ivan_gammel

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by ivan_gammel 13y ago
Life in Russia significantly improved during last 15 years, but crime rates are still high everywhere. However, it depends on your life style whether you face this danger on the streets or not. IT jobs are among the best paid here, so you c
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by ivan_gammel 13y ago
It is the funniest reason I've ever heard. There's crazy shortage of talents in Moscow and SPb, so any employee will hire a gay, a centipede from Tau Ceti or a satan and shower him with money and lots of perks if he is good in pro
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by ivan_gammel 13y ago
Several years ago I switched to Eclipse from IDEA, because I was developing Eclipse-based IDE. I still own IDEA license, periodically upgrade it and do some tasks there, but cannot switch back on fulltime. Currently I'm using latest ST
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by ivan_gammel 13y ago
Works-for-me approach is good if you are choosing the solution for the systems you are administrating. If you have to deal with customer setups, things usually get much worse. The fact is that we've got degraded UX for our customers wi
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by ivan_gammel 13y ago
Their PDF replacement is far from good - buggy and unusable. We have to show PDF documents to our customers directly in browser, so we need good UX, and it was disappointing to see how it works in FF compared to other browsers with Reader a
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by ivan_gammel 13y ago
Probably, it was natural design choice. Yandex has all the capabilities to invent and design without copying competitors. For example, they started selling contextual ads and launched maps project earlier than Google.
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by ivan_gammel 13y ago
I'm self-taught, mostly. Started programming on Basic on handmade ZX Spectrum 64K, purchased by parents from classified ad in local newspaper, when I was 8 y.o., just to be able to write my own games. Switched to Turbo Pascal (and to T
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by ivan_gammel 13y ago
No, you are not reading it right. There's no "because" in my comment.
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by ivan_gammel 13y ago
This guy has made two mistakes: 1. He used OS code without consulting first with legal departament of the company. 2. Transferred the source code outside the corporate network without consulting first with legal departament. His boss may
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by ivan_gammel 13y ago
Socialize and extend your knowledge beyond the computer science. Software development is not about solving complex math or algorithmic problems, it's about doing good for the people. In most cases, it's about doing that in a team.
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by ivan_gammel 13y ago
That could be done via 3rd party like Ukraine without direct involvement or even awareness of Russian government.
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by ivan_gammel 13y ago
It's much more complicated to get to LatAm from Vladivostok than an Aeroflot flight from Moscow. I think there's simply no direct flights - it's not an airline hub.
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by ivan_gammel 13y ago
For that low taxes you get: 1. Awful state clinics 2. Corrupt police 3. Poor public infrastructure 4. Irresponsible government So, you have to pay separately for security, for medicine etc.
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by ivan_gammel 13y ago
This is not precise comparison. The Russian military actions in Chechnya are quite similiar to the ISAF actions in Afghanistan, including bombings of civilians and refusals for journalists ( http://www.stripes.com/news/f
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by ivan_gammel 13y ago
FSB does not need the money for it, but they already spy on everyone for 15 years. In Putin's Russia, the ISPs purchase the necessary equipment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM