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by hal9000xp 10y ago
Popular theories that investing in indexes is the best possible strategy are not self-sufficient. If there were no active traders, then nobody would trade individual stocks. In this case, there would be no indexes to invest. So markets stay
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by hal9000xp 10y ago
What's about those software developers who don't have any degree but have many years of relevant experience? As I understand 12 years of relevant experience is equivalent to US bachelor degree. Is it still true according to new US
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by hal9000xp 10y ago
You may like rare coloured photos made by US army Major Martin Manhoff who served in the US embassy in Moscow from February 1952 until June 1954, when he was expelled from the USSR on charges of espionage. All of this material ended up in a
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by hal9000xp 10y ago
I'm curious does Canada require bachelor degree for this type of visa or not?
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My first computer was ZX Spectrum (a successor of ZX81). By coincidence, a few days ago, I've finished reading the book "It's behind you" about development of R-Type, a top-notch arcade which pushed ZX Spectrum to its li
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by hal9000xp 10y ago
My father bought me a russian clone of ZX Spectrum 48k in 1994 (in post soviet states, ZX Spectrum was hugely popular during 90s just like in UK during 80s): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum My father was not
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by hal9000xp 10y ago
People often make such conclusions about dynamic programming that it's just caching (including myself several years ago). I do recommend you to read this chapter: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorith
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by hal9000xp 10y ago
It's strange they didn't cover dynamic programming at all. IMO every course should include at least one classical example of dynamic programming. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_increasing_s
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by hal9000xp 10y ago
I said solving olympiad problems is NP-complete task. Not problems themselves. See the difference? Let's say there is a relatively simple olympiad puzzle. Also, let's say there is a imaginary robot which should solve this olym
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I'm solving olympiad programming problems almost everyday since October 2015 (mainly on CodeForces, also occasionally on HackerRank, Project Euler, TopCoder, Acm Timus, Uva etc). In total, I spend 15-20 hours per week on solving these
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by hal9000xp 10y ago
Well, I was hired all the time just because of my pure programming skills. That's because I have zero soft-skills :) P.S. HackerRank and Codility are doing great job to improve blind non-CV based hiring.
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I didn't make these assumptions at all. I born in a small provincial town in a poor third world country. There was literally no social support of doing programming because vast majority of people had absolutely no idea what it is (in 9
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by hal9000xp 10y ago
This whole diversity stuff is complete trendy nonsense! If a company seriously apply diversity to their hiring strategy then it actually means that at some point they must turn down some higher skilled candidate #1 in order to hire some low
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by hal9000xp 10y ago
Your job sounds exciting! Do you work in gamedev? In which company you are working?
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This is nice list and ability to implement these algorithms certainly won't hurt. But I have to say that knowing these algorithms alone won't help you much during job interview with smart employer like Google. The reason is simple
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Because just topping dictator is not enough , you also have to manage coup and support right side (i.e. those who are in favour democracy, secularism and market economy). US sucks at finding and supporting right side . If US just assa
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By red-tape I mean anti-market/anti-business laws. I was born in Uzbekistan, I know how system works in such countries. You can't do business there without making bribes. Countries like Uzbekistan intentionally create such laws wh
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Haiti on the bottom of economy freedom rating [1] and corruption rating [2]. Haiti has huge anti-free market red tape and rampant corruption. It means that Haiti did declare a war against free markets. Free market economy is possible only i
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As a Russian, who was born in USSR, I regret that CIA has failed to assassinate him 50 years ago. May be Cuba would be liberated from communist/socialist disease. Look at countries who declared a war against free markets - Cuba, Venezu
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Some small russian ISP just do not synchronize their database of blacklisted sites with Roskomnadzor central database. Also, LinkedIn seems to have several IP addresses, some of them may not be blacklisted yet. The main problem is in tenden
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This majority is totally fine to imprison unwanted minorities. This majority is totally fine to restrict my freedoms. This majority thinks they are right because they are majority . So in short, the majority asks me to sacrifice myself for
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> You can easily get VPN and continue to use Linkedin if you need to. VPN is only temporary cure. I think soon or later Kremlin will try to crack down use of VPN when it becomes popular. > Most of the governments do love to spy on it
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As a Russian citizen, I used LinkedIn heavily to find jobs in Europe (along with stackoverflow.com/jobs). I keep a lot of contacts there (e.g. former colleagues and European recruiters, some of them are very helpful). I found it's
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As far as I know AOL entirely rewrote ICQ code-base. Also, this code is part of AOL internal framework which is not directly connected to ICQ.
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I forgot to mention an important fact about ICQ core code-base. The core framework for ICQ was actually written by AOL long before ICQ was born. I.e. they developed general framework for scalable distributed systems. So some comments in the
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Yes, that's mostly true. In early days, native TCP/IP stacks wasn't good at handling so many simultaneous connections as ICQ needed to handle. So AOL just wrote their own TCP/IP stack (I think they used this implementati
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I'm former ICQ backend developer (2010 - 2014). I started to work at Mail.Ru in 2010, when Mail.Ru bought ICQ from AOL. I was enjoyed working with ICQ backend code-base written by AOL (although to be honest not all code was high qualit
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I was born in Uzbekistan, having Russian citizenship and living in the Netherlands. I wonder if they allow me to enter US. I hope Trump won't go that far (i.e. banning from entering US because I was born in Uzbekistan).
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There are two cases why companies would hire foreigners: 1. Hiring foreign workforce despite big supply of local workforce at certain skill level. It should be mediocre skill level with mediocre salaries because otherwise there would not be
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I actually think there is a possibility that it could be easier to get into US as highly skilled migrant under Trump presidency because of his anti-immigrant polities. If he raises a minimum income bar for H1B to 150K and keep the same

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