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Maxim Khailo

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Firestr v0.1

I have published the first version of my new project Firestr (pronounced Fire Star) It is a simple platform for distributed communication and computation. Imagine a P2P chat program where instead of sending messages of text, sound, or video, you send software, that runs immediately and automatically connected. In a

It May Be Too Crazy to Think About

It may be too crazy to think about. The buzzing electrons stream through the mechanics of a flat-landers universe. They cobble your shoes and mystically appear invisible. But they are there. There certainly is a physical manifestation of software running on that hot iron. Software exists through time, and it

Strange Things are Afoot at the Circle-K

First of all, could we talk about an industry as a person? I am really starting to worry about Mr Software. Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K. There are many smart people making software today. We got some geniuses don’t we? We make beaucoup bucks writing scribblies all

Theory of Relative Dependency and TDD

Refactoring is great right? I mean, it is something we do all the time. If you do TDD, you do it all the time, its part of the process. But is it such a good thing? What do we tend to do when we refactor and why in the world

Using C++ STL Algorithms without Lambdas is an Advantage

A common complaint about C++ is that there are no lambdas (this will be fixed in C++0x), and most claim this makes STL algorithms like for_each, transform, accumulate almost useless because you have to create functions or functors somewhere else. Not having lambdas is a GOOD thing. Although

Prostitution

Is there something wrong with our field when prostitution is more enjoyable than programming? Or is prostitution that enjoyable?

This is what it is

Basic blurbs about my ideas on software and the greater world.