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A common misconception is that insulation is about heating only. It’s not, it’s about keeping the indoor climate as steady as possible, which means cool in the summer. Even a moderate summer will be balming hot in a tent.

As far as i can see there’s zero insulation and basically no thermal mass to buffer the heat. They’re going to need to keep a fire going 24/7.

A language is pretty easy to pick up if you’re coming a similar class of languages. Ecosystems, tooling and patterns on the other hand...

Playing the devils advocate, it's not 20 years to get a flat. It's 20 years to get a large, cheap, centrally located flat.

You can get a firsthand contract for spatious 2 room apartment in Märsta for 14k a month right now.

I feel like phones have more or less evolved to a point where there’s nothing more to add.

Over the coming year in think the watch/phone/slate/laptop ecosystem will be replaced by one or perhaps two devices that will dock into larger screens and input devices as needed.

What if it’s mental health organizations that treat mental issues with crystals?

Spotify didn’t go public until a few years ago, but sure, I get your point.

Here’s Delaval, privately owned maker of milking robots:

https://www.allabolag.se/5560123928/delaval-international-ab

I don’t want to post my own company since it can be traced to me IRL, but yeah, all tax returns are public in Sweden, personal and companies alike.

Here is Spotify’s financials from its inception to today:

https://www.allabolag.se/5567037485/spotify-ab

You can find the same data for all companies.

I mentioned it in the We S-1 thread, but it really weirds me out that the S-1 is the first chance the public has a chance to see a company’s financial status.

That’s so counterintuitive once you get used to all company returns (both privately and publicly held) being public information in Sweden.

Here’s Spotify’s complete financial history from its inception for example:

https://www.allabolag.se/5567037485/spotify-ab

Perhaps this is a stupid question, but is an S-1 the first chance for the general public to get any insight into a company’s financials?

At it's core, it's also what drives Carmack's Fast Inverse Square Root (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root).

Yes, yes, I know Carmack didn't invent it.

Your goal is admirable, but please, please, PLEASE consult with a lawyer before collecting any sort of health-related PII.

Will you be happier with the tax money in your pocket and your local economy in the pits due to population aging?

Fellow Swede, child-haver and boggled-mind-haver. The way I see it it's an extremely cheap investment from the state's point of view - 350 kSEK or so in exchange for two years lower stress levels for 3 citizens (child + parents). It should pay of many times over over the course of the life of those people in lower mental health issues and abscence from the work force.

Jesus.

We felt bad when our second kid started daycare at 18 months.

You’re right, it wasn’t impressive so I double checked. It’s 6414 kWh (3596 kWh in southern Sweden) for heating and hot water production without geothermal, only by air heat reuse. It’s a two story house at 164m2 which is three times as large as an average apartment.

My point is the insulation is the cheapest way of lowering heating (and chilling) costs.

Also, lots of mining, logging and manufacturing jobs up north.

Precisely this. In Sweden there is the notion of industrisemester which originated from when manufacturing dominated the economy. Basically, all of Sweden (minus social services) shuts down from midsummer to beginning of August. Any “real” work done during this period is an anomaly/bonus Depending on your disposition.

Since the whole country does this, customers are just fine with it.

Insulation and heat pumps. New houses built in Sweden _above the Arctic circle_ use less than 9000 kWh per year. 300mm of insulation and a geothermal heat pump that gives you at least 3 kW of heat for every 1 kW of electricity.

Man, n-gate.com is going to have a field day.

The solution to this problem is as simple as it is revolting to programmers - realize that programming is a low-value task. The high-value task is solving business problems, if it happens so that programming is the easiest path then go for it. The real value to the business however, lies in domain expertise - something programmers are forced to become in order to be able to write code for it.

The trick is to find a domain that stable, fairly interesting and has enough companies so that you can jump around. I myself chose occupational pension insurance (kinda-sorta 401k but in EU) and spent the last year or so explaining fairly easy edge cases to top brass.

Most people don’t know what RSS is. Hell, most developers I know barely know what it is.

As a podcaster myself I want to make it easy for people to subscribe and from statistics 95% use iTunes, Overcast or Spotify (I provide a RSS feed as well)

10x discussion aside, I found this quote to be eye opening, and not just about programmers:

“The 10x programmer is essentially a libertarian concept: That is, they do it all by themselves because they don’t recognize how much is done for them by others.”

Is too!

For the past two years I’ve been my own boss and one of my main terms I tell my clients is that I commit to 30 hours on-site per week.

I’ve tried to splice this as 4x7,5 and 5x6 and I prefer the latter _by far_, even if this means one more day of commuting. After 6 hours in front of the computer my mental energy is spent and I’m basically running of the clock on the clients dime. It’s demotivating and I’d much rather spend that time at home with my family and/or exercising.

I’ve considered this, however Bluetooth cases seem like a huge hit-and-miss swamp. Can you recommend any in particular?

Thank you for this comment. I'm currently going through a stressful time dealing with a legal situation that's, objectively, annoying at best. Yet I'm paralyzed every time I open up my mail client to type out the next email to my lawyer, fearing to make an error.

Your comment put it in a very different perspective. Thank you, I'm going to write that email now.

Not sure how it holds up today, but a few years ago Yospos on Something Awful was a dumpster filled with nuggets of gold.

Make absolutely, positively, beyond a doubt certain that you gel with the team and that you understand and believe in product being built.

I didn’t when I took my first leadership role and it was one of the most miserable years of my life. I ended up catapulting myself out what felt like second before burning out.