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If you have any specific questions, fire away :-) Homepage + social media links from there should give a good idea of who I am: http://www.cirosantilli.com htt

If you have any specific questions, fire away :-) Homepage + social media links from there should give a good idea of who I am: http://www.cirosantilli.com http://www.cirosantilli.com

rurban 8y ago
I'm curious. Why did you learn Chinese, but not Rust or Haskell yet? And yes, I agree with https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship And that speaking Chinese is much simpler than reading or writing in it. One of the simplest languages actually.
- cirosantilli 8y ago
  Alas, I'm married to a Chinese woman, and not Graydon Hoare :-)
  - 188201 8y ago
    Interesting. I have to admit I have stereotype and prejudice, any westerner married to Chinese woman is pro-China. I see you have some sensitive Chinese word in username in different community, so I thought it is a Chinese guy in Western country behind it.
    - cirosantilli 8y ago
      When your wife does Falun Gong, and her father spent a decade + in semi-prison during the cultural revolution, that tends to not bring out the brightest side of the Chinese Communist Party ;-)
auto 8y ago
Dang, while I'll appreciate your one compiled and one interpreted language way of life (pragmatic!), this makes me sad: > Swift: I’m not an Apple person. I'll admit, if I wasn't a professional iOS code slinger I probably never would have approached it, but at this point it's by far my favorite language to write (especially prototype) in.
- klohto 8y ago
  I'm on verge trying it. Would you like to share your opinion on why do you consider it good?
  - auto 8y ago
    I wrote C++ in college before I started with iOS/Obj-C around 2010, and 75% of my work from then until Swift launched was Obj-C, the rest was Java. So, just from a readability and writing standpoint, verbosity (or lack there of) was a huge win, however that's a bit subjective and more of an aesthetic reason. 1. I really like the let/var system, combined with the let/guard conditional assignments. It might not work for everyone, but I write cleaner code because of it. I also love optional chaining, and I've really molded my thinking around it, as it often encapsulates large chunks of logic in a single line (essentially, do we go past here or not, based on the state of the data and whether things are set/valid). It's null checking that doesn't feel bolted on. 2. Swift has made some big changes from release to release, sometimes breaking existing code, but my largest codebase is ~70k lines, and it's taken me at most a few hours to get rolling again (FWIW, the auto updater did not work for me on 2.2->3 I believe it was). That said, the changes are worthwhile. JSON (De)/Serialization built in via the Codable protocol was a big upgrade for me, removing a vast amount of boilerplate, as well as my reliance on a 3rd party library (although big thanks to NerdRanch for FreddyJSON, it served me well). 3. Speaking of 3rd party libraries, CocoaPods has treated me well. Easy to use, not too difficult to create your own custom libraries and manage them from your own git repos. 4. I know I don't use them to their full potential, but the higher order functions: https://medium.com/@abhimuralidharan/higher-order-functions-in-swift-filter-map-reduce-flatmap-1837646a63e8 https://medium.com/@abhimuralidharan/higher-order-functions-... are a real game changer. Those operations, combined with my own drive over the last ~5 years or so to write more tightly coupled, functional, code has resulted in far more maintainable, easy-for-humans-to-parse systems. Granted, it's not all daisies and roses. I hate how it handles strings, and they can't seem to settle on an internal representation/manipulation mechanism. The safety of the whole ecosystem makes working with raw byte representations/pointers a bit of a hassle when you need to do it, but it isn't terrible/impossible. I'm by no means an expert, and just by the nature of my work and my responsibilities (especially in other domains) I don't feel that I've had the chance to truly dig into the language for all it's worth. For instance, when I watched this video: https://www.skilled.io/u/swiftsummit/server-side-swift-from-scratch https://www.skilled.io/u/swiftsummit/server-side-swift-from-... My mind was blown, and I didn't realize just how much I was under-leveraging the type system, and I hope to have some time to do a few personal projects to really integrate some of the more core pieces of the language into my workflow soon. This is already huge and ranty, so if you have any pointed questions I'd be happy to take a stab.
dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago
Where can I find the list of words that will trigger the FW? Does this work with Chinese characters only or do Western words can also do the job?
- cirosantilli 8y ago
  Have a look at: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/tree/00a275365eb2358747cc617d66fe6318525d2974#where-can-i-find-good-words-for-a-keyword-attack https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/tree/00a2... The pinyin for most blocked characters / the Western name of events will likely also work.
Riverheart 8y ago
Lots of good looking material in here. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Semi unrelated, what's up with the script tags on the profile page?
- cirosantilli 8y ago
  I did a bit of webdev in the past, so just casually looking for XSS on GitHub / websites that integrate with it. I'm not a security person though, more interested in performance stuff.

