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by dimitar 16y ago
Adams shares the most common view nowadays that school is either supposed to prepare you for your 'carrier' or make you an academic. In fact school is here to increase your wisdom to the fullest before putting in you in risk to gather exper
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by dimitar 16y ago
Casual users like to ask power users for help. And non-techies can become picky for something that they use every day.
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by dimitar 16y ago
I remember here (in Bulgaria) 10 years ago storekeepers and taxi drivers wouldn't even say hello or goodbye or thank you. In fact if there was any communication it would be probably be rude. Now, everyone says hello, thanks even smiles some
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by dimitar 16y ago
I'm pretty aware that in my country it is highly probable (but not for sure) for the police to get 'physical' (as the guy in the second video said), but I don't expect to get tortured in the way you see in movies. I still think the best cou
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by dimitar 16y ago
Really? So the police cannot be called as a witness in other countries and incriminate you by contradicting you with your own words?
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by dimitar 16y ago
Please check the sources on this article - I edited a bit on it today and found out that there was one ridiculous claim (1 million Chernobyl casualties) backed by a non-existing source (dead link). I checked the source that was meant and fo
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by dimitar 16y ago
Well I guess HR dude probably told a lot more, but it was edited out. Its just regular HR placeholder speech. He may have also been intentionally vague.
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Ask HN: electric kettle, hacker recipies.
1 points by dimitar 16y ago|2 comments
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by dimitar 16y ago
Maybe it could be decentralized - a system of interconnected networks connected by common protocols.
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Ask HN: Any electrical engineers?
14 points by dimitar 16y ago|6 comments
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by dimitar 16y ago
I hope Facebook is the "new AOL". However, AOL at its peak had 30 million subscribers. How many does Facebook have? Since 2001 internet use has made the share of AOL much smaller and still everyone needed to connect. There are many users si
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by dimitar 16y ago
Is there "software engineering" engineering at all? It is more like "social engineering" or "financial engineering". More to do with ingenuity, than engineering as a practice. Engineering is an application of scientific - mathematical and p
853.
by dimitar 16y ago
Lets see if it happens. I might be a provocation for Microsoft, a bluff.
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by dimitar 16y ago
This is cool, but also check out google-maps-el, from his website.
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by dimitar 16y ago
Also religion is needed to enforce a particular way of thinking which eases communication. Sometimes you may want to put someones mind in a box.
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by dimitar 16y ago
Management is a religion. But society was built on religion and we need it today the same way it was needed in Ancient Egypt and Sumeria. Authority is very hard to justify. The high priests of the religions of political ideology and manage
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by dimitar 16y ago
What makes programming so unique? Why cannot we generalize? I think most of the same conclusions apply to teachers, lawyers, salesmen, marketers, architects, physicians, nurses, engineers and scientists, whatever. Wherever knowledge is val
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by dimitar 16y ago
That is actually why Hitler had an incursion in the USSR while waging war in North Africa and the Atlantic, creating an anti-Hitler coalition and thus having no chance of an outcome that isn't a catastrophe for Germany. Surely an unwise dec
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by dimitar 16y ago
There is a great self-help book I can recommend: 'How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life' by Alan Lakein Its about planning and he gives a lot of useful tips, both long-term and short term. see the discussion here: http://news.ycomb
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I hate Forth(embedded.com)
20 points by dimitar 16y ago|17 comments
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by dimitar 16y ago
Thanks po and bd for sharing this site, I finally feel I understand voltage, el. current, el. devices. It is awesome!
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by dimitar 16y ago
You are awesome. I hope your comment gets into Hacker Monthly. And I thought making a presentation about culture shock with Dr. Spock was good.
863.
by dimitar 16y ago
In America you have Watergate, Iran-Contra, The Lewinski scandal, etc. and the culture and institutions that limit the power of the executive branch to crush the sources of information. Has anything bad happened to the people who uncovered
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by dimitar 16y ago
DK: "Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things." Most of the time I like to be on top of things and I use email, IM, the web. Its not a distraction, because it is important for me to see whats happen
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by dimitar 16y ago
And why do they ask from the recipients to mail them the USB sticks? Are they going to clean them and mail them back?
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by dimitar 16y ago
Is it authentic? It seems to me to be a side-scroller inspired by StarCraft and an RTS. Plus the designer of Starcraft was 10 years old in 1984, according to wikipedia. It doesn't seem right/
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by dimitar 16y ago
Which is a label as relevant as "communist world", and "non-aligned world" isn't it?
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by dimitar 17y ago
Good story, but in Russian. Most of the audience might want to read the original, from the Daily Mail, which is in English: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1259863/Wo... Another article in English, from Pravda: http://e
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by dimitar 17y ago
why?
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by dimitar 17y ago
Very rarely a Linux user needs to download a package from sf.net. Usually they use the package management system of their distribution.

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