andrey-p

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by andrey-p 5y ago
You already knew лудис from люде :)
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by andrey-p 5y ago
Yeah that one caught me off guard too. Any idea why? The only reason I can think of is that it's very easy to confuse with `substring`.
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by andrey-p 8y ago
I've used it for a personal project blog and I'm really happy with it. I wouldn't call myself a heavy user though.
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by andrey-p 8y ago
The underlying engine just got open sourced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18432327
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by andrey-p 8y ago
Awesome, that's really good to hear! Happy user here - I was recently on the lookout for a simple hosted blogging platform for a personal project, and write.as fit the bill perfectly. Will PRs for WriteFreely generally make it into Wri
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by andrey-p 8y ago
Is that after they left beta? I noticed quite a few outages, but that was while they still had the big beta disclaimer on things. I've not had any trouble since.
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by andrey-p 9y ago
I once played a Mulatu Astatke album on a friend's Spotify account during a social gathering at his house, and he complained his discover weekly playlist was mostly African music for the next couple of months. The discover weekly algor
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by andrey-p 9y ago
I have to agree. This sort of hatred kind of made sense 150 years ago when it was part of a liberation struggle, but it's just plain racism at the moment. People should be better than this. (Disclaimer: I'm a Bulgarian who's
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by andrey-p 9y ago
That's a leftover thing back from Ottoman Empire times. There is not a lot of love for Turkish people in Bulgaria. So the situation isn't great but it's been not great for a long time.
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by andrey-p 9y ago
It feels weird to say there's no conflict in Eurogames. Power Grid is pretty relentless and brutal - there's no violent aspect to it, but you can mess your opponents pretty badly, and it still hurts. The only time I've manage
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by andrey-p 9y ago
Small World kind of sort of does that. The game simulates the rise and fall of civilisations, and a key part of the game is knowing when to call it quits with your current civilization and start playing with a new one. You skip a turn whene
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by andrey-p 10y ago
I'm working for a small (<50 employees) company, and I'm pretty lucky to have a management that cares about this. Stuff we've got: - weekly all hands meetings where people talk about what makes them excited - lots of non-w
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by andrey-p 10y ago
I recently stumbled upon a webcomic called Drugs and Wires. It may have more comedy than you'd expect from the subject matter, but it builds an excellent dystopian world.
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by andrey-p 10y ago
I've read various William Gibson books and generally enjoyed them, but I find his dense writing style exhausting sometimes. I think a comic written by him could work pretty well.
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by andrey-p 11y ago
It's one of my favourite horror novels. It's really good fun if you're into that kind of thing.
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by andrey-p 11y ago
I read an article form of Kurt Vonnegut's original talk. My favourite part was the happiness/misery graph of The Metamorphosis: http://austinkleon.com/wp-content/uploads/2005/vonnegut6.gif (Found he
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by andrey-p 11y ago
When I was a kid in Bulgaria (and probably now) you could go to one of those small streetside shops in the winter. Along with cheap tea or coffee, you'd be able to get a cupful of beef or chicken stock to warm you up. I still have a cu
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by andrey-p 11y ago
I save them in `/tmp` and I don't need to worry about them ever again.
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by andrey-p 11y ago
A friend of mine set up IFTTT so his phone would play a "ka-tching" sound every time someone paid for a premium account for his startup. The novelty never seemed to wear off.
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by andrey-p 11y ago
Not if you try something like PlayOnLinux. I've managed to run quite a few golden oldies that way.
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by andrey-p 11y ago
I thought it was going to be about not ignoring messages about Wikipedia's funding drives.
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by andrey-p 11y ago
But if you're plugging in input like that, couldn't the malicious user just pass in something like && sudo rm -rf / anyway? Which would render the whole point of the article moot.
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by andrey-p 11y ago
Relevant thing that was posted on HN last year: http://www.vassalengine.org/ I haven't had a chance to try it out but it looks great. Apparently it allows you to build board game mockups, and then play them locally or
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by andrey-p 11y ago
That, or math rock song titles.
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by andrey-p 11y ago
I live in the UK, and whenever I travel back to Bulgaria, I get told off for saying "sorry" and "thank you" all the time. In Bulgarian, the word for "thank you" is "благодаря" ("blagodarya")
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by andrey-p 11y ago
I... thought you were joking before I watched the film.
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by andrey-p 11y ago
At first it didn't seem all that bizarre but a few minutes in you start noticing some interesting things. For instance, the utter lack of traffic lights. Then there's the bit at about 5:14 where two buses have just gone past a bus
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by andrey-p 11y ago
Plus, it gives you something to do while you wait. More socially acceptable than picking your nose if anything.
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by andrey-p 11y ago
And then somebody else calls their beer BIER and copyright lawsuits ensue.
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by andrey-p 11y ago
Besides unit testing, with regexes I always put a quick comment like "matches foo but not bar or baz" which might not be comprehensive but allows the next person to get a quick understanding of what the code does at a glance.

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