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Alexy 🤍💙🤍

@ChiefScientist

6 years

Modern programming. — 1 hour reading blogs, — 1 hour looking up docs and SO and googling for whether it’s done already, — Writing 3 line’s of code, — Removing two, — Coffee, doubting the 3rd line, — Asking about the 3rd on Twitter, — Arguing about CS foundations and US laws

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TIL that a “data lake” is just an S3 bucket stuffed choke full o’ good ol’ csv files

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Pick all the squares with Finnish snipers.

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6 years

Pro tip: “your profile immediately caught my attention” belies the lack of effort necessary for the profundity of the profile to sink in. “Your profile slowly, but inexorably, came to dominate my waking hours, daydreams, and nightmares” is much better.

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@VCBrags Asked the candidate to go fight for Ukraine — bravery!

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7 years

Breaking: Mueller focuses on startups with great landing pages, no customers, and $100M of funding from abroad.

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2 years

@khiyar_shoor @elonmusk No this is not a free speech approach. They can say what they have to say. Protesters can say their part.

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7 years

If you ever wondered how Hitler was possible in a democracy, observe self-organizing mobs of upstanding Americans on Twitter forming Stalinist collectives craving to punish, ostracize, and disappear people. All the driving forces and flocking dynamics is there to model it all.

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2 years

@McFaul By the same logic, US citizens must be taxed to restore Iraq and Afghanistan? How do you distinguish those who live abroad from those who reside in Russia? Those who travel are usually the least responsible for the regime’s crimes than those who stay. Etc…

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@VCBrags Asked the candidate to sleep with wild animals — extraordinary flexibility!

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@fillpackart Дык они не возьмут

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8 years

Retweet if you remember a.out.

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2 years

Friends -- hundreds of Russian software engineers who are against the war are leaving Russia. Many have left already, often with great difficulties. They begin a new life. Please support them as much as you can. We all need to accept Russian political refugees with open arms.

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4 years

For someone from the USSR, a victory of groupthink, of ideology over reason, the with us or against us mentality, deliberately ignoring opposing facts, dismissing complex reality, forcing everyone in line or else, is dispiriting and recognizable.

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5 years

@McFaul And the Bidens too? Please answer the question.

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1 year

@rvncerr Хоть не хватает за жопу

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5 years

5yo: — What is the opposite of grass? PhD dad: — Rock? Tree? Poop? Space? 5yo: — No. It’s obviously “no grass.”

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1 year

@McFaul How many times had NATO expanded towards Russia vs how many times Russia expanded towards NATO?

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5 months

@McFaul @yulia_navalnaya Michael, persevere, you uphold the great American values as a great guy from Montana. Be a rock like the mountains!

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6 years

“the average programmer no longer has time to manipulate the binary muck, and works instead with hierarchies of abstraction, layers upon layers of code — and often with chains of code borrowed from code libraries. But an elite class of engineers...”

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6 years

The @Cardano_ is in #Haskell , such a beautiful project. I wish them every success to win in the platform space. @EOS_io is gobs of C++, going the way of #bitcoin in terms of maintenance. @IOHK_Charles created such a beautiful thing, I am brought to tears by their github.

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Alexy 🤍💙🤍

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7 years

So, Xoogler/“Facebook alumni” mean they survived a corporate treadmill, just with smarter people. Well-funded and overresourced, they learned from stuff others created. How is this a credential to found a startup? Or being a Stanford grad? So you were near Silicon Valley?

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6 months

@teamnavalny @Dasha_Navalnaya Даша мы с тобой!

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9 months

@varun_mathur @mjburnsy Dude, @ilyasut made his name on something other than raising money, check out his bio?:). He’s forever in history with Hinton.

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@hmemcpy strongly hyped languages

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1 year

100 Java Mistakes and How to Avoid Them 1. Java

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Alexy 🤍💙🤍

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5 years

Startup dudes calling on the young to skip college should be put in the same league as anti-vaxers. A few will succeed, like a few of those dudes, but the bulk will perish, lacking social and scientific skills. Note that not a single woman advocates this.

HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology

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"Dear Young Entrepreneurs: Skip College, Do This" #startups #youngentrepreneurs

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Alexy 🤍💙🤍

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1 year

@allafarce You can gear seated at 10:30pm in Philly. NorCal is a kindergarten.

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@belymbelo Дама с пенисом

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@belymbelo Трое в лодке не считая пениса

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5 years

On a regular Norwegian train there’s a playroom with cartoons and a two-floor structure. My son is horsing around with a bunch of local kids. Why is it not a thing in the US?

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11 months

@McFaul We need to compel Egypt to accept evacuees.

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4 years

I'm super excited to announce that the global @reactivesummit + @ScaleByTheBay 2020 will be produced by @Oli_kitty and her company, @KonfyCare . Oli is a tremendous force in the community, with a proven track record of and . #bythebay

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@belymbelo Пенис и наказание

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@chrisalbon What if their thesis is garbage though?

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9 years

@iosengineer @mxcl Google is carefully noting who starred what.

