How Estonia became a leader in technology
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How Estonia became a leader in technology
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Re: How Estonia became a leader in technology
#2It's just like the lean startup process. In Finland and especially in Sweden, things are talked being talked about for years or decades. We need to plan, think, prepare, study, blah blah, whatever.
You know what? Meanwhile Estonians did it, actually several years ago. Skipping (or doing really leanly) most of these major time and resource wasters.
Re: How Estonia became a leader in technology
#3Estonia is clean from russians not like Latvia, that's why they are centuries far from other Baltic countries.
Re: How Estonia became a leader in technology
#4Estonia is clean from russians not like Latvia, that's why they are centuries far from other Baltic countries.
This is stupid, and wrong. I worked several years in Estonia (at Skype) and I would say that more than 50% of programmers are from foreign countries. Mainly russia, but also Ukraine, latvia, Czech republic...
In Tallin, half the population is Russian, or native russian speaker.
Re: How Estonia became a leader in technology
#5It's just like the lean startup process. In Finland and especially in Sweden, things are talked being talked about for years or decades. We need to plan, think, prepare, study, blah blah, whatever. You know what? Meanwhile Estonians did it, actually several years ago. Skipping (or doing really leanly) most of these major time and resource wasters.
I've never lived/worked in either but it seems both Finland and Sweden have really successful and huge tech industries though?
Re: How Estonia became a leader in technology
#6Estonia is clean from russians not like Latvia, that's why they are centuries far from other Baltic countries.
"Clean" how?
Wikipedia says 1/4 of Estonians are Russian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia#Demographics
Re: How Estonia became a leader in technology
#7Estonia is clean from russians not like Latvia, that's why they are centuries far from other Baltic countries.
This is stupid, and wrong. I worked several years in Estonia (at Skype) and I would say that more than 50% of programmers are from foreign countries. Mainly russia, but also Ukraine, latvia, Czech republic... In Tallin, half the population is Russian, or native russian speaker.
I'm an Estonian and would like to comment this with the results from the census:
Tallinn has 55% Estonians, 36% Russians(who mostly live in specific sleeping/cheap/"slum" districts), and others.
Re: How Estonia became a leader in technology
#8Estonia is clean from russians not like Latvia, that's why they are centuries far from other Baltic countries.
Because Russians are somehow 'unclean' or 'dirty'?
Re: How Estonia became a leader in technology
#9Estonia is clean from russians not like Latvia, that's why they are centuries far from other Baltic countries.
This is stupid, and wrong. I worked several years in Estonia (at Skype) and I would say that more than 50% of programmers are from foreign countries. Mainly russia, but also Ukraine, latvia, Czech republic... In Tallin, half the population is Russian, or native russian speaker.
Also the percentage of foreign programmers is high in international companies. Local or small IT companies mostly hire Estonians - for no specific reason imho, maybe just to keep the atmosphere native.
Re: How Estonia became a leader in technology
#10Estonia is clean from russians not like Latvia, that's why they are centuries far from other Baltic countries.
It looks like you are the victim of some scapegoating discourse - it's very easy for corrupt politicians and other malicious interest groups to divert the public's attention from the real issues by turning some minority or loosely defined external force into "the enemy/the source of all our problems".
Here in Bulgaria, every public problem is either due to Russia's evil influence, or the US's evil influence, or the gypsies or the Turkish minority, or even sometimes the EU, but somehow the problems never seem to be caused by institutionalized corruption on a massive scale. Of course, we - the citizens - are also to blame for letting our government fall into the hands of private interests... Sadly, we haven't yet found a way to move forward like the Estonians.