Interesting to learn the human side of a tool I use almost every day. RIP Stiver
In Memory of Stiver
21–30 of 128 posts
Re: In Memory of Stiver
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
So let's see, Russia's population is 1/2 that of the US and it's irrelevant. But the US population is 1/5 of China's. When do you expect to see irrelevance of the United States as a world power?
Right now US has 156M college educated people, China - has been quickly increasing that number during last 10-20 years and currently reached 218M. Thus we see emergence of China as rivaling superpower. You can look at China's rate of new college admissions and make a reasonable projection when a number of senior (10-15 years of experience) professionals in China will dwarf that in US. >Russia's population is 1/2 that…
Collège education is not a super good proxy for superpower status... Even more so nowadays.
Re: In Memory of Stiver
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
And Russia's demographic crisis is going to get a lot worse, cementing its irrelevency as a world power: https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/03/04/russias-populati...
So let's see, Russia's population is 1/2 that of the US and it's irrelevant. But the US population is 1/5 of China's. When do you expect to see irrelevance of the United States as a world power?
Maybe read the article, Ivan.
Re: In Memory of Stiver
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
So let's see, Russia's population is 1/2 that of the US and it's irrelevant. But the US population is 1/5 of China's. When do you expect to see irrelevance of the United States as a world power?
Maybe read the article, Ivan.
Maybe learn to be civil Joe.
Re: In Memory of Stiver
#25> a German programmer of Russian origin I wonder how much of a boom Russia will see from émigrés returning home if the political environment lets up a little
Nobody will go back.
One of more interesting experiences from early 2000s in Microsoft was when Microsoft Russia finally crossed 1B in revenue by finally having Gazprom/Sberbank buy all the sh*t that they were pirating before. By doing so, the country was eligible to do the yearly business review in person, instead of over whatever passed for Zoom back then, I don't remember anymore. Olga D...can't remember her last name was the country manager, one of the few women in such position at the time. She invited everyone in russian community (hello rodina email list) to come to the Microsoft conference center in building 34 to listen to repeat of what she did earlier that week to Ballmer. This was the only microsoft event with catered vodka and caviar I've been to, but anyhow, after presentation of the financial stuff it turned a bit into a recruiting event - hey, come back to the motherland, the water is nice, look they are buying software licenses like civilized people, here is the pay scale from levels 61 and up, etc etc. There were ~400 people in the room, and the uptake was 0 (zero). All of us who were there in the room were not there in motherland for a reason.
Re: In Memory of Stiver
#26> a German programmer of Russian origin I wonder how much of a boom Russia will see from émigrés returning home if the political environment lets up a little
Russia has plenty of resources, and is severely under-populated. So yep, it has a huge growth potential.
But the political system will have to be reformed first.
Re: In Memory of Stiver
#27Didn't know about that side of his talent. Among broader Russian audience Stiver was known as a maintainer of the largest pirate library in Russian (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41634780 ).
That might explain why the article is so light on personal details - either he asked them to keep them private, or maybe they're not aware of his real identity at all?
Re: In Memory of Stiver
#28> a German programmer of Russian origin I wonder how much of a boom Russia will see from émigrés returning home if the political environment lets up a little
How do you change the political environment in a dictatorship where ruling class has all the power and majority of the money and controls what you should read, watch or talk about?
Well, the Russians already tried it once, more than 100 years ago, with limited success unfortunately...
Re: In Memory of Stiver
#29Re: In Memory of Stiver
#30Didn't know about that side of his talent. Among broader Russian audience Stiver was known as a maintainer of the largest pirate library in Russian (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41634780 ).
That might explain why the article is so light on personal details - either he asked them to keep them private, or maybe they're not aware of his real identity at all?
They're aware, that's why they presented him as a "German programmer" and completely avoided his flibusta endeavour. The author from JetBrains is Russian himself.