Kuytu's comments

4.9 million people speak Finnish as their first language. Does not sound very threatened to me.

Some very simplified answers:

- Everyone would hire more seniors if possible. Juniors are sometimes seen as expensive and hiring only juniors does not scale.

- Education systems do not produce senior people. Also there are other sectors than tech too. I don't know the current situation, but it used to be that places for IT education were never filled completely. There just isn't enough people.

- I don't remember this being reported as significant

- I believe there is difficulties with taxation etc. if you hire people living in different country.

Robert Virding gave a short talk on LFE at ClojuTRE last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvCBTpnlqs8

I'd suggest going with node.js. Lot of libraries, large community. Fast and easy to get started You are going to have to learn javascript on the frontend anyway, might as well use it in the backend.

It is hard to imagine anything is too late for a company that made over 20 billion profit last year. Even if Windows has done worse aren't Office sales increasing on OS X for example. Microsoft is a company that sells Office first and foremost.

So, apparently they are testing on bunch of old and/or strange hardware https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7070713

Does anyone have an idea how they are spending $20 000 on electricity?

Microsoft wants to sell Windows Phones using Microsoft brand. How would developing Android handset and selling it under Nokia brand help that cause? It could be interpreted as lack of faith for their own platform.

Would Microsoft do it just to get time to convert Nokia customers to Microsoft customers? Seems unlikely to me.

I have always considered scrum to be like a beginners workout routine. It's never best for you, but it's better than doing what you feel like is good for you. Because if you've been lying on the sofa for the last ten years, you don't know what's good for you.

Chances are that you don't know what suites you, that's why you are looking into scrum in the first place. First you do it strictly by the book and in time you will learn what works for you and what doesn't. Then you can start customizing become mature agile team/organization. OP has probably achieved this, but I think it can be harmful to suggest "pro" techniques to someone just starting out :)

I feel you.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3192238 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=401544 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=51451

You are right, I didn't express myself quite clearly. But if you are in, say, Australia and you're streaming from a server that is in Sweden there is probably some bottleneck along the way that doesn't allow you to get full speed of your connection. But if you're streaming from across the street you probably get more use of your connection. Your connection speed is obviously the upper limit.

I don't know if I expressed myself any more clearly :)

They probably don't have infrastructure for that yet and it also might be conscious decision. I've understood that the whole point of Spotify is that it is based on P2P-technology which eases their server load and allows good sound quality for users with fairly low connection speeds.

If you're interested in C, one project could be developing GUI for some unix commands. At school we did a project once where we built a GTK app for creating logins on linux. There's many things you get to deal with like file handling and executing commands from code and so on.

One fun thing for learning hacking is trying to implement linux commands such as ls or ps. You get a little more intimate knowledge about the OS and you don't have to come up with specs because you already know what it's supposed to do :)

I have found weight lifting to be the best kind of exercising for me. When I was at studying and working part-time I found that if I went jogging I'd still continue thinking about work and school stuff. When I'm lifting, thats the only thing I'm concerned about. When you have squatted down with heavy weight on your back, you don't stress about anything else than getting back up. Strength training can also help prevent typical physical problems hackers face, such as neck and back pains.

>Now I feel they are back on square one: running around like headless chicken looking for a solution. They should have given their current solution a real chance

They are most likely to continue with their new products and solutions. I believe it is quite common for publically traded companies that have been having problems to switch CEO when things start getting better. The point of that is to restore the trust of the stock holders. Nokia stock gained 5% in Helsinki stock exchange after the news was published. Kallasvuo will even continue at Nokia-Siemens so one might think the change of CEO is mostly cosmetical.

>People think that if they emulate successful people they will be more successful themselves. So it's about a form of fashion.

That's true and there's really nothing wrong with that. Being a hobby guitarist I feel this is very similar to many guitarists and other musicians. A guitarist doesn't want a guitar that's just nice sounding and good quality, it has to look good. If you feel your instrument has a certain "mojo" it can help you get in an inspired mood more easily. If you have instrument you don't like you can't perform at your best. A jazz guitarist might not be happy about playing a guitar that looks like it's made for heavy metal no matter what it sounds like.

Sometimes when you're passionate about something, tools are not just tools. No one needs Armani suit to protect themselves from cold, no one needs a ferrari to get from one place to another and no one needs a Gibson Les Paul to play guitar.

If someone can be more productive because working on a Macbook Pro makes them feel more like a Rock Star Developer than working on a PC with Windows XP, I don't see anything wrong with that.

Also you need to drink beer faster, because it gets warm and stale pretty fast. With scotch (and other strong alcohols) you can take as much time as you want.

The company MySQL AB is Swedish, but Monty Widenius is Finnish.

I wouldn't necessarily call South Korea "free market", since there seems to be a lot of protectionism. Everyone who has been to Korea has probably noticed that almost everyone drives Korean cars and uses Korean phones. Taking that into consideration it seems quite odd that the government has tied the infrastructure to one vendor(which is not Korean).