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todorstoyanov··on The topologist’s world map (2020)
Fascinating how protected by their geography are USA, Canada, Ireland and maybe UK.

The remaining countries have too many neighbors and, accordingly, potential opponents. Look at the Balkans or part of Africa.

I live in Sofia, Bulgaria and it has always seemed silly to me that the reason our city was chosen as the capital was the fact that it is surrounded by mountains on all sides. Now with this war in Ukraine, this idea seems genius to me.

todorstoyanov··on How Cities Will Fossilise
This can be the period the construction engineers are responsible or the worst possible exploitation conditions. My estimate is 200 - 300 years if roof is maintained well and no pipe leaks inside.
todorstoyanov··on The dangerous myth still believed about the Lehman Brothers bust
Why April next year? Do you got some event in mind?
todorstoyanov··on What Happens When a Suburb Begins to Die?
Good relation with a blog post i read recently: https://econimica.blogspot.bg/2017/10/the-tale-of-two-americ...
todorstoyanov··on Valuing time over money is associated with greater happiness
This is exactly my strategy. I'm a developer and I invest my savings. My three kids keeps my away of applying the rest of the strategy right now :)
todorstoyanov··on Valuing time over money is associated with greater happiness
Good point. Can you share some?
todorstoyanov··on Baltic Dry Index Falls Below 500 for First Time
Low oil prices, no need of new eficient ships.
todorstoyanov··on Konrad Zuse: Nearly the German Turing
And what about John Atanasoff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vincent_Atanasoff
todorstoyanov··on How the first PHP functions were named
Yep, I think Rails is easier to learn compared with Zend, which is over-designed for me. I will choose CodeIgniter in the shared hosting world, but in the cloud age haha, you can host almost everything for free - Spring, Rails, Django. So this can change the things, except for "Brochure Web Sites" where WordPress is the king.
todorstoyanov··on How the first PHP functions were named
According to this stats: http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming... PHP has 80% market share and growing. There must be some other advantages over this badly picked function names.

But if we talk about disadvantages, me personally do not like WordPress because of its slowness.