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by gdy 7y ago
That is exactly what article was arguing for. I'm not in the business of discussing semantics. My point is that the bar in the 'systems programming' is indeed set higher than in many other domains. I'm not a systems prog
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by gdy 7y ago
It isn't, I meant it. And you misuse this word, try googling what it really means.
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by gdy 7y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with you, it surely is fun, especially when it is a toy project! As for the systems programming please see my answer to a sibling comment.
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by gdy 7y ago
Let me quote a quote from TFA: Bjarne Stroustrup: "Systems programming came out of the field where you had to deal with hardware, and then the applications became more complicated. You need to deal with complexity. If you have any issu
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by gdy 7y ago
"As if these skills are special and inherently more difficult to pick up by developers without them" It's because they are.
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by gdy 7y ago
So the 'environmental damage' you were talking about affects people selectively based on their citizenship?
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by gdy 7y ago
Why did they have to be inventive? Please provide a source.
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by gdy 7y ago
What does that have to do with sharing knowledge in the USSR and the countries in the Soviet block? It was never in Soviet ideology to hide knowledge behind paywalls. See, for example, this [0] post about Mir publishing house and warm comme
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by gdy 7y ago
No, that's BS. There are well known cases of genetics and cybernetics being banned for ideological reasons during Stalin's time. Scientific books and articles of convicted 'enemies of the state' were dangerous to possess
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by gdy 7y ago
"the USSR and their restrictive (if we are being euphemistic) policies towards academics." What do you mean?
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by gdy 7y ago
Or maybe it was too many unsubstantiated statements on your part? The questions don't look shallow to me, they are specific, and your response is hand-waving and 'please do some research'. And here I thought you did that rese
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by gdy 7y ago
So now discounts and preferences are a bad thing suddenly? "Belarusian government did not do anything" How is that Russia's fault? "To keep their power, they sold country" What exactly did Russia get? Belarus is sti
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by gdy 7y ago
Says an account created 4 months ago to an account created in 2012.
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by gdy 7y ago
Actually, the Ukraine shunned Russia by taking EU deal incompatible with free trade agreement with Russia.
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by gdy 7y ago
Actually, they merged. "On 13 July 2017, Yandex.Taxi and Uber signed an agreement to merge their businesses and operations in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Russia. ... Yandex invested $100 million and Uber inve
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by gdy 7y ago
How awful exactly is that dictatorship? And besides, the swooning is about Belorussian people, not Lukashenko
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by gdy 7y ago
"made the country dependent on Russian markets, oil, gas, money" How exactly did they do it? It's not like with different president Belarus wouldn't need all that. You need to take responsibility for your country instead
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by gdy 7y ago
Perhaps bees think the same
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by gdy 7y ago
You have a queen and it makes you pay taxes and obey laws
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by gdy 7y ago
"oral histories are necessarily worse in both content and process" "doesn't mean it was wrong or bad" It is a dead-end, though. While these cultures are interesting from anthropological point of view, I highly doubt
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by gdy 7y ago
How much of it is relevant 8 years later?
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by gdy 7y ago
No, Big Brother the TV show isn't.
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by gdy 7y ago
Big Brother is originally Dutch. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(Dutch_TV_series...
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by gdy 7y ago
To say 'f * you' to the law/TOS and the people behind it, or to brag how smart they are, or to entertain their friends. Any of these can be worth the penalty.
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by gdy 7y ago
"his name would be more renowned" Or hated as the name of the man who's opened the Pandora box and doomed us all. Just daydreaming and having a nightmare.
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by gdy 7y ago
Still, unlike Japan and China, there are no old grievances and no territorial disputes between Sweden and Russia. And by staying out of NATO, Sweden is unlikely to be drawn by the US into a confrontation with Russia.
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by gdy 7y ago
And all that started with the US-sponsored coup in Kiev.
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by gdy 7y ago
"Sweden is in a similar position re:Russia rather than China" What do you mean? Russia and Sweden have no territorial disputes, no wars for the last 200 years and Sweden stays more or less neutral by not joining NATO.
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by gdy 7y ago
I meant, how many is 'some'?
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by gdy 7y ago
What exactly did you fail to understand?

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