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by kartan 10y ago
Spanish here. I moved to Sweden, I prefer the business culture here. Less non paid extra hours. More respect from managers. Better pay. Etc. They rant about not being able to use more people as part time slaves. It's a problem of using
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by kartan 10y ago
> 911 is broken. Be prepared to take care of yourself. For the past 30 years all around the world all cities are safer than ever. I don't see the catastrophic situation than you describe. In any case if corporations are taking over
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by kartan 10y ago
The premise is erroneous and it creates a difficult debate. > American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth I think that we are just in the same place that we have always been. There were this intelligence tests i
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by kartan 10y ago
Does this means that you are ok with breaking the law if some ones offers you something convenient? Don't you care about workers rights? Should that rights be removed so you can have cheaper services? I think that Uber app can bring aw
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by kartan 10y ago
Why does people think that software is beyond the law? The secret services think that reading electronic communications is ok when the physical counterpart was not. A company thinks that because they offer their services using and app they
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by kartan 10y ago
> TL;DR: "We tried to make a responsive web app act like a native app and it didn't work because it doesn't work, and that makes me a grumpy goose." Complete agree on this, and I think that it is the most important po
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by kartan 10y ago
Being mean and telling people that it is only a joke, it's still mean. There are things a lot worse in the Internet, but that doesn't makes this good. As an advise remember that your possible future company probably will check you
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by kartan 10y ago
> Build enough market rate housing that the price falls to what low income people can afford and you don't need any low income housing. There are other kind of problems like buy-to-leave ( http://www.designingbuildings.co.
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by kartan 10y ago
> Unit tests are not albatrosses around the neck of your code All code is a liability. The less code usually the better. KISS principle. > writing your code in a why that makes it easy to test generally also improves the API and desig
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by kartan 10y ago
I complete agree on that. I was NOT arguing against good education. Education (that gives you knowledge), love (that gives you mental well being) and good habits (that makes you more resilient) are going to have a huge impact in your physic
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by kartan 10y ago
"In this case, our studies affirmed that a person’s intelligence and socioeconomic background were the most powerful factors in explaining his or her success" If success is defined from an economic point of view in absolutes it ma
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by kartan 10y ago
> Even if they paid zero local taxes, the money is still flowing into the local economy. That's also true for my salary. My salary moves the local economy. Not so much, but if you get together $1B of taxpayer money we are talking ab
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by kartan 11y ago
That's why Google doesn't operates in China at full scale. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China They decided that was agains the company values to comply with Chinese law, so they stopped offering som
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by kartan 11y ago
This argument looks like it can also be applied to even malware. If I put something illegal doesn't has the judges right to stop the distribution of that app in the country? Another question is if what Watsapp did should be illegal. Bu
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by kartan 11y ago
> I wonder why people think it's ok for Apple to maintain a stranglehold on iOS It is not OK for Apple either. But I agree that it is a matter of expectations. iOS is closed and hard to work with in the same way that you do on deskt
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by kartan 11y ago
> add system/integration tests. For me this is clearly the way to go. If you add unit tests to a bad designed interface you are only making it more difficult to fix. Now you don't only need to change the interface but also the
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by kartan 11y ago
> "CCS also appeals strongly to children" This is nonsense. Nor King, nor other "big" companies do that. Look at the numbers " https://www.enolalabs.com/blog/archives/grossing-and-gaming-
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by kartan 11y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a developer at King. I work with "Fiction Factory" other of King's internal engines. We had some weeks ago an internal presentation by the CTO and the Defold team. They explained their goals for doing it.
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by kartan 11y ago
> The majority of popular mobile games are a costly addiction, not a hobby. The article contradicts this view, as it looks like 99% of the people don't pay at all.
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by kartan 11y ago
> $10,000 Isn't this related to the actual growing wealth inequality? As the people in the top have more and the people at the bottom less, will it in a time to come make sense to create products only for the rich? 1,000,000 people
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by kartan 11y ago
> Meanwhile pissing off everyone who knows them with the Candy Crush "I want to get a level unlock" Why do you get piss off when a friend is asking you for help in a game they like? I used to play MMORPGs and stayed connected -
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by kartan 11y ago
> Governments have guns, Google does not. (Some) Governments are elected by their citizens. Google Chiefs aren't. The important part for me it is to create up to date laws - and enforce them - that protect citizens for mass surveil
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by kartan 11y ago
For me this is quite interesting. Because some one has said that it has debunked a study doesn´t means that he has done it. There is still the possibility that the new study is the incorrect one. That a team claims that there is a problem i
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by kartan 11y ago
It is a really interesting way of looking at it. I don't know if there is any kind of concept like "long present" for people that does have a hard time forgetting things. I will be one of the "short present" guys fo
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by kartan 11y ago
I have a friend that has a very good memory and it is kind of a problem for him. He can recall all character, places names, etc. from books he read years ago, while I cannot recall even the plot. But when it comes to bad situations in the p
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by kartan 11y ago
The link doesn't works for me. This one does: https://t.co/PtD5az9UwZ
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by kartan 11y ago
I agree that the statement is wrong. For me is something more like "the way we try to apply capitalism is not working". But as some people only accepts "capitalism" as their way of applying it, the dialogue gets confusin
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by kartan 11y ago
> non-Europeans on skilled worker visas — known as Tier 2 visas So it only applies to people that were allowed in the country because they are "skilled workers". This kind of visa already has a minimum wage requirement. I read
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by kartan 11y ago
We use Confluence, but mostly for semi-static content like documentation, contact information for teams, etc. The Confluence blogs are nice but they also have the problem of how much people reads them. Facebook is used in a more casual way
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by kartan 11y ago
I don't know the technical details. But the idea is to share the same kind of things that we shared in the Facebook group. We post about trainings, company social events, game clubs, meet ups, etc. Nothing is super-secret. As code repo

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