shiranaihito

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by shiranaihito 19y ago
> All this no-restraint bashing of an interesting article ("you shouldn't have used the 'lions in cages' metaphor! Now I feel terrible! Bghwaaa-waaa-waaa") is really getting on my nerves. Yes, I think Jeff overreacted too :) Anyone woul
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by shiranaihito 19y ago
Are you sure about that 50% ?
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by shiranaihito 19y ago
Or a compliment. Which sounds more positive: "pretty-boy" or "ugly-boy" ? :)
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by shiranaihito 19y ago
Even though the murder rate may seem high, often those are cases where some guy decides to kill his family, and then himself. This kind of thing happens almost exclusively in the Finnish countryside. It's strange, but it's better than lunat
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by shiranaihito 19y ago
Various other web-frameworks? Out of those three, only JSP is like a basic building-block for web stuff. It might be better to name only "Java", which would then cover everything related.
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by shiranaihito 19y ago
Good point!
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by shiranaihito 19y ago
There are some similarities between Finland and Japan that I've noticed or heard of. Both countries have a relatively high suicide-rate. Both societies frown upon someone who changes jobs frequently, and being unemployed is considered shame
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by shiranaihito 19y ago
Have you studied Japanese? As far as I know, Finnish and Japanese people and societies share quite a few traits. Some degree of introversion seems to be common to both, but based on two trips to Tokyo, I'd say that the Japanese are still co
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by shiranaihito 19y ago
I agree. Anyway, our educational system is pretty much uniformly great all the way to the end of upper-secondary school. After that though, there are only a handful of good universities to attend. It seems that among colleges etc, there are
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by shiranaihito 19y ago
Finland seems to have just as many loud stupid people as I'd imagine can be found in America. In schools, it's the same sort of thing - nerds vs jocks, etc. Being stupid is certainly not cool, but not exactly frowned upon in the retard-circ
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by shiranaihito 19y ago
Hi. I'm a Finn and I don't think introversion has much to do with why our educational system works as well as it does. Us being introvert doesn't translate to all children sitting quietly in classrooms, absorbing information. There are .. p
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by shiranaihito 19y ago
What about the Vista tax?
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by shiranaihito 19y ago
True, but what if they cut back only on the really awful movies? Very few movies are even worth watching, just like even fewer albums are worth buying. The re-use value of music is extremely high, but how many times will you watch a movie y