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In the beginning of my career I was a Java/J2EE developer (3 years), but later I learned some SOA and EAI technologies and became consultant in telecom industry. However, I feel li…

Their choice of name is unfortunate. In Poland "Kotlin" is a brand name of ketchup :) http://www.agrosnova.pl/files/biuro_prasowe/komunikaty_praso...

Problem with financial sector began when US Treasury dropped gold standard as basis for dollar. Since then FED has unrestricted ability to create "money" from the void. This leads …

It does, considering the fact that families usually have more members than just parents and children.

Capitalism did end in 1913, when FED was founded. What we have today has nothing in common with it

May be a lame question but why are Rails versions 4.2.3 and 4.1.12 co-existing? Project lead couldn't decide on numbering scheme?

No, it is an evolutionary strategy embedded in our genes: to deliver a baby woman is needed for at least 9 months, and man is needed for about 10-15 minutes (assuming it is just "q…

I'm lucky I don't have a Facebook account anymore :)

This article reminded me a quote by the commissioner of the United States Patent Office in 19th century. He said: "Everything that can be invented has been invented." and then quit…

Is this study controled for age? Testosterone decreases with age, and the very definition of Long Term Relationship assumes that men in LTR are older than singles :)

Wouldn't that make two "evils" to eventualy converge, so that difference between bigger evil and lesser evil becomes insignificant?

It has nothing to do with intelligence, it is just all about being realist. Existence of different races comes from the fact that there are genetic differences between people. It w…

I am always amazed how scientists lack logical thinking ability. They tend to jump into most riddiculous conclusions drawn from the facts that can be easily explained by simpler, m…

maybe easier, but much less fun...

I never got the hype about saving endangered species. I am for ecology when it comes to contamination - clean water, air, soil are really invaluable. But when it comes to saving sp…

This gets posted to HN every couple of months... Can we, maybe create somethink like HN "Hall of Fame", where we will store all-time best submissions? just to avoid resubmitting it…

"If it's not allowed — we shouldn't assume it's allowed" - that sounds like definition of totalitarianism to me. Every freedom-loving country in existence follows exactly opposite …

Economic 101 course for you. In your original comment you said: > By definition, profit is extracting more than the 'worth' of something. You are terribly wrong, because, by defini…

There is one thing I always wanted to know about things like LHC: they are supposed to detect the smallest particles known to a mankind, using detectors that are billions times lar…

"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied."

Casuality is exactly reverse here: people are not healthy because they drink, but they drink because they are healthy (and, of course, because they like alcohol). Once your health …

Hi, I am a developer, who just moved from full-time employment to freelancing, so I would like to create my personal website. Unfortunately my technical profile was always backend …

There is an objective basis to morality without God, proposed by Immanuel Kant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative

> My alternative to being exploited by the greedy capitalists is revolution, but for that to work, a bunch of my fellow oppressed have to agree. And that's exactly what happened in…

Probably not, as current Thunderbolt port is too slow to transmit enough data to drive 5k monitor.