pumpkinprog

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by pumpkinprog 4y ago
No problem at all. See Russian example. 10 years ago it was 50/50% Visa/Mastercard on the Russian market. Today it is like 30/30/30 Mir/Visa/MC (Mir is the national payment system). And even those 60% are not &
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by pumpkinprog 4y ago
> is this structured as a pure research company owned by JetBrains or as something else They mostly collaborate with independent university labs, giving them funding in exchage for working under the JBR brand and promoting some of their
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by pumpkinprog 4y ago
They analyzed the stock performance of the companies with a presence in Russia from Feb 23 to Apr 19 and got this: > Clearly, global capital flows across financial markets demonstrate the importance investors attribute to the decision to
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by pumpkinprog 4y ago
> just bring out the Panama papers This way they will find out 10x more interesting things about their own "honorable businessmen" too thus nobody will ever do this
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by pumpkinprog 4y ago
Microsoft Teams. One of the worst (laggy, buggy, slow, bad UI, etc.) peaces of software I used ever, combined with aggressive promotion by M$. Moreover, I have to use this crap at work every day, since my employer bought a license, which ma
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by pumpkinprog 4y ago
That is how all the censorship stories start. In the beginning, you censor several "reasonable" resources, and after a while, you get the Great Western Firewall. For example, Russia introduced Internet censorship laws in 2012 with
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GitHub starts suspending Russian accounts, including some individual developers(gameworldobserver.com)
42 points by pumpkinprog 4y ago|14 comments
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by pumpkinprog 5y ago
As it said in the article, the backstory of this move is that DigiCert revoked SSL certificates of some major Russian banks that come under the US sanctions, including their Central Bank (the Russian Fed). And all their sites, remote bankin
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by pumpkinprog 5y ago
Read sources with different points of view and take the average. Pretty easy with the Russia-Ukraine situation, just take 2 western or Ukrainian news sources, 2 Russian and 2 relatively unrelated (China, Africa, etc.) Same with elections (2
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by pumpkinprog 5y ago
Strongly agree. In some countries (for example, most of Eastern Europe), formal CS education is compatible with a full-time developer job during masters and even the last years of bachelor's studies. Therefore, some highly motivated g