robertnn

Interesting, thanks for clarifying.

Another Swede here. I have never heard any of this before. Who told you this? I mean.. health insurance? You mean if you have supplemental private insurance? Mortgage? I have a mortgage and they have no access to any kind of health information and I would be very surprised if any bank would request it from me.

Why? Many banks are already making lots of money, regardless if you know how they make their money or not. I definitely do not agree that "its about time" to pay for having an account.

I really enjoy stories like this. Thanks for sharing. Must have been really satisfying to get it working!

So what are you saying? That we should sacrifice security (as explained in sibling comments) in order to allow grandmas to create their own web pages?

*Sweden

Working as a software developer in the medical industry, I'm not at all surprised. Fax machines are everywhere in hospitals. In some sense I see it almost as a failure every time a fax is being sent.. but from a more objective view, the fax is really a very reliable form of communication. Of course, it doesn't scale very well, as the article describes.

(Note that I'm not in the US, but in Sweden.)

It's easy to jump to conclusions on why you'd post this quote here.. Instead, maybe you could expand on what this quote means to you (in this context)?

I had to look it up. That's a very useful sentence... ;-)

I'm sorry, but I'm having a hard time relating to this. In Sweden, we have had chip cards for a very long time (it feels like), and I've never heard anyone complain that it takes so much longer than swiping. I guess you're in a country where it is relatively new?

Could it be that your card readers are somehow worse compared to the ones we have here, which makes it more painful to use? Could it be that here we always use a PIN code as well, so that takes a bit of time anyway, and you do not?

I'm Swedish, and there are definitely people that are away for long periods of time (usually paternity leave), but was it really that many people that you never met? :-) How long did you work there?

Not trying to be snarky, I just want to point out that it's not like you can take vacation year round (even if you're in Sweden..), even though we certainly have quite a bit of vacation (25 days is the norm) and no problem taking half a year of per parent per child.

I don't know if it was a typo or if I'm not understanding you correctly, but 100MBit is certainly nothing special in Sweden. Plus, I pay only about $50/month for it. Maybe instead of 'world' you actually meant the U.S?

Right. I haven't been doing this for too long so I'm worried that one day I'll only have skills that will no longer be in high demand, but I agree about the focus - it's better to focus on a few things and do them good instead of knowing little about a lot. It's easy to get distracted though..

Why would the worst case change if you use a random number for choosing the pivot?

Since it was a bit slow for me, cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_RNpf-T...

Works for me in chrome as well.

Vi != Vim

I'm (very) annoyed that I had to link the account to Facebook. I tried clicking "skip this" (or equivalent) but that link didn't work.

This seems like a really useful tool! Would be very nice to have this integrated in the build process and get warnings for each issue found.

Lots of people implicitly expects them to be working in the long run. Lots of people will read a tutorial on how to get the cool animation X and the tutorial will only include the -webkit-property, and the reader won't even bother that he is excluding a big part of the users, because he uses only a webkit browser, so he won't notice.

There is something inherently wrong with vendor prefixes as they are used currently. But in the same time they are good if some browser wants to implement a new alpha feature or something.. but they should really not be supported for so much time as they are now.