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Let's not exaggerate the crime in Sweden. The best measure for crime is the homicide rate (since death is harder to fake than for example theft, and since it rarely goes unreported as for example rape). The homicide rate for Sweden is 1/10 of that of Russia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...
Haskell supports the same via the async package: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/async-2.0.1.4/docs/Contro...
I think your nativity makes you miss a few problems simply because they never cross your path. For example:

> Language skills... nothing to say here. Every Swede can speak and write English. You won't have problems here.

This is true insofar as that I've been studying Interaction Design in Sweden for one and a half years now (one half year to go) and I have not needed to learn Swedish. However, I've been informed that to get employed in Sweden it's quite vital that you know Swedish. There's plenty of jobs where you don't even really need to know Swedish, but they demand it anyway to give the local people a bigger chance.

To give an example: I know of other students who couldn't get a job delivering newspapers because they didn't speak Swedish because, and I quote "suppose a stranger on the street asks you for directions, how are you going to help them?" which is obviousy part of the job description of newspaper delivery boy.

Can't say how that translates for jobs like UX, although I hear similar stuff from graduates: knowing Swedish is almost necessary if you want to get employed.

I'm quite surprised about your fears at night - I live in Malmö (which has a reputation) and have never felt threatened or in danger at all.
Is it better to work at home or at the office?
If you are a freelancer, as an employee it's around 30%.
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I think we abstract (generalize) much slower than we can usually react with functionality. In machine learning, we actually find that abstracting IS comparable to learning,

Perhaps practicing is a form of abstraction; you practice something now to perform it later...the prepared parts of an otherwise improvised performance?
Brilliant piece from Stallman! Written with a paranoid, skeptic mindset with firm dose of realism and full of practical advice.
Ah, ok, I believe Oceania also includes Papua New Guinea and Polynesian islands, so Oceania is a bit bigger than Australasia.
if I did seem over reacted, my apology.

Let's refine restriction then.

This news is probably not too old for some local people.

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2013/09/05/remote-control-he...

http://www.ntv7.com.my/7edition/local-en/FREAK_ACCIDENT_18_M...

In both accident, a giant, powerful RC aircraft killed people. Is this the kind we should ban? From the veteran perspective, how do we go about regulating these? Should these be regulated?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpveweAqGYM

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-helicopter-general-discus...

Can these be flying in the city? In a small park?

Even for a tiny toy aircraft, it could go wild and hit pedestrian, or a moving vehicle and might cause some unnecessary injury.
I'm from Nigeria (West-Africa).. And while I agree that west african countries cannot be classified as southern africa, i also think "sub-saharan africa" is too broad.
That sounds about average for Stockholm I believe.

The salary will obviously be lower than freelancing rates since there are less taxes and costs to consider. You will have to make a spreadsheet or something to see what would end up being most profitable.

Housing is rather expensive in Stockholm at the moment, and rentals are hard to come by unless you want to pay ~10k SEK for a small one bedroom flat.
That is extremely disrespectful towards a legend as RMS is.
> However my main surprise was with the people in the story who believe that artistic merit should determine who gets to break the law.

Really? The law is and should be subservient to morality; people who've done something good but illegal are naturally lauded (and those who've done something bad but legal are condemned). I don't think any of this is surprising.
Did you even read the article?

And if you want to stay on the technical side.. then what about contributors? I've helped port android to a couple devices. I had no idea google had a contract obligation with hardware makers that my work should have to be used in one way or another. I feel dirty.

edit: the Acer example goes exactly against what you mention. They tried to ship a fork, with some of the substitutions you mention. google released the layers.
Knowing everything about painting doesn't make you a good painter

Then again no one automatically expects an art history major to know how to paint (even though there no doubt is quite a bit of overlap).
>It's basically a fact that all forms of taxation cause problems and they interact with each other...

Much of your post reminds me of the oft-repeated fallacies regarding the supposed "massive" effects that taxation have on behavior. Sure, there are some, but I believe predictions and discussion regarding those effects to frequently be greatly exaggerated or completely unrealistic.

>Instead of issuing profits as dividends at all, corporations can hold the capital internally which causes share price appreciation...

Corporations would still have strong incentive to pay dividends. Dividends are a more direct means of providing participation in the company's success (i.e. distributing profits) than stock appreciation (which is obviously a function of many other factors, including psychology). Solid dividends can thereby drive demand for the stock, and hence its price.

Shareholders might say, "Don't give me an increase on paper. Give me a payment on my current holding, while I maintain that holding". This is especially so if, as you say, shareholders are more reluctant to sell shares and trigger a larger personal tax event. However, again, I think the latter prediction is generally overstated.

