jonas_b

Hello guys. As someone who's supposed to graduate this summer I can really see the value of this thing. I think you have done a terrific job.

There are some points for improvement though. As is already mentioned, I think the faster you let people experience the ease of creating the resumes the better.

I have a hard time working out if this is a national embarrassment or just the judicial system's way of slowly finding the correct people to compile the code.

Habitat might have been the word I was looking for.

I agree that one should be careful when using emotionally charged words, but I also think that playful usage might be a way out of the self-censorship that surrounds a great many dreadful historical events. Not just in Germany.

You're right, it was probably unnecessary.

It's a pity though, cause the metaphorical meaning of living "room" is precisely what I meant.

Even if it was true, would that in the case of NL indicate anything in regards to its taxes-welfare state?

I thought it was a widely held "fact" that the NL is overcrowded and that dutchmen should try to find their lebensraum elsewhere.

I'm not sure, but this, or some evolution of this feature, could turn out to be a real revolution when it comes to group collaboration and sharing.

Or it might just be another feature, or that I'm trying to see something that isn't there.

I've been searching for a merge between this, Chatterous and possibly etherpad for small-group collab. Alas, it eludes me still.

A little side-note: Many people who try active dynamic meditation for the first time, i.e. deep, fast, chaotic breathing through your nose, feel an urge to vomit after just a few minutes. I've had it on a number of occasions. I know it's different from a runners urge to vomit, but ones mind/CNS certainly play a lot of tricks as well.

Leo Babauta has a lot of that stuff on his blog.

E.g.

http://zenhabits.net/2007/07/how-to-actually-execute-your-to...

Quite insightful comment!

I think now, if they spin this correctly, PBay will have far more leverage for their main point - that the trial is a set up by the IFPI-industrial complex.

Oh, yes! :)

I think the idea I was trying to push was that for this trial, the outcome in courts of appeal will have more to to with politics and media leverage than the legal code.

I've taken some introductions to law, but this is not something I'm competent in, but I would assume that the defendants could get the verdict invalidated if they could prove that the judge's affiliation with affiliation with that association was of the nature that he should be unfit for duty.

In all likelyhood, I think the outcome will have a lot to do with how media reacts to this. If they label the judge corrupt and fights for a retrial, the courts of appeal will have a hard time resisting.

As a Swedish citizen this sends shivers down my spine. Since we have a rather weak constitution with little division of power we've relied on the good faith and judgement of our officials to avoid corruption, which has worked pretty well so far.

But now, to send people to jail, fully aware that he's affiliated with stakeholders in the case, that's just sickening.

Okay, swedish prisons for intellectual property offenders probably have a summer camp atmosphere to it, but that's not really the point. To take someones liberty should not be taken lightly.

Economists today are in a way the scientists of the renaissance. Back then it was the church that couldn't accept the world view of Copernicus and Galilei. Today it is the politicians that won't accept free trade and long-term fiscal responsibility. I wonder if the day will come when politicians accept economics the way they accept gravity?

Disclaimer: I don't really mean to compare economics with the hard sciences, just the way they are treated.

I find this interesting because I myself have had a great improvement in my relationship with my dad and some of my friends just by being able to communicate more directly.

My dad actually told me a few days ago something he had learned from a friend, that anything that you say to another person with absolute sincerity and respect is, in fact, a gift to the other person. And I'm starting to believe him.

I would be very interested to hear what got you started with radical honesty, or was it just in that moment with your boss that you were excessively candid?

Funny video about this guy's attempt to run for congress.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx-OVdTkwvA

Too bad you signed off man. I've had a look at your comments and I must say I've learned more about modern India from reading through them, than most books on the subject.

I can see what you're getting at, but I think the point Tom was trying to make was that even if 99% of men are non-sexist and make reasonable on-topic comments on female bloggers, the vocal sexist minority is still going to be there and make stupid comments.

Indeed, it's not very optimistic. I think a solution would be if more sites implemented HN's rating system which hopefully would increase the ignorability of crude comments.

Swedish tax rates on someone earning 100k USD would be hovering around 60%, and then there is between 12% and 25% sales tax on most things you buy. I'm surprised that I don't feel more ripped off than I do.

