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I remember a guy sitting at the next desk to me spending a whole week trying to figure out why his Direct3D code crashes. He was blaming buggy ATI drivers. He figured it out when e…

This is not a unique feature of Japanese. You can do exactly the same in Russian using a dash (which translates to a short pause in speech): "я — гамбургер" (I — hamburger). In gen…

Это удивительно.

1920x1200 does not equal high dpi. Think 1920x1200 on a 10" display. If your app runs on a high DPI screen, and the OS and your app has no support for this, all fonts and UI elemen…

They could give you a sufficiently long random salt and ask you to calculate the hash of the salt and block contents. This scheme seems to be secure.

I found this rather amusing comment on a Russian dental forum a while ago. Sorry for possible mistranslation, I am neither a dentist nor a native English speaker. ---- I spent some…

If you don't want to pay upfront for your TV or laptop, you just use a credit card. And what is even more important here, if you can pay upfront for your TV or laptop, you don't ha…

And in a few months they will all be replaced with goatse...

I have bound 'pushd -1' to PgUp. function directory_up { pushd -1 zle reset-prompt } zle -N directory-up directory_up bindkey "\e[5~" directory-up Ditto for "pushd +0" and PgDn.

It will be worse. This stuff can't be contained with simple tools like Flashblock. Unless you want to block all Javascript by default, which will probably break 99% websites in the…

One of the most important factors in popularity of a foreign work in Russia is a good translation which does not try to be too literal. Muraviev and Kistyakovsky did a great job wi…

It is not only about feeling personally cheated, it is about observing such a glaring inefficiency of the economy. Sennheiser expended a lot of effort to create a perfectly good pr…

2000/XP was always extremely aggressive about allocating memory for cache. It would very often swap stuff out to increase available cache, which made the apps you did not use for j…

Their Firefox plugin has already been blocked: https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/blocklist/

"Those North Koreans who have never crossed the border have no way to make sense of their tribulations" Just today someone on some Russian blog wrote about typical North Korean per…

I would not agree with you, and I think you can't compare programming and math in this regard. The "beliefs" they are talking about are rather trivial: strictly formal abstract log…

Sure, this is quite obvious though I did not understand how they could balance out the increase, so I did not even mention this option. The point about prostitutes was just a thoug…

They're arguing for "increased sexual activity by conservatives" which obviously means they're arguing for increase in total number of sexual encounters over the entire population.…

Yandex has been #1 in Russian speaking segment of the internet for the last 10 years or so. I use it almost every day. It looks like this expansion into English speaking market is …

A reddit/HN-like voting system is inherently unstable, as some users just skim over top stories and upvote them, creating a positive feedback loop. If you have few submissions, thi…

I never said it is useless as an indicator of future income. I said it might be useless as an indicator of one's knowledge and skills, and knowledge and skills are what education i…

So-called "academic success" is based on a series of formal tests and rituals, just like IQ is. These tests could be useless as a metric of your knowledge, skills or abilities, jus…