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The median salary in Sweden is ~$38k.
Re:Show HN: Paleo diet for busy hackers on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @04:53AM (#8289261)
I wish the country == Sweden in this case. I would buy it.

Do you consider having the grocery list & recipes available for free since some of us are not within your service area?

Re:PureVPN facing legal issues? on Sunday October 06, 2013 @08:22AM (#6503855)
Good to hear you are not closing down! :)

PureVPN facing legal issues?

Recent mail from PureVPN. I hope it goes well for them, but watch out...Dear customer,I'm sorry to inform you that due to an incident we had to close your account permanently. We are no longer able to run an anonymization service due to legal issues we are facing.We had to handover all customer’s information to the authorities unfortunately. They might contact you if they need any details about...

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It would be good to see which books they have before signing up. I like the idea though a little expensive.
Re:The Polyglot Programmer on Sunday August 11, 2013 @09:39AM (#6194923)
I'm sorry you didn't like the post. Perhaps you can provide a little more feedback? :)
Re:The Polyglot Programmer on Saturday August 10, 2013 @10:09PM (#6193517)
I have to disagree, functional and object oriented languages produce very different solutions. Syntax is just the grammar. Compare e.g. Mandarin to a Latin based language and you will see what I mean. :)

But indeed, mastering more areas is even more impressive.

Re:The Polyglot Programmer on Saturday August 10, 2013 @10:05PM (#6193506)
"Conversant in any language you can get real work done in", I think this is a pretty good baseline to define if you know a language or not. :)
Re:The Polyglot Programmer on Saturday August 10, 2013 @10:02PM (#6193493)
Although I have met many programmers who focus on a single language, say C# or Java, gets a lot of certifications etc.

Are they not programmers too?

Re:The Polyglot Programmer on Saturday August 10, 2013 @08:11PM (#6193162)
Which languages do you know and why did you learn them?
Great! Very convenient in comparison to a smartphone too.