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by akrymski 17y ago
I don't understand how wave will replace email. How will it ever get so popular and overcome the chicken and egg problem? Anyone carry to enlighten me? CampFire solves many of emails problems for particular types of communications. Google
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by akrymski 17y ago
For the past 10 years it's just about having the money to pay for your exams. Education has gone downhill since the collapse of the SU. Russia doesn't need mathematicians or physicists anymore. My uncle is a professor and gets paid well
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by akrymski 17y ago
Chess has always been very popular in Russia, I struggle to think of anybody I met there who doesn't know how to play. Having said that, mathematics is also taught a lot more than in Europe or USA. When I moved from a Russian school to a E
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by akrymski 17y ago
"Also, to eliminate any confusion, grades 5 and 6 in Russia are roughly the equivalent of grades 7 and 8 in the US." Where did you get that from? When I studied in Russia we'd skip grade 4 (don't ask me why!) and most students started 1st
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by akrymski 17y ago
google search
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by akrymski 17y ago
Categories or Tags (Python, JavaScript, Physics, etc...) so I can refine by them.
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by akrymski 17y ago
Ability to: - filter news by date - order by no. of comments - order by poster's rating eg I want to see the most discussed stories of last week (yeah I don't have time to check HN every day, sorry!)
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by akrymski 17y ago
BTW I've signed up cause I've lost my USB stick =) still prefer USB sticks as upload speeds are slow here.
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by akrymski 17y ago
Great achievement. Some may argue dropbox is a feature rather than a business, something Windows / OS X should do out of the box. And indeed they should, but they don't (not nearly that well anyway). But as soon as the success of DropBox