1gor

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by 1gor 18y ago
>C succeeded, because it mirrors Unix so well Actually, Unix succeeded after it was rewritten in C. (Not counting the very first Unix version which was done in assembler. See http://www.livinginternet.com/i/iw_unix_c.htm )
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by 1gor 18y ago
You are deeply mistaken in thinking that share prices have no influence on value creation. Let me explain using your example. Imagine that GOOG has a few projects in the pipeline. A few bad ones, and a few brilliant ones. When GOOG share pr
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by 1gor 18y ago
>He didn't create value. ??? He created $15 billion of value for his shareholders. >The banks had created value The banks have destroyed their shareholders' and depositors' money by investing in junk and failing to prepare for a dow
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by 1gor 18y ago
> exclusively for rich people No, it is not. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (Calpers) alone had more than $10 billion invested in hedge funds in 2007. So your average Joe should not wish evil to hedge fund managers
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by 1gor 18y ago
Perhaps the author should also made it clear that Porsche took advantage of poor securities laws in Germany rather than showed any 'financial genius'. In US and UK there are explicit regulations forbidding secretly building a stake in a com
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by 1gor 18y ago
>it's not intended for more than one project at a time Check http://www.redmine.org . It's the same as Trac, only with multiple projects and multiple teams/roles per project.
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by 1gor 18y ago
I'll cast my vote for Redmine as well. It is a great improvement on Trac, keeping all the nice features - code repository integration with git, svn etc.; wiki, milestones, tickets; plus multiple projects (public/private) with flexible acces
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by 1gor 18y ago
Why use Debian stable at all? Because people trust Debian's rigorous test and release process. Now let's mix your rock-solid Debian system with an external paid-for service the community has no control over...
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by 1gor 18y ago
>It is a crisis of overgrowth of financial assets relative to growth of real wealth /.../paper exchanging for paper is now 20 times greater than exchanges of paper for real commodities. Unfortunately, even former World Bank economists c
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by 1gor 18y ago
>Climate-change denialists Be careful of using emotionally-charged labels such as "denialists/deniers". You will be destroying your credibility regardless of your arguements.
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by 1gor 18y ago
For a hosted math Mimetex is a proven open source solution ( http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html ). Mimetex is a web-based program that generates LaTeX images (math) on the fly, if you use it like this: <img src=" http://www.forkosh.dre
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by 1gor 18y ago
Emacs can be very visual if you use ECB (check http://emacsonrails.drozdov.net screencast for an example): a) A directory tree b) a list of source files in the current directory c) a list of functions/classes/methods/… in the current file
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by 1gor 18y ago
Most often, people talk non-stop about their success when they want to exit the business. If you have a profitable niche you better remain quiet and get as much growth as you can before the party stalls. In the investment industry the m
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by 1gor 18y ago
>The industry pundits can be strange, unpredictable people. Do you think a word 'corrupt' could also be used?
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by 1gor 18y ago
Even better - pirated copies should automatically call his pay-per-call 800 number.
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by 1gor 18y ago
Sadly, you have not read enough before making your conclusions. Webby shines with blogs, check http://www.locomotivation.com to see an example. You can create a blog with two commands in webby: $ webby-gen blog "My Blog" ... $
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by 1gor 18y ago
ERB is simply embedded ruby, it has no limitations. It is also totally not secure when used on a server. My guess security of GitHub Pages is the reason for using Liquid in Jekyll. For generating static pages on your desktop before uploadin
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by 1gor 18y ago
>The worst aspect in setting up this site was dealing with the templating engine Liquid. The article author should look at existing ruby/rake based static website generator http://webby.rubyforge.org . It offers a choice of templating
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by 1gor 18y ago
UK government is getting ready to horrible economic times ahead when they will need all possible means to avert organized riots etc.
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by 1gor 18y ago
http://www.redmine.org is Ruby on Rails -based project management app. You can configure it to run your code development projects (it basically an improvement on http://trac.edgewall.org , features wiki/tickets/milestones/integration wit
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by 1gor 18y ago
5 min screencast - http://emacsonrails.drozdov.net
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by 1gor 18y ago
What if EA has planted "kid's mocking video"?
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by 1gor 18y ago
Why? He increased noise. Another meritless product wrapped in buzzwords competing for attention in the space that others have created. He has acted as an entrepreneurial spammer.
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by 1gor 18y ago
Most of creative work at 'big companies' involves designing business processes. Which is in fact programming, only using people and resources. Another task involves optimizing the processes and minimizing the associated cost. The whole rais
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by 1gor 18y ago
>non-acceptance of dirty cops is something inherent to American culture. That is exactly the case. America would not have succeeded economically without certain traits, relative immunity to corruption being one of them. In game theory a
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by 1gor 18y ago
>soils are by far the world's largest source of carbon dioxide, producing 10 times more carbon dioxide each year than all the carbon dioxide emissions from human activities combined. Small changes in how carbon emissions from soils are
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Global warming predictions are overestimated, suggests study on black carbon(news.cornell.edu)
29 points by 1gor 18y ago|38 comments
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by 1gor 18y ago
Another good static site generator is http://webby.rubyforge.org It features support for LaTex, markdown, textile filters, autobuild, publishing only changed pages etc. Very small and clean. 'gem install webby' is all needed to get you st
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Saving mankind from new ice age by building up greenhouse gases?(dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by 1gor 18y ago|0 comments
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by 1gor 18y ago
>Part of NetSuite’s problem is timing. The company launched its IPO in December 2007, a few months before Wall Street headed into its downward spiral. For the founders and VCs that was excellent IPO timing. IPO investors may think other

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