Are Danes often gratuitously profane?
The stereotype is melancholy.
Blasphemy & Revelation – with DHH
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#12Are Danes often gratuitously profane?
Not sure - I don't swear a lot, but there's a very big difference in how profane language is perceived.
In Denmark you won't see TV programs bleep over profanity and you generally wont see people write f##k instead of just the putting the real thing.
I think most of us danes find the "fear" of certain words to be quite perplexing. And the idea that it's somehow better to see f##k instead of fuck, even more so.
It's as if there's some mystical belief in the "evil" power inherent in these words, that rationally can't really be described as anything but superstition.
Since us danes have a really, really hard time understanding how a word in itself could possible be offending, it's quite tempting to just not give a damn and use a lot of them. Especially if you find some kind of joy in poking at other peoples superstitions. And I suspect that's the case with DHH...
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#13I absolutely loved the interview. It taught me to be patient, create an enjoyable workday, and work on things to solve real problems. Learning that the first version of Basecamp took 6 month is refreshing. The most time I spent on a project is 5 months. It shows we should not be caught up on expecting results to come so quickly.
However, there is one thing about the interview that bothered me. DHH said your are not a product company but just a consultant if you don't create products for yourself.
There are tremendous opportunities in industries that don't have as many talented technologists. For example, I am interested in industries that I don't make a living professionally such as retail business and health care. Just because I didn't study medicine, shouldn't stop me or anyone else from trying to make a product to help the health care industry.
This route of emersing yourself with customers from another industries is much harder. However, as geeks, we already have too many products made for geeks. There are plethora of important problems in less tech savvy sectors waiting for us to solve.
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#14I absolutely loved the interview. It taught me to be patient, create an enjoyable workday, and work on things to solve real problems. Learning that the first version of Basecamp took 6 month is refreshing. The most time I spent on a project is 5 months. It shows we should not be caught up on expecting results to come so quickly. However, there is one thing about the interview that bothered me. DHH said your are not a…
On one end of the spectrum we have DHH who advocates scratching your own itches. On the other end of the spectrum, we have people like you and Patrick (patio11) reminding everyone that there are huge, virtually untapped markets which are typically not well served by programmers.
My take is that both strategies will work if implemented correctly. In the case of "products for others", heavily relying on customer development and similar Lean Startup principles will be particularly important, given that you are not a customer of your own product, and therefore may not fully grasp your customers' problems and requirements.
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#15Are Danes often gratuitously profane?
Not sure - I don't swear a lot, but there's a very big difference in how profane language is perceived. In Denmark you won't see TV programs bleep over profanity and you generally wont see people write f##k instead of just the putting the real thing. I think most of us danes find the "fear" of certain words to be quite perplexing. And the idea that it's somehow better to see f##k instead of fuck, even more so. It's a…
Is english a native language for most Danes?
Re: Blasphemy & Revelation – with DHH
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure - I don't swear a lot, but there's a very big difference in how profane language is perceived. In Denmark you won't see TV programs bleep over profanity and you generally wont see people write f##k instead of just the putting the real thing. I think most of us danes find the "fear" of certain words to be quite perplexing. And the idea that it's somehow better to see f##k instead of fuck, even more so. It's a…
Is english a native language for most Danes?
No - pretty much everybody in Denmark speaks english, but as a second language.
Typically with a funny accent :)
[edit] On the other hand english profanity has kinda made it into danish. You will hear danes say "shit" or "fuck" when speaking to each other in danish...
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#17I absolutely loved the interview. It taught me to be patient, create an enjoyable workday, and work on things to solve real problems. Learning that the first version of Basecamp took 6 month is refreshing. The most time I spent on a project is 5 months. It shows we should not be caught up on expecting results to come so quickly. However, there is one thing about the interview that bothered me. DHH said your are not a…
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#18Loved the interview, but what that cake from freshbooks mean? Does anyone sign up to win a cake?
i think you sign up at freshbooks, let freshbooks know that mixergy referred you and you will get a cake.. maybe by dropping a note after signup or some coupon code field or something like that..
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#19Are Danes often gratuitously profane?
No. It's just this guy.
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#20Are Danes often gratuitously profane?
Does anyone else associate profanity with a sense of honesty and realism? I loved it to be honest.