atomashpolskiy

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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
Yes, I use Jekyll as gh-pages -- to host the website for my OSS project on github. It fits this purpose perfectly.
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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
Great question! Todo lists are next to useless for me. For important stuff that I have to do and must not forget about, I set up alarm clock (without description, as such stuff is in the back of my mind anyway). The rest is kept in text f
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BitTorrent library Bt 1.10 release: 2 years of contributors' work(atomashpolskiy.github.io)
2 points by atomashpolskiy 5y ago|0 comments
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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
The problem is not with code reviews but with how adversarial they have become. Instead of making the best attempt to comprehend and embrace the author's style and intention and finding compelling arguments for the question "why t
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Is Progress Possible?(libertarianchristians.com)
2 points by atomashpolskiy 5y ago|1 comments
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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
What's with people's opinion on this? E.g. https://www.change.org/p/free-julian-assange-before-it-s-too... Signed by 666,000 people. I even donated 10 bucks or so back in the day to advance this petition. Did
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Bt 1.10 and a Thank You to contributors(atomashpolskiy.github.io)
1 points by atomashpolskiy 5y ago|0 comments
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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
It's like one of the most wide-known facts about Warren Buffet is that he likes fast food and coke and even bought himself a diner. Or that Bill Gates drinks (or drank at some point) at least one can of coke a day. So cute, so down to
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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
Approximate dealer repair cost: 1 new 3.5-inch 20 MB HDA ..... 488.33 Holy moly, that's a lot
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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
Yeah, not everybody has to work with networks or cryptography, but I would've imagined that people at least read libraries that they use (to figure out what's going on under the hood) and inspect/debug low-level stuff from ti
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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
One more example: itch in one's throat and nasty suffocating cough that does not stop for an hour. Surprisingly, this might be caused by reflux (without the accompanying stomachache). I imagine it would be pretty easy for someone not u
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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
https://github.com/atomashpolskiy/bt BT client for JVM. Been getting a lot of love from contributors lately.
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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
I can absolutely feel a kind of religious zeal and moral superiority from the pro-vax side. It will be hilariously stupid if long-term side effects turn out to be real.
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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
Absolutely, most problems are caused by either of: - stupidity -fear -greed The problem is figuring out which instances of these are induced by society and civilization and which are inherent to human behavior in general. While we can try t
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Worse Than the Disease?(ijvtpr.com)
2 points by atomashpolskiy 5y ago|1 comments
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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
Man... Every Soviet schoolboy knows that the existence of an electoral system does not necessitate a democracy. It's not Russia that is your existential problem in US, it's education.
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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
Not a 90s programmer, but I think one of the greater fallacies of the optimistic 90s and early naughts was a belief that technology in general and Internet (cyberspace) in particular will be able to remedy many of humanity's woes. It t
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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
This sounds too simplistic (idealistic?). Maybe computers at their core are indeed pure, neutral information, but internet is definitely more than just that. It also amplifies all kinds of adverse mass psychology effects, rewards herd behav
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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
More generally speaking, markets were killed by oligopolies.
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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
I really prefer Bootique as an alternative to Spring Boot: https://bootique.io/ Simpler, smarter, very easy to customize. For higher loads I pick Vert.x. Other than that, it's almost always 3 J's: Jetty, Jersey, J
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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
Yeah, it seems like 90% of Rust jobs that are realistically accessible for someone with my background (different servers for the most part) are in crypto space, which I dislike, and there are very few of them as well. Java gives me better a
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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
For learning Rust I just picked a random, reasonably sized C++ project and spent a few weeks porting it to Rust. Was more than enough to get a grip on the core language features and tools and start receiving interview offers for a Rust posi
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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
https://github.com/atomashpolskiy/bt Has been my primary side project for the past 5 years. Looking for collaborators btw.
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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
Drinking beer before going to bed. Sleep like a baby.
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by atomashpolskiy 5y ago
I find Goodreads UX tasteless and clunky, especially on mobile. My favourite website in this department is fantlab.ru, though it's mostly in Russian.
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by atomashpolskiy 6y ago
Yeah, right. So this is not what I had in mind -- a way for the society to invest into projects that might not have an obvious immediate business value. Like society invests in raising and educating kids, for example, hoping that some of th
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by atomashpolskiy 6y ago
Easier to add OSS tax into the social security payments. The difficult part is collecting usage analytics so that funds get distributed "fairly".
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by atomashpolskiy 6y ago
Did consulting, yes. Two concerns: 1) Some guys want IP on improvements to the original codebase 2) When I work on client's problems, I have less time to work on the original codebase, so the earned money is not exactly reinvested into
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by atomashpolskiy 6y ago
So this is only for projects with paying or willing to pay customers, right? Say, I have a small, permissively licensed personal project (bittorrent implementation), that has some userbase, including for-profit companies. There is a lot of
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by atomashpolskiy 6y ago
In Russia we have a joke that would roughly translate to this: Lesson in the primary school. Teacher says: "Kids, today we will be learning letter 'A'. Who can tell me some words that start with this letter?" Kids: &quot

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