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Czech Republic is just a registration place. JetBrains is based in St Petersburg, Russia. Until recently all the developers were in St Petersburg, then some people moved to Germany…

You've inspired me to publish my own version of 2048 for PalmOS, that I've written several weeks ago. It is also in Scheme. https://github.com/naa/2048-palm

I support your opinion, but have to mention that pre-Bush US was not any better. US was starting unnecessary wars for more than 200 years now, nothing has changed. Note though, tha…

Definitely try Emacs. Preview LaTeX is nice, Rope is also here. Also I find it easier to set the system to do all text editing in Emacs than in Vim. I mean that one can use Emacs t…

Have you ever tried to write math/physics paper using MS Word? It is completely broken comparing to LaTeX+decent text editor (vim, emacs, kyle, whatever). Writing equations in Word…

Exactly the same thing is happening in Russia. They started with "child porn" and "suicide propaganda", then added anime, politics and copyright enforcement.

Alcohol advertisement is banned for decades =)

I used iRedMail to setup department mail server and it just worked. I had no problems with configuration: IMAP, SSL, SMTP - everything works out of the box. Spam protection is also…

You know, there was that 'labor movement' and typical working hours decreased in 200 years from 16 hours a day, 7 days a week to 8 hours a day, 5 days a week + vacations. It is a g…

> Where would the money come from to give someone a retirement at 50? Well, it looks completely different if we take out the money from this situation. Consider this: we have big u…

Tests are a disaster for math education: http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf The very essense of math is killed by tests (true for history/literature/physics etc as well)…

We already have model for future journals: http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/ SIGMA is just an overlay over arXiv with added peer review. Also it has non-zero impact factor.

This popular phrase often strikes me as untrue. For example, at the end of WWI number of religious soldiers in Russian army reduced drastically. Church in Russia collapsed after Fi…

Well, carriers' policy regarding apps in US held mobile market back for years comparing with Europe. For example, here in Russia once there was enormous number of free and paid J2M…

Well, carriers' policy regarding apps in US held mobile market back for years comparing with Europe. For example, here in Russia once there was enormous number of free and paid J2M…

All these economic points can be applied to public transportatipon (i.e. trams, trolleys, subway). They also have much higher utilisation of equipment and number of drivers is negl…

Also this approach breaks keyboard navigation and accessibility. It is almost as bad as Flash.

With DOS emulator. There is no problem to run DOS app from 80s on Linux/MacOS/whatever with dosbox. By the way, dosbox is far better for some apps than DOS emulator from Windows XP…

Theoretical/mathematical physics: Not Even Wrong http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/ The reference frame http://motls.blogspot.com/ (not only physics, but also climate ch…

iTunes?

Well, I can say that they've copied older version of facebook and it seems more convenient for some people. Also do not forget audio and video sharing applications. It is like Naps…