I can imagine people or companies can use this API to check their own functions in test cases. Example - you have tons of deals and at the end of the day it would be interesting to doublecheck daily P&L. But I believe this business doesn't trust anybody but well-known players or experts. Also the time is essential so they will prefer a local library. And again, the security can prohibit external APIs.
I don't discourage your work though, perhaps it is a step to your personal success, who knows.
Interestingly, we've surrounded our planet by sputniks which were invented as a step to the stars but sometimes they make our interstellar eyesight less sharp.
I grew up in a little republic which is smaller than Tatar Republic and we hadn't problems with the national literature. Of course it wasn't so rich, I've never managed to find Ulysses in that language. I have an impression that when Moscow sent plans like "to rise X new writers and to print out Y new books in the ______ language" , local party members were catching people on the streets to create new republican poets of them.
Not sure why you blame USSR in this topic, as far as I know, it supported regional languages and printed many books, newspapers and magazines in the languages of its republics. I bet that books at that period were much cheaper than they're now.
But if we "stop" this database/schema, make ZFS snapshot (I suggest that the "partition" keeps only this database related files) it may work. It can be useful for testing purposes I guess.
Does anybody use ZFS as replacement for a database backup/restore on a test environment? I'm not sure but it seems that it's possible to use ZFS snapshots in order to quickly restore previous database state.
Note: it's just a question, I'm not advising to try that.
This explains late summer in european part of Russia this year. Another couple of persons like you will freeze us to death. Can you at least ride a bike more frequently? :)
>Immediately escorting fired employees out of the building is an extremely aggressive signal, and I don't know if it gets used much outside of USA.
I saw that in Moscow in 2008 (one big investment bank fired several guys from our team in 20-30 minutes in front of my eyes). It was very unusual. They did now allow a fired person to touch his computer after firing him.
Looks like the algorithm 2.1 has a flaw: after low becomes equal to high , we need to take keys[low] and vals[low] instead of midKey and vals[mid] in last "IF", in other case midKey / mid may remain not actual and the function can return nil.
It was a war, wasn't it? Millions and millions have died, we just can't imagine what was happening at that horrible period. Now it is very easy to say "I would never do THAT!", but who knows.
Yes, a rule of thumb is to remember to look at your hands in a dream. You even may look at them in reality (or "reality") to get a habit. After you look at hands in a dream you remember that you in a dream. Next difficult thing is to be able not to ruin a dream and to try to explore it. I constantly tried to go through walls in my room or to fly - no success :) Also it is possible to keep attention at the period when you're go from reality to a dream. It feels like your body made of a stone and you can't move and then you're in a dream.
On the other hand if you knew that everything is in fact the illusion, why would you need money and girls? And is there an evidence that other people are real, or are they just parts of the illusion?
To write a search engine in the illusion - is there more strange thing? :)
At least his lucid dreams techniques are not that difficult to reproduce. I stopped them many years ago after I had strange experience of waking up for several times in a row. I woke up, went to a next room and, all of a sudden, I realised that it was still a dream. After short panic I woked up again only to repeat the story. And so on, actually I'm not sure if I've really woked up that day or I'm still in that dream and once I'll discover myself opening eyes there again.
Several years ago I took CUDA course on Udacity and I thought how interesting it would be to write the same exercises in Lisp. Now this is possible, great!