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laxam
The Chess Community
2022-01-20 13:44
Sudden counterattack
On my ELO (close to 1500) 50% of the win is not missing the opportunities that my opponents offer (other 50% being avoid my own obvious mistakes). This win illustrates it very well - catching white off-guard
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Movies & TV Shows
2022-01-17 16:06
Can we talk about Netflix's The Witcher (Season 2)?
Spoilers incoming, you've been warned. To be honest I'm not exactly sure what to think about the Season 2. I enjoyed the opening episode a lot. Good old adventure, Geralt and Ciri encounter a mystery which
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laxam
The Chess Community
2021-12-19 00:44
Pawn mate
That carnage in the center was definitely not handled properly by white...
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Movies & TV Shows
2021-12-18 00:42
Money Heist (La Casa de Papel) Season 5: Unpredictably great
First of all, whose bright idea was it to translate the name of the show as "Money Heist", Netflix? Original name, which directly translates to "The House of Paper" is vastly more fitting
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The Chess Community
2021-11-30 23:53
Super aggressive game on both sides
I was playing black and was taken aback when white sacrificed his bishop for my pawn at turn 4. While not strictly speaking a bright move, it enabled white to pressure exposed king with relentless attacks.
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Programming & Dev
2021-11-30 00:26
Top 10 programming languages of 2021: which ones you need to know?
Each year GitHub releases an interactive report which, apart from other things, includes a list of most popular programming languages this year. Let's take a look at this year's top 10 and see how we can
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laxam
The Chess Community
2021-11-29 15:16
Going all in to try and make that king move (I was playing black)
Overall white had more than one chance to turn the game around, but one blunder is all it takes...
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laxam
Movies & TV Shows
2021-11-29 14:10
Watching The Office for the first time
Let's be honest, you can't really experience The Office for the first time in 2021. Even if you, like me, have never seen the show back-to-back, you will still recognize the characters and jokes from the
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Movies & TV Shows
2021-11-28 01:27
So I watched Red Notice...
What can I say? Look at this promo material, what do you see? Nothing special? Three famous faces? Both answers are correct, and both describe the movie perfectly. It's not so much a bad movie as it's
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utopian-io
2018-04-20 15:11
Programming in Clojure. Part 4: Reader
What Will I Learn? In this part of the tutorial you will learn: What is Clojure reader and how does it preprocess Clojure code. How Clojure primitive data types differ from those in other languages. How
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utopian-io
2018-04-16 12:57
Programming in Clojure. Part 3: Syntax and REPL
What Will I Learn? In this part of the tutorial you will learn: What are the benefits Clojure's LISP-like syntax How to use REPL to run and debug your code How to develop your own REPL for Clojure Requirements
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utopian-io
2018-04-13 15:28
Programming in Clojure. Part 2: Functional Programming
What Will I Learn? In this part of the tutorial you will learn: What are the benefits of functional programming. How does Clojure incorporate functional programming paradigm into it's design. How to build
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utopian-io
2018-04-11 19:57
Programming in Clojure. Part 1: Why clojure
What Will I Learn? In this part of the tutorial you will learn: Why and when Clojure can be a better tool for the task at hand, compared to other languages. How does Clojure differ from classical languages
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utopian-io
2018-04-10 05:53
Using Akka for writing distributed Scala applications
What will I learn? This tutorial will teach you following topics: how to think in terms of actor model how to build event-driven applications how not to get lost in the world of distributed programming
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utopian-io
2018-03-22 21:07
Dockerizing NodeJS project
Dockerizing nodejs project What Will I Learn? creating Dockerfile for NodeJS application building and running docker image Requirements This tutorials continues my previous tutorial: Setting up complete
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laxam
books
2018-03-20 10:56
My impressions about the book Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
There are few books out there that leave a truly lasting impression on me. Don't get me wrong, there are lots of great books, but most of them are in possession of my attention only as long as I am turning
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utopian-io
2018-03-08 21:26
Setting up complete node.js project for efficient development process
What Will I Learn? In this tutorial I will describe the way I normally organize my nodejs projects for most efficient development process. List of topics we will touch include: installing node.js/npm through
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philosophy
2018-03-06 21:27
Why is it so hard to be rational?
Humans are complicated creatures. We evolved in an environment that is not really match conditions of our modern lives. Evolution had no chance of preparing us for Internet and Cars, Computers and financial
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utopian-io
2018-03-06 00:40
Writing Kafka Streams application
Writing Kafka Streaming application What Will I Learn? Write here briefly the details of what the user is going to learn in a bullet list. Kafka Streams concepts and design ideas Fundamental difference
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utopian-io
2018-03-04 23:39
Apache Spark 2.3: writing simple data processing application with Datasets/DataFrames API
What Will I Learn? Apache Spark is an open-source framework for distributed data processing. It provides relatively simple and easy to use API for efficient distributed computation. You will learn how
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