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by amag 11y ago
Yep, in Sweden the minimum is five weeks with a lot of companies offering six. That is not counting "other" days off, e.g. "squeeze days" (a day between a public holiday and a weekend) that a lot of companies have. All o
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by amag 11y ago
> this is using a loose definition of "life" which includes 23 hour nights at freezing temperatures. Not for everyone. That is when we exert our five+ weeks of vacation and travel to a warmer place...
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by amag 11y ago
Here in Sweden at least the high number of guns are hunting rifles.
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by amag 11y ago
This all depends of course of the definition of "cutting corners". Sometimes one person's "cutting corners" is another person's "striving for excellence" and sometimes it's "run project into
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by amag 11y ago
My thoughts exactly! Most of my most interesting experiences has happened just because some one I was with at the time choose to do something that I would never have done. As an introverted thinker, I need someone to challenge my ideas, not
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by amag 11y ago
There's typically very little snow in the tech hubs of Scandinavia (Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, Gothenburg and Malmo) even in the midst of winter. If snow is your biggest concern then moving here shouldn't be an issue ;).
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by amag 11y ago
Interesting, I wonder if not the latest Spotify Insight is exactly a case of this: https://insights.spotify.com/us/2015/04/22/music-taste-matur...
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by amag 11y ago
Yeah, I think the last paragraph probably nails it down quite well.
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by amag 11y ago
I can only speak of my own experience. My longer journeys has always been for doing voluntary work. Often that meant I got to experience these moments of fantastic joy and then the next day moments of extreme misery (not to my person but lo
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by amag 11y ago
I fully agree with aidos. It's much more rewarding if you go to a place and live like a local. In my case I've done a few voluntary work trips, the longest I did together with my wife and it lasted a year. I always try to learn th
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by amag 12y ago
I don't see why the genderised versions are bad. My daughter is all for pink and princesses, something we have never (knowingly) encouraged. I'm pretty sure she wouldn't build legos at all if it weren't for the pink piec
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by amag 12y ago
I've done a bit of carpentry around my house. Since I live in Sweden I always use the metric system. For me the focus on division by three is a bit strange. Sure I sometimes need to divide by three, but I also need to divide by five, o
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by amag 13y ago
>> indeed, I have seen functions that contain only one line of code. Even if that is intended for reuse, it makes no sense IMHO it can make a lot of sense. In many cases you can clearly specify the intention of that one line by puttin
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by amag 13y ago
Yay, nice subtle way to make people hate spending time in their private offices: Make it feel like a punishment, akin to solitairy confinement. No, a good private office should have natural light coming in through windows!
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by amag 13y ago
Thanks for the tips. The sad thing is that even if you look at it economically it doesn't make sense. Say that in order for each employee to have their own office you need 10m2 extra space per employee. Where I live, that would amount
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by amag 13y ago
Unfortunately for me it's not that simple since I'm also very distracted by visual noise. Someone who passes by in my peripheral view can bring me out of flow as will the feeling of having someone behind my back do. I recently was
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by amag 13y ago
In my experience VLC eats a lot more CPU for just playing the same songs. While I like VLC for movie-files, Winamp is nicer when it comes to music.
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by amag 13y ago
I find it ironic that the reason for all this surveillance and data-gathering is to protect people from terrorists. Terrorism isn't about killing people, it's about making us all afraid (terrified). That fear will then lead us to
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by amag 13y ago
Thanks, that made me actually LOL and create a HN account just to upvote.