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Re:Are Chinese and Russian Developers More Skilled Than Amer... by throwawaysk5345 on Friday February 10, 2017 @01:26AM (#13613635)
If they were, then the center of the tech world wouldn't be in the US.

But it is.

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Re:Are Chinese and Russian Developers More Skilled Than Amer... by fenrisbear on Friday February 10, 2017 @01:52AM (#13613710)
Don't be salty.

Facebook, Google and alike constantly hires foreigners.

The worlds favorite IDE to write code in comes from Russia.

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Re:Are Chinese and Russian Developers More Skilled Than Amer... by sand500 on Friday February 10, 2017 @02:19AM (#13613791)
What IDE is that? Visual Studio? Eclipse?
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Re:Are Chinese and Russian Developers More Skilled Than Amer... by ommunist on Friday February 10, 2017 @02:36AM (#13613847)
IntelliJ IDEA and other products by JetBrains. Their R&D is in Novosibirsk and St. Petersburg, and Sales are global.
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Re:Are Chinese and Russian Developers More Skilled Than Amer... by meepmorp on Friday February 10, 2017 @06:33AM (#13614670)
Their R&D is also in Munich and Boston, and they're headquartered in Prague.

Their IDEs can't really be fairly said to come from Russia.

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Re:Are Chinese and Russian Developers More Skilled Than Amer... by gspetr on Friday February 10, 2017 @09:13AM (#13615429)
Virtually no big russian software companies incorporate in Russia, because the criminal raiders will take over the company - see Yandex, Parallels, Kaspersky Lab, all are registered in Europe with those companies controlling all the IP.
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Re:Are Chinese and Russian Developers More Skilled Than Amer... by ommunist on Friday February 10, 2017 @12:05PM (#13616899)
You just explained how pressure of natural selection stimulates talent in Russia. Once it is squeezed into civilization, it flourishes.
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Re:Are Chinese and Russian Developers More Skilled Than Amer... by ommunist on Friday February 10, 2017 @12:09PM (#13616938)
their EMEA Sales are in Prague. Anyone can go and see their offices map on https://www.jetbrains.com/company/contacts/ . By the way, most contact second names are distinctively Russian. And the name of their own programming language - Kotlin, is a tribute to island in front of St. Petersburg.
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