drops

I didn't stop learning to code per se, but I did drop it 3 or 4 times over the course of a few years because the results were far too abstract to appreciate, or to even understand why do I code at all.

Maybe I'm too much of a visual person, but unless I see why does a certain peace of code exists - or should exist - I can't really begin to analyze and perceive it properly. I still can't grasp the backend of the websites, for example.

On the other hand, I easily grasped how CSS works as well as video game code in GameMaker because you can actually see and experience what you make.

Depends on the field and type of work.

If you work from home then sure, the location doesn't matter much. But for more traditional occupations (pretty much anything other than creative work or location-independent business), big cities are better because they offer more opportunities and often higher paying jobs.

qBittorrent client has an in-built search engine

There is a word "ikigai", which is a Japanese concept meaning "a reason for being". Pic related: http://i.imgur.com/k6UCbN0.png

Ideally, your work should fall in the center. If only it was so easy though

My thoughts exactly.

>Why did the NYtimes publish this garbage ?

Probably because the rest of the staff shares the author's personal resentment for Thiel, which isn't surprising considering their liberal bias.

Is there a possibility of someone actually making a stable, long-term KAT mirror / follow-up without getting busted like the original one?

Tribes Ascend wasn't that bad during its early beta stages, though. I think that was late 2011 / early 2012. It went downhill with the consecutive patches following the game's release in April 2012.

I looked up the hacker's full name in russian - Maxim Igorevich Popov - and found a ukrainian news article dated as back as 2001, the year when this all started. So technically the Wired's article wasn't the first public mention of the incident, but the first big and full story.

Here's the old article itself: http://fakty.ua/96374-grazhdaninu-ukrainy-kotorogo-fbr-obvin... It's in Russian and has some interesting stuff, like details from Popov's mom and dad (!), and it mostly covers the events that led to Popov's imprisonment. The article is quite long, but some stuff like Popov's background and stuff that's missing from Wired's article

>Popov studied English and German languages in Kyiv National Linguistic University

>He was already married by the time the shit went down

>His parents didn't know he was a proficient hacker, they thought he was just a regular user

Their notes with "uh, this is such a mess, should've just hired THIS company instead" with a link to their own homepage is a pretty big giveaway too. I just hope it was done in a joking tone because unironically referring to themselves in a third person is as cringe-worthy as it gets.

I want to get off this ride.

As someone who lives in a russian-speaking country, I must note that the russian keyboard layout is a nightmare. It's already been written about (http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/105/) but I only realized how bad the situation is when I learned how to touch type.