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Kudos to the raft authors for making distributed consensus accessible. Structuring the presentation in terms of RPCs and making the algorithm well-suited for implementing replicate…

I just love how John Patience became Джона Пейшенса, like it is some exotic slavic woman's name.

> That and companies are just hilariously bad at finding workers they want to hire for nebulous reasons. I have no doubt even if my company hired 95% of the workers it had marked d…

> Is that fair? I don't know! Probably not. It is all a political struggle and Musk for sure pursues his own goals in it. But if all this results in a twitter that is more interest…

> This is ironic if you consider all the complaining that Musk does in the public sphere about "freedom of speech" Another ironic thing is the number of people who lectured anyone …

First, you need to take a big break, a couple of months at least. The less computing-related activities the better. The summer hasn't ended yet, do some outdoorsy stuff with other …

This brings back memories... Some time ago I was an intern in a team working on a UGC map editor. We were using this soft-delete pattern and for some task I needed to deploy a data…

One problem is that companies like to talk about these stock grants as if they are as good as regular salary (and employees seem to play along, using terms like "total comp" and as…

There is not much use for dollars in Russia right now other than hoarding them (you can buy goods, but many imports are sanctioned). And after initial panic subsided, trust in the …

You are a bit late to the party. Many Russian assets have already been seized, among them the Gazprom subsidiary in Germany. We are in a weird spot where Russia is very much intere…

> From my social circle, most developers are leaving for SWIFT ban. This of course can change any day, but for now SWIFT transfers still work with non-sanctioned banks (e.g. Tinkof…

Moscow seems similar to San Francisco/New York in this regard - you move there if you want to be where the action is and put up with minor inconveniences. Climate-wise the Bay Area…

Every statement that paints Russia in a positive light must be propaganda, right? This becomes tiring really fast. > Moscow average salary: 1100 USD 2021 Bucharest average salary: …

> Moscow is too expensive Compared to what? Compared to other Russian cities it is certainly expensive. Compared to e.g. San Francisco it is very cheap. > it prices even software d…

Fairly risk-free way (well, compared to alternatives): invest $10K in interview prep, negotiation coaching etc. Get a FAANG job. Live frugally. In a few years you'll have your $1M.…

> The lie is that Ukraine wasn't even considered for NATO membership and would be ineligible due to lack of territorial integrity ( Donbas and Crimea). NATO and Ukraine didn't clai…

> The result is that their promises about not attacking someone if "they stay out of NATO" are worthless crap and the only way for smaller European countries to stop them is with f…

The amount of ad-hominems in replies to your comment is simply staggering.

Open source (and by extension a large chunk of software industry) runs on the expectation that people won't do random disruptive things even if it is plainly stated in the license …

Two counterpoints: 1) the kind of people that use open-source libraries are one of the most plugged into the world political discourse parts of the population (BTW I am not sure th…

It is kind of crazy when one remembers all the human rights abuses that companies providing popular products and services tolerate and benefit from, and where the tax money goes. I…

Actions speak louder than words and the reaction to the current conflict is certainly unique. I haven't heard of people pressuring companies to stop doing business with the US due …

I think you are ovestating things. Yes, this was true in the 1990s, when McDonalds was one of the few windows into what western capitalism has to offer, but this magic of novelty i…

If history is any guide, businesses are totally ok with dodgy payment methods (Russia paid Pepsi with warships once) and dealing with governments that are not that respectful towar…