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I know I am very late to reply to this, but hopefully you'll see it anyway!
I am based in Stockholm, but live far out and just go to the office once a week.
As has already been mentioned Housing is a huge problem in Stockholm. It's near impossible to rent first hand, and hard on a sub-sub-let, and legally tricky too. Buying is an odd auction system.
Basically, you'll need help from your employer before you commit to anything.
Other than that, I really like Sweden. Stockholm is lovely in the summer, with swimming near the city centre, nice food, etc. Alcohol is not that expensive.
The dark in the winter is not hard to get used to. In southern UK in December I went to work around dawn, and it was dark before we finished. That's no different here, there's just less light when you are working. The summer with light until 11pm and from 2am (and it's not dark dark in between) takes more getting used to.
There's a decent Irish bar off Kungsgatan (and other spots) where there's quite a good expat community. As has been said, the locals probably speak better english than you do... Even outside the capital it's rare to have any problems.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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Will robots take my job
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
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...just add water. This has been a wet dream of managers for decades now and even with all the buzz around AI now, I have not seen anything that's significantly more intelligent than a potted plant. We could automate at least one side of the counter in Q&A with that, but little more.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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There are a number of areas robots can be used right now such as street cleaning and farming, in fact anything that looks something like one of those automatic lawn mowers/vacuum cleaners.
They can position themselves using satellite or local radio signals, can measure soil quality, moisture, etc and can even harvest the crops, clean, process and package them.
But creativity? Not a chance. In fact automation will provide increased work opportunity in IT.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: In fact automation will provide increased work opportunity in IT.
True; not just on the basis of creativity; there is also insight, understanding, out-of-the-box thinking and general f***ups.
The managers are going to dissapear sooner than the ones repairing the bots 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Look at the amount of IT in cars these days, it is kicking off all over the place.
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Not just cars; humans!
Still awaiting the moment that all of our politicians get an artificial heart with bluetooth. We could have world peace
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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No, it's not that easy. When the revolution is over and all politicians have been made one head shorter, where does the next generation of politicians come from? And why must they quickly take over and make the revolutionaries one head shorter?
Before we can have world peace, we might first try to eliminate breeding grounds for politicians:
- Lawyers
- Managers
- The military (a hard one, they are trained to resist elimination)
As some random Austrian demonstrated, there are some that slip through every net.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: There are a number of areas robots can be used right now such as street cleaning and farming
Actually it can be used in the office...
1. marketing:
AI part: new ideas: no requirement for logic, logistics or limits, any idea will do (even if it's failed before)
Robot part: promise customer will be on time on spec / keep asking dev why the hell it's not done yet.
2. senior management:
AI: find reason to pay one self bonus (usually = tell management to trim work force.)
Robot: gather for meetings, eat expensive danishes, go for lunch, go home for rest of month.
3. general management:
AI: find ways to trim workforce (usually weighted average on salary)
Robot: fire people, annoy remaining staff about deadlines, read newspaper, play solitaire.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Munchies_Matt wrote: But creativity? Not a chance.
I'm not so sure of that. Pure creativity, as in coming up with something that's never been imagined or done before, sure, maybe. However, a lot of what passes for creativity is nothing more than derivative work, and I've been seeing inroads on having AIs crank that kind of stuff out for a while now. Admittedly, what the AIs are producing is pretty much crap these days, but it'll get better.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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patbob wrote: Admittedly, what the AIs are producing is pretty much crap these days
As Theodore Sturgeon said, 90% of everything is crap. I take that to mean that AI can do 90% of the work. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Apologies for yesterday w??k got in the way so here's an easy one
She might (7,3)
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
modified 31-May-17 6:26am.
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pkfox wrote: so here's an easy one
For you to type or us to solve?
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Are you sure about the number of letters in the first word?
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Oops thanks Richard 
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So it wasn't easy to type then.
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Are you trying to say "TERESA MAY"? Because she has an "H" in her name: "THERESA MAY"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Theresa may not be the right fit for anything but MAGGIE MAY have been ...
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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I was indeed - I did check and got Teresa  sorry all
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Oh c**k! That means I'm up tomorrow ...
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I'm almost hoping for another bomber - but backstage this time... 
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Good for them and nice of all the artists joining Ariana Grande.
I hope they all have a good time and they get home safely.
 ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
I'd rather be phishing!
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One of them is Justin Bieber. You might want to rethink that, a bit.
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I'm hoping the UK denies entry to him and he has to walk back to Canada.
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