Actually, this is a good explanation why I don't use streaming services and download music intead, which is 90% torrents and 10% bandcamp that costs overall higher than streaming subscription would be
Liquidating a company takes a lot of time, up to a year in some countries. In Russia last time it took me 3 months. What's your point? That he didn't shut it down the next day invasion began or what?
> Russian guy saying that he is in Chile in the first sentence? Absolutely nothing suspicious.
This would be a bit weird in previous life (before the war), but today it's normal b/c wrong nationality means you'll be assumed as evil orc who worship pu*in and support tha war bla-bla-bla. So mentioning that you at least don't live there and you business in not there helps a bit. Source: I'm in the same situation.
And those who actually support the crazy dictator (by making fake companies across the world to bypass sanctions, for example) don't mention their names on the internet, don't ask public for help fighting Apple's decision, and probably don't sell mobile apps at all.
Registered 14.10.2021
Liquidated 28.04.2023
So the guy opened a company, 5 months later it got destroyed by crazy dictator and santions. He moves to a new country, starts a new life, and opens a new company there. Now tell me he is sponsoring the war or something like that based on these facts
Seriosly? Overcomplicated protocol to make it very hard to bit-bang and thus pay USB-IF for every chip, every logo. There was already 100mbit Ethernet at that time, just add power wires and use existing network stack in software, but how can you squish money from it?! Ofc they needed something new proprietary, overcomplicated, with terrible reliability. USB is the curse of modern hardware.
Even worse: it's used as propoganda itself, they export this idea of all russians being united against the west bla-bla-bla. While in reality most people just don't want to think about it, and the state does everything to keep the "normality level" acceptable. This may sound unrealistic to the americans who seems to have their political opinion all the time, but russians just don't care, there're even jokes about "not interested in politics", not even if it threatens their lifes
at such price point I bet they can hire a "professinonal" and offer them to someone who's desperate/frustrated, like natural perfect match once a few months. with extensive telemetry they can detect who is actually frustrated to the point of leaving 500$/m subscription.
probably illegal
Even harder to believe that Pu*in wasn't that bad 20 years ago. If you bombard an average person with unlimited power for 20+ years they can emit corruption, oppression and eventually war
Despite being based on science, software development is full of bs, opinions and lacks measurable metrics. How "clean" this code is? In numbers between 0 and 1 for example. What's the metric there? Does using polymorphism automatically make your code clean? We cannot reliably reason about even single responsibility b/c there's no real measure how to count responsibilities of a function. In such la-la-land some desperately seek any formal measure, and there's one - performance - you can actually put a number on a piece of code. But you cannot do this for code "cleanliness". So some people prefer to ignore unmensurable trait and replace it with measurable
Indeed. If anything this demo shows how badly C++ polymorphism performs. It doesn't necessarly means that all OOP languages created equal. Although I have no data to prove anything, and frankly don't care b/c all these arguments about clean vs dirty code are meaningless in an absence of formally defined rules and metrics universally enforced by some authority that can revoke your sw dev license or something like that
Well, most providers worldwide still use IPv4 which means that cost of switching to IPv6 is higher than cost of maintaining workarounds for 10 years, and who knows, maybe it will be the same for another 10 years
In terms of usability - definitely. But it's built on top of similar unfulfilled promise: we're running out IPv4 addresses VS X11 is unmaintainable legacy full of security bugs. 20 years later IPv4 is still dominant, Wayland is still unusable and X11 just works.
X is almost 40yo, stable, reliable, difficult to maintain. Wayland is 15yo, barely usable. Any old timers remember 1999 when X was 15? Wayland is like IPv6 of desktops
If you live in a country with that volatile currency, then chances are even miserable by 1st world standards remote salary in USD is rudiculuosly higher than local market, and you are rich anyways. And it usually goes the opposite direction, i.e. local currency get cheaper over time, thus you are becoming "richier". Trust me, payments in stable convertible currency is a huge deal for many-many people outside of US
I work as a contractor. None of the things related to legal employment matter in this case, I pay my own taxes, care about all the legal stuff, insurance etc. Switched 3 jurisdictions this year amid war, and for the company wasn't an issue, we just sign a new contract with the new legal entity in the new country. This can be tricky in some countries due to their laws (like aforementioned IR35 in UK), but it's usually all on contractor, not "employer".
Btw, I hate those companies which post their jobs as remote, but turns out it's "US only remote"
It might be influenced by the buzz from Russian propaganda - they tend to report 146% support based or "research" conducted by VCIOM. Sure, expect representative numbers from state-run company (all others are extinct) in a country where you can get imprisoned (and tortured) for saying "war" out loud. If you call someone a dog for a month one day they might start barking. Western (and Ukrainian) media share that shit stating "80% russians support putin bla-bla-bla"
> implicitly support it by refusing to stand against it even when they have the means to do so (in other words, Russians fleeing Russia and claiming "I stay away from politics").
I explicitly support my relatives from Ukraine after fleeing Russia, but I don't post anything anti-war on my social media. Does this count as pro- or anti-war?
Disclaimer: I have close Ukrainian relatives, used to live in Russia and fled it to a "neutral" country.
The irony here is that this startup helps people relocate to "the land of freedom", while this exact "land of freedom" hates them and tries to find excuses for this hate. B/c sure you cannot bully people for their origin in "the land of freedom", but bullying them b/c they didn't overthrow the dictator and want to escape - yeah, seems legit. Also, putler needs more people to build rockets. Perfect logic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis