Vali Petcu blog

One of the things i dislike the most about the Romanian Tech Scene is the lack of real talk and real results. We have a dysfunctional domain management system, to begin with, and nobody talks about it because nobody wants to upset the powers that be. We also have a lot of programmers who don’t […]

Everybody and their dog are yapping now about the 300,000 reservations for Tesla Model3. At 1,000$ a pop, the company has now 300 million dollars. Let’s not think anyboy will retire their reservation, but look at another set of numbers. 2009 – the president of Nissan said the Leaf development excedeed 500 million 2015 – BMW spent […]

Both democratic candidates for the US presidential elections have a socialist discourse. The republicans, on the other hand despise socialism and badmouth it without even trying to reason. The problem is not socialism, it’s capitalism, or what we call in Europe “ruthless capitalism”. This sort of “winner take all system” that has been praised in the US […]

So, Sony has a new mirrorless out. It’s great, it has new features, looks great too. Not many people will buy it, as old mirrrorless are good enough. I have a NEX7 and an A5000, the last great ones without touchscreen, wifi and other crap nobody really uses. So, Sony, how about a decent f1.8? A […]

These days, a media trust fights eviction, but they don’t fight just that. “Intact” fights the state, the politicians and common sense.   A little bit of history Intact Media Trust was founded by Dan Voiculescu, a businessman emerged from the old Securitate. In his autobiography, we find two interesting facts about his wealth: he […]

Google launched Chrome in 2008, but up until 2011 was not a threat to Firefox. Chrome eroded Firefox slowly and around 2011 really hit it off. Mozilla stood still while Chrome evolved, and at the point Chrome extensions were covering 99% of what Firefox was offering, started losing market share in a big way. Now […]

This gorgeous thing is the Honda Civic 2016. It’s not for sale in Europe just yet, but will be probably in the summer, as it usually happens with Honda and Toyota models. Japanese carmakers have a long history of kinda sorta ignoring Europe car market, even if Europeans bought 1.1 million cars last year. They like […]

I am an organised individual: I like to keep my house, my computer, my tool shed, my yard in order. My inbox has now 12 emails, all read, some of the in progress, some of them not needing answering. I get about 100 emails a day. Half subscriptions or automated ones. The rest human emails. It’s […]

So UBER came to Bucharest last february and people cheered. Finally, we got rid of the dirty cabs! First UBER testers and bloggers were impressed: clean cars, polite drivers, same prices as the cabs (0.31 euros per kilometer). Some months went by and the Romanian management cut bonuses in half and then changed the way they gave those […]

Every couple of months people are finding out that Romania has one of the fastest internet connections on the planet. Us, a small and poor country, the fastest internet? How is that possible? Well, it’s a numbers game. Internet in Romania is generally found in the cities, where it’s easy to put a router in a box […]