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My words are true. Our (russians) colloquial lexicon have tremendous amount of words from thieves jargon. Constitution in Russia have less meaning than thieves'

My words are true. Our (russians) colloquial lexicon have tremendous amount of words from thieves jargon. Constitution in Russia have less meaning than thieves' laws. Our users, even programmers/hackers are trying to get free any software - it's kind of snobbery to use paid software in Russia. Maybe it's something wild for you, but it's reality in Russia.

mlvljr 10y ago
Stop bullshitting our Western friends, pal :) The days of total piracy are quite long gone. To the degree of someone (not from Russia), living on mobile apps income, telling me, we are among his best-paying clients (apparently, preferring buying an app to watching ads :)).
nbaksalyar 10y ago
I don't get your point. Why generalize over 140M people with your assumptions about illegal software usage and "thieve laws" in Russia in the topic about reverse engineering the Skype client? How does it even relate to Russia?
- EugeneOZ 10y ago
  My reply was to comment about hacking culture. And it's not "assumptions" but experience.
- semi-extrinsic 10y ago
  Generalizations are useful, because they allow us to efficiently reason about the world. Eschewing them because of the content-free statement that "everyone is unique" leads us to a worse, not better, situation. Of course, this does not mean we should allow blatant racism, but in the real world it is useful to say things that are true but not necessarily nice. Or, if you want, you can stay in Katie-land: https://youtu.be/b47wP_yMCf4 https://youtu.be/b47wP_yMCf4
babuskov 10y ago
> it's kind of snobbery to use paid software in Russia Perhaps there's a big percentage of people who feel the same, but there are also many people who pay for software: http://www.pcgamer.com/gabe-newell-on-piracy-and-steams-success-in-russia/ http://www.pcgamer.com/gabe-newell-on-piracy-and-steams-succ...
- EugeneOZ 10y ago
  I'm not saying it's good, of course, I regret about such level of evolution. I use paid licenses :)

mlvljr 10y ago

Stop bullshitting our Western friends, pal :) The days of total piracy are quite long gone. To the degree of someone (not from Russia), living on mobile apps income, telling me, we are among his best-paying clients (apparently, preferring buying an app to watching ads :)).

nbaksalyar 10y ago

I don't get your point. Why generalize over 140M people with your assumptions about illegal software usage and "thieve laws" in Russia in the topic about reverse engineering the Skype client? How does it even relate to Russia?

EugeneOZ 10y ago
My reply was to comment about hacking culture. And it's not "assumptions" but experience.
semi-extrinsic 10y ago
Generalizations are useful, because they allow us to efficiently reason about the world. Eschewing them because of the content-free statement that "everyone is unique" leads us to a worse, not better, situation. Of course, this does not mean we should allow blatant racism, but in the real world it is useful to say things that are true but not necessarily nice. Or, if you want, you can stay in Katie-land: https://youtu.be/b47wP_yMCf4 https://youtu.be/b47wP_yMCf4

babuskov 10y ago

> it's kind of snobbery to use paid software in Russia Perhaps there's a big percentage of people who feel the same, but there are also many people who pay for software: http://www.pcgamer.com/gabe-newell-on-piracy-and-steams-success-in-russia/ http://www.pcgamer.com/gabe-newell-on-piracy-and-steams-succ...

EugeneOZ 10y ago
I'm not saying it's good, of course, I regret about such level of evolution. I use paid licenses :)