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Comment · 2 years ago
If it were a matter of choosing another language, Polish might be a more natural choice, as Poles form the largest minority in the country.
But to answer the question, I personally lean towards discouraging English as the default second language and instead focus on strengthening Icelandic. Encouraging everyone to communicate in the native tongue, regardless of proficiency level, can be very effective. That was certainly my experience when my family and I moved to Catalonia.
Norskan er auðlesin, en ég á erfiðara með að skilja talmál!
Comment · 2 years ago
Just to be clear, I do see the value in a group like the Nordic TeX Users Group choosing a neutral language for simplicity and fairness. However, it's quite different when a whole nation adopts a new language just because it's the easy option, without considering the repercussions.
This crutch of using English in Iceland not only discourages (and actively prevents) newcomers from learning Icelandic, but it also creates a paradoxical reliance on a language that most immigrants do not speak prior to their arrival. This creates challenges, particularly hindering integration, as Icelandic is (for the time being) still required in most aspects of society. It also threatens the preservation of our language, which is only spoken by around three hundred thousand people.
Comment · 2 years ago
English has become entrenched as the de facto second official language of Iceland. It's a very depressing trend for the conservation of Icelandic, and the ongoing promotion of English will only continue to exacerbate its decline.
Comment · 6 years ago
Do you have any sources relating to the foreign family you mention, and of them securing landholding rights? Based on what I've found, the man that was burned wasn't rich (his family does appear to have become moderately well off by the time's standards at a later date, however).
I haven't found any mention of foreigners. The lawyer in the matter was Icelandic.
Comment · 6 years ago
While not exactly the same, the concept of "whale drift" has existed in Icelandic law [1] for almost 8 centuries, and still applies today. It specifies to whom a whale carcass would belong to, depending on the situation, and so forth. The concept of "whale drift" also exists in the Icelandic language, and is used to point out an event as a stroke of great luck.
[1] Hvalreki (whale drift) in Icelandic law, from Jónsbók in 1281: https://www.althingi.is/lagas/150b/1281000.401.html
Comment · 7 years ago
I cannot edit the post above, but it was meant to say that I'm looking for new clients in 2020.
Comment · 7 years ago
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE ONLY (GMT)
I'm a web & product development consultant based in Iceland. Specializing in web development, I work with startups of all sizes and help them build MVPs and full-fledged products. In order to help you build the best product, I make an effort to understand the needs of the company and the customer in equal measure, and I can help you innovate and design new features. I also help teams improve the architecture, performance, and tooling in existing projects. I tend to work with JavaScript, Node.js, React, and all the tooling around these technologies, but I'm flexible in that regard and have experience with many of the major frameworks and languages.
I'm currently evaluating and looking for clients for the second quarter of 2019 and onwards.
Website: https://hph.is
GitHub: https://github.com/hph
Email: [email protected]
Comment · 7 years ago
It appears that the system font was changed. I'm trying to figure out what it is now, it appears that San Francisco isn't even installed on my system anymore. GitHub, Twitter, and other sites using system-ui / -apple-system as the font-family now look very odd.
Comment · 7 years ago
You can buy it online from some stores - this is the first one that popped up on Google: https://nammi.is/food-drinks1/dried-fish.html
Comment · 7 years ago
What you linked is "CSS-in-JS" (in the sense that the library/framework you use transforms the output for you, for convenience, i.e., you're not writing BEM or whatever - same as in the original article). Vue scopes the styles by adding a data attribute.
https://vue-loader.vuejs.org/guide/scoped-css.html#scoped-cs...
Inspect the result here: https://codesandbox.io/s/3v0pjzoy7q
Comment · 7 years ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote
I'm a web & product development consultant based in Iceland. Specializing in web development, I work with startups of all sizes and help them build MVPs and full-fledged products. In order to help you build the best product, I make an effort to understand the needs of the company and the customer in equal measure, and I can help you innovate and design new features. I also help teams improve the architecture, performance, and tooling in existing projects. I tend to work with JavaScript, Node.js, React, and all the tooling around these technologies, but I'm flexible in that regard and have experience with many of the major frameworks and languages.
I'm currently evaluating and looking for clients for the second quarter of 2019 and onwards.
Website: https://hph.is
GitHub: https://github.com/hph
Email: [email protected]
Comment · 8 years ago
I haven't seen any libraries using the new context API make use of the observedBits prop (currently called `unstable_observedBits`, as its not officially supported). There's a comment in this library's codebase that hints that it will be used in the future. I wrote a bit about this API bitmask-based API a few months ago while I was experimenting with it[1], so I'm curious about its current state and whether others have experimented with it or know about its future in general.
https://github.com/hph