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by rqs 7y ago
Sorry, I'm not a native speaker, that may lead to some problem because Chinese grammar can be very different to English. Maybe I should start to use grammarly from now on. Sum up the post: 1. What Jack Ma is trying to do, is equalizing
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by rqs 7y ago
It will be easier to understand if you've followed the movement. Most of those companies are not forcing their employees to work 996 on paper. But if you don't, then first, your team leader will give you some hint to ask you to
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by rqs 7y ago
It turned out many web browsers still blocking it. See this video published at Apr 12, 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GohinJAkPPU
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by rqs 7y ago
In China, some employers (who probably still living in 17 century) sees giving out offer and salary is some kind of blessing. So apparently Jack Ma sees his company as some holy saint who give those poor farmland programmers food, water and
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by rqs 7y ago
"I regret that I working so hard, spending so little time with my family" - Jack Ma, 2017 I guess this man only cares about he's own little family.
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by rqs 7y ago
Duped: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19644152 Sorry.
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“To be able to work 996 is a bliss” – Jack Ma, China's richest man(twitter.com)
2 points by rqs 7y ago|1 comments
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by rqs 7y ago
Well, first you need to realize how many Mandarins[0] there is ... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese
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by rqs 7y ago
The block has been (mostly? I guess) lifted. If national news paper[0] joined the discussion, nobody dare to keep the blockage. Especially they (the web browsers) was lying about the reason of block. [0] http://paper.people.com.c
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by rqs 8y ago
Sounds like everybody on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_lists_of_cults As far as I know, among them, Falun Gong and The Church of Almighty God was making false promise about their ability of "get
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by rqs 8y ago
Maybe those web browsers are linked to a online URL database. If any URL is matched in the database, then they will refuse to load the page. But if true, that also means those web browsers are querying a online database when user is trying
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by rqs 8y ago
Without Google Translation (In Chinese): https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/pull/24904#issuecomment-47...
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Major Chinese-made web browsers are reportedly blocking 996ICU's GitHub repo(translate.google.com)
133 points by rqs 8y ago|53 comments
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by rqs 8y ago
Personally, I don't even believe they can receive that many stars on GitHub. The fact they did amazed me. Of course I understand ask some projects to suddenly change their license to support anti-996 is hard and unreal, but hey, the sh
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by rqs 8y ago
> Why will the government avoid to use repressive measures against this? This is how the labor law been structured in China. In many cases you need to file the case by yourself in order to get it investigated. > So technically, the li
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by rqs 8y ago
> But there are other venues for labour activism than changing the license The thing is, this kind of online protest is the safest for both initiators and participants. If by "other venues for labour activism" you mean go to th
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by rqs 8y ago
> Note that this removes "open-source" status from the original license if it is open-source From what I can read, that's the plan. After all "open-source" or not is pointless when developers are on the bed insid
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by rqs 8y ago
I think this worry is reasonable. Maybe you can try to file a pull request to suggest a change, remember to explain your situation and concerns inside the pull request so it won't be discarded.
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by rqs 8y ago
Since it's a type of coroutine, maybe `co`? also as in "co-pilot". I'm not very confident about it :(
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by rqs 8y ago
But why use `go` keyword for go-style routine? I just realized I maybe have answered my own question but I don't think even Go should use `go` keyword for that. Maybe give it a more technical name?
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by rqs 8y ago
There are a website called https://www.17ce.com/ , it's a speed test service, but their server mainly located in China (Of course, it's a Chinese website), so it can be used to test status of some GFW blocks. That
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by rqs 8y ago
I mean you don't know that until recently? I'm pretty sure if you ask any Chinese IT worker about this, they probably have some story to share. BTW, now you know if Chinese programmers are seeking oversea jobs, they are probably n
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by rqs 8y ago
It could be funny to see the repo/GitHub gets blocked because of this. If it did, that will be a good wake up call for somebody who still sleeping.
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by rqs 8y ago
Slide 17: Google: Hey so we had this new thing called FLAG_WINDOW_IS_OBSCURED Me: Really? Google? You're going to fix your problem by telling everybody to watch out your problems?
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by rqs 8y ago
Just read the article again only to realize the late paragraph was not "Good luck! Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus." LOL Anyway, before I had a stable proxy, I actually set up my local DNS to redire
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by rqs 8y ago
> I get what signing is — but to the ordinary person it solves a problem they didn’t even knew they had. It's not just people are not learning. I don't see any ordinary email client is encouraging people to use signing or encry
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by rqs 8y ago
I think that's because of some rumours saying that they are barbarous/unreasonable. And if you combine that with the rule of "Play safe", you get a bunch of externally-acquired stereotypers. The thing make it even worse
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by rqs 8y ago
I have no idea. Those messages I've quoted is from the Twitter page.
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by rqs 8y ago
> The most dialogs which are being monitored are typical teenager conversations. In the picture "你还用说我大", "那是衣服紧" (Translate: "You don't need to tell me that mines was big", "That's because th
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by rqs 8y ago
> We build base stations in the harshest environments, like the Arctic Circle, the Sahara, rainforests in South America, and even on Mount Everest. In the wake of disasters like the tsunami in Indonesia, the nuclear disaster in Japan, an

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