lingoberry

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by lingoberry 12y ago
This is a case where policy will have to lead public opinion and culture. It has been done successfully in many countries, though less traditional than Japan to begin with. Subsidise childcare, make maternity leave longer, ear mark some lea
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by lingoberry 12y ago
Yikes, I'm sorry for your experience. I think highly skilled foreigners coming to Sweden to work is such a recent that society is lagging behind. I've heard many stories of people changing their last names to their husband/wi
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by lingoberry 12y ago
No, I didn't mean it takes months to get your loan approved for most people. It did for us though, since we moved from abroad, having no work history in Sweden and no jobs at that point. That means you have to get two job offers first
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by lingoberry 12y ago
This is the biggest problem. There really is no rental market to speak of, so talking about rental queues being 10 years long is not really relevant. If you want to live in Stockholm for a longer time you need to buy. This also means it tak
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by lingoberry 12y ago
I'm talking about continental Europe and Scandinavia (including Stockholm where I live). UK is very different in terms of apartment condition. I've seen many carpeted floors, and even carpeted bathrooms of all things, really not a
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by lingoberry 12y ago
Not really, part of the reason people want to live centrally in the first place is the density and the high quality turn-of-the-century housing. Tall ceilings, nice wooden floors, large windows. It sounds like you've never actually bee
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by lingoberry 12y ago
After relying on Google Maps a lot for many years living in the US, I have (maybe unsurprisingly) noticed that it doesn't work nearly as well in Europe. As in, I'd zoom in on central Stockholm and search for something common, like
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by lingoberry 12y ago
I don't know why they all make the same mistake of hiring literally a thousand people after their one big hit. Only Mojang seems to have kept small enough to sustain themselves in the long term.
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by lingoberry 12y ago
I'm late to the party, but I want to share an insight I've had regarding game development and UI applications. It baffled me for a long time why building UIs were such a pain, and doubly so in a web app. Why could I, and others, c
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by lingoberry 12y ago
Regarding 30. wasn't it recently concluded here on HN that obese people actually end up costing less to society since they tend not to survive into their 80s/90s? Not that his thought is good even if this was not true.
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by lingoberry 12y ago
Sweden and Russia don't pose any direct threat to each other, but even though Sweden's military has been defunded in the past few decades after the cold war, it's still one of the biggest weapon exporters in the world.
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by lingoberry 12y ago
Meteor doesn't require tight coupling between data access and presentation layers. Personally I use meteor with react.
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by lingoberry 12y ago
I'm using Meteor and React for a side project, and compared to a previous project where I used Backbone and node.js it really is a 10x productivity boost. Since this is a side project I can spend at most an hour a day on, it really is
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by lingoberry 12y ago
Where is your data on Chinese not being "that" hard? According to US Military studies it's about 10 times as hard to learn as another Germanic language. In my experience, being fluent in two languages and learning Chinese, it
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by lingoberry 12y ago
I have to agree. Just spent 6 weeks in China. Just booked the flight there and back in advance. No hotels, not much research, not flights or trains within the country. Very liberating. The only difficult part was deciding on a general route
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by lingoberry 12y ago
You actually know someone who bought a phone on credit?
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by lingoberry 12y ago
Removing social services will not make society more productive. Not having to constantly worry for your life and family works wonders for creativity, productivity and overall happiness. It's not about entitlement, it's about enabl
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by lingoberry 12y ago
I don't know if it works like this in all of EU, but if you have a job offer you will get a work permit, no lottery required.
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by lingoberry 12y ago
Wow, that really sucks (there's no other word for it). Makes me realise how lucky I was to get an H1B during the recession when no lottery was needed. Since then I've moved back to Europe though, in some small part for the insecur
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by lingoberry 12y ago
A little bit more likely than it first would seem. The balloon didn't land on Laura Buxton, but on a farmer who knew someone named Laura Buxton, which depending on how common that name is and how many people the farmer knew is not extr
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by lingoberry 12y ago
Every country has its problems, but among western nations it's an outlier in many ways: the police state, militarisation, surveillance, car dependence, obesity, love of guns, poverty, crime, absolute zero trust in government, culture o
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by lingoberry 12y ago
Interesting... I would also like to add that even if you're in a state of flow you are still more likely than not working on the wrong thing/problem or taking the wrong approach. Prolonged flow without any reflection on what you&#
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by lingoberry 12y ago
Sometimes it's just an investment. Many $80-100k entry level jobs do require very specific education. I bet those high-paying entry level jobs are fairly impossible to get without the right degree.
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by lingoberry 12y ago
Unfortunately you don't just "go and work" in the US, it doesn't work like the EU. Unless you're a hot commodity and you can convince Google et al to pay for your visa ($tens of thousands) and then winning the H-1B
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by lingoberry 12y ago
Very interesting, I'm surprised to see that Ouya is still alive. This is sort of what I want in a console today. I don't have time to play lengthy AAA games and prefer social games, but there are few alternatives for that type of
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by lingoberry 12y ago
Or, don't be so afraid of strangers? People should be allowed to rent out their own property.
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by lingoberry 12y ago
For me, it's work meetings. Whenever I'm in a meeting and something non-technical is being discussed my minds starts to wander, usually thinking about algorithms. This is quite dangerous in case you get called out on it, but I jus
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by lingoberry 12y ago
Governments in most other developed countries have managed to develop better systems, why do you assume US government is so much more inept?
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by lingoberry 12y ago
Just moved back to Sweden from the US and was surprised to see my income tax go down by 4-5%. I feared I had to take a pay cut by 25-30%, but with the lower income tax and 25% pension, I'm actually slightly better off now. The levellin
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by lingoberry 12y ago
I just want to say that you're correct, I've had this problem as well. As a non-native speaker for some reason it also didn't occur to me that the "shade" in shader has anything to do with color. It's just one

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