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Submission + - Juilan Assange denied permission to stay in sweden (aftonbladet.se)

j1976 writes: The migration office (Migrationsverket) today decided (link in swedish only, Aftonbladet blocks Google Translate) that Julian Assange will not get permission to live or work in sweden. The office refused to explain the reasons for their decision.

Comment Re:Oh, the Pirate Party (Score 2, Interesting) 224

Actually they got 20 seats and a tipping point position, where they in theory could get power to deseat the sitting conservative/liberal government.

But I agree with the point... the interesting (and scary) part about the election is that I can expect that one in every twenty people I meet down town actually voted for a nazi party.

Comment Actually, CS dept is kind of mentally mutilated (Score 1) 548

Yeah... I wrote my first commodore 64 basic program when I was 10, and now I'm about to finish a phd in computer science.

Either C64 basic wasn't all that dangerous to one's mental health, or maybe it isn't a problem to be "mentally mutilated beyond hope" when working within academia.

Hrm. Actually, when thinking that last part of the statement through, it does seem like a rather fitting description of both me and my colleagues. I just never knew it was because we had programmed basic.

Comment salt, sugar, vitamin c (Score 1) 334

The DIY precautionary recipe against a hangover is: Boil one liter of water, add half a teaspoon of table salt, and six teaspoons of sugar. Let cool and drink before you go to bed. For increased efficiency also take vitamin C, either in the form of a pill or as a glass of orange juice. The scientific explanation is that alcohol affects the levels of a hormone called ADL, something which in its turn makes the kidnies less able to take up water and important minerals and vitamins. This leads to dehydration and lack of said minerals. Further, the process of breaking down the alcohol lowers your blood sugar level. Thus, the easiest non-fancy precaution against a hangover using only household ingredients is to compencate the deficits using the above recipe. In sweden it's also possible to buy more carefully balanced anti-hangover pills with a more advanced mix of minerals and vitamins. They too consist mainly of sugar and salt though. Examples of such pills are "Revigör" and "Bakis". Source of above is fraga doktorn, also as crappy google translation.

Comment Why choose? Go for being project leader. (Score 1) 592

A middle way would be to not choose between the two, and instead combine them. That is what being a project leader in tech projects is all about: You come with a heavy tech background and thus have the know-how, and now your beard is gray enough to be credible in the role of leader. My advice would be that. From now on, spend your energy on reading information systems literature, along with business intelligence and similar. Meanwhile, offer to take charge of the tech projects in your organization and delegate most of the actual techie stuff to the people you're now bossing around. I'd say an experienced tech project leader is more employable than a pure code monkey or a pure bureaucrat. And if worst comes to worst and your hands start shaking with abstinence from programming, there's nothing stopping you from getting your hands dirty in some programming work inside the projects either.
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Submission + - Pirate party youth granted 120k euro by government (piratpartiet.se)

j1976 writes: In a somewhat surprising twist of politics, the Swedish government has granted (google translation) the youth section of the Swedish Pirate Party 120k euro in funding. The Swedish government has a special section (Ungdomsstyrelsen, approx "The Youth Board") for funding democracy work among youths, and will this year grant four million euro to various youth organizations.

The pirate party and its youth sections works for decriminalizing file sharing for non-commercial use, against governmental surveillance of the internet and against software patents.

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