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		<title>Off-topic: Crime Medicine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jakob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Swedish national medical products agency is running a very cleverly marketed campaign right now to inform people about the perils of buying medicine over the Internet. They are running fake advertisement spots on television, mimicking the typical medical adverts found in the US (and the few other countries where such advertising is allowed for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Swedish national medical products agency is running a very cleverly marketed campaign right now to inform people about the perils of buying medicine over the Internet. They are running fake advertisement spots on television, mimicking the typical medical adverts found in the US (and the few other countries where such advertising is allowed for prescription medicine), with a trustworthy doctor talking about the benefits of this and that&#8230; and slowly going into weird land about how the products might not be want you think and maybe don&#8217;t contain the right stuff, etc.Finally, you are pointed to <a href="http://www.crimemedicine.com/">www.crimemedicine.com</a>, a site setup for this campaign. All very clever. In fact, so clever that some people reported the spots to the consumer watchdog as being illegal advertisements&#8230; brilliant!</p>
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<p>It is mostly in Swedish, though, but they have some English-language information at <a href="http://www.crimemedicine.com/lib/html/english.html">http://www.crimemedicine.com/lib/html/english.html</a>.</p>
<p>I think this is pretty important stuff, way too many people are buying counterfeit and illegal and usually dangerous medical stuff over the Internet. That is not how you deal with your health: if you have a problem, go to a doctor or at least a physical pharmacy and talk to someone with proper credentials. Never ever self-medicate with stuff you find of the net. Or even sometimes buy in physical pharmacy in less well-policied countries. Real medications can be expensive &#8212; but most of the time, you are getting what you pay for. As always.</p>
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		<title>Stackoverflow.com &#8212; Worth a Visit!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jakob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[embedded software]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have recently discovered stackoverflow.com and I must say it is something I very much recommend. The idea is simple, and the details rich and interesting. Idea: create a site for programmers to ask other programmers questions and get answers Details: make it so that good material gets community filtered, by a scoring system &#8212; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://stackoverflow.com"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-300" style="border: 0pt none; margin: 5px 10px;" title="stackoverflowlogo250hq2" src="http://jakob.engbloms.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/stackoverflowlogo250hq2.png" alt="" width="47" height="61" /></a>I have recently discovered <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/">stackoverflow.com</a> and I must say it is something I very much recommend. The idea is simple, and the details rich and interesting.</p>
<p><span id="more-298"></span>Idea:</p>
<ul>
<li>create a site for programmers to ask other programmers questions and get answers</li>
</ul>
<p>Details:</p>
<ol>
<li>make it so that good material gets community filtered, by a scoring system &#8212; you vote on answers to point out what is good, and the question-poster can select the &#8220;accepted&#8221; answer to the question</li>
<li>really good discussions can morph from discussions to collaborative wiki-style articles when needed, based on some criteria</li>
<li>create a score system to reward involvement and discourage bad behavior. You get points for asking questions, answering questions, etc. In a fairly involved way.</li>
<li>you have questions, answers, and comments on the answers. Interesting hierarchical system that I have not seen elsewhere</li>
<li>you can say &#8220;me too think so&#8221; to existing answers by scoring, rather than filling threads with &#8220;yes sure&#8221;, which other forums tend to do.</li>
</ol>
<p>Conclusion:</p>
<ul>
<li>The mechanisms seem to work pretty well</li>
<li>You do get some questions with hundreds of answers, which kind of hits forum madness and I cannot care to read them all</li>
<li>You can use it for occasional reading and deep research</li>
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<p>My main issue with the site is really that most questions seem to be related to things that are of little interest to me, especially web development in .net and other things that I am surprised to see are as common as they are! Embedded and linux seems to be quite rare, and people doing large-scale embedded even rarer. Simulation and EDA is non-existent from the looks of it.</p>
<p>But that can all change if more people discover it.</p>
<p>So please go there and check it out!</p>
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		<title>I just tried to read Chip Design&#8230; but I have to wait three days</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jakob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This maintenance is going to take a while: Annoying, and a bit funny. Tweet]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This maintenance is going to take a while:</p>
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<p>Annoying, and a bit funny.</p>
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