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Alexy 🤍💙🤍

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4 years

Startup idea: guilt as a service. Call us, tell us what you’ve done, we’ll make you feel like shit.

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Alexy 🤍💙🤍

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2 years

Does anyone use #Scala in production?

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Alexy 🤍💙🤍

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3 years

Follow reset. Over the years, I’ve followed thousands of accounts that do not reciprocate nor engage. I can’t follow more people until I clean these up. It’s not really feasible to review them one by one so I’ll drop all followees *except* those reciprocals who *like* this.

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@McFaul What about same Americans sending those Ukrainians $100B worth of weapons and military training and intelligence support? Is it not telling them what to do?

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5 years

Dr Andre Luckow, head of @BMW #Blockchain , #AI and #NLP innovation team presents the holistic vision of the connected mobility ecosystem for the @Trusted_IoT

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6 years

When a company like Yahoo is going down, engineers go on long walks, circumnavigating office buildings in pairs, bitching and lamenting. This Palo Alto startup uses drones and low-orbit satellite imagery to quantify the “bitching engineer walks” trend to recommend stock actions.

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@TatarinInDuss Кончится тем что подарят акулу.

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@BillAckman Bill: as a @Penn alum, we’re fortunate to have Marc Rowan lead the way. Will you call for the current president to resign, as Marc did, leading to results?

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Alexy 🤍💙🤍

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6 years

Set theory

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From a future startup hiring ad. Our startup -- has no open office plans -- has no silly foods or drinks -- don't have to bring dogs -- VCs don't meddle and actually understand software engineering -- does not force you to use Slack or perform other distracting fake activity

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Alexy 🤍💙🤍

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6 years

Soviet art. “Moscow Googlers coming to work.”

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Alexy 🤍💙🤍

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3 years

Martin Kimani will be the UN General Secretary. Mark my words!

Permanent Mission of Kenya to the UN 🇰🇪 🇺🇳

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Kenya makes strong statement opposing the undermining of the sovereignty & territorial integrity of #Ukraine during the emergency meeting of the #SecurityCouncil at 9pm on 21st February. See full statement delivered below 👇🏿

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It's not a bad idea to hire full-stack execs to clean the bathrooms and man the phones, while engineers code. Execs wait for code anyways.

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It's amazing how much this loggly ad manages to piss me off, considering that I almost entirely agree with the substance.

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5 years

My son had just solved the homework problem yo compute 5^6 by saying “hey Siri how much is 5 times 5 times 5 times 5 times 5 times 5“ and writing down the result. What should I do?

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Alexy 🤍💙🤍

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2 years

As a tiny push to dialogue for peace, I’ve helped my friends @KSHN and @McFaul discuss Russia and US future — and they talked here, in Republic, and now, on April 12, at 10am San Francisco time, Michael will join Oleg’s stream ! Ask your questions here!

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7 years

Three crucial pieces of #AI : -- transparent touch screen with a CEO -- glowing brain with a circuit in it -- metal finger touching human one

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7 months

@fillpackart Нет мы отличаемся. Она соображает что делает, а кот беззащитен. Огромный тигр выбросит ее из поезда.

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5 years

Would it be legal to have an old farts’ startup with (the lower) age limit of 50 to join? No fake enthusiasm, idiotic food, stupid emails, meetings, no VCs younger than the oldest engineer, etc. Better even self-funded and on track to be sold to the buddies of the employees.

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Alexy 🤍💙🤍

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4 years

My portrait of @Oli_kitty , who organized the amazing @scala_love conference we've just experienced, bringin us all together around the world. @sfscala , October 2019, @trueaccord .

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Alexy 🤍💙🤍

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@jeremyphoward I always remember you as a founder. And you are the only guy who went on to popularize and teach data science. We love you so much! ❤️ and the whole community misses you in SF…

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2 years

We are hiring a global Open Source Science Tech Lead. The goal is to work with @NumFOCUS to map all of science to OSS tools used in each discipline, and also advance cross-cutting concerns such as reproducible science, scalable generative methods, apply:

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Alexy 🤍💙🤍

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4 years

So while you lovingly polished your zsh prompt, %username%, other engineers built this.

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6 months

@illuzia_moxito Пирог с хуем — скорбим, негодуем!

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@letopisi_rus Умрют

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5 years

Our @Jaguar iPace with @BoschSI components can enter the @Siemens parking seamlessly using a smart contract with the gate. It is a PoC of the future decentralized mobility infrastructure @Trusted_IoT

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Alexy 🤍💙🤍

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7 years

Did anybody credit @Kasparov63 with brilliant foresight for , well before 2016?

‘Winter Is Coming,’ by Garry Kasparov (Published 2015)

Kasparov makes his case against the Putin presidency and points to the West’s role in his rule.

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@McFaul And what brought them close together? Sanctions.

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6 years

Just read the part of @McFaul book where he hopes to bring @BarackObama for a summit with @KremlinRussia_E , and builds it up with the visits by @JohnBrennan and Mueller. He hopes to shoot hoops with Obama and host him at Spaso House. And then @Snowden ruins his summer and all.