The short is that each company is still competing for shareholders. Accruing cash well-beyond what the company can deploy to grow revenue is not in the interest of the company or its shareholders.

This is part of the fallacy around taxation and how it drives behavior. Companies aren't just going to start doing things that are bad for them (e.g. making bad investments), simply to avoid taxation. And, they won't withhold the dividend simply to prevent shareholders from incurring a tax event. This is profit that is being distributed to shareholders, just as now. No one is coming to take the investors' previous wealth (as is often implied). These taxes are simply deducted from what is otherwise a "windfall".

>The problem is, at bottom, that taxing something discourages that thing

Yes, but again, I believe that many give too much weight to the degree to which it discourages, as well as to its "distorting" effects overall. People do not choose to opt out of investment (or profit-taking) altogether due to taxation. If I have a million dollar gain on a thousand dollar investment, then sure I'm going to cash out at some point. This, of course, is already happening on a regular basis. Even if you take half of it, it's still a massive gain. And, what else I'm going to do with it? Hold it on paper forever where it has zero value? That's not rational.

Yes, I'd wish there were no taxes (just as we wish there are no income taxes), but we are still going to work and invest to maximize our return, given the current environment.
I consulted with a startup in Stockholm Sweden for 2.5 months at the start of the year. It was an amazing experience, and needless to say I had an absolute blast. Made many great friends, a few of which have come to SF to visit me since. It is cold Dec-Feb, but around March starts getting nice, and Swedes come out and play.

General Rules:

- Don't talk to people on the subway. Swedes like their public transportation silent. :)

- Swedes like coffee.

- It is expensive as hell to eat out (daily), and go to bars often. I did it anyway.

- Swedes are very punctual and schedule oriented. They generally work 9-5pm, even in startups.

- Don't wait until Saturday to stock up on adult beverages, the lines at the Systembolaget can get insane.

- Learn to ice skate (or play Hockey), fun activity during the winter.

- Swedish pizza is amazing. Great thin crust.
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>Front-end contracting is typically full-time contracts on-location for between 6 and 12 months. It typically pays 100+ USD an hour, meaning a monthly income of 16K USD or so given a standard 40 hour workweek.

A lot of those 16K will go away in taxes and social costs though. I am not sure what most freelancers use for estimates but somewhere between 50-75% should probably be deducted before getting a comparable number to a salary.
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The proof of work mitigates that issue. The reason you are asked to wait for 3 or 6 confirmations is to ensure that you can't be outrun and have those transactions removed. If an attacker could, then they have a majority vote in the network anyway, which at this point is looking rather impossible.
In the 80s, I got my first access to the internet after reading Steven Levy's book "Hackers". In the chapter on RMS, he mentioned that RMS didn't use passwords and didn't believe in security.

I found the dialup number to the MIT media lab, and tried logging in as 'RMS' and viola, no password, and I had my first shell account on an internet-connected Unix machine, although I was only a teenager, and didn't attend MIT.

RMS's act of charity benefited me greatly, I was relatively poor growing up in inner city Baltimore, and his account was a life line to a new world of the internet and away from the crackhouse infested streets.

I find it interesting that he has changed his standpoint from one of radical transparency to techno-privacy.

Remember, RMS is the guy who hacked LCS's computer lab password file, decrypted all the passwords, and emailed everyone suggesting they change their password to empty string. Now, I get that what he really wanted was to allow anyone to have access to LCS resources, and that would have been better served by just allowing anyone to create an account. But some early GNU accounts nevertheless did not have passwords, and I could read their email, shell histories, etc.

I think there is an interesting question is to the extremes of privacy and transparency in a democracy. If for example, it was not possible to discriminate against people, and if the government could not abuse any information gained on someone, then it might be the case that society would better off if there was very little privacy, because private distributed abuse amongst non-state actors would then be the biggest danger. If on the other hand, the state is far more abusive, then the fraud and violence perpetrated by small actors uncaught by surveillance is dwarfed by the damage done by the state having this information.

The question is, is it black and white, or is there some level of justifiable dragnet surveillance? Can democracy also tolerate Cryptoanarchy?
nonesense. Android is a software platform that companies can build sofware and devices on. Android is not a device, and it's not an "operating system" in the sense that people use this word today. It is a fundament that you can build an operating system with, and a cross platform that allows applications run on different software, as long as this software is based on Android.

If you want to show off what Android can do, you put it on all kinds of devices that people are using at the moment. If everyone has a Blackberry, you want to show that you can make a software for Blackberrys based on Android. If everyone is hyped on digital cameras, you show a software and ui for such a camera.

