That’s awesome!! Opera was my favourite browser until they switched to chrome - kudos to you both! 
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Ditto, Opera was awesome for how it was built, oandr firefox for the extendability, I used both routinely back in the day. ^.^
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When you answered my question I though: Oh well … may be I just wait for the next edition of “Learn to Program” …
I think in October it will be 11 years since we last met.
Good ol’days in good old Oslo …
Thank you for introducing me in such a bright (and a tad overly optimistic) perspective. I wish I was half that kind (presuming we’re talking Maitrī here). But I am trying, I am working on it …
That was the first time I moved out of my home city and country (at ~30 y.o. which is darn late, if you ask me now) and despite Opera’s great care for its new recruits (really, the only thing missing was the actual red carpet upon your arrival) the first 3-4 (winter) months would have been unbearable without Chris’s kindest care (and also Ismail’s - my roomie in the “Opera apartment” we shared in the first 5 months of my arrival).
And this is only the start of a (medium length) list of ‘things’ I owe to my interaction with Chris. I’ll name a few more:
- Getting acquainted with Ruby to which I failed to pay proper attention until 2018 (that much of a statically typed prog langs guy I was). But hey, check out my Exercism track now!
- Evolving my English to a much more usable level. I can now just open my mouth and let it all pour out (sometimes to my own surprise and/or dismay …)
- Introducing me to home brewing (man, was that awesome!?) Not that I am a beer connoisseur now, but now I surely prefer good beer to just beer
And I still remember (and retell) that gag from your “Why you should brew your own beer” presentation:
But what about if you’re already rich and you don’t wanna have fun? 
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Sounds like you had some great times @sten1ee 
- you’ll have to tell us what you’re up to now (I’m sure Chris won’t mind us using his thread!) are you still at Opera?
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you’ll have to tell us what you’re up to now
@AstonJ, I somehow missed the inference chain that leads to the above conclusion 
As a friend of mine used to say: You should be more concerned with What am I up to? as this is where most of your troubles come from anyway 
are you still at Opera?
No, I left Opera 10 years ago - I was ‘up to no good’ at that point in my life which led me to some erratic moves, this one including.
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Well you see now I am even more curious 
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(Sorry for the slow response; I was traveling all day yesterday.)
When you answered my question I though: Oh well … may be I just wait for the next edition of “Learn to Program” …
No, I just didn’t notice your account name, and I’ve been chrispi at a few different companies, so that part didn’t jog my memory. Looking back at the thread later and realizing it was you, I felt so stupid! 
But what about if you’re already rich and you don’t wanna have fun?
I still think about that talk sometimes!! That was a really fun trip, good times!
Finally, let me just point out the irony of you writing incredibly kind things about me, while also saying you’re not very kind… 
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