mattivc

Teach them to have a hunger for knowledge, and to find joy in learning. Of all the things my dad taught me, this is what i am the most grateful for.

It's comforting to see that someone who is as accomplished as Linus Torvalds, is even messier than me.

Some of the ones i have enjoyed listening to lately.

Debug (http://www.imore.com/debug): Interviews with interesting people in tech. Several of them with former Apple engineers.

The Infinite Monkey Cage (http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/timc): Panel discussion show hosted by physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince with guest Scientist, Mathematicians and Comedians. Both entertaining and interesting.

Sill Untitled: The Adam Savage Project (http://www.tested.com/podcast/still-untitled-the-adam-savage...): The podcast is hosted by, among others, Mythbusters host Adam Savage. The show covers a large variety of topics but always seems to land on something that interests me.

I am located in Europe and share many of the aspirations of the thread starter. Could you please elaborate on your ideas?

I have heard a lot of writers say good things about Scrivener: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php

I have only just started using it myself, but i am liking it so far.

It's quite fun to see the media attention he has gotten here in Norway. For the last few weeks the sport segment of most news show spent as much time devoted to chess as football, which is not something i ever expected to see.

I'm not much a chess player myself but it still very satisfying seeing so much attention brought to a intellectual sport. I hope at least some of it will stick around.

You could make the case that owning a movie such as Irreversible(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/) would be punishable with jail time under this law.

There are much better laws that could be be put in place, or that already are in place to protect women from sexual violence.

I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but the way western europe is moving at the moment. It's starting to look more and more like the morality police is taking over.

Didn't they already try to sell their tech to Apple before they went to MS, but got turned down?

I told myself i was bad at math all the way through high school. I realize now i was just lazy. Thankfully, through game development i discovered how cool math can be when you actually do stuff with it.

Now i find really enjoying differential equations.

Interesting read.

Especially as a student living in the most expensive city, in the most expensive country in the world (Oslo, Norway).

I do appreciate living in a country with free healthcare and University education. But it does have its side effects on society and the economy.