Speedflying in Wengen 2010

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Tonight i'm going to speak about Feedback

What is it? Did you ever think about it?  Just response. Yes/No?

Feedback consists of a positive, negative, or neutral rating, along with a short comment.

Bullshit! If you Say "Hello", you expect to get "Hello!" in answer, otherwise it means nothing. In this "Hello" you recognize everything - love, hate, amazing, respect. Without back-Hallo it's total flow and crash.

Did Susan Boyle from little group of villages in Britain expected to get triple YES feedback on "Britain's got talent"? Definitely no.  She expected to understand who is she. Pure talent or..  not one. Just a response. feedback.

Everyone have there right to get there feedback.

If you hold application or cover letter on ya desktop provide the feedbeck. This will make someone one step closer to his dream.

New fun feature from MCP club

Silverlight 4. I going to try it

Questions every developer should know answers (not 42!!!)

Riddles

• Why is a manhole cover round?
• How many cars are there in the USA? (A popular variant is "How many gas
  stations are there in the USA?")
• How many manhole covers are there in the USA?
• You've got someone working for you for seven days and a gold bar to pay them.
  The gold bar is segmented into seven connected pieces. You must give them a
  piece of gold at the end of every day. If you are only allowed to make two
  breaks in the gold bar, how do you pay your worker?
• One train leaves Los Angeles at 15mph heading for New York. Another train
  leaves from New York at 20mph heading for Los Angeles on the same track. If a
  bird, flying at 25mph, leaves from Los Angeles at the same time as the train
  and flies back and forth between the two trains until they collide, how far
  will the bird have traveled?
• Imagine a disk spinning like a record player turn table. Half of the disk is
  black and the other is white. Assume you have an unlimited number of color
  sensors. How many sensors would you have to place around the disk to determine
  the direction the disk is spinning? Where would they be placed?
• Imagine an analog clock set to 12 o'clock. Note that the hour and minute hands
  overlap. How many times each day do both the hour and minute hands overlap? How
  would you determine the exact times of the day that this occurs?
• You have two jars, 50 red marbles and 50 blue marbles. A jar will be picked at
  random, and then a marble will be picked from the jar. Placing all of
  the marbles in the jars, how can you maximize the chances of a red marble being
  picked? What are the exact odds of getting a red marble using your scheme?
• Pairs of primes separated by a single number are called prime pairs. Examples
  are 17 and 19. Prove that the number between a prime pair is always divisible
  by 6 (assuming both numbers in the pair are greater than 6). Now prove that
  there are no 'prime triples.'
• There is a room with a door (closed) and three light bulbs. Outside the room
  there are three switches, connected to the bulbs. You may manipulate the
  switches as you wish, but once you open the door you can't change them.
  Identify each switch with its bulb.
• Suppose you had 8 billiard balls, and one of them was slightly heavier, but the
  only way to tell was by putting it on a scale against another. What's the
  fewest number of times you'd have to use the scale to find the heavier ball?
• Imagine you are standing in front of a mirror, facing it. Raise your left hand.
  Raise your right hand. Look at your reflection. When you raise your left hand
  your reflection raises what appears to be his right hand. But when you tilt
  your head up, your reflection does too, and does not appear to tilt his/her
  head down. Why is it that the mirror appears to reverse left and right, but not
  up and down?
• You have 4 jars of pills. Each pill is a certain weight, except for
  contaminated pills contained in one jar, where each pill is weight + 1. How
  could you tell which jar had the contaminated pills in just one measurement?
• The SF Chronicle has a word game where all the letters are scrambled up and you
  have to figure out what the word is. Imagine that a scrambled word is 5
  characters long:
1. How many possible solutions are there?
2. What if we know which 5 letters are being used?
3. Develop an algorithm to solve the word.
• There are 4 women who want to cross a bridge. They all begin on the same side.
  You have 17 minutes to get all of them across to the other side. It is night.
  There is one flashlight. A maximum of two people can cross at one time. Any
  party who crosses, either 1 or 2 people, must have the flashlight with them.
  The flashlight must be walked back and forth, it cannot be thrown, etc. Each
  woman walks at a different speed. A pair must walk together at the rate of the
  slower woman's pace.

