Experience is a big deal!

To gain dancing experience, I went to the "Luxor" night club the last Saturday. I knew no one, and no one knew me there. Nevertheless, (almost) every experienced girl I was dancing with determined that I'm learning in the Salsa club. Moreover, one of them guessed my teacher's name. I was very astonished, how they all could know that! It appeared that every school has its own features and habits in leading, and my partners knew and distinguished them.

Training in Koncha-Zaspa

Yesterday, my friends and I were training in Koncha-Zaspa, a well-known reserve near Kyiv. Having returned, upset Eugene, which ran into a drunk hunter, told us: 'Evidently, the word "заказник" (reserve) hasn't come from the old slavic "заказ" that means "prohibition", but from the new slavic "заказ", which means "order"!'

The way to the freedom

When you find the richness, you loose the conscience. When you find a woman, you loose the reason. When you find the truth, you loose the faith. And only when you loose everything, you find the freedom.

Octal numbers

I always wondered who were using octal numbers at all? It appeared, that dentists do! — Here, look at your 37-th tooth! — But, I've always thought that I had only 32. — So we number them by sections...

The sign in underground

It doesn't matter how many times you fall, but how many times you get up.

About surzhyk

I've discovered for myself, which kind of surzhyk rapes my ears. It was so evident that I don't understand why I haven't remarked it yet. The formula is very simple: the product of the disgust to the simplicity (use rate) of the word is a constant. That is, they are reverse proportional. For example, I can stand if I hear: `Коли закінчиться ця бєсконєчна історія?' But something like: `Єслі ти будєш дома, подзвони подрузі', `Вибирай: я ілі пиво.' shocks me. To be honest, I have a weak suspicion, that this rule has its own exceptions.

The right way

I heard a very interesting thought by Tanya Yuryeva yesterday. She said: `If you want to know if an experienced girl let you dance with her, don't ask how long she's been dancing before, but just say her that you're a tee-pot, and you've been dancing for only two months. Then ask if she wants to try with you.' The sentence can easily be generalized for any other relation.

Developing the `Universal machine'

Hi! I've tried to solve very interesting task from the icfp. They propose to implement an interpreter of the byte-code for the specified `universal machine'. Well, I thought, such a program is a very easy to solve in C++, and what if I try to do it in Haskell? Said is done. But the result doesn't promise as much as I expected. First, the code is simple and clean indeed. Second, it works indeed. When I ran the benchmark by it, only simple tests passed, the other consumed too much memory. I wonder if there's a person who could help me out to tune the program...

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