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So weird to see two Serbian (like me) contractors in all this.


Why? Sadly, Serbs (and other nationalities from the Balkans, but Serbs are a majority,) have a lot of trained and experienced "operatives".

Rember Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo and the '99 bombing? That's a lot of experience gathered in ways more useful than a regular soldier would have. Those wars were full of improvisation, asymetric warfare, lack of logistics and what not. Count in members of paramilitary and covert government agencies, people leaving the country to make a living from crime during the '90s, and a mentality that you don't have too much to lose, and you've got a nice pool of people you can hire for some funky business. Besides, those Serbs are in general good with English, look westerly (Caucasian, not raising suspicion), not overly hindered by religion, cheap...

Don't get me wrong, I'm a Serb, but this isn't anything new.


Not to mention the reputation for been seriously scary bastards (whether lived up to or not I wouldn't know).


I think slightly hyped by popular media. Kinda hard to defend with news like this. Just keep in mind not all Serbs are ruthless and dark, even if they had been impacted by war.

(Comic relief) If you encounter a Serb, don't panic, chances are he/she is not armed with anything other than kindness. "Hotyesh pivo" means "wanna have a beer" :D .


Oh I do, cultural stereotypes can be fun but you can't take them serious.

My partner is Hungarian and her stereotypes of the English where/are hilarious to me :).


Dota 2 player here, they "timed" it well because human players were in the vision. Humans can also do that by precasting a spell.


Sherlock


Story of my life


Seems interesting. But what should I print-out?

Your paragraph or something else?


I am 18. All I want is to become web developer. And to make a living from it. My parents want to me on college next year. I had a job almost all the time since I was 15. Working in PC service, or working with flyers on the street. I get almost no money, but its ok.

My parents are always saying " Look, you earned 0 from your programming carrier, and from PC service you earned at least something. Better start practicing math for your college".

I started learning ruby now, since my future with PHP is not very bright as you can see. I hope I will be able to make a app that will give me at least some cash so I can start believing in my web development carrier.


First of all, it's spelled career not carrier.

PHP vs Ruby is not going to make a big difference. What matters is how you good you are.

Listen to your parents and go to college. If you love working with computers so much, a Computer Science degree will be fun. There's a lot more stuff to learn in CS than merely becoming an expert RubyonRails programmer. Do your web development stuff while you're studying and if you do become the next Zuckerberg, drop out then!


Looks like they cant translate Advanced search and Language tools into Klingon.


There are 2 absolutely bad side effects to this:

- You must be always online, no offline mode at all. /// - Mods are expressly forbidden, no mods at all.


50% ? Awesome. But in my city, 99% of people doesn't even know what is g+. That 1% are geeks and my family members I told about g+.


Very nice! NewsBlur looks way better then Google Reader and I will use it from now on.


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