I'm really interested in functional programming, and here I explore some of the features of the javascript library underscore-contrib. I'd be happy for feedback / discussion.

I learnt JavaScript as my first functional programming language and I fell in love with completely. I started underscore and backbone.js as my first library for some internal project. As coming from Java background, functional looks like magic, really.

I know the feeling - unlike oo development, functional javascript feels really beautiful. underscore is a really neat library, and underscore-contrib seems pretty promising too.

But the main reason that swedish startups wants to leave is because of the small market. Or as Zennström says: "Sweden is a great test market. But it isn't a real market."

Isn't Sweden a part of the EU ? Doesn't that mean you have access to the EU market like any other country/without tariffs/simplified regulation ?

This doesn't make any sense. Many of the Swedish companies I saw had sites in English and catered to non-Swedish citizens. The Internet allows you to run a website anywhere and have international customers/users.

That sound great. When I sold my part of a startup in Sweden, I got half of it taxed at 30%, and the rest taxed as salary, which is very highly taxed here. Not as nice surprise. Later on I started a new company and put in some of the fully taxed money into that company. When paying employees salaries then the same money was taxed as salary again. No deductions anywhere to be seen.

If I would have gotten more money from my exist (I didn't get millions either) the procedure would have been to keep the money within a holding company. Then the taxation wouldn't have been multiple income taxes. But for a small player that really isn't an option, resulting in a truly horrible and counterproductive system.

I actually did something similar, had my kids drawing sprites for a javascript/css game, but we did a shoot-em-up. Great fun!