Android used to have 3 prototypes in its early stages: a blackberry type, a tablet-type device, and the device that later became the Tmobile G1, the first android phone. The platform never changed course, and it clearly never was a Blackberry clone.
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It depends on the quality of the university, I graduated in 1999, but from quick glance at the CS department web site, you still get to use at least C, C++, Prolog, ML, Java, C#, depending on the project assignments.
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But you can't preserve it for future generations, because the location and inevitable impermanence is part of the work. By covering it, you'd be defacing the work to protect it.
Why not just look at the person's recent commits?
Money buys access to tutors and training materials. It buys access to free time for practicing for your SAT. It also buys opportunity to repeatedly retake the SAT until you get a grade you like.
Neat. My reading of these changes imply that they finally made the L2ARC's info survive a reboot.

For some background:

ZFS, a modern WAFL clone [1], has a replacement algorithm called ARC [2] which can concisely be described as a hybridized MRU/MFU (Most Recently Used/Most Frequently Used) replacement algorithm to decide which pages make the most sense for keeping in memory. There is considerable literature surrounding replacement algorithm design, I have little to say about ARC other than it is patented [3] and can be outperformed by newer algorithms.

Note that this is quite different from the traditional approach of FS/buffer-cache design. One usually expects the OS kernel to manage the buffer-cache for you (OS X has it's Unified Buffer Cache (UBC), NT has it's Cache Manager (Cc), etc.). However ZFS includes it's own incredibly complex caching subsystem around. I do not know why they didn't want to improve or modify the Solaris kernel's segmap subsystem but there are consequences to this design. Notably, ZFS's memory usage is quite a bit higher because of ARC.

The idea of performing read-caching in memory with ARC seemed like such a good idea to the ZFS designers that they allow for a second level of ARC to take place: L2ARC. L2ARC essentially runs the ARC algorithm between SSDs and HDDs to, hopefully, speed up the performance of random reads in a ZFS storage pool.

Now to steer back towards what this code dump seems to be about. If you recall from before, ZFS's ARC is a replacement algorithm based on usage and it needs to know which things to put where. This so-called persistent L2ARC remembers where things were on a L2ARC device so that the storage pool can take advantage of the fact that data is on the SSD on, say, a reboot.

Huh? Why did this require extra code? Remember, ARC was about caching: it didn't need to remember anything. When coming back online, complicated things happen: transactions get replayed, metadata integrity needs to be rechecked, etc. Implementing a persistent cache that is crash safe is incredibly difficult but not uncommon: auto-tiering [4] solutions like Fusion Drive [5] have to provide this kind of safety.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_Anywhere_File_Layout

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_replacement_cache

[3] http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=6996...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Tiered_Storage

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_Drive
Boston, New York, Chicago, SF, Ann Arbor.

"Which of these does not belong in the list?"
Market rewards execution, not ideas
Austin also doesn't belong, though it could belong in an expanded list.
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the word "Database" brings forth images of ACID compliance.

if you're not trying for that standard at all, it's false advertising.
You were slightly ahead of me :)
I read the article; if you want out of their grip you can. You just need to provide alternatives for the Google apps and appstore. That is not trivial, but for a company like Samsung that wouldn't be that big of an issue either.

Acer tried to release it while still wanting to be in the 'Android family' (Open Handset Alliance); they didn't have their own substitutes and didn't want to make a clean break with Google (OHA). If they wanted that and would have provided an appstore, they could've.
I did my masters degree in Stockholm and one thing I think is very important to know is that it is very difficult to find a job without speaking proper Swedish, so if you go to Sweden and at some point decide to change jobs, it might be difficult if you didn't learn Swedish yet.
I was in a CS masters program with about 30 other international students and none of us even got a IT related side job (not even at the international companies like IBM, ...) although Kista as part of Stockholm likes to be called "the IT capital of europe ...".

Besides that, I really wouldn't worry about crime etc.
Swedes definitely have a different perception to crime and danger in general compared to the rest of the world I'd say, simply because Sweden is so peaceful.

I lived in Husby, which is considered "ghetto" by Swedes and the riots this year happened pretty much in front of my door. I didn't even notice anything and was never scared to walk home at night, but every Swede I talked to reacted pretty shocked when I told them where I lived.
So I really wouldn't worry about that, especially if you got along in Moscow.
So true. I've been a professional developer for 15 years and I've worked with several languages (C++/Java/PHP/Python/Perl/C#/Ruby/JS/Groovy), but man, does this whole "functional" stuff is being hard to get a hold of.
Specially Scala, for me, is very hard to understand the syntax, even after a year of working with Play. The most frustrating part is understanding the flow of the data in chained calls like in map-reduce.
what do the owners of those AWSes win from this? did you relay second hand referrer info on the clicks to the ad network?
>What’s your definition of “no use”? I’m quite confused by that. When I was last walking through a museum I felt tremendous joy and very much loved looking at everything. That’s a use, right? That makes those are pieces useful. It should be quite obvious that things capable of doing that acquire value.

