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There are good reasons to learn Smalltalk(richardeng.medium.com)
2 points by smalltalkcoder 3y ago|0 comments
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Pandemic Postmortem(richardeng.medium.com)
1 points by smalltalkcoder 4y ago|0 comments
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
Why is whole-process people's democracy silly? Just because you don't believe in it? That's what the author meant by Western arrogance. We in the West think we are entitled to define what is and isn't democracy. On what
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
It's worth mentioning that every time I watch Joe Biden or Antony Blinken or Jake Sullivan or Nancy Pelosi or anyone from the US government hold a press conference about China, their words are deceitful and aggressive. That's not
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
> It's not a democracy, but it's not the dystopia it's caricatured as in Western media. It's not liberal democracy. It's not democracy as defined in the West. It's the Chinese model of democracy, or what i
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
I've been to China many times over the past 25 years. I've been to practically every corner of China. My knowledge of China is comprehensive. Your comment makes no sense to me.
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
I am certain you've never been to China. https://youtu.be/uBchAUGW7Bk
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
Perhaps I overstated the poverty in HK. But my point was that many people there cannot afford to travel. They live paycheck to paycheck; they have very little in the way of savings. I know people in HK, including family. Most people in HK a
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
I assume you know that the majority of Hong Kong citizens live in poverty. They can barely afford a roof over their heads, much less international travel. But perhaps you've never experienced poverty, so you may not know.
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
China is Bad: https://youtu.be/KuPuXAUXZjY .
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
Hong Kong's population is only 7 million or so, a tiny fraction of 120 million travelers, assuming every Hongkonger went on international tours.
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
Of course, I don't read "boring reports". I mostly read opinion pieces and journalists with on-site reporting.
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
I've followed Western media studiously for years. NYT, WSJ, CNN, BBC, etc. I've yet to see a story about China that doesn't spin things negatively for China. It doesn't have to be "extreme reporting."
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
True, but my point is that no population has a consensus. Whether you live in China or the West, there are people who know the truth and people who don't know the truth. There are people who are well-informed and people who are ignoran
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
You didn't read the article. Latana's Democracy Perception Index for 2022 shows that the Chinese believe their country is democratic. Stats do show at least 120 million Chinese have travelled outside the country every year (exce
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
And, by the way, there are also many ways in which our liberal democracy doesn't work for us. Look at our breathtaking Covid death tolls. Look at our staggering inflation and energy shortages. Look at the current mass protests all acro
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
Whether or not we think it's democratic is irrelevant; the important thing is that the Chinese think it's democratic. China's system doesn't have to work for us , as long as it works for them . The Chinese believe th
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
Exactly! The Chinese do not pretend they have Western liberal democracy, but the democratic system they do have works for them. Moreover, they've seen how well liberal democracy works for USA, UK, India, Taiwan, Brazil, Hungary, and so
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
Just curious, why did you dismiss the Edelman Trust Barometer and other sources cited?
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
If China had remained a backward, undeveloped country like it was in the 1970s, the world would pay China no heed. China would get zero attention; it would be completely ignored. Food for thought.
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
Ignore what? Have you been to China? The author isn't saying China is perfect. He's simply pointing out Western anti-China propaganda.
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Western Arrogance and China(rkeng.substack.com)
4 points by smalltalkcoder 4y ago|37 comments
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The Rejuvenation of Squeak(richardeng.medium.com)
3 points by smalltalkcoder 4y ago|0 comments
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
In my experience, type-related programming bugs are very rare (less than 2%). That's why I'm not in the least bit concerned with whether or not a language is statically-typed or dynamically-typed. I use both as needed. My favourit
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by smalltalkcoder 4y ago
Indentation-sensitivity is so popular that only one language in the Top 20 programming languages has it. That's nearly 40 years after I saw my first indentation-sensitive language: occam. Indentation-sensitivity seemed like a great ide
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by smalltalkcoder 7y ago
I am not Richard Eng. Why would you think that anyone who supports Smalltalk can only be him? Do you really believe there is only one Smalltalk fan throughout the world? Richard is the most prolific promoter of Smalltalk in years. So I supp
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by smalltalkcoder 7y ago
This article is mainly about the programming competition. What's wrong with that kind of evangelism? I think it's a great idea. It certainly attracts attention to Smalltalk (Pharo), a relatively obscure language. If you're gr
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by smalltalkcoder 7y ago
> competitions for languages, especially to develop particular solutions in a language, happen all the time. Perhaps, but they aren't well-advertised. It's difficult to find these competitions even using Google search. Where ar
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by smalltalkcoder 7y ago
This is a decidedly peculiar attitude. The web is a vast global network of hyperlinks — that was its original intent. A web user is expected to follow the hyperlinks to discover more information. The author provided the key hyperlinks: htt
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by smalltalkcoder 7y ago
Evangelization is "preaching"; it's essentially advertising or marketing. There's no one way to preach or advertise. One can take a number of different approaches. Presenting technical information is one way, the most co

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