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by ii 18y ago
For example when you enter something in the search box but forget to switch language on your keyboard it will detect it and provide right results with 'did you mean..'. Google has this feature, too. But they were late. Everybody already u
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by ii 18y ago
Their main homepage is also very useful for any Russian: local weather, TV program, ruble exchange rates etc. "Ask Yandex" ad campaign was very successful: it made "to ask Yandex" in Russian mean the same as "to google" in English.
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by ii 18y ago
Salary is in foreign currency. As everything else.
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by ii 18y ago
Not all ideas are easy to come by. For example, the idea of the Cathedral and the Bazaar and discovery of Linus's law is far from easy to come by. Only great thinkers are capable of generating such ideas.
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by ii 18y ago
I see your point. But, please, let's encourage people to write more articles about what they think is right. Even if the article is wrong it's still good that it was written.
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by ii 18y ago
It works both ways. Don't you like Ruby? You don't like Ruby. Don't read articles about Ruby! I for one may use Ruby as a scripting language for my next project, I want to see more articles like this.
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by ii 18y ago
How true. As an example, learning and understanding Python/C API was much more practical and enlightening experience for me than experience of learning a new language like Haskell or O'Caml.
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by ii 18y ago
Happy New Year HN! Let 2009 be successful for everyone here.
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by ii 18y ago
I'm from Russia too. In my experience this "till death us do part" attitude changes to "get a lot of money or get out" pretty fast. Right after marriage. Women are women everywhere.
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by ii 18y ago
I don't care, I make the claim I make: Big guys have free advertising from piracy, small guys are hurt from the same thing. Edit: I guess we mis-understand each other -- I didn't mean VERY small guys, who may suffer from obscurity.
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by ii 18y ago
It's very simple: for bigger company piracy is more like a form of advertising, but for a small one it can actually hurt and kill the small guys.
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by ii 18y ago
Steve's story has reminded me of the other HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=399967 This "other side" is exactly what makes low-level languages so powerful.
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by ii 18y ago
I think postmodern programming is a combination of both Alan Kay's versions. An example from my own experience: take Django code base, replace Django templates with Mako, replace Django ORM with an existing object database, add some nice fe
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by ii 18y ago
In Python you can always do: import sys sys.stdout.write("Hello world!\n") if you really need this level of detail as a teacher.
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by ii 18y ago
If hell is segfault, then Heaven must be a memory leak?
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by ii 18y ago
Check Chromifox 2 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9427 I was fooled by good Chrome UI design myself, but after careful tweaking of Firefox with good theme and plugins I just can't use Chrome, I switched back to Firefox comp
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by ii 18y ago
At least Windows GUI is written in Delphi, that is Object Pascal. Edit: also, there are many new Delphi/Pascal projects, just check out http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ the "True Death" is highly exaggerated.
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by ii 18y ago
Pascal is not an exception. Do you know what language Skype is written in?
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GitHub is down(github.wordpress.com)
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by ii 18y ago
You did. The whole point of the article is that everybody are anaware of how dumb or smart they are. If you wanted to reinterpret and not misinterpret you should've name it "If you believe that dumb people don't know they are dumb you are
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by ii 18y ago
We like to believe in creation, but what's actually happening is evolution, not creation. Original ideas are like genetic mutations of old ideas and are not strong enough to survive and win. I think that the strongest ideas are never really
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by ii 18y ago
Completely agree. My mother is happy with Ubuntu too.
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by ii 18y ago
There are reasons why mysql_replicated backend was created and used successfully in production instead of MySQL Proxy. For example, MySQL Proxy knows nothing about transactions.
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by ii 18y ago
MySQL master/slave replication is implemented: http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/mysql_replicated/en/ I'm not sure whether authors are here or not.
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by ii 18y ago
I guess #logo {position: a; margin-top: 5px} It's only a draft. Everything may change. Read http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-layout/
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by ii 18y ago
It's not a "ascii diagram", it's a new syntax for CC3 display property. Complete example: <style type="text/css"> body { height: 100%; display: "a . b . c" /2em ". . . . ." /1em
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by ii 18y ago
Not all. Many (actually, the best) are commercial: Gill Sans, Helvetica Neue etc.
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by ii 18y ago
Just a few misspellings: "рпедставляет" instead of "представляет" (1st paragraph), "ечли" instead of "если" (7th paragraph) and so on. Better no translation than translation like this. Those who don't know English to read original Paul Grah
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by ii 18y ago
It is now part of a standard server ISO image. http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download press F4 on the first screen and select "Install a minimal virtual machine"
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by ii 18y ago
I don't think that lack of marketing skills is a real problem. You could have a friend that would do it for you. Think Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. It's ok to be bad in marketing and good in hacking as long as you are not alone.

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