked developers' Twitter accounts seem to be full of pretty nasty anti-customer messages [2].

> Fucking amazing. Apparently, it's our fault for being burgled. Fuckers can keep their FPS's, what's the point? Fuckers.

> Don't like our game? Don't fucking buy it. Revelling in us getting fucking burgled is a bit fucking low.

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3088284

2: http://twitter.com/#!/CaptainBinky
I've always wondered why the US has a Department of Education but it doesn't produce a national curriculum. It's mission isn't directly tied to teaching itself [1]. Looking at the rise of sites like the Khan Academy and other services, it seems clear to me that content creation and delivery of core subjects could be centralized, and tutoring, homework, testing, and assessment could be localized. I know that would threaten some politically powerful interest groups (teacher unions and publishers), but I think it's a logical progression if we want to provide students across the country the same learning materials.

[1] http://www2.ed.gov/about/what-we-do.html
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Toaster Project, where the artist is attempting to build a complete toaster from scratch (mining the metal out of the ground, smelting, etc)

http://www.thetoasterproject.org/
Or, maybe not. Really hard to say with no possibility of ever knowing for sure! So, stupid article is stupid.
"Finnish educators were astonished ... made no sense to them... surprised ... did not understand the idea ... can’t understand ... don’t make sense to them. Nor do they understand ...."

Ignorance and stupidity are nothing to be proud of. Disagreeing with us is one thing - they could be right. Willful disingenuous bug-eyed goggling is something else altogether.
It strikes me a big part of the problem may be where he mentions "30 minute drive" - there's a big difference between 30mins behind the wheel of a car and 60mins on the copenhagen transport system (which, yes, is stunning)
It's funny that the article starts off criticizing standardized testing but immediately turns to international standardized test results (PISA) as the foundation for the rest of the article. It could well be that Finland has a better educational system, but - playing devil's advocate here - how do we know that it's not just (inadvertently) optimized for the PISA?
Exactly - the century-old buildings is where people want to live, because on the inside they're modernized and on the outside it's great architecture. Here's a couple of street views from Islands Brygge, the neighborhood cphhell mentioned:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=islands+brygge&ie=UTF8&...

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=islands+brygge&ll=55.66727...
This is a nice article, but two observations:

- He made a great home investment, apparently bought cheap and later was able to rent it for a lot of money. This is good for him, but somewhat lucky (or, alternative, a spark of insight into real-estate)

- He made nice returns on stocks

Both are fine, but not a part of "corporate programmer salary"
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So, Chess and SC2 must be ok because (somewhere, sometime) there are people playing these games competitively and making money, while D&D and WOW are evil, at least doing more than 10hrs/week, because it's not done competitively and you don't get any reminders about it if/when you are a loser(?)

This is the first media-neutral definition of games that are worth/aren't worth playing obsessively that I've seen, and it actually makes some sense.
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I find these articles interesting - insightful in the "lifehack" kind of way.

I want to be able to retire some time early, but almost certainly won't actually retire - I love this occupation too much and would do it for free (well, I actually do that too). But being able to retire is a nice situation to be in, in terms of self-confidence, work-life balance and general psychological well-being.
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No.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/10/15/what-kille...
Population density is hardly a good measure. Munich has 4300 people/km2 and, let met tell you, it's hard to find an affordable flat there. NYC or Paris are hardly a good comparison, either. In this sense, Munich is very crowded. In October, in particular, the housing situation is even more difficult, given thousands of new students. I'm sure Copenhagen is somewhat similar.
The Finnish language is one theory. There's lots of derivative words and it's really easy to know the meaning of a new word. Look from here: http://finnish-and-pisa.blogspot.com/

There's one example of the derivation:

'kirja' - 'book'

'kirjailija' - 'writer'

'kirjailla' - 'to embroider'

'kirjailu' - 'embroidery'

'kirjaimellinen' - 'literal'

'kirjaimellisesti' - 'literally'

'kirjaimisto' - 'alphabet'

'kirjain' - 'letter' (of the alphabet)

'kirjallinen' - 'written; literary'

'kirjallisuus' - 'literature'

'kirjaltaja' - 'typographer'

'kirjanen' - 'booklet'

'kirjasin' - 'font' (in typography)

'kirjasto' - 'library'

'kirjata' - 'to write down, to make a note of'

'kirje' - 'letter' (document)

'kirjeellinen' - 'by letter' (adj.)

'kirjelmä' - 'letter, note, message'

'kirjelmöidä' - 'to complain (by means of writing)'

'kirjoitella' - 'to write' (now and then)

'kirjoittaa' - 'to write'

'kirjoittaja' - 'writer' (person who performs a writing work)

'kirjoittaminen' - 'writing' (action)

'kirjoittautua' - 'to get enrolled, to log in'

'kirjoittelu' - 'writing' (now and then)

'kirjoitus' - 'writing' (result)

'kirjoituttaa' - 'to have ... written' (factitive of 'kirjoittaa')

'kirjuri' - 'scribe'
This is an awful title for an article.
It doesn't sound like his jobs weren't nice. You know, you can actually enjoy corporate work if you are not stuck with it for the rest of your life, and got a nice team.
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On iPhone, safari is painful, ihackernews constantly has problems with comments. I've tried most of the free apps but the threading isn't great. What do you guys recommend?
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I don't like the idea of attempting to build on the "Dive Into" brand without offering the materials online for free, as Mark Pilgrim has (or did, before he removed it all). It feels opportunistic.
Congratulations on not getting what I was saying. But carry on, I'm out.
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This sums up perfectly why people hate neoliberalism/capitalism so much.
These memes are cyclic. It's the retire early one right now (gambled and won), last 6 months was minimalistic lifestyle (startup failures who gambled and lost and late startups going ramen), 6 months before that was startup goldrush VC/angel money.

Which is next? Probably share/investment goldrush. Then gold and other hard commodities when that goes belly up, then we're back to real-estate. and on and on...