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adfadf | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

Interestingly enough a colleague of mine managed to send a post card to himself from a different country using only his email address as identifier. Of course the email address was on the form

<his nickname>@<division>.<company>.<country>

so it should have been fairly easy to route.

adfadf | 12 years ago | on: GNU RCS 5.9.1

RCS is still used at my work. Some of its features (or omission of features) work well with our shared file system, and we often need to keep only one or two files in a directory under version control.

adfadf | 13 years ago | on: Sweden axes new word after Google intervenes

17 § The publication of dictionaries, handbooks or other similar printed publications is scripture writers, editors or publishers, at the request of the holder of a registered trademark, required to ensure that the brand is not reflected in the document without showing that the mark is protected by registration. The same applies if such publication is made available electronically by the person referred to in Chapter 1. 9 § Freedom of Expression.

Anyone who does not comply with a request under the first paragraph is required to contribute to a correction published in the manner and to the extent that is reasonable and to fund this.

-- (in swedish) http://www.riksdagen.se/sv/Dokument-Lagar/Lagar/Svenskforfat...

The way I read it, you are allowed to put a trademarked entry/word in a dictionary, but you need to say that a term is trademarked (basically put a ™ after it) if the owner requests it. It doesn't say anything about forcing it to be defined by the text of the trademark definition, or the trademark owner being able to pull it out of the dictionary.

adfadf | 13 years ago | on: Sweden axes new word after Google intervenes

Språkrådet doesn't regulate the language. The dictionary that they publish is purely describing the general usage. That is, if it is a word that is in common use it should be in the dictionary with the common definition.

adfadf | 13 years ago | on: How I Beat Depression

Just a couple of notes on the medication part:

Yes, you will probably feel worse during the first couple of weeks of the regimen. This is common enough that your prescribing doctor should warn you about it, and s/he should set up some way of monitoring your progress - appointments twice a week for the first month or something like that. It should also be clear from the documentation that comes with the pills.

Second, you should only change your medication after consulting with your doctor. In this case it looks like the course was "I took the meds for six months, and then I felt better so I stopped", which is not recommended. The relapse rate is significantly lowered if you take the meds until you have no symptoms + 6 months (or longer, if it isn't your first depression).

Third, it really is very recommended to slowly taper of the medication and not go cold turkey. The side effects will be much worse if you just stop. Also, the relapse rate. Once again, discuss any planned changes in your medication with your doctor.

adfadf | 13 years ago | on: Learn You Some Erlang now out in print

A small correction. The proper form of "lära" in "Learn you some Erlang for great good!" (or "Teach yourself...") would be "lär", as in "Lär dig lite Erlang för (mycket/väldigt) bra!" if you translate directly. But the end of that sentence is grammatically incorrect in Swedish as well.

Either way, I doubt that it's translated from a Scandinavian language since the one who came up with the first book with that title style (Learn you a Haskell for great good!) is Slovenian.

A note to the author of the book: It looks very interesting and I just bought a copy. Hopefully I'll have time to read it soon, since I've been wanting to look into Erlang for quite some time now.

adfadf | 13 years ago | on: Why Android Fragmentation Is Still a Problem

"Buy an Android phone that's not an unlocked Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and you'll be stuck with 10 or more apps that try and force you to sign up for additional monthly fees, or force you into carrier-approved app stores and services that are usually worse than alternative third-party offerings. You can't remove these programs to free up space, either, or even delete their icons, unlike with a PC."

You can't delete them, but you can disable them (since at least ICS) so that they only show up in the Settings -> Apps -> All listing.

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