Woman 1: 1 minute to cross

Woman 2: 2 minutes to cross

Woman 3: 5 minutes to cross

Woman 4: 10 minutes to cross

For example if Woman 1 and Woman 4 walk across first, 10 minutes have elapsed
when they get to the other side of the bridge. If Woman 4 then returns with the
flashlight, a total of 20 minutes have passed and you have failed the mission.
What is the order required to get all women across in 17 minutes? Now, what's
the other way?

• If you had an infinite supply of water and a 5 quart and 3 quart pail, how would you measure exactly 4 quarts?
• You have a bucket of jelly beans. Some are red, some are blue, and some green.
• With your eyes closed, pick out 2 of a like color. How many do you have to grab to be sure you have 2 of the same?
• If you have two buckets, one with red paint and the other with blue paint, and you take one cup from the blue bucket and poor it into the red bucket. Then you take one cup from the red bucket and poor it into the blue bucket. Which bucket has the highest ratio between red and blue? Prove it mathematically.

Algorithms

• What's the difference between a linked list and an array?
• Implement a linked list. Why did you pick the method you did?
• Implement an algorithm to sort a linked list. Why did you pick the method you
  did? Now do it in O(n) time.
• Describe advantages and disadvantages of the various stock sorting algorithms.
• Implement an algorithm to reverse a linked list. Now do it without recursion.
• Implement an algorithm to insert a node into a circular linked list without
  traversing it.
• Implement an algorithm to sort an array. Why did you pick the method you did?
• Implement an algorithm to do wild card string matching.
• Implement strstr() (or some other string library function).
• Reverse a string. Optimize for speed. Optimize for space.
• Reverse the words in a sentence, i.e. "My name is Chris" becomes
  "Chris is name My." Optimize for speed. Optimize for space.
• Find a substring. Optimize for speed. Optimize for space.
• Compare two strings using O(n) time with constant space.
• Suppose you have an array of 1001 integers. The integers are in random order,
  but you know each of the integers is between 1 and 1000 (inclusive). In
  addition, each number appears only once in the array, except for one number,
  which occurs twice. Assume that you can access each element of the array only
  once. Describe an algorithm to find the repeated number. If you used auxiliary
  storage in your algorithm, can you find an algorithm that does not require it?
• Count the number of set bits in a number. Now optimize for speed. Now optimize
  for size.
• Multiple by 8 without using multiplication or addition. Now do the same with 7.
• Add numbers in base n (not any of the popular ones like 10, 16, 8 or 2
  -- I hear that Charles Simonyi, the inventor of Hungarian Notation, favors -2
  when asking this question).
• Write routines to read and write a bounded buffer.
• Write routines to manage a heap using an existing array.
• Implement an algorithm to take an array and return one with only unique
  elements in it.
• Implement an algorithm that takes two strings as input, and returns the
  intersection of the two, with each letter represented at most once. Now speed
  it up. Now test it.
• Implement an algorithm to print out all files below a given root node.
• Given that you are receiving samples from an instrument at a constant rate, and
  you have constant storage space, how would you design a storage algorithm that
  would allow me to get a representative readout of data, no matter when I looked
  at it? In other words, representative of the behavior of the system to date.
• How would you find a cycle in a linked list?
• Give me an algorithm to shuffle a deck of cards, given that the cards are
  stored in an array of ints.
• The following asm block performs a common math function, what is it?
  cwd xor ax, dx
  sub ax, dx
• Imagine this scenario:

I/O completion ports are communictaions ports which take handles to files,
sockets, or any other I/O. When a Read or Write is submitted to them, they
cache the data (if necessary), and attempt to take the request to completion.
Upon error or completion, they call a user-supplied function to let the users
application know that that particular request has completed. They work
asynchronously, and can process an unlimited number of simultaneous requests.

Design the implementation and thread models for I/O completion ports. Remember
to take into account multi-processor machines.

• Write a function that takes in a string parameter and checks to see whether or not it is an integer, and if it is then return the integer value.
• Write a function to print all of the permutations of a string.
• Implement malloc.
• Write a function to print the Fibonacci numbers.
• Write a function to copy two strings, A and B. The last few bytes of string A overlap the first few bytes of string B. How would you write qsort?
• How would you print out the data in a binary tree, level by level, starting at the top?