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Alexy 🤍💙🤍

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3 years

10 days after the second shot, my arm looks like this. Anyone else got the same result?

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4 years

Keep a positive mindset, mindqueue, and mindlist

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6 years

Once all the engineers move to the countryside to WFH, all that will be left in the cities will be unicorn visionary founders zipping in their Teslas to meet each other over coffee, to be able to touch each other’s leather iPad cases & admire the workmanship of the matching shoes

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5 years

Year 2100. Engineer: I deployed quantum program on a borg of transformers. Devops: they are running like crazy all around eating furniture. Engineer: worked fine in test. The jar is OK. Devops: they started eating each other, did you test them together. Engineer: hmm. Good one

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6 years

I want a badge on software “made by middle-aged people with kids who’ve been around the block a few dozen times”

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9 months

@eshear Emmett, they might malign you and ridicule you, but you are a cool dude. Cheers to you!

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@ylecun The privacy concerns differ. Apple has a paranoid stance on privacy defying back door requests. It has on-device focus. It owns the device. iMessage works on all iPhones globally.

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4 years

“Email is dead” — Startup. “Startup is dead” — email.

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Alexy 🤍💙🤍

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6 years

Please support @fommil 's excellent work and if you can, pay the suggested price for his book, FP for Mortals. We really should encourage great works like this in the community. Also let's keep asking questions so he never leaves! A Book is a beginning.

Functional Programming for Mortals

Comprehensive and practical introduction to Functional Programming for Scala developers.

leanpub.com

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1 year

@sot_tw @zapolnoch у одного из четырех котов

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Alexy 🤍💙🤍

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7 years

Honored to host @twitter co-founder @biz at @ScaleByTheBay yesterday! With the Legends of Twitter and Beyond: @helenaedelson , @benh , @mccv , @evan , @wm , @marius #scaleSF

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1 year

@StoleYourJet It must be suck!

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4 years

BREAKING: Avoid San Ramon!

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4 months

How DSPy optimizers work — a Q&A part of the talk not recorded by the venue!

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4 years

Our cat was hit and killed by a car. He was three years with us. It's hard to process -- we managed to hide it from the kids and now have to think what to do. Kids loved him. Should we bury him in the woods, or in a pet cemetery? Our yard is very small... What do people do?

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If you are a US resident paying taxes, you funded a $1Trillion Iraq war and got nothing back. If you were in Norway, you'd get free education and healthcare for it.

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@johnlashlee @DavidShuster @BernieSanders I think entrenched mafias are going to lose their jobs, just like Hillary’s did. A huge turnover of influence over budgets, prestige, think tanks, lobbies. They know they cannot buy Bernie and are terribly afraid and are squealing and hissing.

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4 years

Abolish 30 under 30 lists.

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2 years

Next up: Elon buys #Scala for $45B, removes var.

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@selflovefeels У многих так, делаем baby steps, one day at a time.

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@deliprao So the idea is that for the students not to be able to bring even their spouses?

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@McFaul You’re not the only one.

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@Pinboard Pfft. I own , so all JVM packages for co.mpany._ are mine!

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Omar Khattab talking about Demonstrate-Search-Predict framework for LLMs. @matei_zaharia and Ion Stoica in the house! @percyliang @dlwh @ChrisGPotts

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@McFaul The denouement of the Vietnam war was colored by exactly the same arguments. However Kissinger saw beyond them.

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2 years

The correct stream link will be: Tuesday, April 12 10am San Francisco 17:00 London 20:00 Moscow Michael @McFaul Oleg @KSHN The future of 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 Do not miss it!

Oleg Kashin

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@ChiefScientist

2 years

As a tiny push to dialogue for peace, I’ve helped my friends @KSHN and @McFaul discuss Russia and US future — and they talked here, in Republic, and now, on April 12, at 10am San Francisco time, Michael will join Oleg’s stream ! Ask your questions here!

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Only four seats were available in this popular Trieste seafood spot

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Codeless programming is here! You don’t have to see a line or code! Here’s how: 1. Get an English major from Stanford or some such place 2. BS 3. You’re CEO! 4. Hire a Russian CTO, Vlad 5. Raise 6. Vlad hires more Russians to code 7. Send all code shit to Vlad!

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In other news

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The Global Photo Walk London had 200+ people, two parts, fantastic fun! Doing it all again! #500pxGPW15 http://t.co/8XnhgWSJLy

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#RussianHumor -- Have you heard the news from Sweden? -- What is it? -- The new Prime Minister is the former IKEA CEO. -- And what's he doing first? -- Assembling the cabinet.

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Concurrency vs parallelism

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Long time no see my friends, I have been thinking of what kind of video to take for you? What would you prefer? Please let me know! Now I am gonna present you with 4 bottles of beer at same time.

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@TheLexTimes 38: raise a big fund 48: become a McAfee 58: mysterious disappearance

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Why is America so bad at work-life balance? Even "investor" must be a crazy person with hair on fire flying around, instead of a large, Gargantuan rentier of the old Europe sipping espressos on a terrace and rarely checking in with the accountant back in Paris via telegraph...

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