But an original and a copy of a great picture inspire just as much joy when looking at them. Yet one is treated as far more valuable than the other. So something's funny there.
I moved to Stockholm from the US earlier this year. The salary is supposedly good for Stockholm, but about 20-30% lower than offers I had in the US. I took it because I particularly loved the idea of living in Sweden, and I was not disappointed.

Comparing the cost of living is difficult. I don't know anything about the lifestyle in Moscow, but the US is so extremely different from Sweden that it turns out I did all of my comparisons wrong... I thought my expendable income would go down by moving here, but it actually went up. This is not because Stockholm is cheaper (it's much, much more expensive), but because I imitate the Swedish lifestyle, and the Swedish lifestyle is much cheaper than the American lifestyle :)

Swedish salaries aren't going to make you wealthy, they are just going to make you comfortable. And if you live your whole life here and retire here, the government programs will keep you comfortable through your retirement. It's a good system to live in long-term, but it's not the most competitive for short-term positions.

Most of my friends here are non-Swedish europeans, and I really only see two stances: either they moved here because they needed a job and they can't wait to move home, or they moved here because they wanted to live in Sweden and they love it. Marriage complicates it even more... some love it, but their spouses desperately want to move home. (good news: young children seem to transition very well)

If you or your wife is particularly against moving to Sweden, drop it immediately. You'll probably never get over that. But if it sounds like a fun adventure, then it probably is! If the first thing you want to do here is find some surströmming and köttbullar, you'll have a good time... if the first thing you want to do is find other Russian expats and a Russian food market, it's going to be a long winter.
Yes, but your employer pays taxes too. It's supposed to add up to the same amount (although big businesses often manage to game the tax system in one way or another).
You'll probably never get anyone who used to work at Google/Facebook/Apple/Twitter then.

The problem is that IP agreements in the state of California say that the employer is not entitled to work done "on the employee's own time, without using the resources of their employer, and unrelated to the lines of business of their employer". Google claims to be in basically every tech-related business there is. Do something as simple as a mobile app or casual game and you can potentially get in trouble for it because it may compete with a division you've never heard of.

There's a procedure to get around this, but it's fairly slow and bureaucratic, and so many Googlers find it more efficient to do their "for fun" coding as 20% projects. Facebook has a similar system with their hackathons. Apple just works its devs so hard they don't have time for independent coding products.

I think that GitHub profiles are a good way to identify good devs who don't work for the leading tech companies, but once you're in one of them you a.) don't have time for personal programming projects anymore and b.) find that the stuff that your coworkers are doing is more interesting than pretty much anything you could work on as a solo dev.
Depends. They will likely work on the sort of problems they are good at solving. But at the expense of spending a large part of their time running a business, rather than solving the problems they are good at.
If you don't have time for the full video then start at 9:10. This skips the specifics of this copyright claim and goes into the general issue at hand.

(copied from http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1ous3b/totalbiscuits...)
I am a native and agree with you, but the crimes isn't that bad as you describe. No problem to go home late at night if your in the city. If you live in the suburbs (the less clasy ones) I can imagen that the crime rate is higher.

I like Stockholm a lot and think it´s a great oppertunity to come here.
So was Paris Hilton a successful culture hacker? I'd be very interested in an article on her strategy, assuming it consisted of more than just being in the right place at the right time - or even a piece like this one, on someone who was influenced by contact with her fame.
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One could argue he hasn't changed at all. On the contrary, it's the obligation of the actor to act transparently toward those acted upon.

In your case, you were the actor dropping in on RMS so the obligation was on you to be transparent about it. I'm guessing you weren't, since it wasn't very polite to peek at their email ;)

And therein lies the dilemma. Those with power will observe yet must be transparent about said observation. However they aren't transparent for fear of tipping their hand to what is essentially the proverbial "boogey man" that is terror.
I think a lot of people are beginning to see a bright future for Go.

Word seems to be spreading. There's certainly a growing interest.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=golang#q=golang&cmpt=...
You should try irony sometimes. Its pretty fun.

I would never make fun of RMS, however his detractors I find very much a fair game.

As they say: "Just Because You’re Paranoid Doesn’t Mean They’re Not After You "
I didn't realise how important free software was until I started using an ARM laptop for day-to-day work. Absolutely tiny userbase, barely any binary packages, but I could clone and make my way to everything I needed. Without RMS and GNU, free software would be nowhere near where it is now.
for- and with-statements over user-defined data types

Any reason why doing this with channels and goroutines doesn't fulfill your requirements?
Don't see Stallman as convincing enough? Try listening to Mr. Eben Moglen. Same message, different words. See if you like his style?