Applications

• How can computer technology be integrated in an elevator system for a hundred
  story office building? How do you optimize for availability? How would
  variation of traffic over a typical work week or floor or time of day affect
  this?
• How would you implement copy-protection on a control which can be embedded in a
  document and duplicated readily via the Internet?
• Define a user interface for indenting selected text in a Word document.
  Consider selections ranging from a single sentence up through selections of
  several pages. Consider selections not currently visible or only partially
  visible. What are the states of the new UI controls? How will the user know
  what the controls are for and when to use them?
• How would you redesign an ATM?
• Suppose we wanted to run a microwave oven from the computer. What kind of
  software would you write to do this?
• What is the difference between an Ethernet Address and an IP address?
• How would you design a coffee-machine for an automobile.
• If you could add any feature to Microsoft Word, what would it be?
• How would you go about building a keyboard for 1-handed users?
• How would you build an alarm clock for deaf people?

Thinkers

• How are M&Ms made?
• If you had a clock with lots of moving mechanical parts, you took it apart
  piece by piece without keeping track of the method of how it was disassembled,
  then you put it back together and discovered that 3 important parts were not
  included; how would you go about reassembling the clock?
• If you had to learn a new computer language, how would you go about doing it?
• You have been assigned to design Bill Gates bathroom. Naturally, cost is not a
  consideration. You may not speak to Bill.
• What was the hardest question asked of you so far today?
• If MS told you we were willing to invest $5 million in a start up of your
  choice, what business would you start? Why?
• If you could gather all of the computer manufacturers in the world together
  into one room and then tell them one thing that they would be compelled to do,
  what would it be?
• Explain a scenario for testing a salt shaker.
• If you are going to receive an award in 5 years, what is it for and who is the
  audience?
• How would you explain how to use Microsoft Excel to your grandma?
• Why is it that when you turn on the hot water in any hotel, for example, the
  hot water comes pouring out almost instantaneously?
• Why do you want to work at Microsoft?
• Suppose you go home, enter your house/apartment, hit the light switch, and
  nothing happens - no light floods the room. What exactly, in order, are the
  steps you would take in determining what the problem was?
• Interviewer hands you a black pen and says nothing but "This pen
  is red."

WP7

Guys from Windows Phone 7 team present there mobile phone

Look!

Song about Bobby-boy who loved money

iPad.. i don't think so

Everyone can watch Steve J. iPad presentation here.

Unfortunality i couldn't share it it in my blog..

i couldn't watch it in brouser and i have o download quck time player to do this..

So this presentation looks like a thing made for itself.. unfriendly stuff 4 windows user.

The same about product.. its unbelivable thing for amarican but not for russian as i am.

nobady couldn't take a look to the 3D photo of Troitsky avenue.. but if you are in NY or LA here you are: rodeo drive in your hand.

besides it is not best stuff for business.. iPad business applications are reaLy poor and couldn't satisfy anyone who use not only web and e-mail for business as opposed to MS Office.

And i not sure in typing on screen. its better to write on the screen with stylus for me.

I realy appreciate S. Jobbs and his products value for computer science at common but don't agree that they are nomber one on the Earth becouse they don't give me a chance to fill iPad with my ideas.

Design of iPad is absolutely refined

but it is a strong feeling that i already saw it in iPhone.

Big iPhone without communication features isn't it?

Resume: iPad is not for us

But its not bad:) using MS VS2010 we can made our own apps like iPad but more powerful and friendly for our russian strong conditions, why don't we?

thanks for reading

Watch this to know what we'll live with next 2 years!

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incomparable

as usual

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42

.. remember

Answer to the Ultimate quastion of Life, Universe and everything

and please stay in touch with your towel.

Great movie.

Watch it 2 times: for the first time in russian and for the second time in english with movie director comments to relize 99% tricks hidden in the Guide

MCP club member:

what will happens if i'll instal file serever on Windows Server 2008 R2
that already contains 4 VM?
in license terms

Microsoft representer:

You wil be... Bad, Bad, Bad

MCP Club meeting, Arkhangelsk 10.28.2009

amazed

"Microsoft© doesn't implement commercial activity
on the territory of Russian Federation. Nearest profit organization is situated in Dublin, Ireland."

Vitaly Ozhigov, Microsoft

Calandar sustitute

6 days sharp i was exploring image viewer in Win 7.

Chaotically pressing menu items i realise that i ordered this picture in 75x100 cm.

