alicorn

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Ask HN: Handling of credentials between automated systems
1 points by alicorn 8y ago|0 comments
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by alicorn 9y ago
I work in a company with a lot of staff from India (TCS consultants). I can confirm that some of them have a fairly flexible relationship with reality and facts, and it can be incredibly irritating at times. I agree that it is most likely a
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by alicorn 9y ago
Not hard at all, I already suspected that this might be the case. Can you recommend any generally good resources about these topics? I am looking first and foremost to acquire enough knowledge to think about them the right way. Technical im
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by alicorn 9y ago
Thanks! Despite all my googling, I had missed this one. Regarding Spring, I have heard an opinion that the "new features" in latest Java EE versions make it somewhat obsolete, but I lack knowledge to evaluate the statement. What d
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Ask HN: Good resources to learn Java EE
14 points by alicorn 9y ago|6 comments
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by alicorn 9y ago
The Netherlands, Danmark and, to a lesser extent, Sweden are seriously rethinking the automobile tyranny. I live in Sweden, and have no real need to own a car, since public transportation and a bicycle solve pretty much all my transportatio
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by alicorn 10y ago
Hahaha, I remember reading somewhere that, in medieval Sweden, if the kitchen girl had not tried to stab someone by february, she was considered to be a total pushover. I live in Sweden myself and can relate, winters here are insane, due to
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by alicorn 10y ago
I see your point. I would argue, howevever, that very few of the issues we are facing at the moment stem from lack of understanding. We have most of the knowledge we require to instantiate a radically better-off civilisation, and, most impo
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by alicorn 10y ago
Sorry, but you conflate IQ with individual values that are acquired mainly through culture and education. A higher IQ does not automatically mean that a person will care about global problems that have no immediate negative effect on their
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by alicorn 10y ago
Same, got notification about both my Google accounts and was terrified it was some new phishing trick. Reading about Cloudbleed did not help matters either. At least I got extra motivated to secure up all my accounts, so there is that.
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by alicorn 10y ago
I think one of the problems when talking about these issues is the frame of reference. I have lived in the most dangerous part of our town (Linköping) for several years. I come from Latvia where a 'dangerous' part of a town meant
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by alicorn 10y ago
Serious question: I live in Sweden and have officially diagnosed autism/adhd, so I would have to answer yes to the first question. What are the chances that I will be denied entry purely based on that answer?