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It gives you simple & intuitive primitives which you can use to build higher level abstractions (one of them is actor model)
1. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh228603(v=vs.110)....
You register your mobile phone number on bank website (all Swedish banks offer this service) & download your security certificate on your cell phone or computer.
And from now on you can not only send money to any other mobile phone (via Swish [1]) but you can use your Mobile-ID/Bank-ID to login to every Govt/Private website/app.
Almost every company offers login via Mobile/Bank-ID. Guess what? I can sign off my taxes, parental leaves, sick leaves and whatnot just using the same MobileID. I don't create any logins/password on any Swedish websites at all. Transferring money isn't any exception.
When I was 9 or 10 years old, someone (may be my cousin or my fathers' uncle) gave me a book on simple electronics (it was in my native language). That was the first time I read about P-Type & N-Type materials and some other physics. It was so fascinated to me that I used to read it all the time to understand. The book also included about very simple digital logic design and concepts like NAND Gate etc.
I didn't understood at all what it is all about. But It developed my interest in Physics and Electronics.
By the age of 13 or 14 I learned myself about soldering, creating very simple chips and some LEDs on-off work. I never learned any math or could develop any mental model about true electronics but all that work created an infinite desire to know about the nature of "materials" & physics behind everything.
My parents put me in school which was 12 KM from my village, I used to bike every day 24 KM two way with some other friends no matter if it was summer with 43 degrees or winter with -2 degrees. And I was just 9 years old young kid. I started skipping school and start searching more books like that great Electronics books. I bought many but couldn't understand the foundations at all.
That same book had chapters how you can create a sequence of LEDs which keep going on & off one after other and make some interesting visual. I opened every electronic device at home and tried to understand its chips but couldn't get at all what is going on.
None of my friends studies beyond class 8 but I kept going. I started studying physics at the age of 15 at school but it was all so bookish and memorisation that I never liked school at all.
But I studied Physics, Biology & Chemistry myself and enjoyed every single moment of that time. That was the only time I studied Sciences and developed an intuition about the scientific world.
My parents took loan and sent me to a bigger city for my Bachelors degree. But the education was so artificial that I couldn't learn anything more at all. Every single book was in English (which is not my native or national language) I feel so empty & everything useless. At the same time my parents were sending me more money than they could afford.
I went into depression & at some point in my Bachelors' degree I found out about Internet & "Software". I started learning about Web Site development. I learned HTML, Adobe Dreamweaver & Fireworks. Then I learned a bit of C++ & C#. (I remember I started learning about C# in April 2002).
I got a job as a programmer in an off-shore office of a USA company. I then saved some money and escaped from that country and came to Sweden because of free education.
I studied Computer Science & developed an intense love with Mathematics (even though I'm not good in maths) & Programming Languages. Now I'm working as a Software Engineer but I have deep love with Electronics & Physics. And that all goes back to the days when I was reading that simple electronics book.
New buildings in Sweden compares more or less the same as new buildings in Copenhagen. My point was the more or less "same kind of things" is expensive in Copenhagen.
Regarding the rentals, if you'are willing to pay more money for the new buildings, its easy to rent out in Stockholm.
I would like to say that there is NO QUEUE in Stockholm if you would like to rent out a brand new space in a modern building. Yes the supply isn't that large for new productions, but you can found a new one with first hand contract under 2 months of time.
Again, this time would be less in Copenhagen, but the rent of New Buildings are more in Copenhagen than the new buildings in Stockholm. (within 20 minutes of commute of course).
The quality of apartments are better in Sweden than in Copenhagen. You can open blocket and book a visit to any Malmö apartment for that matter and you'll see the difference easily.
The same quality of life (living, rental etc.) is expensive in Copenhagen.
I've 5 examples (1 including me.) who found a reasonable place to live for that money around Stockholm area.
I've also friends who are working in Copenhagen & Salary is more there. Then there are friends who work in Copenhagen but live in Malmo because housing is more expensive in Copenhagen than anywhere in Sweden.
If I would rate Oslo, Copenhagen & Stockholm from salary point of view, it'll follow as:
1. Oslo 2. Copenhagen 3. Stockholm
All this comes from my personal circle of friends.
If you're willing to live 20-25 minutes from City, the cost isn't much different than Malmo or Göteborg.
I've plenty of school/work friends working across Sweden.
We discussed this many times about salaries in Stockholm, Göteborg & Malmo and then try to compare it with other European cities (London, Berlin, Paris etc.)
Most of my friends within 5 years experience are between 30,000 to 38,000 SEK /Month across Sweden. All Stockholmers are between 32,000 to 38,000.
My personal salary is more than that bracket but I've 10 years experience & know plenty of stuff from internet scalable middleware to performant front-ends, to programming languages to many species of databases. So I usually don't consider myself average & my salary range in 50s.
