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saltvedt

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About saltvedt

Software developer located in Bergen, Norway.

Current project: http://servicemonitor.io Blog: http://saltvedt.net

Recent public activity

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    Norsk Tipping has recently gotten fines (46MNok and 36MNok) from the gaming authorities for other issues: https://www.vg.no/sport/i/KMAxP4/varsler-gigantbot-til-norsk... https://ww…

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    Comment #19752907

    https://leanpub.com/leprechauns

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    Comment #19481829

    I'm solving a very related problem with https://cited.news/ It's a news aggregator based on Wikipedia references.

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    Comment #19409812

    I've created a news aggregator based on Wikipedia references. While this might be comparing apples to oranges, here's the list of the most cited websites by Wikipedia: https://cite…

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    Comment #19400824

    I tried adding it: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Facebook&type=rev... The article is dated on 14. of March though, so it should not appear on the front page but here: …

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    Comment #19400572

    My project, the news aggregater Cited News ( https://cited.news/ ), uses Wikipedia references as source for news.

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    Comment #19124304

    There is a very similar case going on in Norway, where Håkon Wium Lie (creator of CSS) is being sued: https://www.wiumlie.no/2018/rettspraksis/06-11-blog.html

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    Comment #19097112

    "The Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula (BBP formula) is a spigot algorithm for computing the nth binary digit of the mathematical constant π using base-16 representation. The formula …

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    Comment #18334570

    The Norwegian equivalent of this project, got sued for copyright infringement of supreme court verdicts: http://www.wiumlie.no/2018/rettspraksis/10-22-returns

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    Comment #18056262

    JRuby (Ruby on JVM) and Warbler[0] solves this problem quite nicely, even though you end up with JARs instead of true binaries. (There are tools for packaging JARs as binaries, if …

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    Comment #16919470

    def anagram?(a,b) a.reverse == b end

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    Comment #16350971

    Not that I've actually read the book myself, but Being and Time by Heidegger seems to fit your description. Reading it will feel like running into a brick wall, so I suggest readin…

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    Comment #16146814

    You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c

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    Comment #15553766

    My news aggregator based on Wikipedia references was rejected. http://cited.news

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    Comment #15156403

    The machines used to count votes were Windows machines connected to the internet. https://www.nrk.no/norge/teller-opp-stemmer-i-valget-pa-data...

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    Comment #14988671

    This is written by the somewhat famous moral philosopher Peter Singer[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer

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    Comment #14877000

    Radiolab has an episode of the potential implications of tech like this: http://www.radiolab.org/story/breaking-news/

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    Comment #14682242

    Slither.io

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    Comment #14552072

    Nerdwriter has a good video about Neistat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbiJqTBCQuw

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