I'm also a self-taught programmer. I can't remember how old I was when I got my hands on Commodore 64 and later Commodore 128 and their Basic. It must've been somewhere 1982-1985 so I was under 10 back then (I've born in 1977). I've never learned programming at school. In fact I went to business school and was allowed to skip all the computer classes :)

To put it short, the thing is you need to know your strengths and weaknesses. For example I can't write 3D stuff or anything that takes complex mathematics but I sure heck can write a full blown CRM app for you. And I'm quite fine with that as long as the paycheck comes every month.

Time and time again I need to explain this in Slashdot. Operating System does not know, does not care, if executable is malicious or not. It happily executes it when user doubleclicks nude_pics.exe. It's up to AV software to keep track which executables are considered evil and which not and protect user from his/her own stupidity.

Yes, anonymous = nimetÃn. Anomuumi is not actually a word at all. It can be a mix of the word "anonymous" and "muumi" where "muumi" means Moomin but I'm not sure about this. Basically it's just common nickname which a lot of people use. In fact, I used it some years ago at Helsingin Sanomat forum but I'm not the Anomuumi in question here.

And what comes to the incident, my knowledge is that Anonymous has already denied that they had anything to do with this.

Second that! I loved X-wing vs Tie Fighter.

Analogy still stands. Too big truck on bridge -> crash, too big input on input field -> crash. In the first case truck's weight exceeds the maximum capacity of the bridge, in the second case input's length exceeds the maximum capacity of the buffer. I find this analogy rather hilarious.

Well, yes it is if there's high enough mountains where you can pump the water using solar. Finland doesn't have but Sweden and Norway do. But then again, you need solar. I'm not sure about southern parts of Sweden if there's enough sun all through the year. Finland definitely doesn't have.

So what would you suggest? It's 8:40 am and it pretty dark out there and not a single leaf is moving in trees so there's no wind. And I'm living in southern part of Finland, at Tampere to be precise.

You can forget solar in Finland. It only works on small scale and is really unreliable. What comes to wind, I've read that there are couple of places which probably would have enough wind. But the problem is, who wants to have wind farms at the ocean shore or floating in the ocean? I don't. Other places it is said to be windy enough are hill tops at northern part of Finland. There isn't population much up there so maybe the NIMBY effect would be low but it would most likely kill tourism because it would kill the scenery. Besides the regulations about construction is so strict that you can't even expand a single hotel up there without years of fight with the government.

Hydro perhaps. Unfortunately every one of our rivers are being already used. There's some plans to build artificial lakes up in north but environment regulations prevents that.

So what's left... Burning leftovers from forest industry and turf. Those won't really resolve anything. They are just big cash machines to some few, at least what I've read. Importing energy from neighboring countries. We are currently importing one nuclear plant's worth of electricity from Russia. Sweden and Norway has hydro but they are running their power schemes with Denmark (buying wind cheap, selling hydro not-so-cheap).

If anyone has answer to our problem I'd say many of our politicians and every one of our industry owners would jump through the roof with joy!

Every time I start to think "maybe I'll travel to the US - my kid's never been to Disneyland"

http://www.disneylandparis.com/

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Ha! :)

Growth can be also making things more efficiently. Lower production cost, growth for the company.

And all these shitheads (see how I'm filled with rage!?) forget one little thing. We are humans and we do have emotions, including hatred and rage from time to time. Everyone's not a Gandhi FFS!

I didn't get headache or anything like that but I couldn't see the movie! I couldn't read subtitles, they were all blurred (luckily I understand spoken English). If the 3D effects was in the middle of the screen I couldn't see them clearly but if they were on the sides I could make something out of them. So I missed half of the movie (Thor) and have to go see it in old fashion 2D. Glasses were working fine and my date sitting next to me could see the movie just fine so it must be something with my eyes. If you have problems with eye vision (distortion, squint) like I do, I don't recommend 3D at all.

Why bother. End user does QA anyway.

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I don't have time to compile fricking source codes! I have better things to do, like actually use the software. Besides, Microsoft already compiled it for me.

It would be great to be able to link vote to the voter! I could finally make sure that my family members voted correctly and take appropriate measures if they didn't ;)