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by tored 5y ago
True, bad choice of words considering the topic, not much left of Anglo-Saxon identity today. When I grew up (Sweden) I remember that Anglo-Saxon as a term was much more commonly used in daily press and books than today. Reading the Wikiped
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by tored 5y ago
As a Swede I understand Danish better than Elfdalic. Elfdalic sounds closer to Icelandic and Faroese. Elfdalic also has other characters in their alfabet. I guess that has to do with that Elfdalic has been somewhat frozen in time, they spea
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by tored 5y ago
> they would evolve the language in such a way that it would become capable of expressing these nuances But everyone else that didn't evolve that couldn't understand it even though they speak the same language? Isn't how a
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by tored 5y ago
Eventually new languages would be created. Why? Because everyone wouldn't iterate at the speed or even the same direction.
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by tored 5y ago
Would you consider Danish and Swedish separate languages or are they dialects?
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by tored 5y ago
Summarizing an entire language, and thus everyone ever spoke it, with economics is a good metaphor of the current shallow consumer culture we live in. If it is not on Netflix it doesn’t exist.
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by tored 5y ago
Language is a connection to your ancestors, it is a time machine to their world, to speak and think like they did, and without the toil of your ancestors you wouldn’t be here, and by preserving it and passing it on to future generation we a
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by tored 5y ago
There was a shift to Anglo-Saxon culture already after World War 1 because of the outcome of the war. As an example you can see that in first names of people born in the 1920s
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by tored 5y ago
Pen and paper.
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by tored 5y ago
Yes, it is my phone that autocorrects to capital letters and I can’t bother to fix it.
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by tored 5y ago
Honest question, why should you use FORTRAN? Does FORTRAN have any traction outside of scientific computation?
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by tored 5y ago
> the reality is that the US dictates what's cool and what's not. I wonder for how long that will stay true, give it a decade and I think that era will be over.
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by tored 5y ago
Only thing that can compete with native app stores is the web, this means making the web standard even more bloated. If you could install a store inside your browser and then buy web apps from there instead, your apps is no longer tied to t
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by tored 5y ago
In reality it will be a webview wrapped as android app and then executed on a subsystem on top another subsystem that is a virtual machine. Lets hope that the CPU architecture matches between the app and your machine so no emulation is need
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by tored 5y ago
Hostile design either makes the user login (a user reddit can monetize) or makes the user to close the site (a user reddit can't monetize, thus no need to waste resources), both scenarios is a win for reddit.
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by tored 5y ago
When I started coding PHP professionally about ten years ago I was bothered about the namespace separator too, but now it looks natural too me and I think it is more readable than a dot. On a Swedish keyboard layout it is easier to typ
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by tored 5y ago
PHP 8 changed how the parsing of namespaces work, instead of multiple tokens it is just one. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaced_names_as_token I wonder with this change it would be theoretically possible to have any
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by tored 5y ago
Nice write up. Mail.app is what I call the new "modern" app shipped with Windows 10. Mostly garbage. Spends most of its time and your CPU to resynchronize your mails. My experience with these programs is that the predecessor can h
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by tored 5y ago
Tried it a year ago again and if I remember correctly it has tons of options but little customization and somewhat bloated mess. I like minimalism and I don’t like cruft, things like how does the list of mails work when viewing 100+ and na
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by tored 5y ago
If I remember correctly there was an internal effort at Microsoft to scrap the registry (Longhorn?) but they decided not to, and probably because a registry is actually a good idea and necessary to get something performant (compared to ini
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by tored 5y ago
This may explain why Microsoft have created so many email clients and none of them 100% work. * Microsoft Mail * Windows Messaging * Outlook Express * Microsoft Outlook * Windows Mail * Windows Live Mail * Mail.app There
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by tored 5y ago
My objection to that is that in the long run it will make the source code less portable and thus limit my options and also may increase the risk when doing future upgrades. I prefer if my team develops on different operating systems or Linu
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by tored 5y ago
Yes, but depending on your yearly income there is another tax separate from the normal income tax (inkomskatt), if you earn more than 523 300 SEK you also need to pay "statlig inkomstskatt" at 20% for everything above that rate. A
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by tored 5y ago
If you use an IntelliJ based IDE you can view commit entries for each line in the gutter.
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by tored 5y ago
I think there is mismatch in publicly here. When private consumer's computers gets hijacked, those kind of stories can show up in normal non-technical newspapers, as a warning or a horror story for other consumers. But does hijacking o
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by tored 5y ago
GTK, here are two forum threads that covers this. GTK3 regressions from a GTK2 perspective https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/gtk3-regressions-from-a-gtk2... Horrible GTK3 / GNOME UI design is leaking into Ubuntu Mat
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by tored 5y ago
Hasn't there been a cultural change in how people write longer texts? Office and other WYSIWYG applications is still very popular, but many today writes in some sort of markup language and then applies different templates. Most importa
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by tored 5y ago
Some parts are probably cultural. The type of economy that the article is describing, rent-seeking, doesn't feel like it culturally could work in Europe when trying to build something large like Google or Facebook, that is at least my
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by tored 5y ago
Sweden has failed to build almost any new big company since the last 100 years. Just look at OMX30 (30 most traded companies at Stockholm stock exchange). Almost all of them are companies older than 100 years. Simplified, many great old suc
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by tored 5y ago
Europe, at least Sweden, used to have this approach for the traditional industry, e.g. companies like Ericsson, SAAB, Volvo, is/was all heavily involved in the Swedish defense industry with government backing and at the same time they

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