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Both developments are being overseen by Jim Keller: http://news.softpedia.com/news/K7-K8-Inventor-Back-at-AMD-Pr...

The actual points range when rating wines/spirits is only 20 or 30, depending on who does it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirits_ratings

Does not make it any less ridiculous.

Ukraine is acting in its (perceived) interests, and Russia -- in its own. Where is the problem?

The thing is, there is a handful of superpowers in the world, which dictate the geopolitical motions. A smaller country bordering a superpower can be friends with it, be strictly neutral (see Finland) or be friends with opposing superpowers (see Ukraine). The last scenario means you are asking for all sorts of shit to happen to you. It's not "good", but that's how things are.

shrug History is written by the winners, and the USSR lost the Cold War. All of these will be swept away.

BTW, there are more USSR achievements:

5) First spacewalk

6) First woman in space

Dogs do not pass the mirror test, which, hypothetically, indicates they have no concept of "self" - thus they cannot think about themselves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test - there is a discussion about dogs specifically, noting that vision is not their primary sense, so the mirror test may have less value.

Hungary and Czech Republic invaded USSR as part of Hitler's coalition. They had it coming.

DISCLAIMER: I myself never read any of his books.

Rezun's books are not a reliable historical source. Back when they first appeared, there were huge discussions and dissections on Russian military/history forums about his inaccuracies and weird theories (e.g. "offensive" strategic bomber vs a "defensive" one). He can provide interesting leads to base your own research on, though.

Also, this particular book seems to be poorly translated, because some passages don't make sense at all (I don't believe Rezun himself is that incompetent). Example:

"The design of this Soviet tank was taken as a basis for the `Panzer' and shortly afterwards for the `Tiger-König'. "

"Panzer" simply means "Armor" in German. What he wants to say here is "Panther", a German tank which many feel was heavily inspired by T-34.

The Soviet army during the Winter War was very, very different from its 1945 version, both in terms of organization/training/experience and equipment. Winter War was somewhat of a wake-up call in fact.

Another interesting thing I read about Buran is that apparently (some of?) its computers were ternary, not binary. Unfortunately, I cannot find any English mentions of that, and a quick search in Russian did not produce anything reputable, so take it FWIW.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun - Soviet ternary computer.

That depends on the company. In terms of reputation/respect, I earned most of it when my boss was on vacation and I had to make decisions and take responsibility. Didn't benefit me in that particular case, since our company was bought by a bigger one and they started calling the shots, and then I left that job. So I suppose I should upvote you :)

Shadowing may get you the same experience, but it will not make you The Person Who Solves Problems in the eyes of others and thus won't help your promotion. Which was the author's point.

U mad bro?

On a related note, Google Image search for "baby skull teeth" is quite interesting.

Wish you had an Android version :/

Kudos anyway, great idea and looks like a great execution as well!

The hour. Minutes are usually unimportant for day to day life, as long as I am in the right hour. This is not true of month-day though. I imagine most people would be caring more about day than month. The day is both more important and harder to remember, so it makes sense for it to come first.

I can hardly think of a situation where a centigrade is not granular enough. The example GP gives with the air conditioner is IMHO a huge stretch - a 1 deg Celsius difference is pretty negligible. Disclaimer: Fahrenheit is the most annoying and nonsensical of imperial measurement scales to me, so I am biased against it.

When you are asked what date it is, do you think hardest about the month or the day? For most people it's the day, so it makes sense for it to come first.

All of these are using TN panels. TN's bad viewing angles in a 28" size must be a sight to behold.

The difference between 16:10 and 16:9 (HDTV proportions) screens is appreciable though, the former is better for dev work.

Although I cannot imagine doing any work on a laptop without external monitor and ergo KB/mouse, so I'm too fussy I guess.

Internal reporting for example. Perl is often used as a "glue" between different systems.

I think the majority of such claims are misunderstandings of "generates downforce equal to its own weight" which is most certainly not enough to drive upside down.

The only case of a manufacturer actually wanting to perform a test was Gumpert with Apollo, according to Top Gear UK (take it FWIW).

Upvoted for "strategery" :)

Which is unnatural when you think about it, showing teeth is interpreted by most animals as a sign of aggression.

I remember reading that if you smile at strange kids (or dogs), don't show your teeth, they'll get scared or agitated. Similarly, if you are e.g. greeting a small child, squat so that you are eye level with them - kids (and dogs) hate when somebody huge is hanging over them.

Create a monthly budget out of the guaranteed 2 paychecks a month, and consider the other 2 mini-bonuses?

Very interesting, thanks.

The fact that they monitor 1-min deviations from prescribed time really seems outlandish to me. Makes me view my chill startup job (45-55 hours a week) in a new light.

Could you elaborate a bit? I know the Japanese generally work long hours, and would love to hear an eyewitness' account of how things are done there and how you were dealing with the status quo (i.e. what you told your bosses, did you experience peer pressure).

This is really fascinating, thanks for the post. I also have to add that you were a bit lucky to run into Joe. In my first job (big investment bank) there was too much politics and the only people I could trust (and who somewhat mentored me) were not only from different teams, but the managers of our managers were also different people.

We know politicians always keep their promises :)

Perhaps I am. Given the prevalence of males in our industry, maybe every "she" just sticks out more than it should.

In this particular scenario, it's strange because the probability of it is so low. Maybe you are surrounded by lady hackers who are fond of military tech (tell me where you work, I'll apply), but statistically they are such a rare breed that using "she" in this case just looks like trying too hard. "Hey look at me, I am not a brogrammer, I said 'she'!". JMO.