sasha-dv

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by sasha-dv 14y ago
It is neither a scientific nor a societal accomplishment, it showcases neither innovation nor courage. It's just - something that happened. While governments are cutting down their budgets for scientific research and basically accepting t
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
Whoever was the first to use "bitch" as a verb was almost certainly a male asshole who wanted to subordinate the woman he was talking to. By repeating it, that is the sentiment you are reinforcing, because the meaning does not change. You'
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
Most likely, he's working at home: http://bit.ly/9NiLQB
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
Watching all of this makes me realise just how lucky we are to be alive at this point in human history. Indeed. Sexy times! Captured dragon: http://imgur.com/Vmnzj and http://imgur.com/mQU91
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
The NASA's decision to support SpaceX with money and expertise is a step in the right direction. NASA (and Roscosmos) should delegate to private companies all of the operations in LEO. They should focus their efforts on sending humans deepe
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
So did I. But, I think, doing dangerous stunts like that is just a small part of their daily duties.
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
If only my work is as important as his is! You can say that Knuth went of the grid to accomplish something extraordinary, but I did it once I've realized that my life is actually mine to live and that the world would not end if I'm not re
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
Can we still save the term "life hacker"? For me, that'd be someone without a cellphone. That would be me. I don't own a cellphone since 2004. I've got tired of being constantly available (and disrupted), so I ditched the damn thing. It m
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
Elon Musk is a legend. ... and an inspiration! I'm done with CRUD-ing my life away. It's time to tackle some hard problems.
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
Falcon 9 is in Orbit! Hell yeah!
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
What exactly is the author's conclusion? To ask more questions? It seams to me that in a post named X-vs-Y you should arrive at some sort of conclusion. Say, X is the way to go or something like that. I'm not a db geek and I'm not pro-NOS
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
As for mutual hatred, many people lost their families in the war, and obviously many Serbs were part of the aggression, so the relationship is no wonder. The hatred dates well before the 1990ies. See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
- if you're in Croatia, Tesla was a Croatian (and a god) Don't be so sure. During the recent war they burned his memorial house and destroyed the monument in front of it. They also demolished his monument in the nearby town of Gospic at t
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
Same here. DISCLAIMER: This reply contains a slightly modified implementation of RFC 1097.
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
I think it's in society's best interests to roll these people up. I have absolutely zero qualms about taking people off the chess board that think it's a great idea for everyone to pile into the van and visit the bomb site. I agree. That'
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
Looking for an idea? Please follow this link: https://twitter.com/#!/search/software%20sucks Listen to what people are complaining about. Can you do something about it?
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
I think that the end users you're referring to are just a minor subset of the end users I had in mind. Let me give you an example of an average end user. This guy calls the customer support (via skype) and complains that he has no internet.
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
No comment on coding style, but you may want to look into this: http://imgur.com/sE7ul Horizontal scrolling - a possible bug? Screen resolution: 1024×768. UA: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
I know not of these "end users" of whom you speak. There is only programming. - Unknown programmer of the future Sometimes, I wonder if we live on the same planet - me I'm not trying to be a dick, but that "quote" at the beginning of th
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
Sure, compared to some other rifles it's not as precise, but I can shoot you in the head from a distance of 150 m - and I'm not exactly Thomas Beckett. There were guys in my ex-platoon who could shoot you in the eye. (Not that I want to sho
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
Although, I'm still with Jeff regarding the importance of coding, I want to thank you for clarifying your position and the order of events . Happy hacking.
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
So, your motive for attack on Jeff is self-interest? edit: an elaboration I'm trying to figure out what exactly Jeff wrote that you hate so much. You don't even consider his arguments, you just have "a guess about Jeff, and a general messag
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
>Where is this resentment thing pulled from? Jeff's post: Please Don't Learn to Code Zed's books: Learn To Code The Hard Way
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
Hypocrisy? Aren't you selling some ebooks and Jeff's post is kinda bad for your business?
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
>That claim is not true for Java, Perl, C, C++, LabTalk, or Tcl. Sure, it's not true for any of them, even Python, but it's meaningful for any language including Java, Perl, C, C++,... It's easy to forget that computing is a huge fi
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
I agree. I was just pointing out that what you said about Python I could say about Ruby or Perl, some other guy about C++, ... For example, I hate significant white space and if I had to use Python I would be miserable, but for you it's the
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
Do you read English? edit: I can't reply to your reply so here it is: My point is that People who write Python choose to write Python. is as true as People who write X choose to write X. My claim is not that "Everybody who writes X choo
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
>People who write Python choose to write Python. People who write X choose to write X. There's virtually no language that can't fit the bill. It may surprise some, but there are people who choose to write Java, Perl, C, and even C++. ed
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
Bloomberg = a hypothetical non-techy boss
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by sasha-dv 14y ago
>There is nothing wrong with Jeff's BASIC example, if that is where the mayor of NYC ends up. Are you sure about it? What if he suddenly starts thinking that he actually knows what goes into building software? I have this horror scene i

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