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This is why I've given up on Airbnb, reverting to hotels for my 90 days on the road each year. Staying in someone's home, which they care about, can be nice. The guy with 12 apartm…

It's not because you “look different”. You're pointing a video camera in people's faces without asking. That's very rude.

How many of these transactions are tulip-style speculation, and how many are real use of bitcoins as a currency for exchanging labour and goods?

The dataset they use is the just-released public Norwegian map data. There are few man-made landmarks in the local topography. (c:

No, but it is a meaningful measurement of participation.

Disregarding the current date, this is actually a great idea. Instant gratification for a fee. Yes, I'd pay for that. They could recruit their experts from the community itself, li…

> Is the Opera you knew gone? That depends on what the Opera you knew was. The Opera Software I knew and loved was a technology company filled with some of the most brilliant engin…

Oh, they were paid. About 20-30% less than they could have made elsewhere. Money matters less when you love what you do, and you know the company is struggling. And when the compan…

Haavard, is that you? (c:

I can only speculate, and I don't think that's particularly helpful. The 2010 downsizing was quite transparent. This time no ordinary employees seem to have the full picture of wha…

Who are you? I'll respond to this if I know who I'm talking to.

It's worse than the article describes. Those laid off are terrified to say anything publicly. From what I can gather, the total may be double the quoted number. In addition, morale…

All of this may be true. What are you going to do about it? Remain in that hole of sweet self-pity until retirement? As the song goes: "it's not going to stop - till you wise up". …

> Opera has always been outmanned and yet consistently been close to or ahead of the curve. No, not the last three or four years. Although Opera has been doing great in minor areas…

This is a sad day, although probably inevitable. This is the beginning of the end for Presto. I put years of my life into that engine. A fool's errand, of course, since we were com…

Of course. The American system is in dire need of reform in the direction of actual rehabilitation, but adopting a carbon copy of the Norwegian system overnight would be a terrible…

Here's a superficial explaination: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_Norway The punishment can only last 21 years. If someone is kept in preventive detention the on…

Yes. We really only have two options. Removing the convicted criminal completely from society forever - or rehabilitation. We have chosen the latter. The horrible crime Breivik is …

> Get the specification of work nailed down as thoroughly as you can, it’s mutually beneficial to you and your customers. I hate specs. You won't know how to solve a problem before…

This is approximately what I bill per day for web stuff. VAT not included.

I've spent seven years of my life at Opera, quitting just a few months ago. I've reached the exact same conclusions as ppk. Owning both a browser and the applications running in it…

http://my.opera.com/odd-even/blog/world-record-speed-test