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by dmytrish 13y ago
This is not correct. I don't know any influential Ukrainian nationalists who want ethnic purity to rule them all. Even Stepan Bandera welcomed Russians and Jews (!) who aren't enemies of Ukrainian state. Please stop this crazy Naz
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I follow Varlamov's elucidation of the events and I must say that his blog is very influential in Russian segment of the internet and it deserves this. So he published the translation after multiple requests.
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by dmytrish 13y ago
> a solid majority of Ukrainians actually want it - you're right, it's a tough question. European integration support is at least 50% of the population; just before Yanukovych decided not to sign the association agreement it wa
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by dmytrish 13y ago
"The root of _all_ problems" is an emotional exaggeration (often used by Russians themselves to assess other peoples' opinion). But when you try to fought this bias, it is still amusing _how many_ problems are caused by this
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by dmytrish 13y ago
You seem to be reluctant for changes. Ok, protesters against Yanukovych try to at least _revert_ the situation back to the one before Yanukovych. People have democratically elected Yanukovch in hope that he will be the next "Kouchma&qu
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by dmytrish 13y ago
The difference is that Yanukovych is the president of _my_ country.
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by dmytrish 13y ago
We've had two months of peaceful protest at Maidan being ignored politically and assaulted with police. Many activists have been beaten, some of them are dead. After two month of Yanukovych plainly ignoring protests and our opposition
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by dmytrish 13y ago
thesz is from Moscow, it's how it looks from there.
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by dmytrish 13y ago
Do you want to assert that Bulgaria, Slovakia would be better in Russian sphere of influence? Do you suggest that benzopirenes are more harmful than a lot of tear gas being used against protesters? Kiev is living its own life, re-read the Z
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by dmytrish 13y ago
Yes, the pictures don't prove much, here you have to trust the author, he's spending quite some time in the heart of the events. Pretty girls can still be crazy nationalists, that's true. The point is that if some crazy form
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by dmytrish 13y ago
None have been killed with a Molotov cocktail so far.
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by dmytrish 13y ago
That's not quite true: there are many types, but the type checking is delayed into run time. Though your point of view may be also correct with respect to definitions (if you assume that types exist only during compile time).
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by dmytrish 13y ago
I agree that any lists without clear statistical analyses are meaningless here.
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by dmytrish 13y ago
I guess that a list of college dropouts that are plain losers would be several orders longer. Don't forget about the survivorship bias ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias ).
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In Ukraine, college/university is a holy cow: there's a widely held belief that anyone can't be successful without a graduation document (in other words, in [post-]Soviet Ukraine education gains you). The post-Soviet educatio
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by dmytrish 13y ago
Here it is: http://erlangonxen.org/
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by dmytrish 13y ago
I used to give some thought to OS design some time ago (I'm a hobbyist OSdev). I've come to a more conservative point of view: what problem do we try to solve with the new system design? Are our systems large and flabby enough to
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by dmytrish 13y ago
Greenspun's tenth rule is result of "If you have a hammer, all around looks like a nail" applying value "Lisp" to "hammer" metavariable. Specifically Lisp is not good at writing a OS for existing hardware,
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by dmytrish 13y ago
Spaces. First of all, I like Python-like syntax (Python, Haskell) and tabs mess code very easily. Tabs are: 1) of a different length in different environments and you can't control all of latter (skype, github, web, terminals, other te
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by dmytrish 13y ago
Bash/sh/zsh family is brilliant at intense interaction with humans. Aliases, short built-in commands, oneliner-oriented nature, keyboard ergonomics, really concise file/process handling - all of this makes it _the shell_. I t
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by dmytrish 13y ago
Because this glosses over the really complex parts. Still, if they are written in Lisp, this would comprise a complete self-sufficient X server (how many lines of code this would take though?).
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by dmytrish 13y ago
The syntax is very minimalistic at cost of much more semantical burden. Parsing Lisp code for humans often relies on conscious understanding the words and AST structure, not on reflexes tied to a visual memory of characters and indents. So
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by dmytrish 13y ago
Agreed, I was surprised how many code Slime implementation has, there are source files about several kloc in size. From what I saw I can say that "lisp expressiveness" did not helped much there.
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by dmytrish 13y ago
Oh please, don't get me started on this. Bash is much more powerful than it's usually thought of (I wrote a decent chunk of bash code, there are middle-sized projects like DKMS written in bash, etc), but still it's a language
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by dmytrish 13y ago
That's very true from both compiler and OS point of view. Intel machine code is so kludgy: variable-length codes, subtle differences in prefixes in different modes, exceptions in register handling all over the place, plenty of addressi
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by dmytrish 13y ago
From my small OSdev experience: write printf before anything else (it's not that hard, just write bytes into *0xB8000). This can be done even before getting any interrupts working, fortunately (without interrupts any input is almost im
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by dmytrish 13y ago
I'm agree that the grandparent example is, uhm, weird: it rather reflects Poles' and Ukrainians' knowledge of Russian language than some unbiased inter-intelligibility. Polish language is quite close to Ukrainian in regard of
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by dmytrish 13y ago
Still there is a problem with finite virtual address space (though not so significant on 64-bit architectures).
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by dmytrish 13y ago
Do you know any other functional language? If not, it's a problem not with syntax (Haskell syntax perfectly fits its semantics), but with what is actually going on in the program. Without firm grasp of FP concepts (recursion, currying,
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by dmytrish 13y ago
It's a bit odd way of matching items of a list, I'd prefer to specify it without any possible trailing items: [infile, outfile] <- getArgs Also, the last two lines may be squeezed into one (though less readable):

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