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by vidar 16y ago
As the old saying goes: "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story".
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by vidar 16y ago
I believe Oracle has seen some really weird group interactions on this level.
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by vidar 16y ago
This seems to be a function of rising living standards, so that the population is never tougher than they need to be. If we assume that toughness is a desirable attribute, is there a way to toughen people up, even if they don't "need it".
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by vidar 17y ago
He was not part of the competition.
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by vidar 17y ago
Search is 98-99% of their revenue.
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by vidar 17y ago
Has anyone heard the price?
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by vidar 18y ago
Length of contract is quite relevant here, is anyone charging over 150 when working 8 hours a day for several months?
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by vidar 18y ago
My first thought was that http://www.cloudera.com/ was in big trouble but I actually think that this is the best thing that could have happened for them.
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by vidar 18y ago
He actually makes it quite clear that this is a superficial overview.
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by vidar 18y ago
For those interested in the back story (or interested in a great data gathering startup) go to http://datamarket.net/request_data/icelandic_economy/
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by vidar 18y ago
One of the great tragedies (one of many) in Iceland is that for the last 4-5 year, these 3 big banks sucked up the larger part of the group that would otherwise have founded startups. There was just too much money floating around inside th
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by vidar 18y ago
The big difference is that Zimbabwe isn't playing in the big leagues, Iceland was supposedly a rocksolid 1st world country.
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by vidar 18y ago
The problem was that there was (and still is to some extent) some confusion about how much of their debt was implicitly or explicitly insured by the government. And yes, I realize how ridiculous this sounds but these things (billions of do
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by vidar 18y ago
I am Icelandic, living in Iceland so I know a thing or two about the situation. The article has some simplifications obviously but the overall picture is pretty much as he describes.
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by vidar 18y ago
It might be helpful to get some visuals on time lapses, e.g. breaks and perhaps multi-day sessions.
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Gmail Gedanken experiment
2 points by vidar 18y ago|2 comments
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by vidar 18y ago
http://trac.optio.webfactional.com/ is the full link
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by vidar 18y ago
soaplib is decent
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by vidar 18y ago
The nice thing is that each community (or at least core dev-teams) is super happy with its place. Django has always been positioned as having very clear boundaries: DVCS, webdesign and javascript toolkits are explicitly outside of their sc
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by vidar 18y ago
I like your idea, I cant help you per se but if it helps your selfdoubt then I think you will do fine, based on your courage to try such an unconventional path. And whatever you do, keep learning on your own time ... that never gets old!
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by vidar 18y ago
These guys are too late, the Russians have a bid in for a couple of billion Euros (4 or 5 I believe).
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by vidar 18y ago
Obviously the guy is trolling, but a useful question does emerge: Are people taking pg's advice without critically evaluating it? If they do not then all is fine and dandy but if they do, the guy has a point (albeit poorly presented).
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Github features for Mercurial?
1 points by vidar 18y ago|0 comments
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by vidar 18y ago
Most of the points raised here about Iceland (my home country) and your so-called "socialism" apply equally well to Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Look them up in the happiness, education and economic statistics. They are multimillion popul
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by vidar 18y ago
Max Levchin had some insights on this in his interview with Robert X. Cringely (NerdTV). http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/transcripts/002.html
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by vidar 19y ago
You can say many things about this article but I am not sure dishonest is one of them. In fact it seems quite clear that it accurately presents the authors opinion and is thus honest.
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by vidar 19y ago
As an Icelander, I must surely ask what pushed you to use Icelandic as an example. :)
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by vidar 19y ago
I think the core of this post (which I agree with completely is this: "When talking, try to say something (preferrably true)"
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by vidar 19y ago
corenetworks.net have been really good, dedicated servers down to 25 bucks per month.
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by vidar 19y ago
I will have to disagree with you there. If the gap between you and your coworker/chessopponent is too great there are no lessons learned. Trying to assimilate knowledge too fast will only lead to superficial understanding and frustration.

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