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by memracom 13y ago
Yes. That is why we did not hear about the untraditional girl who got to second place in Russia's American Idol type of program. It was the Russian people who liked her voice and voted her up there. Did I mention that she was an Americ
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by memracom 13y ago
It's funny to watch the Olympic coverage in Canada because it has been a steady stream of Russia bashing including lots of innuendo about corruption in building Olympic facilities and how they are not ready in time and how it is danger
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by memracom 13y ago
So many of the news stories about Russia recently have been fraudulent. Like the uproar about the child protection law that is called an "anti-gay" law, but nobody has found any evidence of the law being enforced. How many silly l
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by memracom 13y ago
The way you describe it they are the worst sort of consultants. I once worked on a project that a big 5 consulting firm was charging 1.7 million to deliver. After 6 months, a tech savvy guy convinced the CEO to hire me for 3 months to sort
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Quality Is Future Speed(deliberate-software.com)
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by memracom 13y ago
You danced around one important point about technical debt. True professionals do not avoid technical debt, but they do account for it. That means that when we take shortcuts we should be aware of what kind and amount of technical debt we a
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by memracom 13y ago
One red flag in this case is that the CFO referred to PwC, a major accounting firm that her former company paid for some advice, as a reason why everything was OK. This amounts to "trust me" because you have no access to the terms
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by memracom 13y ago
That was an excellent article. One of the best that I have read recently about company management. Of course to get the full impact you need to do a lot of reading between the lines, but Ben does us the favor of leaving some broad hints.
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by memracom 13y ago
Reminds me of scenes from a Russian TV series about life in Moscow under Stalin. At any moment a bunch of guys dressed in black could burst in, arrest people, cart away papers etc. and there was no recourse. This was the NKVD, later called
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by memracom 13y ago
I guess that is is not politically correct for non-rape victims to empathize with rape victims, to put themselves in that other person's place and try to understand what the rape victim is going through in their life. Only government f
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by memracom 13y ago
State-sponsored media. The only kind of media now allowed in the USA.
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by memracom 13y ago
In my 7 year old daughter's gymnastics class the girls all play bullrush for fun during the last 10 minutes or so. Of course this is in a Canadian city where the schools don't have fences, doors are unlocked, no security guards, a
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by memracom 13y ago
And yet, there could be a differentiation. How many of you have read and follow SWEBOK or SEMAT or, better yet, both. Those are the only people who have a right to call themselves "engineer" as something that is better than the ru
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by memracom 13y ago
Software engineer means exactly the same thing as software developer or programmer/analyst. Coder means that the person referred to is at a Junior level. People who write frameworks are usually at a senior level although even a junior
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by memracom 13y ago
Finally someone who takes the time to actually INVESTIGATE a news story, who goes to actual sources (not talking heads grabbed off the street) and analyzes what is going on. Unfortunately this guy is not a journalist, and this so-called &qu
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by memracom 13y ago
Nobody is going to hire you on H1-B if you cannot communicate clearly in English. This question is ambiguous. Are you looking for a remote working job? Or are you trying to start a thread for H1-B jobs available? Note that American companie
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by memracom 13y ago
I've always believed that there are no adults. That is the great secret of life that everyone should learn when they turn 18 or so. There are no adults. All those kids that you knew through your schooldays, are still around and still d
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by memracom 13y ago
node.js could be concurrent. You just run multiple node.js processes and leverage the tried and true concurrency of the UNIX process model, which Erlang architecture is based on.
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by memracom 13y ago
Totally agree that strace is an awesome tool. I've even used it with Java apps that were behaving wierdly, just attach and see what it is saying to the kernel.
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by memracom 13y ago
An acidic environment with Ph 5.7. Let's Google that... Oh my god, carbonic acid. That is the acid formed by adding carbon dioxide bubbles to soda. Could a giant bottle of Pepsi help cure your cancer? What about shooting up pure Coke,
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Berlin urged to step in over EU's relations with Ukraine, Russia(euractiv.com)
1 points by memracom 13y ago|0 comments
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by memracom 13y ago
Lots of people are rediscovering Functional Reactive Programming piecemeal on various different platforms. I agree with you that it is best to skip the piecemeal stuff and go directly to Reactive Extensions and its various ports such as the
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by memracom 13y ago
Look down at the picture of the Siamese cat. There is and example of Run Length Encoding. I expect that some of the other source materials will also show Run Length Encoding early enough that it would have invalidated a number of patents as
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by memracom 13y ago
This is a fundamentally flawed way to hire. Once a developer has 7-10 years of experience, they should be able to learn a new language in a couple of weeks. If you need a Python developer then hire a Python or Ruby developer. If you need a
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by memracom 13y ago
Yes, except that I think production services are more likely to migrate to a thin containerized layer directly over a hypervisor something like what Docker/LXC provide in UNIX. We already have JVM and Erlang VM and even LISP implementa
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by memracom 13y ago
How could anyone understand the implications of all of this well enough to make any kind of approval decision, for or against? [ http://eeas.europa.eu/ukraine/assoagreement/assoagreement-20... ]
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by memracom 13y ago
Seems so obvious to us on HN but why do journalists in many Western countries miss this obvious issue with what is coming out of Ukraine? Is there no investigative journalism anymore? Even when the protesters are throwing rocks and petrol b
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by memracom 13y ago
Exactly! And how many of you have actually read the agreement that the EU presented to Yanukovich to sign. You will be surprised at the scope of the changes that Ukraine would have to implement. [ http://eeas.europa.eu/ukrain
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by memracom 13y ago
I have been to Russia more than once. And I speak Russian well enough to travel there on my own, with no support from any travel agencies or guides. On one occasion a couple of guys wanted to steal my suitcase, because I foolishly left the
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by memracom 13y ago
It could even have been bankrolled from Russia. Even though I speak Russian and some Ukrainian, and I have followed current events in both countries for years, I can't figure out what is actually going on here. Yes, it could be another

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