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Why, why, and how I bought an apartment in California?

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the crisis in the real estate market has provided an excellent opportunity to exchange the 42 metre one-room apartment in Kurkino (town near Moscow), 100 meter two-storey apartment with a fireplace, two bathrooms and a bedroom on the shore of the pond with wild ducks and geese, squirrels and hummingbirds, sequoya, an outdoor swimming pool and two tennis courts. All this splendor is located in a private condominium in the beautiful city of San Jose in Northern California. In the city, which is considered the unofficial capital of Silicon valley, where 300 days of sunshine a year. How is this possible you ask? Very simple. In the US there is a real, from the point of view of classical Economics, the market, and therefore, the concept of supply and demand works as written in the textbooks. As a result of the crisis, many are unable to pay their mortgages and lost their homes. Over 3 years real estate crisis in the USA fell by half. Prices fell to 2002 levels. I looked a

A database of lost objects finding by name

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Remember the famous joke that if bill gates will see on the ground $ 100, to his advantage to bend over the piece of paper, because he's in second earns more? This anecdote comes to mind when you look at the database for the neglected values in California. More than 17 million citizens forgot/lost/left values of 6.1 billion dollars. Among the lost — money, securities, cheques, Bank boxes, jewelry and so on. It is clear that some of the owners have died or moved. But some just can't pick up money because spent time will cost more. The site has search form by name, and the names of the owners of lost and forgotten things. Among them are many celebrities. Here some of them : the the Steven Spielberg — checks for $10,000 (George Lucas owes $35,92) the Richard Feynman the income from the liquidation of assets in the amount of $2864,57 (plus another $644,16) the Current Governor Jerry brown and another $2000 (plus something else for $9505,02) th

Is there an alternative to search engines

Remember the first day when connected to the Internet. It was the modem, constantly busy phone line, hourly and confusion – where to go and how to look. Getting on interesting page not read, and then kept it, to then quietly read. Disconnecting the first day of the network realized that there is an optimization problem: how to spend a little money, and information to find a lot? The decision came almost immediately purchased "the Internet Yellow pages" and before access to the network preparing, reading and writing addresses of interesting sites. So. Now it's different. The Internet has long been unlimited, and cheap. But search engines have usurped our right of choice, but we got used to it and meekly submit to this. Search engines think for us, care for us and without any remorse shape our understanding of the structure and the content network. Search engines quietly begin to touch on all the new features. for Example, educational. The students rarely ask the

Migrating data to Windows Azure SQL Database from PostgreSQL

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Hello! / > In this article I will show how easy it is to migrate (transfer data) with PostgreSQL on cloud database Windows Azure SQL Database. Main steps: the create a new database in control panel of Windows Azure the Install the ODBC driver for PostgreSQL the creating a project in SQL Server Data Tool the Importing data Create new database in control panel of Windows Azure To create a new database, open the control panel in Windows Azure ( https://manage.windowsazure.com/ ). Even if you don't have a subscription, you can use the trial period — $200 for one month, that's more than enough for various experiments. Click + New in the lower left and select Data Services > SQL Database > Quick Create . Fill in the required fields — the name of the database, region data center and login/password to access the database: After a moment you should see a message that the database creation was successful: The default is to create

User evaluation of the content of the website

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Let me introduce a small project that nevertheless can be useful. Web metric ( wmetric.com ) allows visitors to rate any article on your website in several ways. Using Web metrics, your website visitor will be able to say more than plus/minus, and he doesn't need to waste time writing a review. Integrates just copied, pasted and working, to install registration is not required. The vote contains 4 parameters that seemed the most common (interesting-boring, useful-useless, reasonable, silly, competent-incompetent). The average values for each parameter are displayed as arrows: positive assessment — arrow-up, negative-down. The longer the arrow the higher the score. In addition, a single synthetic parameter, "percentage of ideal". It is believed he calculates the Euclidean distance from a particular set of values (a vote) to a maximum of "good", "perfect" point, then this distance is divided by the maximum possible distance from this point

Search engines China

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/ > As promised in previous articles , today we will talk about the Chinese search engine market and its main players, as well as a little touch on the characteristics of Chinese SEO. The basis of my research for an investment Fund, as well as experience and opinions of experts in this field. Chinese search engines To begin, consider the major players in this market. The last few years, the market structure is not much changed, we can say that the market is divided between "monopoly" Baidu, which occupies two-thirds of the "pie", and everyone else. By 2013, the situation is as follows: the the Baidu.com (百度) with a share from 65% to 80%, the So.com (360搜索) — 16-17% the Sogou.com (搜狗) — 9-10% the Soso.com (搜搜) is 3-3,5% the Google.cn (谷歌) — 2-3% the Bing.cn (必应) — 0.4-0.5% the Yahoo.cn (中国雅虎) — 0.2-0.4% the Youdao.com (有道) — 0.2% Youdao Small search engine from a major Internet portal NetEase (网易, 163.com). Started a

