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gii2··on Ask HN: Why does the Ruble still hold 50% of its value?
You signed up 1h ago, just the give us this insightful analysis?
gii2··on Ask HN: Best way to create a landing page?
Hugo is great choice.

I host my hugo sites on Azure Blob Storage for few cents (literally) per month.

gii2··on China's New Cybersecurity Program: No Place to Hide
> "No communication from or to China will be exempted. There will be no secrets. No VPNs. No private or encrypted messages. No anonymous online accounts. No trade secrets. No confidential data."

I would guess the companies with subcontractors/branches in China has been assuming everything they submit there is no-longer a trade secret or secret at all.

gii2··on Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
Web: .NET Core, VueJS, SQL Server

Mobile: Xamarin

CI/CD: Azure Devops, AKS

Reason for choosing it: 15+ years of experience with C#, Vue is easy to learn, Xamarin is also C# for both Android and iOS

gii2··on Is real Satoshi Nakamoto is almost revealed?
Based on what he revealed so far, he is probably Pakistani.

Can't wait for the 2nd and 3rd posts...

gii2··on Ask HN: Which project management and team communication software do you use?
Rally - I feel brain-damaged already...
gii2··on Ask HN: What tech stack can be used for building chatbot framework like api.ai?
Microsoft BOT Framework (dev.botframework.com) + LUIS - Language Understanding Intelligent Service - (luis.ai)
gii2··on Ask HN: What is the worst software that you have to use?
Sharepoint, Rally, Chatter by Salesforce
gii2··on Ask HN: What is the best tech stack to develop a SAAS Service?
Generally I would go with .NET Core - it is still in its infant stage, but by the time you have MVP it will be OK - Microsoft are throwing a lot of efforts in this direction.

For the mobile apps - Xamarin. You will still write C#, just use a different way of thinking.

Having the same technology stack in web and mobile will allow you to reuse skills one day when you build a team.

gii2··on [dead]
Microsoft applied another NSA patch without properly testing it first?! :)))

I've recently saw and article from a guy who did memory dump of Skype and found his SSH keys inside. This is getting out of control...

gii2··on Ask HN: Do you think we'll see any Twitter/Facebook real-competitor?
At the moment the Bitcoin blockchain is 40+ GB, meaning everyone involved in the network should have it locally. This is not possible for mobile devices.

Relying on blockchain technology is needed only when everyone should trust on something, but once you have the peer to peer connection this is no longer needed.

gii2··on Ask HN: Do you think we'll see any Twitter/Facebook real-competitor?
The next wave of social networks will most likely be decentralized. At the moment the concept is not yet clear, so no company to follow yet.
gii2··on From “cockroaches” to campaigns: how the UK press u-turned on the refugee crisis
The photo of the drown 3-years old boy was one of the most disturbing things I've seen lately. Even the events in France did not touched me so deeply.

I don't want to think about it, but probably it is exploited by the press to increase sales...

gii2··on ISS Virtual Tour
Did you noticed that there are only ThinkPads there? It is the only laptop certified to work on ISS.
gii2··on Google Foo.bar
There was an article about a guy who landed a job at Google through the foobar. Here it is: https://thehustle.co/the-secret-google-interview-that-landed...
gii2··on How Bank of America sniped my domain
I've heard similar stories from people trying to buy from GoDaddy.
gii2··on Yanis Varoufakis resigns despite referendum no vote
Well, he already did his job. Greece is rolling down the slope...
gii2··on [dead]
He is an expert in Game Theory and he is probably playing а game no one understands... That's quite sad - they have good food and nice beaches. I've always enjoyed going there :|
gii2··on Why not rename PostgreSQL officially (back) to Postgres?
This is being discussed here: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Postgres
gii2··on I can build an forever-free and anonymous personal finance web app
You did good job. The web is fine, the mobile interface is limited, there is no mobile app. But my overall impression is quite positive. (I've been using the app for few months now)
gii2··on Talented IT specialists from Russia for remote work
Let me guess - despite "the situation in Russia", you still believe Putin did "the right thing", right?
gii2··on A beauty contest winner making Japan look at itself
Jhene Aiko is my second favorite blackanese now... :)
gii2··on Bluntly: Serverless, NAT-breaking P2P with public keys and BitTorrent DHT
Congrats, the idea is great (I have something similar in my TODO list).

Now the next step is to implement file transfer and self-hosted web server with social network app and you have decentralized internet :)

gii2··on Open Automotive Alliance
Pretty fast for such expensive car, isn't it? https://youtu.be/U3T_g-KyYTk?t=1m26s
gii2··on Open Automotive Alliance
First of all the German manufacturers should make their cars more secure. There are guys who can open X5/X6 in less than 10 seconds...

And then we can think about adding more technologies inside...

gii2··on Attention early adopters. KUKU.io, a new social media app, is looking for you
504 Gateway Time-out nginx/1.8.0
gii2··on Ask HN: Why is it so hard to find remote jobs in Europe?
That's correct. There are very skilled/talented individuals in EU, I have no doubts in that.

My point is that on company/organization level the EU companies are more ... how to say it... conservative and full of bureaucracy that their US counterparts. They pay for an employee and it they don't see him at his desk - there is a problem. The "communication" habits are also quite different IMHO.

gii2··on Ask HN: Why is it so hard to find remote jobs in Europe?
Well, the communication should be easy part. We are living in digital world, where you talk to your friends online more than you see them face-2-face. The communication between colleagues is pretty much the same.

Europe does not have so many timezones, but if you decided to go farther east, that's different issue.

I don't think everyone in the team should be involved in the architectural decisions of your product. That's why there are different type of seniority and roles in the team. Then you just have to "manage" the execution.

gii2··on Ask HN: Why is it so hard to find remote jobs in Europe?
It is not only the "remote" feature, but the physical absence from the office that matters. Even regular employees are usually not allowed to work from home frequently.

Last time I saw someone working from home for 1 day, his manager sent him 2 screens email, how it should be an exception, not a practice, etc.

gii2··on Ask HN: Why is it so hard to find remote jobs in Europe?
I couldn't agree more with jmnicolas - the situation is pretty similar in France, Switzerland, Belgium and Austria. There is some "hope" in UK and Germany, where they really expect to have something done.

There was a guy (can't remember his name) who said that US is the only place where you can put US guys, Mexican, Chinese and ... (whoever) and make them work together. In Europe this is not the case, probably because of historical reasons and as a result of the last 30 years of immigration policy (especially the french-speaking countries).

My other theory is that Europe is left behind US in the technical area. If something is top-notch in USA, it will "come" in mainland Europe in 10 or more years. For e.g. now the MBA is hot trend.

Disclaimer: I've been working remotely for the last 4 years.

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