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"No communication from or to China will be exempted. There will be no secrets. No VPNs. No private or encrypted messages. No anonymous online accounts. No trade secrets. No confidential data."

I would guess the companies with subcontractors/branches in China has been assuming everything they submit there is no-longer a trade secret or secret at all.

Generally I would go with .NET Core - it is still in its infant stage, but by the time you have MVP it will be OK - Microsoft are throwing a lot of efforts in this direction.

For the mobile apps - Xamarin. You will still write C#, just use a different way of thinking.

Having the same technology stack in web and mobile will allow you to reuse skills one day when you build a team.

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Microsoft applied another NSA patch without properly testing it first?! :)))

I've recently saw and article from a guy who did memory dump of Skype and found his SSH keys inside. This is getting out of control...

At the moment the Bitcoin blockchain is 40+ GB, meaning everyone involved in the network should have it locally. This is not possible for mobile devices.

Relying on blockchain technology is needed only when everyone should trust on something, but once you have the peer to peer connection this is no longer needed.

ISS Virtual Tour 11 years ago

Did you noticed that there are only ThinkPads there? It is the only laptop certified to work on ISS.

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He is an expert in Game Theory and he is probably playing а game no one understands... That's quite sad - they have good food and nice beaches. I've always enjoyed going there :|

First of all the German manufacturers should make their cars more secure. There are guys who can open X5/X6 in less than 10 seconds...

And then we can think about adding more technologies inside...

That's correct. There are very skilled/talented individuals in EU, I have no doubts in that.

My point is that on company/organization level the EU companies are more ... how to say it... conservative and full of bureaucracy that their US counterparts. They pay for an employee and it they don't see him at his desk - there is a problem. The "communication" habits are also quite different IMHO.

Well, the communication should be easy part. We are living in digital world, where you talk to your friends online more than you see them face-2-face. The communication between colleagues is pretty much the same.

Europe does not have so many timezones, but if you decided to go farther east, that's different issue.

I don't think everyone in the team should be involved in the architectural decisions of your product. That's why there are different type of seniority and roles in the team. Then you just have to "manage" the execution.

It is not only the "remote" feature, but the physical absence from the office that matters. Even regular employees are usually not allowed to work from home frequently.

Last time I saw someone working from home for 1 day, his manager sent him 2 screens email, how it should be an exception, not a practice, etc.

I couldn't agree more with jmnicolas - the situation is pretty similar in France, Switzerland, Belgium and Austria. There is some "hope" in UK and Germany, where they really expect to have something done.

There was a guy (can't remember his name) who said that US is the only place where you can put US guys, Mexican, Chinese and ... (whoever) and make them work together. In Europe this is not the case, probably because of historical reasons and as a result of the last 30 years of immigration policy (especially the french-speaking countries).

My other theory is that Europe is left behind US in the technical area. If something is top-notch in USA, it will "come" in mainland Europe in 10 or more years. For e.g. now the MBA is hot trend.

Disclaimer: I've been working remotely for the last 4 years.