Indeed, there are a lot of programmers in Russia.
For example, Google has R&D offices both in Moscow and St.Petersburg. It is a popular business model when US or Europe -based companies outsource all the programming work in Russia (JetBrains (IntelliJ IDEA) was already mentioned, they have HQ in Prague and RnD in SPb). Yes, there is also India, but I claim that in average Indian programmers are less professional. The most Russian programmers studied also a lot of math at universities.
Actually, there's lot of official professional holidays in Russia:
http://www.art-proekt.ru/kalendarj-prazdnikov/professionaljnye-prazdniki.html (Sorry, it's in Russian)
Teacher day - Oct 5
Medical worker day - Jun 19
Social worker day - Jun 8
Mathematician day - Apr 1 (I was wondered too, though I am by any means a mathematician)
Day of Russian science - Feb 8
Firemen service day - Apr 30
Int. music day - Oct 1
Many of them are really widely celebrated. There are often specialized shows on TV. Also we presented flowers to our teachers at teacher's day when I used to go to school etc.
Sure, now we consider Turing father of the great industry. But in 40s nobody knew that electronic machines would gain such a big importance. The state didn't know about "the scientific/technological progress offered by such a man"
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Indeed, there are a lot of programmers in Russia. For example, Google has R&D offices both in Moscow and St.Petersburg. It is a popular business model when US or Europe -based companies outsource all the programming work in Russia (JetBrains (IntelliJ IDEA) was already mentioned, they have HQ in Prague and RnD in SPb). Yes, there is also India, but I claim that in average Indian programmers are less professional. The most Russian programmers studied also a lot of math at universities.
Actually, there's lot of official professional holidays in Russia: http://www.art-proekt.ru/kalendarj-prazdnikov/professionaljnye-prazdniki.html (Sorry, it's in Russian) Teacher day - Oct 5 Medical worker day - Jun 19 Social worker day - Jun 8 Mathematician day - Apr 1 (I was wondered too, though I am by any means a mathematician) Day of Russian science - Feb 8 Firemen service day - Apr 30 Int. music day - Oct 1 Many of them are really widely celebrated. There are often specialized shows on TV. Also we presented flowers to our teachers at teacher's day when I used to go to school etc.
This is strange: take female hormones to a gay. It should probably take the opposite effect, though I'm not a specialist.
Sure, now we consider Turing father of the great industry. But in 40s nobody knew that electronic machines would gain such a big importance. The state didn't know about "the scientific/technological progress offered by such a man"
Is that law used in practice?
Was Turing really castrated? I didn't know. Do you have any sources of that information?