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by mixmax 15y ago
The Danish state. Glad to see that I get something for my high taxrate.
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by mixmax 15y ago
I once had a heated discussion with a classical violinist about who the most known Dane was outside of Denmark. She insisted that it had to be Carl Nielsen, a composer, whom she was sure everyone would know. All her friends knew Carl Nielse
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by mixmax 15y ago
This whole debacle is about culture. The reason it's acceptable to dress up as a deamon but not as a nazi at halloween is cultural. There are deamons and depictions of the devil in many churches, the holiest of the holy places if you believ
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by mixmax 15y ago
The guy who did the uberfridge project posted it on reddit a few days ago, where he also answered a few questions Link: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/mkgek/i_program...
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by mixmax 15y ago
Most people don't even know there's a problem. I'm from Denmark, which is in the EU and has a currency that's pegged to the Euro, and it isn't even a top story in newspapers here. It's too complicated, and neither journalists nor a general
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by mixmax 15y ago
It's the exact same with programming. It's an abstraction on top of reality so that we can wrap our brains around it. It's a complicated system with many moving parts that sometimes don't have any real world equivalents you can use to exemp
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by mixmax 15y ago
This crisis is becoming increasingly worrisome. and things are now deteriorating rapidly in the Eurozone. It appears that the pace has quickened considerably, with bad news almost every day. Yesterday Belgium was downgraded by Standard and
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The euro zone: Is this really the end?(economist.com)
81 points by mixmax 15y ago|103 comments
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by mixmax 15y ago
Last night Copenhagen Suborbitals put up a blog post ( http://ing.dk/artikel/124393-mangelfulde-wikipedia-artikler - in Danish) mentioning that there was a lot of factual mistakes in their wikipedia article, and that morally they couldn't
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by mixmax 15y ago
That's actually an interesting question. I'm Northern European, and my first thought was that the parent is right - that'd never happen here - our system is just and fair. On closer inspection however I see a lot of my own bias: - I'm not
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by mixmax 15y ago
that's exactly my point - emacs doesn't put emphasis on the UI at all as you point out. If you can be bothered to learn its, as you put it, arcane ways then it's tremendously powerful tool. But my mom wouldn't stand a chance.
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by mixmax 15y ago
The power of emacs is also it's biggest flaw - it's a tremendously powerful piece of software but it's hard to master. I think it's a matter of discoverability. A simple program such as Microsoft paint delivers a nice inital experience - my
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by mixmax 15y ago
this quote backs up your assertion quite well: "The idea of FOAF was that everyone would create little XML snippets that represented their interests."
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by mixmax 15y ago
I'm from Denmark, maybe the country with the best social safety net in the world. The state pays your medical bills, your school and education (you even get a state allowance to live on while you study), if you lose your job the state will
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by mixmax 15y ago
This is a great idea.
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by mixmax 15y ago
Well we could bring the points back so that it would be possible to scan a long thread and find the good comments. The bad comments aren't gone, but they'll be easier to avoid. Also, your point about upvoting certain comments will probably
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by mixmax 15y ago
This is a huge problem in macroeconomics - and for many years the profession has just sort of looked the other way because they haven't had other good models. This is beginning to change with the advance of subfields such as behavioral econ
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by mixmax 15y ago
Well, that's showbusiness for you. I have friends in media and showbusiness, so I've seen these things from behind the scenes, and have a good feel for the dynamics. Media is about getting customers just like any other company, and their pr
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by mixmax 15y ago
Or perhaps they don't? Without more data there's no way to know.
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by mixmax 15y ago
According to PG (I can't find the exact comment right now) the exact opposite has happened - posts with a lot of points get more points, not less. The reason probably being that when you look at a commentscore you assess whether it has th
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by mixmax 15y ago
For reasons too complex to explain here, even some systems, like Gmail’s, that don’t allow intruders to make millions of random guesses at a password can still be vulnerable to brute-force attacks. I'm curios as to what the reasons are?
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by mixmax 15y ago
except for the fact that in a threaded discussion where points is only one of the parameters (time and user karma being the other tow as far as I know) this isn't true for most comments. I did the numbers for a long thread some time ago her
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by mixmax 15y ago
which is of course a good reason. The problem is that there are some rather heavy casualties that come from not showing points. - It's very hard, if not impossible to scan a thread for good comments. Busy people don't have time to read thro
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by mixmax 15y ago
I just ordered a few magnets from their site, including one that can lift 100 kg. ( http://www.supermagnete.de/eng/FTN-63 ) and worried about the exact same thing. There's a shipping guide on their site, and apparently it's not as problemat
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by mixmax 15y ago
No, it's perfectly fine. If you're doing a startup you're in a competitive environment where you need to do whatever you can to get the best people aboard. People are what make or break startups. You're committed to your startup, not your f
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Repairing a dented tuba with magnets(supermagnete.de)
151 points by mixmax 15y ago|23 comments
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by mixmax 15y ago
So why would they want to buy Akamai?
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by mixmax 15y ago
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disa
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by mixmax 15y ago
This is one of the most narrowminded and arrogant statements I've read on HN in a while, if not ever. I think it's hard to argue that Steve Jobs hasn't had a huge impact on the trajectory of computing over the last 20 years. A large share o
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by mixmax 15y ago
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