Today i bring this stuff from the post and certain of best quality.

Great! I get substitute for "ens" calendar 2007 on my wall. Now huge frame for this picture wanted

For mellow mood

Brodsky "Cristmas romance"

....

Плывет в глазах холодный вечер,

дрожат снежинки на вагоне,

морозный ветер,

бледный ветер

обтянет красные ладони,

и льется мед огней вечерних

и пахнет сладкою халвою,

ночной пирог несет сочельник

над головою.

Твой Новый год по темно-синей

волне средь моря городского

плывет в тоске необьяснимой,

как будто жизнь начнется снова,

как будто будет свет и слава,

удачный день и вдоволь хлеба,

как будто жизнь качнется вправо,

качнувшись влево.

Look

Office Casual: How to make a business card in 90 seconds

Phrase of the day

They should complete definite work this thing to appear in Gazprom.

Hey there!
Let me present my first movie “Zmeyuka”
Guest star Elisaveta Samoilova, please welcome!

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Platforma 2010 is coming soon! :)

Hey!

This evening i recive letter from the MS partners program. They asked our company to become conference sponsors. I'm not sure about sponsorship but would be very exciting to visit that forum.

http://msplatforma.ru/

I'm back

Hey!
7 days i'm on my site :)
Vacations is over and i got to work.
It's quite pity to see colleagues who just starts there holidays. But my traditional summer trip were amazing and its no reasons to cast down.

I found out that scooter is funnoest way to travel at the country side. i'm not sure about car, but it realy increases your accessible area in compresion with cycle.

By returning home i recognize i fogot all my plans for selfeducation. Its absolutely necessary to try to pass TOEFL in september. englishtips.org gonna be my home page for next month.

Besides my BI systems investigation should be keep on.
Soon:)

Top 10 of most shoking things of 26.06.2009

1. Bolts from Vipro are lost!!!

2. From Arkhangelsk to Saint-Petersburg? For 5 000 rubles? on plain? Quite real. Cheked.

3. Nowdays Space Rockets are about 15 meters long.... guys bring an evidence. (coming soon in my blog)

4. Susliks in Kazakhstan are everywhere.

5. Hangry suslik in spring managed to nibble a cable under voltage.

6. River Amudarya stil exists!!

7. Tommorow i'll take my last english lesson in our group..

8. Constitution right for a rest isn't garanted in our company.

9. Google is mean and stingy.. they didnt approve my AdSense account..
couse of Language!!!! can you belive it?.. violation of low and order...
If Smbode teated me so badly they couldn't count on my appreciate.

10. суслик

Переведено c русского на английский:
м. suslik , ground squirrel, spermophile

Just watch this video and enjoy Blink-182 piano cover version
Its absolutly

fabulous!

Blink-182

"Down"

The drops of rain they fall all over
This awkward silence makes me crazy
The glow inside burns light upon her
I'll try to kiss you if you let me

Tidal waves they rip right through me
Tears from eyes worn cold and sad
Pick me up now, I need you so bad

Your vows of silence fall all over
The look in your eyes makes me crazy
I feel the darkness break upon her
I'll take you over if you let me

Tidal waves they rip right through me
Tears from eyes worn cold and sad
Pick me up now, I need you so bad.

Lunatic!!!

Its a kind of tv-hypnose...

yesteday i watch british tv-show about lunatics. scintists and doctors heal one guy and make presenter a lunatic.
All usual things can make you lunatic: spicy food, energy drincs, coffee, stress on your work. Everithing take influence on your dreams. I was realy impressed

And tonigh my girlfriend told me i was speaking and loughing at about 2 am. I spoke about our new communication device, and arguing with "Mikla" - our componys electronics felow.

That's what i am talking about... Its only one step from tv program to reality.
I should stop watching "psychics battle " on wensday. :)

funny
i found out that most of our russian MVP don't create there own presentations and use http://msdev.com web seminars as the basis.
pity shame.

so what is our MVP's obligation?
just observetin of foreign blogs and promotion sites and translating?

When will we see engeneering creative work of our country reps?

D.S.

Hello world!

Hello world! and
Hello world 2! Thats usual start to discover something new.
You don't need to be tough specialist to create 2 simple programs.
i'm starting something strange for me and hope it woud be helpful and interesting.
At least to my english :)