HowardMei

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by HowardMei 13y ago
Erlang is really good, especially for engineers with hardware background, who may find FP & Message Passing are more intuitive than OOP & Context Switching. But it's quite difficult to hire.
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by HowardMei 13y ago
LoL. There were exactly two political groups/parties to blame for the collapse of Northen Song dynasty and the following stagnation of everything in China. They were Yuanyou(元佑党人) the reformists, and Yuanfeng(元丰党人) the conservatives. D
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by HowardMei 13y ago
No. Deflation is even worse for economy than inflation is. That's why gold was abandoned. In fact, ancient China had a long history of struggling in awful situations caused by lacking copper/silver/gold for producing enough c
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by HowardMei 13y ago
It's a shame that Voyager doesn't carry some tiny nuke bombs to mark its positions. The SNR at a billion-billionth of a watt level is terrible.
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by HowardMei 13y ago
That's true ：） Most Chinese don't trust them either. That's why Weibo/Forums/SNS come to act as new media. As for traditional media, BBC has a good reputation in my circles.
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by HowardMei 13y ago
About Link #1: The license violation issue is true in China, though I'm not sure whether Xiaomi touched kernel code or just reworked in userland. GPL license simply does NOT work in China for two reasons. 1)IP protection is sadly ineff
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by HowardMei 13y ago
Cisco helped China government build the Great Firewall 10 years ago. It's very advanced and powerful. I don't think Huawei can beat Cisco in the 'net filtering' business at GFW level. I guess it's just a budget limi
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by HowardMei 13y ago
Not something new. There is a company in China www.99bill.com started email payment system 7+ years ago. However, they failed to compete with www.alipay.com which provides free escrow service and seamless ecommerce integration. 99bill had t