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Behind the curtain. A comprehensive guide to Russia internet censorship in 2026

rudnevr — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:43:56 +0000

Article URL: https://en.zona.media/article/2026/04/07/russian_internet_censorship_2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682781

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New comment by rudnevr in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

rudnevr — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:10:52 +0000

Taking this to the extreme, I think most lessons represent sunset or dead projects. There's no sweet illusions anymore. No assumptions. No ego. No account for infinite flexibility. No shine. No excitement of a new thing. No holy wars. No astronaut architects. Only you, the ruins and the truth.

New comment by rudnevr in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

rudnevr — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:50:49 +0000

did it ever occur to you that you might be living in a self-reinforcing feedback loop? how long ago have been in interviewee's shoes?

New comment by rudnevr in "I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs"

rudnevr — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:06:37 +0000

doesn't your precious stash deserve an external folder or remote branch, in any case? the local repo is always a risk, so many things can ruin it. also, you only need to clean up like once a year, it's by definition a rare operation. A ton of branches doesn't grow overnight.

New comment by rudnevr in "I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs"

rudnevr — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:26:18 +0000

What's wrong with just deleting the whole folder and clone repo and whatever branch you're interested in? In any case it's not an urgent thing. You don't have to do this mid-work, you can wait until you push most stuff and then rm && git clone.

The only case in which this wouldn't work is when you have a ton of necessary local branches you can't even push to remote, which is a risk and anti-pattern per se.

New comment by rudnevr in "AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'"

rudnevr — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 01:54:15 +0000

that's true, and nice comparison with tests.

New comment by rudnevr in "AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'"

rudnevr — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 01:49:39 +0000

I don't know, I've always thought that junior problem was mostly non-technical, kids issues: overconfidence, love for shortcuts, sense of entitlement, arrogance, lack of communication and respect of colleagues, including fellow juniors and seniors, aversion to holy wars, lack of compromise and team discipline, disrespect to existing solutions, laziness in following-up post-delivery, negligent edge case checking, being opinionated about tooling, languages and whatnot. Very little of this can be fixed with AI, and many things can be easily amplified. I mean, one junior with AI vs one senior with AI might yield comparable results, but seven juniors with AI vs seven seniors with AI should fail pretty fast.

New comment by rudnevr in "Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?"

rudnevr — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:02:37 +0000

my impression was not that most people like their SUVs, they're just don't trust other people and don't follow the conventions. While on the micro level Americans follow the conventions much more seriously than Europeans (starting from tips and down to formal office rules) and love spending time discussing those conventions, on the higher level, with risk or high stakes involved, all the conventions go out of window, and the people fall back to guns, litigators, SUVs, suburban houses in the middle of nowhere, and other ways of self-isolation and atomization.

Soccer vs american football is another visible example.

New comment by rudnevr in "Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?"

rudnevr — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:49:41 +0000

i'm back too and i definitely do

New comment by rudnevr in "Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?"

rudnevr — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 23:03:19 +0000

having moved to us after 30 yrs of European experiences I would walk a lot in small and big East Cost cities. In the first year I was barely hit at least 3 times - once on the right turn with no lights (the driver only checked the left), once on the right turn red light (lack of my information so it's allowed in US), and once just when somebody went out of underground parking while talking to their phone. After that I learned never cross a road without making the eye contact with the upcoming driver.

Nevertheless, there had been a few episodes in the following years.

New comment by rudnevr in "Ask HN: US expats/nomads, how do you find remote-out-of-US jobs in US?"

rudnevr — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 15:16:41 +0000

sorry, my question is not that much of a legal side, there's plenty of info around - it's rather about identifying jobs which are open to this. Most HRs and hiring managers just ignore the applications which openly state - "I'm not on US soil".

Ask HN: US expats/nomads, how do you find remote-out-of-US jobs in US?

rudnevr — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 13:34:57 +0000

Given most remote jobs assume or prerequisite US soil, how do you find a job/niche which hires worldwide? UPD. It's not about legal side, but rather how to identify those HRs and hiring managers who open to hire a US citizen living in another country.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44625074

Points: 18

# Comments: 17

New comment by rudnevr in "Dline: A tool that presents important data in the form of a calendar in terminal"

rudnevr — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:48:37 +0000

it's absolutely stunning

New comment by rudnevr in "Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail"

rudnevr — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 07:39:14 +0000

Last time I frequented Boston Amtrak it would delay about 28% of travel.

New comment by rudnevr in "Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees"

rudnevr — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 11:45:09 +0000

I worked for Cognizant for a couple of years on multiple engagements, and I'm not Indian. I saw different things, and obviously there was some dynamic around ethnicity, from 'I'll only hire Indians because they work harder' to Indian boss abusing another Indian programmer while excluding me. I was somewhat advanced level, though, maybe that played a role, so for me personally it was an overall OK time. Overall it's good that this conversation eventually happening, I think, it's in everybody's interest.

New comment by rudnevr in "Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees"

rudnevr — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 11:27:13 +0000

that's what they actually do, yes. It's been a joke first, not anymore

New comment by rudnevr in "U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction"

rudnevr — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:11:52 +0000

The problem is that publishers, being the middleman, take over authors the same way the supermarket network takes over the food producers. Publishers own the shelf and a price label, and being less numerous and more organized, they can effectively own the audience's attention. They can help, they can also shut author down. They're not ultimately interested in maximizing availability, because they profit directly from the gap. That's why they need restrictions and ways around them.

New comment by rudnevr in "Pivotal Tracker will shut down"

rudnevr — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 09:47:15 +0000

Same. Out of 15 shops I worked for this was absolutely different (2017-2018) and the only place I've seen pair programming and TDD done right. Once we managed to deploy first version of a trading product with no bugs at all.

When I tried to explain other people afterwards how to do this, they just shrugged, as if I told a fairy tale. I had a chance to demo it maybe a couple more times while migrating other systems, and very successfully (and with very low mental and emotional effort) - itemizing the tests cases first, building fakes, frequent commits, trunk-based development, small stories, incremental improvements.

But it's never been perceived as a designed success, they are typically so prejudiced that they saw it as a fluctuation in the monkey circus of software development they got used to.

Now I'm at the stage we need a support group for ex-alumnis.

New comment by rudnevr in "Bug squash: An underrated interview question"

rudnevr — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:40:54 +0000

it's kind of strange to me that ad-hoc debugging is considered such a valuable skill. I thought it's mostly a juniors' perspective. I typically set up extended loggers and logger methods, write everything to the some formatted file, and have a diffable, persistent, provable, multithread-friendly and versioned bug demonstration, which scales well to bugs of any complexity.

(I once found some 10 bugs in a pretty old and tested bond calculation engine while migrating it to the cloud, which nobody could initially believe.)

New comment by rudnevr in "Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor"

rudnevr — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 13:53:32 +0000

IntelliJ does, of course. Per project, per window, with background images etc