alexakarpov

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by alexakarpov 13y ago
Instead of the article, better read Vonnegut: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_%28novel%29 A much better, if also significantly longer, exposition.
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by alexakarpov 13y ago
Can't believe no one mentioned the best work on 'bullshit jobs' out there - "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut. Back in 1952 he already guessed it all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_(no
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by alexakarpov 13y ago
That. Also, this: http://this-plt-life.tumblr.com/post/55420560033/when-somebo...
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by alexakarpov 13y ago
sorry, didn't realize this was the main point I've never read the Olympics code, list of principles etc, but I can imagine there's something about human dignity and freedom and liberty? Well, liberty should be a lowest common
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by alexakarpov 13y ago
"Make sports even more political" -- this is our disagreement, yes. You think sports and politics are somehow 'independent things' -- but they aren't. Best parallel would be: money and wealth and private property an
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by alexakarpov 13y ago
Do understand, that no "traditionalist values" can contradict the principle of liberty. People should be free to follow whatever values they want to follow. Heck, I'm an ultra-traditionalist Orthodox Christian, and I consider
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by alexakarpov 13y ago
Google for his approval rating - it's high, even if you adjust it for all the rigging and such. Short story is: collapse of USSR brought a lot of suffering and despair to Russians (of course, there was no other way for it to end, but i
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by alexakarpov 13y ago
There's an old joke from Communist times. It goes like this -- and old communist argues: - What do you mean, we don't respect human rights? Of course we respect human rights! Why, I can provide the name of that human right now! Sa
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by alexakarpov 13y ago
..and that's why Fry mentions that: "The idea that sport and politics don’t connect is worse than disingenuous, worse than stupid. It is wickedly, wilfully wrong. Everyone knows politics interconnects with everything for “politics
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by alexakarpov 13y ago
(Russian here) - Fry is 100% correct in his assessment. I pay a lot of attention to the wickedness of Russian politics, and, quite frankly, LBGTQ are right there at the very edge of Russian political struggle, being one of the very few grou
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by alexakarpov 13y ago
Can't agree more (Russian here). In Russia it's all about putting up a show of anti-americanism, because that's what the voters like (the one thing that brings back memories of relative security of late Soviet days). Think Os
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by alexakarpov 13y ago
This should not be news, though, right? Consumers can only be trusted to be concerned for their own best interests. More than that -- only about their own immediate and simple best interests (i.e. we consumers will totally vote for a dest
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Transcribe: Static Sites with Django and YAML(felixcrux.com)
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by alexakarpov 13y ago
...to expand on other answers - I encourage you to ask the same question, but about Lisp (Scheme, Clojure) =)
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by alexakarpov 13y ago
I just got 'Test-driven web development with Python" from this sale. Django feels awesome! Got 'Two Scoops", too =P
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by alexakarpov 13y ago
It's an odd argument to make - that is, yes, of course the web is now better in many aspects than what it was 10 years ago -- but what makes you think that without Google the progress would stop, or even stall? If you think about it, anyth
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by alexakarpov 14y ago
> Money is about power and is a zero sum game. > If someone increases their share of the pie, > then someone else necessarily loses out. Except this is plain wrong. I know a Wikipedia link may offend some people, but then again,
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by alexakarpov 14y ago
Wow. How did you know all about me?
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by alexakarpov 14y ago
couldn't say it better!
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by alexakarpov 14y ago
HR =) he generated quite some interest among our Seattle folks, so most likely they already knew about him
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by alexakarpov 14y ago
not sure what kind of statistics would be good and not violate the NDA =) but our internal rubyhackers mailing list is one of the busiest lists that I'm on. I myself am not a Ruby fan, so don't know any details.
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by alexakarpov 14y ago
Ruby is replacing Perl, and that's been going on for a few years now (and we have a pretty active RoR community).
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by alexakarpov 14y ago
of course they did: http://gizmodo.com/5980618/amazon-is-down bogus, I can assure you
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by alexakarpov 14y ago
not 100%, but more and more teams are moving over; it's a goal that's pursued aggressively, but not reached yet.
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by alexakarpov 14y ago
Thanks; sounds like I really should learn at least some.
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by alexakarpov 14y ago
Thanks =) I certainly know what Django is (although have no experience with it whatsoever), but was a little surprised as to why it is so popular here, specifically. However, that list of Django projects is impressive enough, I guess.
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by alexakarpov 14y ago
I'd rather grab him, really. Just sent a link to my Amazon HR contacts.
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by alexakarpov 14y ago
why is that HN crowd is so much into Django? Every day I see something Django-related on the top page. I feel like I'm left out... is Django like the world's number one web framework (for hackers)?
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by alexakarpov 14y ago
"Constructive" =) http://xkcd.com/810/
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by alexakarpov 14y ago
so, with you kind of experience, how often did you prove Greenspun's tenth rule in practice? =)

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