askar_yu

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by askar_yu 15y ago
what is it with Singapore? <br> I am curious.
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by askar_yu 15y ago
should not be difficult (nowhere near like applying to US working visa at least). And I think gommm will help you with the visa and other stuff if you decide to apply and get accepted :)
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by askar_yu 15y ago
I buy your argument, but only for for Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia (of which I was skeptical while writing my first post) Let's add Goergia there also; cause I am not really sure about there either. But now, you still have 11 out of 15 Pos
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by askar_yu 15y ago
actually it's the same situation in most (if not all) Post-Soviet countries.
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by askar_yu 15y ago
is there a video of this interview?
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Tech talents from India, other countries leaving Silicon Valley(usatoday.com)
6 points by askar_yu 15y ago|1 comments
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US government developing activist technology(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by askar_yu 16y ago|0 comments
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by askar_yu 16y ago
Very interesting. Evaluating the English skills based on tests is like evaluating programmers based on how well they do on programming contests (i.e ICPC). For example, if this test was given to high school students about to graduate, I wou
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by askar_yu 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_Law "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
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by askar_yu 16y ago
your product reminded me of a great Ukrainian startup Viewdle. They had won the Le Web startup competition in 2008. their presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzvfcpLtdgg
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Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by askar_yu 16y ago|0 comments
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by askar_yu 16y ago
not sure how e-mail encryption would have helped... ? They SQL injected and got the DB, obtained the passwords and then proceeded further (social engineering: FW policy change, ssh password through e-mail, etc.)
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How Cyber-Pragmatism brought down Mubarak(thenation.com)
3 points by askar_yu 16y ago|0 comments
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by askar_yu 16y ago
I'd expect this group to be the highest ranked... why would this be hidden/dead?
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by askar_yu 16y ago
Borders would great indeed. I opened up the Google Map to check whether the dot around Central Asia could've been "mine". Zoomed out the Caspian sea, equaled it to size in the picture, then estimated the distance towards east... :)
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by askar_yu 16y ago
"Amazon announced that in the US since the start of the year it had sold 115 e-book downloads for every 100 paperback books, even excluding its downloads of free books ." (highlight is mine)
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by askar_yu 16y ago
2008's conflict between Russia and Georgia had also a had cyber aspect. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/georgia-takes-a-bea...
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by askar_yu 16y ago
perfect summary.
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by askar_yu 16y ago
it's great to read these stores. Especially from those who are able to describe the lessons they've learned despite being rejected.
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by askar_yu 16y ago
alright, but... "no pain, no gain"
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by askar_yu 16y ago
"Executives previously have said it is close to being profitable, despite the large costs associated with storing and delivering so much video content." Youtube has yet to be profitable? wow.
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Why Are Chinese Millionaires So Stingy?(tnr.com)
11 points by askar_yu 16y ago|19 comments
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by askar_yu 16y ago
yes, but the article tries to explain the achieved work to people unfamiliar with Graph Theory or CS; thus in very simple terms and with analogies, they even define what a graph is before proceeding... I guess that's what it meant to be, sh
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by askar_yu 16y ago
I work at an international Chinese company and what surprised me first was that almost all of our Chinese engineers take nap after lunch (even the ones who come for temporary business trip) I have an impression that taking naps is heavily p
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by askar_yu 16y ago
"Or if you are a 21 year old white male hacker, you might find this useful too." can somebody shed a light on the meaning/joke? behind this sentence? what's there about being a 21 year old white male hacker?
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by askar_yu 16y ago
same here... but until I clicked on the link and saw how much it's been expanded. even future reposts of this link (say per 6 months or so) won't hurt HN; it looks like GCU will turn into a huge resource.
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by askar_yu 16y ago
didn't notice that right away, nice catch :)
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by askar_yu 16y ago
as far as 'not working', one bizarre thing I noticed lately in Facebook is that stuff that you delete on your wall doesn't get removed from the 'news feed' that everybody else sees. So for example, there is no way to silently 'like' or com
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by askar_yu 16y ago
Victory Day is a very big holiday in the post Soviet Union countries.
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by askar_yu 16y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/weekinreview/04shane.html

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