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For some reason ex-Sovient Union population still thinks US is out to get them.
I know because I grew up there and still talk to old friends.
Wake up, Cold War ended decades ago and we live in a global economy now. No matter what you see in movies you don't know anything about this country. You need to live here for at least, I would say, 3 years to understand it.
The article is silly.
So oil dropped almost by half since the article was written. I'm all for development of new energy sources, but just because my family's person-car ration is close to 1 doesn't mean the world will end if gas becomes expensive again.
I think I remember reading another article by this author where he somehow implied that Soviet Union's population was better prepared for financial collapse (due to resourcefulness or whatever). Having lived through that mess myself I disagree. That country had screwed up economy and when fit hit the shan everyone was out for himself and the country was pretty much torn apart and sold by pieces down to tools at factories and telephone wire.
Russia was back in stone age until oil prices picked up. Now they seem to be repeating the same mistake, according to the author, where their economy struggling once that very oil is so cheap.
Microsoft Mesh (in P2P mode, without storing data on server)?
Try finding a senior-level engineering position that doesn't require knowledge of B-trees or similar computer science topics.
Quote: DrProject is a web-based project management portal that integrates revision control, issue tracking, mailing lists, a wiki, and other tools that software development teams need to succeed.
DrProject was originally a fork of a popular lightweight open source portal called Trac.
Welcome to capitalism.
Comparing now with something 8 years ago in computer world?
That's like comparing cars with horse buggies and saying cars are less safe because there are more accidents now.
What happened to growth in users, usage, connectivity, profitability of exploits, etc?
That's silly, because the same keyloggers can recognize sequences of 16 digits as a credit card number, particularly since they can be easily checksummed for confirmation.
I love the "please enter your account number exactly as it appears on your statement" prompts which then require you to skip dashes/spaces which DO appear on the statement.
Burn in usability hell..
http://www.rsnapshot.org works so much better.
Looks like they dropped SkypePro, which was the unlimited US+SkypeIn yearly bundle.
I also go for http://etn.fm sometimes.
I find trance great, because it typically has no lyrics, or even if it does then they are very simple so they just become sounds that are part of song itself.
Once in a while though when I'm at some crossroads and need to truly concentrate on something for 3 minutes I just mute everything around me for total silence.
How about #1+2 and absolutely not #3?
That is, if I liked my day job, I wouldn't be looking for ways to fulfill my family finances by doing something else?
Guy Kawasaki: "Too many companies duke it out on the same curve. If they were daisy wheel printer companies, they think innovation means adding Helvetica in 24 points. Instead, they should invent laser printing."
Here's a way I've previously "validated" some of my designs in this area.
Look at Slashcode (http://www.slashcode.com/), the code that powers Slashdot. They have quite a few threading features and they obviously figured out performance issues.