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Meeting famous people

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Right after I've decided to start traveling outside of Ukraine I began to meet very famous and relatively famous people. Everything begins when I was getting my foreign passport back in Ukraine. He ended up playing 35 games for Ukranian national football team scoring 7 goals. Walking with 2 bodyguards. He wasn't popular figure in Ukraine at the time, but we still ended up talking to him and making some photos. Who had injury at the time and was back to the country and was hanging out with his friends.

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Payments API for the collaborative consumption apps

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Payments API for the collaborative consumption apps. We were looking recently for good solution to process payments for our new app communi.st. More on that soon). Currently there are several really good companies (both in US and Europe markets) that may solve that problem for most apps (especially SaaS):. But we had few very specific requirements:. Solution should be ideal for marketplaces. It should work in Europe. If you are trying to build online marketplace there are basically two types of customers:.

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Traveling and diversity

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One of the best part of traveling for me were meeting people from different cultures, ethnicities, backgrounds, professions. In this post through my various hosts in the past 3 years I'll try to reflect on diversity of people and lives. Famous journalist from Sarajevo. In Sarajevo we stayed in the apartment rented to us by the famous local radio journalist. He was in the city during the Siege of Sarajevo. Irish couple in Rio. Brazilian designer from São Paulo. Family from Mexico City. In Tegucigalpa with...

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Is history harmful?

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I love history, it’s fun, it’s interesting, it has a lot of "answers" to a lot of questions. You can pick any today's problem, find something similar in history and propose solution or explanation or even predict the future. History is a powerful tool. But it is also a dangerous tool (especially in the hands of people that try to use it for manipulation). There are at least several problems with it. Maybe it is because everyone studies history in school. One of the best education systems in the world.

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Innovations in clothing

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I felt for some time now that nothing new is happening in the fashion/clothing industry. We still wear conceptually same clothes as people decades ago. The quality usually is not good for mass market brands. Most of the companies are focused on consumption these days. Probably few brands care about quality, design, innovation, ecology, sustainability, health of consumers. Not many companies are using technology to succeed. Amazing communication with customers, attention to details in everything from clot...

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Places to hangout with hackers around the world

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Places to hangout with hackers around the world. Everytime I visit new city I want to know places where all hackers/startupers/bright minds hangout. That is why I decided to create (and update over time) the list of places I personally visited over years. This list includes coworking spaces, cafes etc. Mountain View, USA. In the heart of Silicon Valley Red Rock. Cafe is the place to go. Most visitors there will be people talking about technologies, startups. You will meet hacker, investors there. Jun 23,...

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Make static web site with Clojure and host it on Amazon S3 and CloudFront

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Make static web site with Clojure and host it on Amazon S3 and CloudFront. We decided to host our own site. And open source corner. Sites on Amazon S3. I'll not go into details about reasoning for that but rather try to explain technology used. There are a lot of articles on the Internet how to make you custom blog using Jekyll. And host it on Amazon 1. Our approach was very similar to one described in these articles but instead of Jekyll we used custom Clojure code. How to do that. How to configure Clou...

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Install PostreSQL 9.2 on Ubuntu 13.04

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Install PostreSQL 9.2 on Ubuntu 13.04. It's super easy to install default version of PosgtreSQL on Ubuntu. Usually it is just:. However if you need to install version that became available after Ubuntu release than it is a little bit more complicated. E.x. PostgreSQL 9.2 was released after Ubuntu 13.04 version. Read about this in official documentation. Also check this StackOverflow discussion. Sudo apt-get install libpq-dev libpq5. I tried this on DigitalOcean. Aug 31, 2013. Sep 16, 2013.

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Upstart configuration for Clojure apps

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Upstart configuration for Clojure apps. If you are deploying any app to production you want to run it as Linux daemon. In Ubuntu you can use Upstart. As tool that will restart you app automatically in case of crash. To use Upstart you need to create configuration file for your app inside the /etc/init directory. Pick up any good name for your app (e.x. 'mywebapp') and create file /etc/init/mywebapp.conf. Let's assume that you have source code for your app in the following directory:. And stop it using.