iiv

Really? How many?

Well, it's a very old trick. Probably several thousand years, as long as people have traded. Don't give credit to Caldini just because he wrote a popular book!

>Most of the content is static HTML, probably updated by hand from time to time. Could this be the reason why the website is surviving the slashdot/HN effect?

Probably not, because it doesn't survive the slashdot effect. Many of the places I clicked didn't work.

Haha, no problem. It's easy to miss =)

No it isn't. That's not the SI unit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceleration

TIP: Look closer =)

Also, he wrote:

"g = acceleration due to gravity = 9.81 m/s^-2"

m/s^-2 is not the correct unit for acceleration.

It's a marketing term. It is often not provable either way and sounds good.

What do you mean "give credit where it's due"? It's not common (in my experience) to thank every dependency's creator, right?

I don't think they are contradicting statements. My impression is that Sweden is more casual, but also more calculated, while continental Europeans are more formal but just throw on a suit and are done with it.

The journalist quoted the "inventor".

I agree with the sentiment of his article, but I also agree with you. The article is written in a condescending and arrogant way.

This paper is wrong in section 4.1:

>The first click of a Minesweeper game deserves special attention since it is rather unique. >Namely, the opener is always a guess because the player starts with a covered board. >In addition, the challenges associated with the opening move are unavoidable and are shared among all solvers. Thus, finding an optimal policy for dealing with the initial click will benefit every approach

The first click of a Minesweeper game is always safe[1]

[1]http://www.minesweeper.info/wiki/Strategy#First_Click

A sloyd knife is not the same as a butter knife. You use a sloyd knife while making a butter knife. Sloyd knife in Swedish is "slöjdkniv".

How would one do inline comments without block comments?

I don't know if Python's triple-quote can be used inline, but otherwise that seems like a good solution. I am not entirely familiar with Python comments, does any of his arguments apply to triple-quotes?

Article author is probably a lawyer (or at least proof-read by a lawyer), so that sounds strange.

Which is weird because AWS Pinpoint is powered by Twilio[1]

[1]https://twitter.com/jeffiel/status/912775401084035072

And interestingly Denmark doesn't have this law. Sweden, Norway and Finland all have it, and they all have decently similar cultures. Denmark might be the outlier because of it's small size?

Most seem to fit the pattern of "One thing: And another thing"

Their's also works as a site. For example https://www.whatruns.com/website/minecraft.net. But as far as I know you would have to write that manually, without a web-interface.

I'm not really worried about how fast I am, I'm just curious how fast I am in comparison with others. (I am fast enough for my needs)

Can I ask how fast your read? (words or characters/minute)

If you know your average reading speed and you know how long time you read every week it's a simple calculation: `speed*time = distance`.

While slightly enjoyable (for the first few paragraphs) I couldn't finish reading it. The author is trying _way_ too hard to be funny.

I suppose it is written to another audience, perhaps the people that use tumblr find this funnier.

Both Netflix and Whatsapp has donated. I could not find any source that Nintendo or Sony donated, though.

It's like a loan with no interest! How has no one done this before?

>Then there's also a lot of gadgets or software that come with the untranslated "ok"

The word has been used a long time before gadgets and software became common here in Sweden. I would guess it comes from films and tv-programs.

We can be even less specific: humans do this a lot.

That he rambled over the only woman does not mean that he rambled over her because she is a woman.

I usually like satire, but this felt too obvious. Subtlety is in my opinion a key part of good satire. Otherwise it feels too forced or too in-your-face.

But as the specialist external reader said: "Stross can clearly write workmanlike, commercial prose". I can definitely agree with that!

But EULA _are_ (generally) not enforcable. It obviously depends, sometimes it is and sometimes not. I know for example in Sweden EUla are not enforcable at all.