...at hobbyist, hippie projects like Geronimo, that dare to offer "competition" to his product, even to the point of passing all the relevant certifications?
For those curious as to what has become to these time-honored papers, below are their post-Soviet stories. Pravda remained faithful to the Communist Party, in spite of being purchased by some foreign magnate; the new owner alienated most of the journalist team who went and created an interned-only tabloid, Pravda.ru. Both fell into relative obscurity. Izvestia belonged to Potanin, an oligarch, for a long time, while maintaining a fair and balanced attitude. Recently the paper has been purchased by Gazprom Media, a subsidiary of the state-owned natural gas monopoly which serves Putin's clique all too well.
Should this case not receive the honest critic of its validity that it should get, I can see Russian courts becoming basically ignored on the world scale.
Didn't this already happen after the Khodorkovsky case, if not earlier?
Money such countris prefer to spend on more profitable industries (let's face it, it may be very good for your public image to have your own plane builder but those countries would rather have more IT companies and the like).
Russia does warrants debts for the Russian Regional Jet program. It's perhaps the only chance for the Russians to get back to the passenger jet market. Other projects are obsolete and/or mismanaged.
The soundtrack is worth listening alone. Not every track I found superb, but most of them are on par with Supermodified and Out From Out Where, if not better.
I suspect the album notes about the author's work with live musicians are a joke. Some of the persons mentioned there he might have sampled off records, and others seem totally made up.
I wrote arguably the best,:) but I'm profoundly unaware of any other school/faculty in Moscow that's at least halfway dedicated to graduating programmers and as good as VMK at that. Something at Bauman, maybe (worked with a guy from there, but he's rather lame). It might be just my ignorance, as the supply must have been keeping up with demand. Gals were nice, that's correct. I'm married to one:)
Yes, I'm serious about the shortage of good programmers. Unfortunately, our schools rarely go beyond coding, algorithms and system/network knowledge, paying little attention to teamwork, project management, coding style and other human aspects of software engineering. Hence the endless stream of code monkeys and lone wolves/primadonnas, depending on how good one has absorbed the fundamental side. Few easily gather missing practical skills, and even fewer get organized into consistent teams (hey, maybe the Mafia gets them?;)).
It may still be bad, but it grows by 6+ percent a year.
As the other posters pointed out, the major problem in Russia right now is overcoming corruption and permeating you-die-today-I-die-tomorrow attitudes.
Russia has top notch schools cranking out top notch programmers, and no jobs for them. At all. A frightening level of Russia's wealth is concentrated in the Mafia
That's interesting. Look, I'm a graduate of arguably the best university here in Russia, CS dept (I leave judging my worth as a programmer to others). I had a job before I graduated, and I had no problems finding a new job since then. I met my classmates at a reunion party recently, and everyone seemed well-to-do, working a nice clean job home or abroad; I've heard no stories of anyone turning to the dark side. There is actually a shortage of good software engineers here. Inferior schools and small/remote cities may be another story, as indicated by the bust of those two students who were lured in US by FBI. I believe most of those gangs' members are script kiddies with incomplete to none formal programming education.
As for the much-dreaded Russian Mafia, I can't confirm or deny its wealth or influence, because I, just as you I believe, only read about it and never met it face to face.
This sounds like a made up story. So, they were seeing the sea for the first time? They must be some poor people from Siberia, because there are many seas around Russia, and anyone can travel to one. That might explain the absurd punishment for bad result, as well as the guy's willingness to submit, that feels unusual for Russia just as well.
It's worse when you're NOT granted a visa. We Russians are treated as potential defectors by immigration officials at the embassy; the default is to refuse entry. This was the case with me a year ago when we planned a business trip for my company, and the US government has my fingerprints now, even though I've never had a chance to visit the US! Coincidentally, I go for a second attempt in just a few hours today. To be honest, all this fuss makes me lose interest in visiting or having any business around US. If they refuse me for the second time, I won't regret much.
I feel the same way with their ubiquitous cabbage soup... Have you even tried it? Shchi is best flavored with smetana (sour cream). Still better when it's made of sauerkraut. Ah well...
I wonder if he is able to comprehend the difference between chess (a pure zero-sum game) and politics (a twisted maze of generally non-zero-sum games). The zero-sum mentality seems to possess many here in Russia.
People have commented on OS X's "gumdrop" window controls, which look cute and friendly, but few seem to notice they're arranged like a traffic light, which is intuitive for most people.
I can't beat the feeling there's some contradiction in that.
Why bother with all the bulk of an existing general class with way too many methods, etc.,
The "bulkiness" penalty of the general class for your purposes (taking the points below in consideration) is something that should be backed with some research. Specifically, plugging in a DSO that implements everything and a kitchen sink is not a penalty if you're using a small part of it, since it comes from a memory mapped file.
when you can make a simple, clean implementation that can be written, tested for all corner cases, works exactly as you want it to, and has no extra fat or cholesterol?
This approach has one little disadvantage: you have to actually spend resources to write the code, test corner cases, etc.
Fewer lines == fewer bugs to creep in.
Again, you don't have to write and debug these lines if you are reusing code that's been in wide usage for years.
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...at hobbyist, hippie projects like Geronimo, that dare to offer "competition" to his product, even to the point of passing all the relevant certifications?
For those curious as to what has become to these time-honored papers, below are their post-Soviet stories.
Pravda remained faithful to the Communist Party, in spite of being purchased by some foreign magnate; the new owner alienated most of the journalist team who went and created an interned-only tabloid, Pravda.ru. Both fell into relative obscurity.
