Dewie

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by Dewie 12y ago
Stockholm Syndrome
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by Dewie 12y ago
Great, downvoted 'to oblivion' for asking a question that would have no doubt come up in the thread, anyway.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Yes, I was really offended that you would imply that Sweden has a worse climate than Norway. I guess. Asking a simple question is like pulling teeth with you - now you've been through living in different Scandinavian cities, how non-ex
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by Dewie 12y ago
Good for you, man.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Compared to Oslo, both Stockholm and Copenhagen has a much richer history. Well Oslo as a real capital is quite young after all, it has been kind of an afterthought for a lot of its history. And you know who we have to thank for that
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I did write "Sweden", not Stockholm, so yes. So Swedish weather is overall worse than Norwegian weather? How? > EDIT: To move inside Scandinavia isn't really moving to a foreign country, Dewie. Who said anything about
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Frankly, the best thing with coming from Sweden is that you get better weather wherever you move (except Iceland, Greenland -- and England). :-) Judging from the numbers, it looks decently typical for a Scandinavian city at its latitud
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by Dewie 12y ago
That's a clever reference. :)
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by Dewie 12y ago
Well, I'm Norwegian and I do not approve. :P
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I'm quite tired of hearing people saying Swedish people are "cold." For what it's worth, I think Norwegians kind of are. I say that as a shy (which can come off as cold) Norwegian. I think that our social lives can
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by Dewie 12y ago
> The Capital of Scandinavia A slogan invented by... Stockholm. :P
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by Dewie 12y ago
I wonder if Haskell will ever get a package manager like Nix.(?)
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Most cavemen didn't live to see 40, Didn't they? Is that based on the median age, or the average? Because the average age tends to be skewed by infant mortality. > , and there's the little thing called evolution, too.
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by Dewie 12y ago
I'm not convinced. Vegans have to be mindful of what kind of vegan food that they eat in order to get enough proteins, and perhaps also B12. This is something that is usually easily/trivially satisfied by a regular omnivore diet
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by Dewie 12y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1NUposXVQ
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by Dewie 12y ago
Bounds checking is different from the conditional checks in something like a loop. It's the logic that prevents you from accessing memory that isn't yours. If you have an array arr of length 5 in Java, if you do arr[10] you get an
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I’ve often found that I start with documentation and then move into contributing code, once I get my head wrapped around everything. Sounds like a good approach, in general.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Those from continental climates may find the variability refreshing! Continental climates have distinct seasons, (almost) by definition. That's certainly a kind of variability .
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by Dewie 12y ago
> What if it's because the claims in the mentioned comments were actually unsubstantiated? Read the article linked by aidanhs: > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7898305 Red herring. aidanhs' reply was t
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by Dewie 12y ago
> If anything I walk less because it is too hot around Dec-Feb. Indeed I'd be pretty worried about letting kids out for long periods in such unrelenting sunshine. Oh, so then the weather matters after all. Apparently it matters so m
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by Dewie 12y ago
Some people are both happy going skiing, and going swimming at the beach (maybe even in the span of one day). Since both of these two conditions, made possible by climate/weather, elicit positive emotions, it doesn't really have
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Obviously preparation is important in extreme weather. None of what I described was extreme, really.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Some people prefer seasonal variations in weather; this whole discussion of 'sunny year round' preference is something that people hitched themselves on about 3-4 hierarchies up. > There's definitely an unhealthy obsession
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by Dewie 12y ago
You can always just move to the west coast if you end up missing wet and dreary . ;)
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Clearly as an adventurer you have to learn to live with whatever weather there is. It is just an inconvenience to experience on the way to your end goal. As an adventurer? The weather can be much more of an inconvenience to an "ad
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by Dewie 12y ago
> It is a big adjustment going from a southern hemisphere country to northern, so I don't blame you if you can't take it, but really it's not that bad here. Bangkok is not in the Southern Hemisphere. It's in the N. He
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by Dewie 12y ago
Wow, when I went to bed this comment was at 2 karma. Now it is at a negative (-3) and so are all the comments in this chain of replies that was critical of Apple's product, when before they were not greyed out. Fancy that. :)
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Making friends is incredibly difficult once one is an adult, What a horrible society we must have if it enables this; insular, isolating, compartmentalizing.
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by Dewie 12y ago
What discipline did the word "map" come from? ;) Is "map" even descriptive? In a programming concept, the first time I heard it I thought it was referring to the data structure of the same name, which is pretty different
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by Dewie 12y ago
> meaning that level of support for the platform's native GUI with that performance and elegance. Seems like that criteria would bias the choice of most innovative language quite heavily towards languages developed for/by Apple

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