Russia's core problem with "freedom" and "democracy" was that they were Russians. What about those people who came to the marsh, even though they knew the present turn of events was more than likely? They aren't Russians?
You mean a few thousand people in 150m country? Where like 80% of folks would vote for Putin if he was running for the office again?
I would call them anomaly.
Unfortunately Russians never had anything reassembling democracy and I doubt this is going to change anytime soon. I would love to be proven wrong, though. The Orange Revolution in the Ukraine had shown us that it's not impossible in a post-soviet state. Tell what you want about the outcome of it, but people are no longer afraid to protest on the streets.
As for the grandparent post, I'm for one very happy that US wanted to fight commies. As are most of people in Central and Eastern Europe, I guess...
Yum is 1000x better than just plain RPM, and I have no idea why it is slow. Maybe it has something to do with the repository structure, but at least it works. Maybe cleaning up the RPM code will allow Yum to work faster.
I don't really think so.
I've been using poldek for a past few years, and recently also on FC5. It's 10 times faster than yum to begin with (and it of course uses rpm-lib, so I don't think the ``speed'' of yum is rpm's fault and any rewrite is going to help with that). It also has this really cool interactive mode (shell-like), with package name completion.
It's a pity the package indexes supplied by Fedora don't contain file names, so you cannot search for a specific file you need. OTOH I can understand that if they did, yum would be even slower.
I live in Poland. I know personally some people from the Top Coder list.
I even took part in the regional ACM contest some time ago (without much
success, like 30th place in Central Europe).
I guess most of the Polish contenders in Top Coder were students. Which
means they are under 25, which in turn means they were in high school
in late 90s and hardware wasn't a big issue here back then. OK, I was
programming Atari 800 when I was 7 years old, but I guess it doesn't
change much;-)
My experience in such contests was that it wasn't at all about 2x speedup,
so converting from C to assembly doesn't buy you anything. You need the
right algorithm, you need to implement it fast and make no mistakes.
I guess there are several things that need to be done to win such
a contest. You need a high profile algorithm classes (read: a lot of
math). You need to be bright. You need some luck. But the most
important thing is: you need a lot of training. Warsaw University have
special classes that prepare students for such contests. Wroclaw
University also does, but on slightly smaller scale. We have a national
programming contest for high schools. Winners mostly (I guess 80% of them)
go to Warsaw. This all can be seen in Top Coder results.
I guess this was also about the,,we need to beat the Russia'' thing.
And some people from Wroclaw joined Top Coder because,,we need to match Warsaw''... So there is something about the high
profile competition tradition in Central and Eastern Europe.
It is not the case, where people who are doing great in such contest are
unemployed, and have nothing to do except to start in Top Coder. You can
get relatively high paying job as a programmer in Poland, especially
given much lower costs of living here, than in US or Western Europe.
This is all despite the high unemployment in other areas. It takes a
week or so to find a job as a programmer in Wroclaw. There are lots of
R&D divisions of big foreign and Polish companies here. So they really
need not impress US employees to get H1B.
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I would mod you up, if I had mod points...
But how did you get a flat in Warsaw for $200? From my experience, they are 3x more expensive in Wroclaw, let alone Warsaw. Anyway, lucky you :)
You mean a few thousand people in 150m country? Where like 80% of folks would vote for Putin if he was running for the office again?
I would call them anomaly.
Unfortunately Russians never had anything reassembling democracy and I doubt this is going to change anytime soon. I would love to be proven wrong, though. The Orange Revolution in the Ukraine had shown us that it's not impossible in a post-soviet state. Tell what you want about the outcome of it, but people are no longer afraid to protest on the streets.
As for the grandparent post, I'm for one very happy that US wanted to fight commies. As are most of people in Central and Eastern Europe, I guess...
I don't really think so.
I've been using poldek for a past few years, and recently also on FC5. It's 10 times faster than yum to begin with (and it of course uses rpm-lib, so I don't think the ``speed'' of yum is rpm's fault and any rewrite is going to help with that). It also has this really cool interactive mode (shell-like), with package name completion.
It's a pity the package indexes supplied by Fedora don't contain file names, so you cannot search for a specific file you need. OTOH I can understand that if they did, yum would be even slower.
-- Michal
I guess most of the Polish contenders in Top Coder were students. Which means they are under 25, which in turn means they were in high school in late 90s and hardware wasn't a big issue here back then. OK, I was programming Atari 800 when I was 7 years old, but I guess it doesn't change much ;-)
My experience in such contests was that it wasn't at all about 2x speedup, so converting from C to assembly doesn't buy you anything. You need the right algorithm, you need to implement it fast and make no mistakes.
I guess there are several things that need to be done to win such a contest. You need a high profile algorithm classes (read: a lot of math). You need to be bright. You need some luck. But the most important thing is: you need a lot of training. Warsaw University have special classes that prepare students for such contests. Wroclaw University also does, but on slightly smaller scale. We have a national programming contest for high schools. Winners mostly (I guess 80% of them) go to Warsaw. This all can be seen in Top Coder results.
I guess this was also about the ,,we need to beat the Russia'' thing.
And some people from Wroclaw joined Top Coder because ,,we need to match Warsaw''... So there is something about the high
profile competition tradition in Central and Eastern Europe.
It is not the case, where people who are doing great in such contest are unemployed, and have nothing to do except to start in Top Coder. You can get relatively high paying job as a programmer in Poland, especially given much lower costs of living here, than in US or Western Europe. This is all despite the high unemployment in other areas. It takes a week or so to find a job as a programmer in Wroclaw. There are lots of R&D divisions of big foreign and Polish companies here. So they really need not impress US employees to get H1B.
And no, we don't have polar bears on the streets.
How did fall of USSR cause ,,lots of pain around''? I guess most people in Eastern Europe would disagree...
No, no! They apologized for Brian Adams.