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novel

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About novel

Home page: http://novel.evilcoder.org/ Blog: http://empt1e.blogspot.com/ Twitter: @rbogorodskiy

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    Comment #13703079

    For those who are bored with the "new opportunity" emails from Google and maybe other companies: rather than trolling recruiters with obnoxious responses, you can just ask them to …

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    Comment #11747989

    >> > 20-year-old white guys with no responsibilities and/or with enough income to "buy" more free time > Good old racism and man hate is doing just fine. This is a strange generali…

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    Comment #11747940

    > Everyone knows this is bad for improvement and health, but company owners keep pushing everyone with salary and punishment, along with moral pressure, that only fighting this way…

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    Comment #11648146

    yeah, esp. when he says "too little done"...

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    Comment #11436669

    Mutt is a very nice MUA that I use daily. The only thing that is bugging me is its slowness when working with large mailboxes. Opening an IMAP mailbox with 100.000+ messages takes …

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    Comment #11148020

    Beware, once you learn some of the git useful patterns and features, most likely you'll start feeling very uncomfortable when you have to go back to svn ;)

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    Comment #11141554

    probably because the pool of candidates for positions that imply better wage is much smaller and it's harder to find and recruit a candidate, so such small things like free beer an…

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    Comment #11051569

    Agreed. I follow this topic for quite some time already, but I cannot understand few fundamental things. I understand that indeed people could have "issues" because of their gender…

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    Comment #2085767

    I believe that while LinkedIn is useful and having it won't hurt in any ways, having resume is also necessary. I cannot say a receive lots of work requests, but the usual pattern f…

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    Comment #2084926

    What's terrible with 72 char wrapping? 72 char wrapped text looks almost like an average printed book or pdf for example and reads perfectly well. And people who have really large …

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    Comment #1825744

    Was never much into coffee, so only drink not strong coffee with milk in the morning. During the day I drink pure water and black tea with strawberry of maybe fruits, something lik…

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    Comment #1825716

    I wonder why programmers think so much about keyboards. My speed is about 65-70WPM as typeracer shows. I'm pretty comfortable with that and can reach the speed on almost any more o…

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    Comment #1735681

    I wonder why would one want to put an effort into making people feel like they're most important person in the room? Obviously, there are a lot of interesting people around, why sp…

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    Comment #1708515

    IMHO, there is a difference between 'release' something and 'upload on github'. When you releasing stuff, yeah, it should be briefly documented at least, but when you just upload s…

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    Comment #1708445

    Moreover, you have to be careful when uploading new code, when a new idea strikes into your head and you quickly implement a prototype, probably not in a very clean way and without…

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    Comment #1573864

    I have an impression that FreeBSD are being strongly supplanted by Linux in these days of virtualization. There were times where jails ruled the parties, but now these days are ove…