Spend a year or so building up industry contats, helping people out, speaking at industry events, conferences, etc. then make the jump to a consulting career. It helps (emotionally, if nothing else) if he can cement a contract that pays a monthly retainer for a year or so before quitting the coding job.
no data will be hosted in the USA, it's protectorates, or in extremely US-friendly countries (England, Canada)
You also need to add, "or countries that might easily be coerced by the US through threats of violence, embargo, trade sanction, asset-freezing, etc."
I guess that leaves Elbonia.
Because the US hasn't nuked anyone in over half a century
I guess you've forgotten about all that depleted uranium lying around Kuwait and Iraq, then. I appreciate that it doesn't make a nice, big mushroom cloud, but its still pretty nasty stuff.
OP: Brian, is that you?
The earth is like a tiny grain of sand, only much, much heavier.
