If someone calls himself "chief wizard" you should immediately assume he's a dishonest scumbag. He could put the emphasis of his role anywhere he wanted, and he chose to emphasize the hype aspect, because he knows that's what's more beneficial for him personal in financial terms.
I complain about people complaining about grammar.
For the most part I really like the UK, but one thing I can't stand is how they think that their English is "the real one". I once used the American "gotten" in the above construction and was "corrected" by a British person. I think that correcting other country's variants as if your country somehow had the objectively correct variant, makes you sound provincial.
Hey. Silly thought. I used to have the idea that Mullvad is the only VPN I trust because the founders seemed ideologically motivated (I guess from some interview I read, don't remember for sure). But advertising seems to undermine that view. Maybe I was just naive.
Hi! I used to think that the product should speak for itself, only grow by word of mouth, and that it was wrong to do any advertising. Part of me still thinks that.
On the other hand we ran a very political advertising campaign one-two years ago when we protested a new EU law proposal. We plastered Stockholm's airport in billboards targeting EU politicians and journalists. We published a book and sent copies to several hundred politicians. It was quite a success. Incidentally our office was raided by the Swedish police a month later - the first time in 14 years.
I really appreciate your feedback. Are you able to pinpoint more exactly why you feel that our advertising undermines trust in our brand? Is it simply the fact that we're advertising at all?
Our marketing team works hard to ensure that our advertising doesn't make security guarantees we can't keep, or sell the product through fear-mongering. I feel that we've found a set of advertising messages that work, but clearly it still causes some unease and skepticism.
Perhaps it's simply a worry that we'll change because Mullvad is growing up and is no longer an obscure underdog?
Yup. I was a "smarter than average" kid at this age and though I couldn't read when I started primary school I was still bored with the slow pace of school the vast majority of the time.
What a stupid thing to say. If he's bored the teacher can advance his grade faster or at least give him personally more challenging material.
Should we never teach anyone anything, just to avoid they'll be bored when they see something they already know? Is starting to learn at 6 objectively "better" than at 2? No, that's just how our system currently works. And what you're saying is you want your kid to be mediocre. Great, but the rest of us are aiming higher.
And, in most places, your public school has the legal obligation to provide an education for all ability levels, including people who show up to their first year with the ability to read. Even in the United States of America, where the culture is only the bottom 20% of students deserve to learn, most school districts still have this in their bylaws (they just ignore it).
The "search engine in question" is using the google api. If the search engine in question serves it means that google actually serves it. Thus I am a bit suspicious of the motivation behind this kind of question; why do you pose it for mullvad and not for any other search engine?
I don't know anything about the subject. But in my mind it kind of made sense that serving illegal stuff is somehow worse if you can't identify the users (eg if police has a warrant) compared to if you can.
There was a link on HN claiming that business books are just entertainment and that you don't learn anything about business. And then listed some self help books.
If someone calls himself "chief wizard" you should immediately assume he's a dishonest scumbag. He could put the emphasis of his role anywhere he wanted, and he chose to emphasize the hype aspect, because he knows that's what's more beneficial for him personal in financial terms.