VladRussian

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by VladRussian 15y ago
Thank you. Sorry for the ban reasons guesswork in GP.
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by VladRussian 15y ago
thanks for letting me know, and i appreciate your kind words. When HN pages started to load slow - "slowban" - i guess it was a "big T" for "time to go" :) for me which i didn't recognize. > for no apparent reason When i downvoted seve
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by VladRussian 15y ago
the longer talent stays in (kept in) the less of a talent it becomes. Been there myself and when interviewing people who've been long term with a big company, it is very noticeable how one sided their experience and thinking is. Changing jo
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>You as an individual is an unknown quantity that they cannot absolutely determine. well, we can imagine that given more info and better algorithms they would narrow the "unknown quantity" into the range much more narrow and thus less p
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>all these gewgaws. There's work to be done, don't get too wrapped up in your tools. poor Windows people need all these exactly to get work done. (my current job is a windows shop, any simple *nix operation like find/grep/diff and the l
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>Don't get me wrong - I love to see how the iPad just shattered the barrier of entry for non-technical users, even though I'm a FOSS guy. But I do think that it was at too great (and an unnecessarily so) a cost to the understanding of t
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by VladRussian 15y ago
yet his [successful] endeavours look like of a billionaire
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>It's disturbing to see that this is an all-too-common pattern with the large internet companies. Stories abound of companies like Google, eBay, PayPal, Facebook and Amazon closing down accounts with what I would characterize as "violen
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by VladRussian 15y ago
instead they'd better mandate the ultrasound radar in front of the vehicle, similar to parking sensor in the rear, yet with additional chip that would take the speed (and direction of the turn if any) into account to calculate the distance
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by VladRussian 15y ago
"Both of the main detectors, ATLAS and CMS, have uncovered hints of a lightweight Higgs. If it pans out, the only remaining hole in the standard model would be filled. Even more exciting, a Higgs of this mass, about 125 gigaelectronvolts, w
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>The real issue with freemium is that I've yet to see a single example that's actually a game, as opposed to one armed bandits masquerading as games. Today heard on NPR something along the lines that Zinga IPO valuation is 7-10B, and th
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>I think most of us come from a sort of middle class, well behaved background that prevents us from conceptualizing what it means to be corrupted by power. from the background i come from it isn't always "corrupted by power", worst/bloo
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>These reports will be sent to the appropriate LEO to summon and indefinitely detain you. You will be sent to a secret prison. it may be not the worst what could happen to one. Reading about Kennedy/Oswald/Ruby, i've been wondering how
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by VladRussian 15y ago
according to that graph in the article http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9wJyYHagRbo/TuMibuRO59I/AAAAAAAAAM... the same frame-up was attempted in 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, etc... It is a nice double pay scheme that is completely in the nature of th
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by VladRussian 15y ago
well, if you add "registered voters" who isn't a living breathing person registered at the given district (i.e. so called "dead souls") than you can easily get beyond the 100%. Honestly, even i (whose opinion about the old country can rarel
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>Hardly any companies that I see are willing to hire a junior dev or admin and contribute anything at all to his/her personal development, skill accumulation, and experience. well and after all that investment the person leaves for bett
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>I'd like more information on the CPUs and CPU/GPU bus of this FASTRA II. "the graphics cards, which are connected to the motherboard by flexible riser cables." - so this sounds like typical PCIe based design. Usually the bundle of GPU
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>Pardon the snark, but it sounds like a lot of people are either easily addicted or have poor time management skills. behold the power of [easy] dopamine.
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by VladRussian 15y ago
simple recipe for being miserable: 1. make yourself belief that "the social network [Facebook] has taken over most aspects of our personal and professional lives, and is fast becoming the dominant communication platform of the future." and
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by VladRussian 15y ago
so we have an Apple supporter argueing that millimeter is enough of a difference to maintain originality, while several comments below another Apple supporter http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3334437 suggests that the home button was c
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>After edit: the second reply here asked how a diet higher rather than lower in fruits and vegetables can protect from cancers other than colon cancer. According to what I've read about the research, it's thought that some tendencies of
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by VladRussian 15y ago
what's about this large iPad behind the regular one?
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>iPad have a single physical home button which those don't have and that's something that several manufactures coped. They could use 2 buttons on the same side or mirror the bottom button sounds like why 1-click is patentable scheme of
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World's Oldest Bedding [made of mosquito-repellant] Discovered in Cave (news.yahoo.com)
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by VladRussian 15y ago
> If/when you have multiple concrete objects which share the same interface, it's trivial there to switch references from the concrete type to that of the Interface you're a lucky person that it has been trivial for you, your teammates
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>Sigh, again, modern news gone bad. Computers in the same base and area as the control computers had a virus, but it could not affect the software used to control the planes. so, operator behind windows machine can issue a command to th
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by VladRussian 15y ago
> In code review if you have an interface and only one implementation I'd make you remove the interface which changes the contract from "this component will accept and work with anything implementing this interface" to "this component w
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>I'm willing to bet the original crashed and burned and that this is a mockup. this is after falling from 20km height after being hit by a surface-to-air missile. Would be enough to produce a very closely resembling mockup : http://ww
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by VladRussian 15y ago
> a.) get another Stuxnet into their computers while they download data from it, i hope the CIA didn't forgot to put the virus carrying USB stick into the weapons bay :)
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by VladRussian 15y ago
considering Iran's hacking of Diginotar certificate as a precedent, i don't think it is unimaginable. Similar possibility without actual hacking of C&C channel encryption is that the drone (or its windows command machines in Nevada) is

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