If you have any specific questions, fire away :-) Homepage + social media links from there should give a good idea of who I am: http://www.cirosantilli.com http://www.cirosantilli.com

rurban 8y ago

I'm curious. Why did you learn Chinese, but not Rust or Haskell yet? And yes, I agree with https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship And that speaking Chinese is much simpler than reading or writing in it. One of the simplest languages actually.

cirosantilli 8y ago
Alas, I'm married to a Chinese woman, and not Graydon Hoare :-)
- 188201 8y ago
  Interesting. I have to admit I have stereotype and prejudice, any westerner married to Chinese woman is pro-China. I see you have some sensitive Chinese word in username in different community, so I thought it is a Chinese guy in Western country behind it.
  - cirosantilli 8y ago
    When your wife does Falun Gong, and her father spent a decade + in semi-prison during the cultural revolution, that tends to not bring out the brightest side of the Chinese Communist Party ;-)

auto 8y ago

Dang, while I'll appreciate your one compiled and one interpreted language way of life (pragmatic!), this makes me sad: > Swift: I’m not an Apple person. I'll admit, if I wasn't a professional iOS code slinger I probably never would have approached it, but at this point it's by far my favorite language to write (especially prototype) in.

klohto 8y ago
I'm on verge trying it. Would you like to share your opinion on why do you consider it good?
- auto 8y ago
  I wrote C++ in college before I started with iOS/Obj-C around 2010, and 75% of my work from then until Swift launched was Obj-C, the rest was Java. So, just from a readability and writing standpoint, verbosity (or lack there of) was a huge win, however that's a bit subjective and more of an aesthetic reason. 1. I really like the let/var system, combined with the let/guard conditional assignments. It might not work for everyone, but I write cleaner code because of it. I also love optional chaining, and I've really molded my thinking around it, as it often encapsulates large chunks of logic in a single line (essentially, do we go past here or not, based on the state of the data and whether things are set/valid). It's null checking that doesn't feel bolted on. 2. Swift has made some big changes from release to release, sometimes breaking existing code, but my largest codebase is ~70k lines, and it's taken me at most a few hours to get rolling again (FWIW, the auto updater did not work for me on 2.2->3 I believe it was). That said, the changes are worthwhile. JSON (De)/Serialization built in via the Codable protocol was a big upgrade for me, removing a vast amount of boilerplate, as well as my reliance on a 3rd party library (although big thanks to NerdRanch for FreddyJSON, it served me well). 3. Speaking of 3rd party libraries, CocoaPods has treated me well. Easy to use, not too difficult to create your own custom libraries and manage them from your own git repos. 4. I know I don't use them to their full potential, but the higher order functions: https://medium.com/@abhimuralidharan/higher-order-functions-in-swift-filter-map-reduce-flatmap-1837646a63e8 https://medium.com/@abhimuralidharan/higher-order-functions-... are a real game changer. Those operations, combined with my own drive over the last ~5 years or so to write more tightly coupled, functional, code has resulted in far more maintainable, easy-for-humans-to-parse systems. Granted, it's not all daisies and roses. I hate how it handles strings, and they can't seem to settle on an internal representation/manipulation mechanism. The safety of the whole ecosystem makes working with raw byte representations/pointers a bit of a hassle when you need to do it, but it isn't terrible/impossible. I'm by no means an expert, and just by the nature of my work and my responsibilities (especially in other domains) I don't feel that I've had the chance to truly dig into the language for all it's worth. For instance, when I watched this video: https://www.skilled.io/u/swiftsummit/server-side-swift-from-scratch https://www.skilled.io/u/swiftsummit/server-side-swift-from-... My mind was blown, and I didn't realize just how much I was under-leveraging the type system, and I hope to have some time to do a few personal projects to really integrate some of the more core pieces of the language into my workflow soon. This is already huge and ranty, so if you have any pointed questions I'd be happy to take a stab.

dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago

Where can I find the list of words that will trigger the FW? Does this work with Chinese characters only or do Western words can also do the job?

cirosantilli 8y ago
Have a look at: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/tree/00a275365eb2358747cc617d66fe6318525d2974#where-can-i-find-good-words-for-a-keyword-attack https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/tree/00a2... The pinyin for most blocked characters / the Western name of events will likely also work.

Riverheart 8y ago

Lots of good looking material in here. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Semi unrelated, what's up with the script tags on the profile page?

cirosantilli 8y ago
I did a bit of webdev in the past, so just casually looking for XSS on GitHub / websites that integrate with it. I'm not a security person though, more interested in performance stuff.