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2071.
by vorg 17y ago
It seems everybody copies everybody here in mainland China, from research papers to foreign technology to fashions. As a national (but "unofficial") policy, it's certainly helped them "bring hundreds of millions out of poverty" over the las
2072.
by vorg 17y ago
No problem with rules 1 (its, it's) and 4 (pronouns never use apostrophe). Re rule 2, most contractions can be confused with other words, and look very wrong, if the apostrophe is omitted, but a few (e.g. youre, mustnt) still look OK. Re ru
2073.
by vorg 17y ago
>"The young people who dominate Web use in China are not just searching for information; they’re searching for a lifestyle. They are passionate about downloading music, playing online games and engaging in social networking." Perhaps it
2074.
by vorg 17y ago
It's been blocked from my apartment in Wuhan with the instant "Connection Reset" message for the last 6 months, whereas the rest of the Python.org site has been available. Perhaps the national Firewall can target geographic areas inside Chi
2075.
by vorg 17y ago
Just made it my new home page!
2076.
by vorg 17y ago
I found a copy of the text on: http://en.mye.ir/a-new-approach-to-china-an-update/ available from within China.
2077.
by vorg 17y ago
Perhaps the spreadsheet component of Google Docs is better than Baidu's.
2078.
by vorg 17y ago
Would be nice to see one dedicated to tech sites in general, e.g., http://www.python.org/download/ which has been blocked by the Firewall within China for the last 6 months.
2079.
China's Hacker Army: A look inside the teeming, chaotic world that exists(foreignpolicy.com)
13 points by vorg 17y ago|2 comments
2080.
by vorg 17y ago
The US will eventually decline economically relative to China, but the US has other advantages, besides military tech. The US has exported its political model to Western Europe over the past 100 years. A lot of middle-class people in China
2081.
by vorg 17y ago
Why is China a top-down Confucian society and the West a bottom-up democratic society? Jared Diamond attributes it to geography: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond_rich/rich_p6.html Just look at the map: http://www.map-of-china.or
2082.
by vorg 17y ago
"The growing threat from China has led Evans to complain that his agency is being forced to divert manpower and resources away from the fight against Al-Qaeda." Good.
2083.
by vorg 17y ago
Speaking as another globalized ex-IT worker teaching English in China... There were 2 points raised by Google... (1) requiring google.cn results to be censored. This doesn't affect me, I just use google.com (2) increased censorship over the
2084.
by vorg 17y ago
As a non-ethnic Chinese who's lived in China many years, the one thing that annoys me is the sweeping access restrictions on sites and blogs related to IT. The other points are fairly irrelevant to me personally. In May 2009, the whole of b
2085.
by vorg 17y ago
"Australia is currently attempting to censor movies, the internet, and video games in rather absurd ways--and just like China, they're getting criticized for it." If China's online censoring was like Australia's, there wouldn't be a problem
2086.
by vorg 17y ago
"it would not surprise me at all if many of these attacks are being done without government sanction" Every Chinese compsci student seems to know who to call if they ever crack into someplace useful.
2087.
by vorg 17y ago
It used to be in China you could get to blogspot easily through proxies. If a proxy server was blocked, you could then find another unblocked one easily enough. But since the Olympics, a new method of blocking blogspot seems to be in place.
2088.
by vorg 17y ago
"an attack from the inside" Of course it was. China is an insider's society.
2089.
by vorg 17y ago
"$600 million in 2010 revenues" But what's the profit, i.e. less the costs? And in what currency and which country's banks is that profit (if any)?
2090.
by vorg 17y ago
Thanks!
2091.
by vorg 17y ago
Could someone post the text of this blog entry here into Hacker News Comments (if doing so isn't a copyright violation)? I live in China, therefore can't read the blog post (though have deduced much of its content from reading these comment
2092.
by vorg 17y ago
It'll be fold-up like a netbook, same size, no keyboard or mouse, but with 2 screens, both touch-sensitive, but one with a texture you can feel, so you can type on it easily. When you unfold it 180 degrees and tilt it around, it'll act like
2093.
by vorg 17y ago
'print' is 5 characters long, 印 is 1 character long. Though in most fonts, CJK characters are twice as wide as Latin, so better make that 2 chars long. 5 chars vs 2 chars over an entire program adds up. In non-indentation languages, that ca
2094.
by vorg 17y ago
By utilizing the potential tersity of CJK characters in the language syntax, English-speaking programmers could make their programs much shorter wrt lines of code. Because there's thousands of CJK characters to choose from, why not just use