Muzza

Certainly. Foreign criminals are deported all the time.

I am 100% confident that deporting all foreign beggars in Sweden will solve the problem of foreign beggars in Sweden. I don't really care if this doesn't get to the "bottom of the problem" or whatever. I (or the Swedish people in general) simply cannot be held responsible for the suffering of the entire fucking world.

Your links don't make any sense. The DDR used slave labor? Ingvar Kamprad uses various tax avoidance schemes? Did you choose them simply because they are related to Sweden?

The situation is similar in Sweden, but I have thankfully not heard of anyone disfiguring someone else for these purposes. Yet.

One of the glorious benefits of being a member of the EU is that we now have to put up with organized gangs of beggars coming in from Romania, Bulgaria etc harassing us on our streets. (The leftists have proposed that we add these people to our welfare rolls and give them their own apartments - an entitlement not available even to Swedish citizens, mind you. Of course, the only reasonable response is to institute a sufficiently vague law against vagrancy and then deport them.)

The median is an average.

Please read between the lines. The author wasn't implying that anyone actually said that, just like he doesn't think anyone has ever said this in real life:

>"Design patterns? Hey everyone, look at the muggle try to get the wand to work!"

Sigh. Maybe "decidedly" was not the correct word. Still, "if you only consider the discrete parts of probability theory, then probability theory is discrete math" is not useful.

> For programmers, the most useful branch of discrete math is probability theory. ... What's probability theory, you ask? Why, it's counting. ...

That paragraph made my left eye twitch a little. Not a big mistake, perhaps, but what he calls probability theory is actually combinatorics. Probability theory is decidedly non-discrete (integration of density functions?) and involves only two integers: 0 and 1. (A joke).

Many people are introduced to combinatorics in the context of probability theory. It (combinatorics) can be used to compute various probabilities, but still. You wouldn't call trigonometry calculus just because a course in calculus might involve the derivative of sine and cosine, so don't confuse probability theory and combinatorics.

The analogy is good, but there are parts of Afrikaans which are more complex than Dutch. Conjugating an adjective or negating a sentence, for instance. Are there parallels in CoffeeScript?

Middle Dutch also had the double negative (en/niet).

> As you can see, Unicode has experienced an 800 percent increase in “market share” since 2006.

> The more documents that are in Unicode, the less likely you will see mangled characters (what Japanese call mojibake) when you’re surfing the web.

Hmm. Well, I know that's true in theory, but my personal experience is that the occurrence of mojibake has increased lately. I even wrote about it here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2075010

It's very difficult for someone - even the PC police - to control language.

I've used Klarna once or twice when shopping online. The basic concept doesn't require a lot of details, I should think: You buy something, Klarna sends you an invoice, you pay it just like any other invoice.

I assume failure to pay is handled just like all other consumer debts. First they send you a couple of reminders, then they sell the debt to a debt collection agency.

They use a lot of Erlang at Klarna. I think one of the "original Erlang guys" from Ericsson works there.

> This is presumably much better for throughput, but much worse for making sure that what you're leaving with is what you purchased.

Admittedly, yes. But there are usually random checks.

> (Also, how does it accommodate a decision to put something back? I've never seen such a system.)

You press the "put back" button and scan the thing you want to put back.

Self-checkouts don't have to suck, though. The version where you scan all your items at a single location is clearly crap, but there are systems where you get a small hand-held device when entering the store so you can scan your items as you go along.

Dijkstra's mother asked the very same question. The story can be found somewhere in the EWD archives[1].

[1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/

> It is a fallacious nerd narrative that LEOs want super powers to keep track of what kind of anime porn you watch.

Tell that to the manga translator in Sweden who was recently convicted of possession child pornography, because he had some hentai on his computer[1].

[1] http://juridikbloggen.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/mangadomen/ (in Swedish)

That site degrades /awfully/ without Javascript.

> He is a former physicist? Good god, the waste... He attended a public school for free. I wonder if he has factored in the price his government paid for only 10 years of physiking out of him...

So let me get this straight. The government builds "free" schools. The government then forces people - under threat of violence - to attend these schools. Therefore people owe the government a lifetime of work.

I'm appalled that anyone could hold such a view.

Surely the U differs. To Sweden-Swedish ears at least, Linus in Finnish sounds like Linos.

Linus is a native speaker of Swedish, not Finnish.

How do you get to the interview?

Well then, I guess we won't be needing affirmative action or other types of "positive" discrimination...

I see. Your definition of "working with children" is miles wider than mine. I take it you're also in favor of licensure and criminal background checks for people working in children's clothing stores?

If the law allows you to have a driver's license even though you have 12 DUIs, I can't see any reason why you shouldn't be allowed to drive a van.

> Frozen desert sellers - I hate to bring out the '...but think of the children argument,' but seriously, do you know if the grungy dude in the van selling ice-cream to your kids knows how to handle food safely? Has a criminal record? Has 12 DUIs?

I fail to see the relevance of criminal records and DUIs to handling ice cream.

A recent development in Swedish - at least in online communications - is the use of the French manner of putting a bloody space in front of exclamation marks ! Looks awful.

Computers have not reduced the convenience of writing symbols on PAPER or on a BLACKBOARD, the places where math is actually done.

Good decision. No translation is often better than a poor translation (open source projects, take note...) (But of course, if I didn't speak any English and wanted to use GitHub I'd probably feel differently.)

I'm afraid I'm a bit disappointed. A function* whose plot looks like "hello world" would've been more interesting.

* Or rather an implicit equation of some sort.

> We weren't taught the alphabet until the age of about 6-7 and basic arithmetic at 7-8.

Is that strange? I started school (a "regular" one) at 7 (as is customary in Sweden) and I didn't know the entire alphabet or basic arithmetic then. None of my classmates did.