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A friend of mine, a non-technical type, has a 12 year old son who is interested in computers. Their family has a pretty strict "no screens” policy, so using computers is not really…

The conventional story about Swedish wealth is a joke. In fact, wealth was primarily accumulated under a largely free market system between 1840 and 1970 or so. After that the welf…

This was a fascinating read for me, made me think. I would love to hear some thoughts on this from the HN community. My own reflections: http://meriksson.net/an-alternative-view-on…

I have often wished for this exact feature when using software of poor quality. E.g. years ago when I still used Microsoft Windows, I often had the thought that it would be appropr…

It is true that almost no one analyzes sanity. Your comment reminds me a lot of a particular book on the topic, The Human Evasion by Celia Green. If you are not familiar with it al…

The market for apartments is not a strong point for Stockholm. You can get an apartment rather easily, but it is not cheap compared to similar cities in Europe. Some current listin…

I agree with Matti - doing business in Stockholm without knowing Swedish is no problem. Swedes are generally fluent in English and most often they enjoy speaking it. I know several…

Running a software company in Stockholm, Sweden is a blast. It is a great place to live, plenty of good people to recruit, a decent domestic market, e.g. many big companies willing…

Great analogy with painting! I take what I wrote to apply to good programmers, the core people needed to get serious things done. Tolerably capable housepainter-programmers will be…

I agree strongly that this is a wide open space. As an employer I would pay handsomely for recruiting services that I actually believed in. Of all the concepts floating around, I p…

Sure thing, my reasoning goes like this: My first premise is that we are still in a relatively early stage of the technological boom signified by things like electronics, computers…

This is a wonderful essay! I often think about how extraordinarily lucky I am to be living through this technological boom. Computation, automation and mass-communication will cont…

Besides being a well-established startup in the digital signature space and writing all their software in Haskell, Scrive has a good API. I have used it myself for a small project,…

TL;DR: Since dealing with high-end lawyers is often tough, contract someone to do it for you. At my company we went through a handful of lawyers, mostly from big firms. We were ext…

Direct link to the YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK7Pp1TjhjI

I have met some of the Instabridge people and heard the founder pitch the project at a networking event. They have quite an interesting business idea, and despite being newly start…