Wow, this is amazing stuff. On par with Spotify in ease of use.

After a while it gets a bit too "flashy" though.

Would like to see some social/discussion functionalities.

Oh, stupid me, didn't take into that into the calculation.

The things is that I wrote a school paper years ago on the UAE and back then it wasn't exactly a hidden fact that many workers on the massive construction projects were treated badly.

But then I forgot that not everyone has access to the internet and/or reads human rights reports.

Shame on me.

I don't mean to condone the modern slavery in Dubai in any way, but isn't it telling about the conditions in Bangladesh and the Philippines that people volontary leave them to go to the UAE and be treated like dirt.

I would too be very happy to hear a little about the indian dating game, particularly how it works in the bigger metropolises.

I've spent a bit of time in Kochi, Kerela, in the southwest, and while I spent most of my time working on our business, I couldn't help but notice how incredibly beautiful yet amazingly shy many girls were. We did hear a lot of rumors of decadent partying and dating going on, and had indian friends who seemed to hang out with different girls, but we failed miserably at locating these sweet spots.

Can't help but imagining that even indian youth needs to let of some steam sometimes and just party their asses off.

I think this is closely related to ones identity and many people bring some artifact very close to their hart just to be get a feeling of belonging.

To talk a little about myself, I'm a die hard libertarian, and I've spent countless hours being quietly angry about all the collectivists out there that wants to ruin our planet. Recently I've noticed though, that this rock-solid conviction of the superiority of a libertarian society isn't really productive for me in my relationships with others, and made it harder for me to intellectually appreciate good ideas from people who doesn't share my view.

I think the reason for this rigidity in my beliefs was that in my late teens, I felt as if I didn't belong anywhere, and getting an ideology to die for gave me a (false) sense of belonging.

I can't speak for this Lisp guy or the musicians but I can only assume that we perhaps share some similarities.

Did you create this account just to comment on this thread?

Considering the biased tone of your post, this sounds a bit too good to be true.

If you're not connected to the OP in any way and just liked his site, I apologise!

"Silicon valley's successes tend to never start companies again"

Really? I thought the opposite was quite true. Marc Andressen, Steve Jobs, Jim Clark etc.

I think unsecured WIFI AP in Burma or China is a very precious commodity, if it even exists.

I'd wait for that updated CSS version. The one they showcase on the site looks like Nigerian Spam to me. Not a good way to promote FFX or Chrome.

To expand on PGs comment a little bit. I used to have serious problems with onset insomnia, almost to the point of making me sick. While trying to find a solution, I found that having a few quiet, "boring" hours before I go to bed helps me a lot to fall a sleep earlier and quicker.

This means no tv, no internet, loud music etc. At first, this was extremely frustrating for me, I felt that I needed some kind audio/visual stimuli to keep sane. But after a while, I started to embrace this boredom and focus my awareness inside. Sometimes I meditate, write in my journal, take a slow walk to a beautiful viewpoint or just chill out to an old Bob Dylan album and really try to focus on the music.

These days, I manage to do this about half the time, and it usually makes me calm enough to fall asleep within 30 minutes or so.

I'm afraid that you're correct, but I think there is also a "darker" side to it. As the OP mentions, parents involving their kids in CP crosses class barriers and happens in both poor and rich families.

A few weeks ago, I took a primal therapy course, aimed at improving participants self-awareness and quality of life by letting them express pain experienced during childhood trauma. Anyway, the reason I am bringing this up is that some people in this course had childhood stories of abuse that would make anyone puke. And these were all high-income people with good jobs.

I believe all parents try their best, nobody wants to be a bad person. But if your perception of good parenting includes fucking your kids, that can make you do horrible things.

Yeah, those vids are so funny. I'm taking statistics class right now and I really wish I was 1% as excited as he is about the subject.

I can really see how statistics are an awesome way to visualise important stuff to people, but when I'm sitting there trying to calculate the the t-value in a question on the average amount of mineral water in a bottle, it's hard not to find it boring.

How do you guys do to connect boring stuff like Stats with the bigger picture?

Edit: I also find his accent extremely funny :-)