How is it like to be a dev in Iran

Re:How is it like to be a dev in Iran by strooper on Sunday July 21, 2019 @07:54PM (#20494461)

Dear Iranian devs, let's learn to take advantage of the situation instead of complaining about it. Why not learn from the devs in China?! To my knowledge, China blocks no less online service than Iran. China monitors citizens' online activities in ways that very few other countries can. Yet their internet services flourish and engage users in ways nowhere else is seen.

Let's build/clone fancy/popular services locally instead. Haven't we seen how big opportunity that is financially? Doesn't that bring freedom from both the controlfreak regime and sanction-imposing regime?

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Re:How is it like to be a dev in Iran by Ayesh on Sunday July 21, 2019 @10:51PM (#20495056)

This was heavily downvoted, but I think this can be an opportunity as well.

I am preparing to go to Iran and of this year to travel, and I have been researching about a lot of things. I was fascinated to learn about Daric Pay, an internal payment network that is trying to replace Visa/master.

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Re:How is it like to be a dev in Iran by williamchangnpu on Sunday July 21, 2019 @10:12PM (#20494930)

Yet their internet services flourish and engage users in ways nowhere else is seen.

But comparing to those services in the western countries, these services(dev tools and online resources etc) are just too immature and unstable and not well-documented,( I'm saying some opensource project from alibaba and so on ,and highly biased)

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Re:How is it like to be a dev in Iran by shane369 on Sunday July 21, 2019 @11:30PM (#20495165)

In fact, chinese government excludes most of tech companies and university from GFW. Any company/institution can apply VPN usage if there is a need

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Re:How is it like to be a dev in Iran by yfzhou on Monday July 22, 2019 @03:50AM (#20496036)

Precisely this. The author probably won't even have a job in tech to begin with if those US services aren't banned.

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