Replication slots in PostgreSQL

To the ninth version in PostgreSQL to create a warm standby server used WAL archiving. In version 9.0 there is streaming replication with the ability to create "hot" read-only servers. In the next version of PostgreSQL 9.4 will have new functionality to create streaming replication called replication slots. Consider what it is and how it differs from the previous methods. / > To date, the first available candidate releases. As the test stand 2 selected new path under Ubuntu 14.04. The process of assembling and installing the same for primary and backup servers. Set from source by typing the required packages: the sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install g++ make checkinstall libreadline6-dev zlib1g-dev Download and unpack the archive from the repository: the wget https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v9.4rc1/postgresql-9.4rc1.tar.gz tar xzf postgresql-9.4rc1.tar.gz Collect and install the package: the cd postgresql-9.4rc1/ ./configur

A survey about management tools

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What's the system your company uses for project management? Which program are tracking sales and forecasting Finance? Where sistematizarea corporate knowledge base? Leaders are constantly in the choice of those or other tools that help to organize the work within the company. This choice is difficult, and it is a very big responsibility. Are you curious about what decision was accepted by your colleagues and competitors? We are very interested, and we are confident that this information would be helpful in our own search. Therefore, CMS Magazine and Nimax carried out the study. We want to collect an exhaustive list of software products that help to organize work of a company web developer. On Habre regularly there are reviews of various management tools — Bitrix24, BaseCamp, etc. We want to do things a little differently. First together with you'll make a list of the main processes that need to be managed: sales, project management, communication, etc. And the

Digest of interesting materials from the world of MODX #2

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news from world MODX . New additions for MODX, interesting publications and video tutorials. Additions for MODX Evolution the WP Import Module import entries from WordPress. the FormLister — the Snippet for working with forms and users. the Jevix — the Snippet for filtering and typographicunit. the evoAutoFolder Plugin create folder tree by id resource. the Additions for MODX Revolution the MinifyX 1.4.4-pl — Optimize JS and CSS. Library update Munee, etc. the Foundation 6 1.0.0-beta2 Template into Foundation. the virtuNewsletter 2.1.1-pl — System release. the JsonFormBuilder 1.0.28-pl — the Creation of forms that are described in a JSON array or a separate PHP snippet. the CustomRequest 1.2.5-pl — a Plugin to create your own URL for resources and useful information for query parameters. the Videobox 5.0.0-pl — Snippet to output video and audio on the website. Supported sources: YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, etc. the pdoTools 2.5.0 — New

"Toy" cartography or 3D maps with their own hands

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About fifteen years ago on habré post about unique cards, the Chinese search engine Baidu (for those who haven't seen, here it is: http://habrahabr.ru/post/115107/ ). I was amazed at how meticulous, detailed and beautiful these cards are made, so one day we, along with a group of friends, decided to look into the process of creating a Baidu-maps and make your own maps all over the world who would look as cool. Under the cut a lot of pictures, the disclosure of the secret Baidu-like cards that we have. Search for a solution (like the Chinese did?) It is obvious that such things — something entirely new to cartography. They are beautiful, they are interesting, they can be viewed for hours. They are clear, in the end, it's probably easier to find a building where you have an appointment, if on the map you posted detailed copy, not a dull grey rectangle. Similar cards do not only Baidu; here are a few examples offhand: Edushi ( shanghai.edushi.com ), Kerch ( http://go

Map Of The Internet

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Hello everyone! I want to introduce you Map or clustering of more than 350 thousand sites in accordance with the transitions of users between them. The size of the circle is determined by website traffic, color – nationality and position on the map – it links to other sites. If the two sites have a steady flow of users between them, they will "try" to stay closer to each other. After completion of the algorithm, the map can observe clusters of sites (clusters) with common users. For example, if you enter in a search habrahabr.ru you can see that dirty.ru and leprosorium.ru in the same "constellation", and away livejournal.ru. This suggests that those who are reading this text, also with high probability visits these sites (relative to average user of the Russian Internet of course). An even more interesting example of clustering can be seen at the bottom of the card, between the purple and yellow Japan Brazil: there are pornostranka size com

Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)–Part II, summary

the Second and third parts compare storage services Windows Azure and Amazon. Is the last part — comparing of Windows Azure Blob Storage and Google Cloud Storage. In the first part of this article, we started comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), looked at the basic concepts and compared pricing and functionality on containers, blobs, and baskets. to Read the first part . In this section we compare the functionality on blobs and objects, and close comparison of the storage services of both systems, reducing the resulting data into a single table. the First part of a cycle — Comparing of Windows Azure Table Storage and Amazon DynamoDB the Second part of a cycle — Comparing of Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) — part I Abbreviations: Windows Azure Blob Storage WABS and Amazon Simple Storage Service AS3 . the Concept Before detailed discussion of the functions I consider important to clarif