There is no way to reduce your taxes (apart from tiny tiny amount of church tax) for salaried employee.
Tax is dependent on where (which kommune) you live. Its generally between 29.5% to 32% until your salary is 32,000 SEK.
You pay higher tax on income more than 32,000 SEK and it goes upto 50%.
1. Average Salary for a software developer with 5 year experience. 32,000 - 38,000 SEK/Month.
2. You can calculate your take-home money here [1].
3. Average 2nd hand rental apartment (30-50 sqm) 5,000 - 7000 SEK/Month. Its easy to find single-person accomodation. [2]
4. The quality of an average apartment is pleasant. Kitchen & Laundry is fully functional from day 1 in every apartment around Sweden.
5. If you've kids, then day-care (preshool) is highly subsidized & generally good quality. All education is free for everyone from age 7-70
6. Almost everyone speaks English. You'll not find any difficulty even if you dont know Swedish.
[1]. http://www.ekonomifakta.se/sv/ (you can enter kommune as Stockholm & enter your salary and date of birth)
[2] http://www.blocket.se/bostad/uthyres/stockholm?sort=&ss=&se=...
I usually buy a book (these days I'm reading "Elements of Programming") read a chapter and then build the mental model while cooking. Cooking is a double edge sword for me.
Over the years I've discovered that cooking is the most enjoyable hobby that saved me going into constant stress & depress.
The rental queue works like first-comes first serve basis. And the first-come means whoever registered first on the rental queue site. The main queue is maintained by Stockholm State. There is no way for anyone to pay more money and get ahead in queue.
Apart from that, there are always new buildings which have no queue but rent is more (40 or 50% more than usual. Anyone who is willing to pay that amount can get an apartment within 2 months time frame.
Then there is a 3rd black market. A lot of people sublet there for shorter and some for longer terms.
Having said that all, I've thought about this problem but couldn't come to the prefect solution. When state controls the rents & the process renting, it gives guarantee to low-income families that they can also live in nice neighborhoods.
The technology is there to build this kind of device, I agree not 100% accurate but still practical enough to be used in real life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IraqComm
>> Machines designed to transcribe speech into computer text allow deaf people to understand spoken words
This too, the technology is there to build a device. I would say we've much more powerful devices in form of smart phones than just doing 1 or 2 things. The talko app on iPhone is actually much more than just speech to text converter. http://www.talko.com/
I would also like to say that Singularity predictions doesn't employ that the technology will be so mainstream that every person will be using that. But even if we can build a technology in some lab, it still becomes an event on Singularity timetable. I've yet to see any off the mark prediction from Singularity timeline.
First we saw a man-made machine landing/crash-landing 500 millions KM from Earth.
Then HN discussed this [1] which is IMO one of the biggest machine-learning demo I've ever seen (other than Self-driving cars).
And now this futuristic tech which is aiming to eliminate the screens altogether. (As some of its use cases)
If Magic Leap delivers her promise within next 2-3 years, then we are already ahead than Singularity timeline [2].
1. http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent/ 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzwei...
Most of the remains of the Indus Civilization are in Pakistan.
One of the oldest known sites of early Harrapan culture is not mentioned in the article is Mehrgarh [1] and belongs to Neolithic period (6500 BCE to c. 2500 BCE).
I didn't see a single art warfare ever or a soldier's sword or any war-weapon like thing at all. I've been reading about Indus civilisation since I was 10 but in almost all the time, I came to conclusion that Indus Civilisation was one of the most peaceful era of all that area (I'm not comparing that time with now but relative to other parts of the world at that time).
It is very unfortunate that India & Pakistan has most of the cities as unplanned, dirty & polluted even though they have some of the most fascinated civilisation buried behind their backyard.
Just to mention one, RiakDB, a successful distributed software system is developed on top of Erlang. Actually I've yet to see any other product used by 100s or perhaps 1000s of developers developed on F# or Haskell. Not to mention, almost over 80% of telecom industry is running on Erlang.
Ruby is also slower than C++ & Go, But Ruby on Rails is not only popular but a very productive web framework which can help you build your app with a productivity that C++ or Go can't match.
When you write a high quality, fault tolerate system, the raw speed comes at the end. Erlang shines when you write a concurrent system plus its design is very unique. Erlang I would say isn't only a language but a whole philosophy of Software development. Once learned you can apply to many other platforms.
All in its a joy to work with functional languages and Erlang is perhaps the most commercially successful functional language.
There is a lake with swimming beach in summer and a forest which is around 10 minutes walk. These are all the things which are truly priceless. And I wish everyone sometimes in their lives experience this, how much good it is to walk to do almost everything you want.
Will Docker be shipped as a part of a Windows Component & a paid service from MSFT?
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/products-a...
Even as an International student back in 2008, I paid 0$ in tuition fees & used to pay 30$ as student union fee per study term/semester and have best study experience I can imagine.