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by pasiaj 10y ago
To give context: there are about 5,5 million Finns, and about 2-3 million saunas in the country.
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by pasiaj 10y ago
I was commuting between SF & Sunnyvale a year ago for a couple of months. For the whole time I tried to find a service connecting people for carpooling. Found several but none of them had a meaningful number of active users. It was mind
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by pasiaj 10y ago
Compare LWN and Hacker News. Both are very simple, but the comment section of Hacker News has an emphasis on content, and metadata is showed in a very simple and toned down way. ("7 minutes ago" vs TIMESTAMP). On LWN there is unne
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by pasiaj 10y ago
I was wondering about the same thing. Is this one more example of Finnish over-compliance with European regulation?
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by pasiaj 10y ago
It seems like the update hangs. I manually force quit "iTerm" in Activity Monitor, relaunched it and now it works without a hitch.
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by pasiaj 10y ago
It is clear that at this point that in 2013 Nokia was in such a bad situation, getting $7,2 billion for the handset business was a very good deal for Nokia. Nokia Chairman of Board Risto Siilasmaa has been hailed as a saviour and a magician
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by pasiaj 10y ago
It has been already happening for the past few years. The first round was handled by Nokia. Last year MS announced layoffs of 2300 people in Finland. After this there is pretty much nobody left.
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by pasiaj 11y ago
Fintech has been heating up immensely in Europe. Innovation labs & internal startups within old school banks are scooping up tech talent around the continent, and trying to find innovation partners with any kind of fintech understanding
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by pasiaj 11y ago
One of the best things about all this is ARM buying and open sourcing PolarSSL. We at Thingsee have been using another POSIX-like RTOS called NuttX, but there was no viable free SSL-library with low memory profile before that anyone could u
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by pasiaj 11y ago
How do you reach that conclusion? Doesn't it seem more likely, that rapidly expanding population in the face of scarce resources leaves a decreasing share of a smaller pie for the newcomers?
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by pasiaj 11y ago
When you need that extra push over the cliff...
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by pasiaj 11y ago
Perhaps. But let's not jump to conclusions.
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by pasiaj 11y ago
Thecher compensation is a bit above the national average and they have long vacations. What is also very meaningful to notice is that due to high income taxes, income redistribution, and generally flatter pay scale overall compared to most
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by pasiaj 11y ago
What a wonderful example of two opposing hypotheses from same premises, both providing value. I choose both.
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by pasiaj 11y ago
We built Thingsee One ( http://www.thingsee.com )
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by pasiaj 11y ago
Good guess: http://thingsee.com/home#join-beta
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by pasiaj 11y ago
Don't go fooling yourself into thinking all systems are equally complex just because all systems have sone complexities. I've read a at least half a dozen studies linking the US standards system to worse learning outcomes. Nobody&
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by pasiaj 11y ago
> who live to brag about whatever they do, wherever they go, whoever they are with Yeah, but why is that annoying? What is the core reason for reacting negatively to others' self-promotion. The feeling can be quite viceral, and tha
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by pasiaj 11y ago
I have some insight into how not to do it. :) https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/2ncv6i/tifu_by_accide...
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by pasiaj 12y ago
We're using NuttX, a POSIX-like RTOS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuttX ) as the base for Thingsee One ( http://www.thingsee.com ). Wikipedia has a list of supported MCU-families.
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by pasiaj 12y ago
Some people here are saying the company made big mistakes with their strategy, growing the company too fast, etc. They pulled in 400M+ of revenue out of a game where you launch birds at piggies using a slingshot. I think they did some thin
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by pasiaj 12y ago
Number of people on channel is in no way a good indicator of activity. There are very active channels with 2-4 people and totally unactive channels with even hundreds of people.
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by pasiaj 12y ago
There's also the somewhat active #hackernews channel. https://www.dropbox.com/s/l95pvm6v7xtnyy1/Screen%20Shot%2020...
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by pasiaj 12y ago
IRC today is the opposite of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September . People who still use IRC are mostly well-mannered, skillful and welcoming of others, and things only seem to get better day-by-day People who
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by pasiaj 12y ago
This is anecdotal, unscientific and has no real basis to it what so ever, but I have one possible interpretation. I'm overly critical of everything if write, be it code or prose. I tend to overcomplicate things when I write. I think to
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by pasiaj 12y ago
4 big headlines that are non-newsworthy to almost everybody. The only headline of any relevance was a 10-day old piece about Philae.
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by pasiaj 12y ago
Does anyone know what the lower button does?
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by pasiaj 12y ago
For me there was only 2 or 3 sets of standardized tests during 12 years of school. 'No failing grades' isn't really considered a valuable aspect of the system. It's more like a side effect. Finnish teachers are paid bett
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by pasiaj 12y ago
I thought this did not disprove the previous theory. It just refined it, showing that it can be a 'sheet' of ice instead of a 'slab'. I read about his theory about a year ago, and it described thin sheets of ice then, al
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by pasiaj 12y ago
I've been playing around with this same kind of idea. In my case I was using a cheap Android phone as a camera. Color recognition of 1x1 size Legos start to become problematic from more than 2 meters away, even in good lighting conditi

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