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mindaugas··on Ask HN:What job roles are suitable for a generalist?
I think I'm in a similar situation and I have a question: how does one switch careers to Lean, ITIL or CMMI without necessary experience under his belt?
mindaugas··on PostgreSQL 9.0 Final Release Available Now
Full release notes http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0
mindaugas··on How CRE made SEOmoz $1 million
I've always wondered why almost all(relatively speaking) affiliate marketers use long pages - Sales pages. Now I know why.
mindaugas··on Russian Pres. Medvedev is looking to build "Silicon Valley" near Moscow
Baltic countries(Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia) is much better place for SV in that region. And forunately they are independent from Russia now.
mindaugas··on The Australian Government has greenlighted compulsory internet filtering
Thank you for taking your time to reply. It was really interesting.
mindaugas··on The Australian Government has greenlighted compulsory internet filtering
If you don't mind, I'll ask. Are you setting up some kind of business in Tallinn?
mindaugas··on The Australian Government has greenlighted compulsory internet filtering
Usually - English is fine, at least in bigger cities.
mindaugas··on The Australian Government has greenlighted compulsory internet filtering
You are moving from Australia to Estonia ...? Really impressive. I kind of considered to do the opposite, though I'm not from Estonia.
mindaugas··on Asterisk vs. FreeSWITCH
I'm kind of looking for interesting/fun/profitable(?) ideas... That is why I submitted this article

Modularity and ability to integrate with almost anything(socket, events, http etc - that's just a guess) simply fascinated me.

mindaugas··on Google releases Closure, the tools behind the JS geniuses
Can anyone compare this Closure package with GWT ?
mindaugas··on Unreal Development Kit Released
Why did you use Oracle in the first place?
mindaugas··on Apple can do better than ZFS
There is HAMMER filesystem by DragonFlyBSD team http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/

just take it and improve it :)

mindaugas··on Ask HN: European Job Sites
I read somewhere that at least 30% of all jobs ads in UK is fake ... I don't know if it's true or not ... How do you tell the difference between fake job ad and real thing?
mindaugas··on Announcing Lamson Advertising Marketing Email Synergy
Personally I think his jokes about Ruby and Rails are getting old and not funny anymore...
mindaugas··on The third largest stock exchange in America is a startup
It's a fine example of B2B startup.
mindaugas··on Number of Internet users by language (pic)
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think majority of Ukraine and Belarus people speak russian only as a second language.

So we then we should count ukrainians and belorussians separately.

mindaugas··on Number of Internet users by language (pic)
Ukraine and Belarus are not Russia :)

EDIT: Usually Eastern and Central Europe are "forgotten" in these surveys and statistics...

mindaugas··on SaveIE6: Help us save the best browser around
"You have been mislead by a vocal minority and are using firefox, which is clearly an inferior web browser to IE6. " <-- Good one :)
mindaugas··on Test your website's loading speed through multiple locations
http://just-ping.com/ seems better
mindaugas··on [dead]
This brings few questions:

Can you really trust your platform(cloud) provider? Is your data save? Will you ever be able to get it back?

mindaugas··on PHP Team Responds to Google's PHP Tips
related and helpful - http://www.phpbench.com/
mindaugas··on Nars2000: An Experimental(open source) APL Interpreter
Honestly I have no idea...
mindaugas··on Nars2000: An Experimental(open source) APL Interpreter
Take a look at famous "J prototype" source inspired by Arthur Whitney.

http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Incunabulum

amuse yourself :)

mindaugas··on Nars2000: An Experimental(open source) APL Interpreter
then there is kdb+ terminal on https://code.kx.com But I admit - restarts are annoying.
mindaugas··on Nars2000: An Experimental(open source) APL Interpreter
I prefer q/k ASCII APL dialect from kx systems[kx.com], it's not open source, but they released kdb+ free personal edition to play with.
mindaugas··on SAP Labs working on Implementing a Ruby VM on SAP
Ruby and ABAP. That is totally crazy Ruby Enterprise Edition :)
mindaugas··on Why Marriages Fail
And I'd like to say just one thing:

Do whatever you want to do - vote up or vote down whatever you want to vote up or down.

Thank you

mindaugas··on Firefox achieves 100% market share in over 14% of continents
checkout russian federation - Opera has largest market share! This is really wierd ...

At least after 2009 01 01

mindaugas··on Ask HN: How do you find a cofounder if you want to start a company
This may help a little:

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/11/03/how-to-meet-your-ne...

mindaugas··on BeOS Lives: Haiku Impresses
I second netbook OS suggestion. They should port Haiku to popular netbooks e.g. acer aspire one, asus eeepc, MSI wind, so that anyone could run it without any problems.

This way there is no hardware hell(at least not that big) and you get usable system for the masses.

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