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Ask HN: How to introduce a 12-year-old to Linux and the command line?
4 points by meriksson 3y ago|3 comments
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Help Crowdfund Liberty.me(indiegogo.com)
1 points by meriksson 13y ago|0 comments
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Casual Activism in the Apple Store(meriksson.net)
2 points by meriksson 13y ago|0 comments
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Deep Packet Inspection as a Service(meriksson.net)
1 points by meriksson 13y ago|0 comments
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Snowden: A Manifesto for the Truth(meriksson.net)
14 points by meriksson 13y ago|1 comments
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by meriksson 13y ago
The conventional story about Swedish wealth is a joke. In fact, wealth was primarily accumulated under a largely free market system between 1840 and 1970 or so. After that the welfare state started expanding in earnest and it has mostly bee
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by meriksson 13y ago
This was a fascinating read for me, made me think. I would love to hear some thoughts on this from the HN community. My own reflections: http://meriksson.net/an-alternative-view-on-snowden
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Sojuznik Snowden: A solid Russian investment(c4isrnet.com)
1 points by meriksson 13y ago|2 comments
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by meriksson 13y ago
I have often wished for this exact feature when using software of poor quality. E.g. years ago when I still used Microsoft Windows, I often had the thought that it would be appropriate if I could press a button to buzz the developers respon
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by meriksson 13y ago
It is true that almost no one analyzes sanity. Your comment reminds me a lot of a particular book on the topic, The Human Evasion by Celia Green. If you are not familiar with it already, you might be interested in checking it out: http:&#x
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by meriksson 14y ago
The market for apartments is not a strong point for Stockholm. You can get an apartment rather easily, but it is not cheap compared to similar cities in Europe. Some current listings from the Swedish equivalent of Craigslist: http://www.bl
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by meriksson 14y ago
I agree with Matti - doing business in Stockholm without knowing Swedish is no problem. Swedes are generally fluent in English and most often they enjoy speaking it. I know several foreigners who run startups here without bothering to learn
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by meriksson 14y ago
Running a software company in Stockholm, Sweden is a blast. It is a great place to live, plenty of good people to recruit, a decent domestic market, e.g. many big companies willing to try out services from startups. There is a vast number o
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by meriksson 14y ago
Great analogy with painting! I take what I wrote to apply to good programmers, the core people needed to get serious things done. Tolerably capable housepainter-programmers will be churned out in the millions, to be sure. Things like the Ra
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by meriksson 14y ago
I agree strongly that this is a wide open space. As an employer I would pay handsomely for recruiting services that I actually believed in. Of all the concepts floating around, I particularly like the idea of programmers having agents, like
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by meriksson 14y ago
Sure thing, my reasoning goes like this: My first premise is that we are still in a relatively early stage of the technological boom signified by things like electronics, computers, robotics and the internet. These technologies have changed
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by meriksson 14y ago
This is a wonderful essay! I often think about how extraordinarily lucky I am to be living through this technological boom. Computation, automation and mass-communication will continue to transform human society even more for decades. High-
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by meriksson 14y ago
Besides being a well-established startup in the digital signature space and writing all their software in Haskell, Scrive has a good API. I have used it myself for a small project, to build a petition service, and it was very straight-forwa
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by meriksson 14y ago
TL;DR: Since dealing with high-end lawyers is often tough, contract someone to do it for you. At my company we went through a handful of lawyers, mostly from big firms. We were extremely unhappy with the experience, especially since we did
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by meriksson 14y ago
Direct link to the YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK7Pp1TjhjI
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“I just go Google Chromosome” – Startup asks people to explain Wi-Fi and 3G(thenextweb.com)
3 points by meriksson 14y ago|1 comments
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by meriksson 14y ago
I have met some of the Instabridge people and heard the founder pitch the project at a networking event. They have quite an interesting business idea, and despite being newly started they seem to have a very strong team. I for one will be f
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by meriksson 14y ago
Here is a newly launched service for steganography in images, primarily lolcats: http://lolsecurity.se
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by meriksson 14y ago
There is at least one: Scrive. Their codebase is almost completely Haskell. I think the only other language they use is Javascript for web stuff (but their web apps are built with Happstack). https://scrive.com
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by meriksson 15y ago
I've been a Stratfor subscriber on and off since they got started about 15 years ago (I was 14 years old at the time). The last time around I got a new subscription, Stratfor set a new password for me, and it was... "stratfor". This is just
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by meriksson 15y ago
I have recently created something related, targeted to the Swedish political scene. The basic idea is similar but the concepts I use are quite different. If I may say so myself, my take on it is less sophisticated but more elegant. Google T