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Re: Check out JetBrains' new R&D office in St. Petersburg

#71

Васильевский остров прекрасен как жаба в манжетах! If I happened to live in SPb, I would be working for JetBrains for sure. (I am not)

  Васильевский остров прекрасен как жаба в манжетах!
Used to be, anyway. This is a general putdown of the city whose palaces resemble Versailles but are located on the marshland banks of the Neva river. St Petersburg deserves better.

(Loose translation of the quote: Vassilevsky Island is beautiful just like a toad with cufflinks.)

Re: Check out JetBrains' new R&D office in St. Petersburg

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Honestly, most of JetBrains license value can be recovered within a week. I find their license prices to be extremely reasonable.

TC yes. R# no. On a large solution it becomes a hindrance.

Why? How?

Re: Check out JetBrains' new R&D office in St. Petersburg

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TC yes. R# no. On a large solution it becomes a hindrance.

Why? How?

Performance sucks, takes visual studio out regularly when devenv.exe hits process memory limits. Tests don't all run. Refactor operations never finish.

Re: Check out JetBrains' new R&D office in St. Petersburg

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Talent. By being in certain countries you exclude certain talent because of discriminatory laws. Russia for instance can forget about any talent that might be part of or supportive of LGBT. Not sure if Prague is better though, but at this moment most countries are better than 'state sponsored' national socialist attacks.

I think you have no idea about situation Czech Republic and Russia. Work Law is influenced by socialism and way more friendlier to worker. Any discrimination based on sexual preferences, sex, race, age and so on is strictly forbidden. One could sue for an ad which says they want 'younger' workers. Gay discrimination would be national scandal. There is also handful of agencies which are very keen to enforce Work Law.…

> There is violence against LGBT, but most cases are severely punished by state. What is 'war on drugs' in US, is 'war on neonazis' in Czech Republic.

HAHAHAHAHAHAH sure man, sure.

Re: Check out JetBrains' new R&D office in St. Petersburg

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Talent. By being in certain countries you exclude certain talent because of discriminatory laws. Russia for instance can forget about any talent that might be part of or supportive of LGBT. Not sure if Prague is better though, but at this moment most countries are better than 'state sponsored' national socialist attacks.

But most of their talents are in St. Petersburg, so this point has no logic. You could use this reasoning if their (small) headquaters were in St. Petersburg and most of development offices in Prague, but in reality opposite is true.

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Talent. By being in certain countries you exclude certain talent because of discriminatory laws. Russia for instance can forget about any talent that might be part of or supportive of LGBT. Not sure if Prague is better though, but at this moment most countries are better than 'state sponsored' national socialist attacks.

It is the funniest reason I've ever heard. There's crazy shortage of talents in Moscow and SPb, so any employee will hire a gay, a centipede from Tau Ceti or a satan and shower him with money and lots of perks if he is good in programming. However, lack of gay developers is definitely not the cause of this shortage (after all, their rights are protected by Constitution and being in top 10% of citizens by income, IT p…

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Re: Check out JetBrains' new R&D office in St. Petersburg

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Does anyone know why JetBrains, which seems to very much be a Russian company, has their head office in Prague?

Talent. By being in certain countries you exclude certain talent because of discriminatory laws. Russia for instance can forget about any talent that might be part of or supportive of LGBT. Not sure if Prague is better though, but at this moment most countries are better than 'state sponsored' national socialist attacks.

EDIT; My God people, I was just throwing a guess there. I Might be wrong in this situation.

Re: Check out JetBrains' new R&D office in St. Petersburg

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I think you have no idea about situation Czech Republic and Russia. Work Law is influenced by socialism and way more friendlier to worker. Any discrimination based on sexual preferences, sex, race, age and so on is strictly forbidden. One could sue for an ad which says they want 'younger' workers. Gay discrimination would be national scandal. There is also handful of agencies which are very keen to enforce Work Law.…

> There is violence against LGBT, but most cases are severely punished by state. What is 'war on drugs' in US, is 'war on neonazis' in Czech Republic. HAHAHAHAHAHAH sure man, sure.

???

Re: Check out JetBrains' new R&D office in St. Petersburg

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R# is sooooo expensive for a company that can afford 50 developers.

It's not much better than VS2013 is my point...

Do you actually use R# then? There is no point if you are using it at VS level.
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