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by timka 3y ago
I've seen people criticizing Go for not being correct enough, e.g. for its way of handling dates among other things. But I think Go has a saner balance of correctness vs. simplicity. I don't like being forced to do stuff correctly
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by timka 3y ago
IMO Nickel looks better in this regard as it allows you to use typing only when it helps. Plus, it has contracts that complement the type system.
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by timka 3y ago
I'm familiar with this point of view. I think maybe a third of Polish people share it, another third don't give a damn about Russians, yet another third think that it's vital for Poland to have healthy relationship w/ Ru
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by timka 3y ago
You're missing the point. I am mainstream. I'm 42, I've had enough of underground but totally understand it since this is where I came from. And this totally normal. I don't have to stay teenage for the rest of my life.
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by timka 3y ago
I was a teenager during the 90s in Moscow and share none of your sentiment. Yes, we lost the Cold War. NATO won. Understood. We got child prostitution, heroine epidemics, kids inhaling acetone vapors from glue to get hi in basements, togeth
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by timka 3y ago
The Ural federal district is the testing site for the ASBI (АСБИ). What blackouts are you talking about? I'm in Moscow. Never heard of that.
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by timka 3y ago
This is HN not PN. I do realize HN is full of libertarian spoiled youth (and spoiled not-so-youth-already including myself) but I don't want to teach anyone how to live. The time will show. I do understand libertarians. I personally wa
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by timka 3y ago
Writing this from Moscow over private OpenVPN instance hosted on Hetzner by a friend of mine. Sometimes it stops working. It's been like that for a couple of years like that.
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by timka 3y ago
Crawl-Space Computing by Lawrence J. Dickson [1] Posting it here since the author has kindly allowed me to share this file with my colleagues in order to familiarize them with the ideas laid out in the book. Also, seems like the paper versi
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A super-private Web3 network(elibria.io)
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by timka 3y ago
UID mapping?
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by timka 3y ago
Lawrence Dickson. Anyone?
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by timka 4y ago
In Russia the chairmen are interested in kickbacks which they won't get with OSS. Also, it seems that the situation with education in general is still better that in Brazil at least in some regards. In 2014 I worked in São Paulo and ha
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by timka 4y ago
The OSS community that I grew up in speaks English and the software world is largely based on English. I really enjoy reading nicely written source, well commented in good English, with concise naming (again in English). And we're forc
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by timka 4y ago
In mid-00's I used to be frequent at a pub that was popular among expats and oil and IT industry professionals. I met a guy from the US there who was a professional translator and interpreter. He once told me that when he has to transl
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by timka 4y ago
Unfortunately it's impossible to fully elaborate my position here in the format of HN comments but I don't think the way you're talking about is really possible. The system is broken so badly that it cannot be fixed from insi
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by timka 4y ago
This is true. But 'the government' (I'd rather say agencies and services) mostly doesn't care about us unless we do something 'special' and you basically can't hide from them. The big tech is always intere
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by timka 4y ago
That's complicated indeed. When I start thinking about who can track me (wi-fi, bluetooth and RFID scanners and surveillance cameras everywhere, my telecom provider, banks, public transportation, gmail etc., browser fingerprinting…) I
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by timka 4y ago
I tend to think that it's not the govs tracking us that we should care about but the big tech. Yandex is one of them.
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by timka 4y ago
When I was learning C++ in late 90s in the university the DOS environment I was using didn't have the i18n configured properly. My teacher noticed that I was trying to use Russian transliteration for comments and she suggested to &#x27
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by timka 4y ago
'A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness'. That's about it. Unfortunately, they can't just play their toys and get payed for that. Or can they? Well, at least not where they're currently employed. Also how
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by timka 4y ago
Gleb Uspensky, The Power of the Land (Earth/Soil) I heard Vladimir Lenin was keeping this one at his desk.
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by timka 4y ago
Where's the hack value? The title is truly misleading. Yes, natural scales sound good and we already know that. Gradually thickening an arpeggio or sequence makes it interesting for some time. This is not what we expect when we see suc
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by timka 4y ago
OTOH, I know an IT professional, a computer nerd, who types using his two index fingers while looking at the keyboard. Some people do have very difficult relationship with their bodies.
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by timka 4y ago
There is hope. Well, sort of. Services exists because of the unprecedentedly large middle class that's been created artificially by using currency emission to stimulate consumer demand and thus grow the economy ('raegonomics'
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by timka 4y ago
How old are you?
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by timka 4y ago
Fair means inequal.
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by timka 4y ago
40+. Have been viming since 1999-2000. SublimeText + vim mode has been my weapon of choice since like 2012-2013. It works out of the box and is the most compatible with my muscle memory (tried VSCode's vim emulation, RealVim, PyCharm&#
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by timka 4y ago
You're right, the 'regular' people form the base of a society. But purely biologically they aren't capable of implementing a system for governing the society. This is b/c a hard working brain consumes up to 25% of t
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by timka 4y ago
Hopefully, implementing Serge Saveliev's idea of cerebral sorting would give a way to detect geniuses in an evidence-based way. Unfortunately, this is still technically impossible (MRI resolution is still too low). Another issue is tha

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