Hansi

I don't get why that should be normal even if in college? I'd guess that 95-100% of my university class mates paid their own bills when I was in that age group in Iceland.

Personally I've been paying my own bill since I got my first mobile at 14 in 1999...

But I do wonder if this does actually include PayAndGo correctly?

The few instances those things have happened they've issued refunds....

Including the total size of these libraries and response time would be useful too.

This seems like a strange choice to me, the only reason for choosing Julia seems to be for speed but when doing any of these courses I can't see speed being much of an issue but rather the ability to leverage existing code and help available online and offline to learn the core mechanics of numerical programming.

In my opinion Julia is great but still a bit immature.

"He is clearly far more excited these days about VR and where it can go."

Actually according to the book Masters of Doom he's been that since the beginning of iD and not just these days.

It also gives the perception that he's always been more about pushing gaming technology (or just general technology) rather than being in it for the gaming itself.

I don't see this an issue from the rental point of view but considering the average enterprise's ability to properly secure anything from hacking I'd beconcerned about this being hacked so I wouldn't want one of these.

I agree Facebook would have no benefit for me when I was a teenager since all the people I wanted to interact with and cared about were close by and easy to get a hold of in school or via phone.

When Facebook went mainstream I was already in university and had started losing contact with people from grade school, high school etc. But facebook allowed me to reconnect with those people and some of my best friends today are actually people that I knew but didn't spend alot of time with in grade school because they were in different classes but through FB realized they had very similar personalities to me and we became great friends.

Facebook is also the preferred means of organizing events, groups and using messaging instead of e-mails in almost all of my friend circles.

May view may be skewed though since I'm from Iceland where Facebook has something close to 50% of the whole country has a Facebook account and 90% in the 25-35 age group. But I live in London though where the use of Facebook is a mixed bag, most of the foreigners here I know use it but my English friends seem less interested in it and prefer e-mail over FB messages.

If you max the RAM to 8GB and add a SSD it will be a completely new machine. Also not that hard to do, well worth it. I have the 2011 model and updated first from 4 to 8 and then 16GB of RAM and from a standard HDD to Crucial M4 500GB and the machine is a beast, must faster in 10.9 than when I originally bought it.

Yes this is true, I've been in that situation. Got an extra 20% increase.

Iceland is trying it out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3n_Gnarr

Why are there so many articles posted on HN about this? Want to live long and be productive exercise and eat mostly healthy must be common sense at this point right?

I'm not knocking on the OP for posting this but am interested in hearing comments on why this keeps getting repeated. I sure know that everyone around me on a day to day basis knows this independent of whether they follow it or not.

I clicked the link without reading the comments and had the same thought straight away. Couldn't make it past the fifth paragraph despite trying my best.

I understand the Nokia going away but I really liked the Lumia name. I find it very fitting for a series of phones although obviously the numbers are just silly.

I get asked that all the time. But I'm from Iceland. With only a population of 300.000 it's to be expected. Funny thing is I've actually known the person twice when asked (but it's out of hundreds of queries).

I agree, I have no intention of giving out my e-mail without an example.

This is exactly what I thought of when reading that post.

Am I the only one who can't read through the happy-go-far text on the page and figure out what the company actually does to get to the $15m/yr revenue?

Yes, I gave up after the first three paragraphs, too much hero worship and hyperbole.

Seconded, I've used their dedicated server options for a while, great value for money.

"I can party until 10am and drink all night without getting a hangover (I would puke all the time when I was younger).

I can function perfectly after having slept for just a few hours."

I'm 27 too but don't think this is reflective of most people our age. I don't get hungover often but my friends complain about it quite frequently. And I simply don't function without enough sleep so no partying till 10am, I can survive on 6 hours of sleep but prefer 8 for optimal effectiveness.

Not surprising. I'm generally shocked that the people that comment on youtube videos are actually able to turn on a computer considering the quality of their writing.

Market maker is a better definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_maker

Excel can do that via VBA.

Actually I think daily might work out better for most people since it allows for smaller projects and also taking single day holidays etc. when on a long contract. I used to charge £500/day until I went permanent. I only went perm. because of the additional benefits etc was higher than the tax benefits.

Most quants use functional programming to some degree when not locked down into C++, be it in a specifically funcational language or not. At least in London F# is commonly used in Credit Suisse, Barclays and UBS that I know of. Heard that Morgan Stanley uses it a bit too but didn't sound very widespread there.

Still looks like too much needless stuff going on, so I still prefer feedly.com as my Google Reader replacement

My thoughts exactly. Needs to be done though unfortunately. I'm going to get some chainsaws and duct tape and attack it on Monday. Mondays suck anyway so it can't make the day much worse.

I have a 1134 line function with zero tests defined for it sitting open in the background which most likely scores something like 32 out of 11 on that list. I'm afraid of touching that monster...

Never was an issue for a family of four, when I lived at home. Tumble dryers normally ruin most clothes quicker anyway. I always air dry mine.

If you start from the second paragraph in the 'Alan Cooper's ghost' section there is a sort of tl;dr summary.