Izvestia belonged to Potanin, an oligarch, for a long time, while maintaining a fair and balanced attitude. Recently the paper has been purchased by Gazprom Media, a subsidiary of the state-owned natural gas monopoly which serves Putin's clique all too well.
Should this case not receive the honest critic of its validity that it should get, I can see Russian courts becoming basically ignored on the world scale.
Didn't this already happen after the Khodorkovsky case, if not earlier?
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A large-scale fire at an oil field? The Mouth of Hell?
Google did?.. Ahh, I see :)
Yes, in fact Moscow is officially 857 years old and counting. And it shows on the satellite pics.
Moscow is about two years old. Construction of the Third Ring road was nearly complete, except for a segment near my office (hi!)
First, number of lives lost is not a good indicator of reliability, due to, ahem, shortage of the statistic base.
Second, several horrible disasters at launch pads puts the Russian number rather high.
sure beats Britney these days in the infamous celebrity scale.
Money such countris prefer to spend on more profitable industries (let's face it, it may be very good for your public image to have your own plane builder but those countries would rather have more IT companies and the like).
Russia does warrants debts for the Russian Regional Jet program. It's perhaps the only chance for the Russians to get back to the passenger jet market. Other projects are obsolete and/or mismanaged.
The country I'd guess might make it to a supportable, non-militaristic, non-dictatorship, Socialist style state first would be India...
What happened to those Scandinavian countries?
The soundtrack is worth listening alone. Not every track I found superb, but most of them are on par with Supermodified and Out From Out Where, if not better.
I suspect the album notes about the author's work with live musicians are a joke. Some of the persons mentioned there he might have sampled off records, and others seem totally made up.
Hi, zemlyak :)
:) but I'm profoundly unaware of any other school/faculty in Moscow that's at least halfway dedicated to graduating programmers and as good as VMK at that. Something at Bauman, maybe (worked with a guy from there, but he's rather lame). It might be just my ignorance, as the supply must have been keeping up with demand. Gals were nice, that's correct. I'm married to one :)
;)).
I wrote arguably the best,
Yes, I'm serious about the shortage of good programmers. Unfortunately, our schools rarely go beyond coding, algorithms and system/network knowledge, paying little attention to teamwork, project management, coding style and other human aspects of software engineering. Hence the endless stream of code monkeys and lone wolves/primadonnas, depending on how good one has absorbed the fundamental side. Few easily gather missing practical skills, and even fewer get organized into consistent teams (hey, maybe the Mafia gets them?
Hope this helps. Best wishes!
It may still be bad, but it grows by 6+ percent a year.
As the other posters pointed out, the major problem in Russia right now is overcoming corruption and permeating you-die-today-I-die-tomorrow attitudes.
Russia has top notch schools cranking out top notch programmers, and no jobs for them. At all. A frightening level of Russia's wealth is concentrated in the Mafia
That's interesting. Look, I'm a graduate of arguably the best university here in Russia, CS dept (I leave judging my worth as a programmer to others). I had a job before I graduated, and I had no problems finding a new job since then. I met my classmates at a reunion party recently, and everyone seemed well-to-do, working a nice clean job home or abroad; I've heard no stories of anyone turning to the dark side. There is actually a shortage of good software engineers here. Inferior schools and small/remote cities may be another story, as indicated by the bust of those two students who were lured in US by FBI. I believe most of those gangs' members are script kiddies with incomplete to none formal programming education.
As for the much-dreaded Russian Mafia, I can't confirm or deny its wealth or influence, because I, just as you I believe, only read about it and never met it face to face.
This sounds like a made up story. So, they were seeing the sea for the first time? They must be some poor people from Siberia, because there are many seas around Russia, and anyone can travel to one. That might explain the absurd punishment for bad result, as well as the guy's willingness to submit, that feels unusual for Russia just as well.
It's worse when you're NOT granted a visa. We Russians are treated as potential defectors by immigration officials at the embassy; the default is to refuse entry. This was the case with me a year ago when we planned a business trip for my company, and the US government has my fingerprints now, even though I've never had a chance to visit the US!
Coincidentally, I go for a second attempt in just a few hours today. To be honest, all this fuss makes me lose interest in visiting or having any business around US. If they refuse me for the second time, I won't regret much.
I feel the same way with their ubiquitous cabbage soup...
Have you even tried it? Shchi is best flavored with smetana (sour cream). Still better when it's made of sauerkraut. Ah well...
Thank you. I was kidding, that's right, but I wasn't aware that a 'su' Wikipedia actually exists.
YOU get involuntarily settled into the Soviet Union Wikipedia.
I wonder if he is able to comprehend the difference between chess (a pure zero-sum game) and politics (a twisted maze of generally non-zero-sum games). The zero-sum mentality seems to possess many here in Russia.
Please read up on pipes and sockets to see why the former cannot be used in the client-server scenario.
C is a sharp knife
But then... C# is still sharper?
He wore my shirt!
People have commented on OS X's "gumdrop" window controls, which look cute and friendly, but few seem to notice they're arranged like a traffic light, which is intuitive for most people.
I can't beat the feeling there's some contradiction in that.
Why bother with all the bulk of an existing general class with way too many methods, etc.,
The "bulkiness" penalty of the general class for your purposes (taking the points below in consideration) is something that should be backed with some research. Specifically, plugging in a DSO that implements everything and a kitchen sink is not a penalty if you're using a small part of it, since it comes from a memory mapped file.
when you can make a simple, clean implementation that can be written, tested for all corner cases, works exactly as you want it to, and has no extra fat or cholesterol?
This approach has one little disadvantage: you have to actually spend resources to write the code, test corner cases, etc.
Fewer lines == fewer bugs to creep in.
Again, you don't have to write and debug these lines if you are reusing code that's been in wide usage for years.