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by snitko 15y ago
It's interesting, I recently realized that the word "work" in Russian is just a derivative from "slave". Also interestingly enough, the word "slave" in english has its roots from "slavs" - people who populated the area of contemporary Europ
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by snitko 15y ago
One important thing I got from this book is that we should judge economic policies not for the intentions they mean, but for the incentives they create. I read a few (not too much, probably) books on economy both from the left and the right
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How I Cured Tendonitis(romansnitko.posterous.com)
2 points by snitko 15y ago|0 comments
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by snitko 15y ago
Couldn't agree more, a great book. As far as I understood it was written by a journalist, but a journalist closely working with scientists. He tells a great story and it definitely is nothing like Gladwell speculations.
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by snitko 15y ago
I think there's always a balance between something being open and transparent (and possibly free and opensource, as those two things usually, though not always, go hand in hand) and something being closed and proprietary. I personally think
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by snitko 15y ago
Yes. Also, I don't know if you would agree, but I think any hacker bootstrapping a startup should instead read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Start-Small-Stay-Developers-Launching/... It's written by a developer (a real one, who can act
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by snitko 15y ago
I agree, that's why I suggest to not use time tracking as a final metric. I argue though, that such stats would show some interesting and not very obvious tendencies.
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by snitko 15y ago
So I guess everything is really fine: This behavior mentioned in the last section was likely even more surprising because Internet Explorer does convert POST to GET for HTTP/301 and HTTP/302, like all other browsers
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by snitko 15y ago
I was reading it and thinking that I was like that. I used to think "meh, measuring work in hours". It felt especially disgusting when your employer did it. But then I discovered a tiny widget called "Timer" and it really made me think care
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by snitko 15y ago
Thank you, typo fixed.
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by snitko 15y ago
My thought exactly. For a couple of years now I've been thinking "meh, working for someone is slavery". It sure feels this way to me. It really is hard for me to imagine it could be different for some other people (but it could). And so, wh
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How to choose a good non-fiction book (a checklist)(romansnitko.posterous.com)
2 points by snitko 15y ago|2 comments
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by snitko 15y ago
For non-native speakers these captchas would be easy. These are very basic things we tend to learn very well when we first start learning english.
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UI Guiders plugin for Rails 3.1 - like Guiders.js, but better organized(github.com)
1 points by snitko 15y ago|0 comments
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by snitko 15y ago
Great story. Care to elaborate a little bit more about the idea and the business you're running?
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by snitko 15y ago
Food. I would like my supermarket to deliver me stuff twice a week without me ever going there.
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by snitko 15y ago
I'm curious as to how long would it take some open-source enthusiast to come up with an open-source version of Dropbox-like software that you can install on your VPS and sync files through your own server. I mean, that would be awesome, but
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by snitko 15y ago
This data is not picked fairly. I suggest we only look into webdev jobs, then Ruby should be somewhere at the top.
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by snitko 15y ago
I tried it on a Honeycomb tablet, works pretty smoothly, but "not for ios5" notification shows up for some reason.
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by snitko 15y ago
Yes. And this way a controller test sometimes catches an unspeced model bug. Happens often enough to me to not mock everything.
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by snitko 15y ago
I recently bought Xoom and I can tell you, that UI is much better and convenient than iOS. Widgets, convenient app switching, awesome browser controls (you slide your finger from the side of the screen and the menu appears), awesome tab swi
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by snitko 15y ago
I liked the post, it actually answered some of the questions I asked you in the email. But I would like to point out one thing about motivation. While I agree that lack of it could easily kill your project, I feel like encouragement from ot
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by snitko 15y ago
It's really interesting: to me the service seems like a total bullshit, but I'm really curious to find out why am I wrong. I know many people here are sceptical about this website too. But could it be that what HN crowd prefers is supposed
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Ask HN: anyone working on software for vehicles/infrastructures/anything?
7 points by snitko 16y ago|3 comments
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by snitko 16y ago
Best advice you can get in this post: read "The Promise of Sleep" by William C. Dement. It will change you understanding of how sleep works and, hopefully, will also change your life.
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by snitko 16y ago
There are plenty of experiences in the world that don't help your career, but rather help you grow personally. College may be one of them. On the other hand, doing things that help your career doesn't mean in any way that you don't grow per
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by snitko 16y ago
I would probably choose startup too. The reason, I think, is that unless I succeed, I'm not going to be happy and would actually make my SO miserable. However, if I succeed, I would have the money and the time to be able to live happily wit
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by snitko 16y ago
So wait, isn't it the same as Shelfari (bought by Amazon, if I remember correctly)? Even the design seems to be similar.
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by snitko 16y ago
Could you specify the names of the apps for iPhone?
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by snitko 16y ago
I use KeePassX, because it works on all desktop OSs, including Linux. It is pretty good. Too bad there's no iPhone version. As a side note, one feature I'd like to see in my password manager software. Say, I suspect that someone might have

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