Crosspost from NördFace blog

I was watching a YouTube video about why poor countries stay poor. The main reason, it said, is that the smartest people leave for other nations. This happens because of three things: safety, corruption, and the environment. For example, many are leaving India simply because of the poor air quality.

In our homeland (Kyrgyzstan), safety and corruption are massive issues. And in the winter, our air quality is terrible.

But this problem creates a different kind of opportunity…

Reverse Brain Drain

Take China, for example: many who left years ago eventually returned, bringing back the global knowledge they gained to skyrocket their country’s economy. We are seeing a similar trend in Poland right now.

Crosspost from NördFace blog

No experience? No job. No job? No experience.

Whether someone hires us or not is often out of our control. But whether we gain experience or not? That is entirely in our hands.

Even when you don’t have a "job," you should keep bringing your ideas to life, researching new things, and never stop learning.

Crosspost from NördFace blog

The development of any country depends on its education.

But this isn’t just because of systems or institutions; it’s because of people’s attitudes. In one country, it’s about doing the bare minimum just to get through the lesson and collect a paycheck. In another, teachers carry out their work with genuine passion and dedication.

In the end, that attitude affects everything.

Crosspost from NördFace blog

When am I finally going to get Getting Things Done... "done"?

I have this habit of starting one book, leaving it unfinished, starting another, jumping to a third, and just letting the "stack" grow.

P.S. If I just keep posting to this channel without promoting it anywhere, will people actually find their way here on their own?

I think it won't be bad to have some page with list of my accepted pull requests.

1. Correct association validation https://github.com/jo/puret/pull/12;
2. Bug with selector in PulltoRefresh iOS library, https://github.com/leah/PullToRefresh/pull/21.
3. First commit to rails https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/7513.
4. Cucumber API steps https://github.com/jayzes/cucumber-api-steps/pull/12 (21 Nov, 2012).
5. Paperclip-azure https://github.com/supportify/paperclip-azure/pull/6.

This article is about a trick on subcut DI framework.

There is no example of using injects in objects(singleton in scala).

I used this way:

Let's assume that we have some element with id = "scrollElement" and overflow: auto (or scroll).
And we have to test scrolling in capybara and some headless browser with javascript (poltergeist and phantomjs in my case).

I did it this way:

I released two applications for local-country use so far:
Currency rates of our national bank and news application.

Programing iOS devices is very funny.
I had very little experience of C programing and knew how memory, cpu, compilers work from university and this knowledge helped a lot.
There is a long way before I can say that I'm experienced in this field but I released more or less stable product and I'm very glad of it.

Now I'm reading Kochan's "Programing Objective-C" book. Strong familiarity with ObjC will help me improve a level of my apps.

After upgrading to Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 I wanted to install pdnsd from homebrew.
When I run "brew install pdnsd" (or any homebrew formula), I got "checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables".

To solve this problem you need to:

1. Install XCode from app store.
2. Install Command Line Tools in XCode Prefenences -> Downloads.