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Yeah, but they usually don't originate from the same location. So instead of matching destination, now you have to match destination and departure location.

First of all, that comment is mixed with a bit of rant. But seriously, the issue is so much more than mere access to Facebook. The connection to GitHub, Google Code, or anything via ssh or HTTPS in general is slow, flaky and frustrating. This poses a cost on acquiring latest news and technology, collaborating and deploying. AS for the walled garden, there's a Chinese saying of 闭门造车, which says if you build a cart with a closed door without any exchange of ideas, you can't make much progress. (Though that's not what the phrase originally meant, but the meaning when the phrase evolved)

As long as the government doesn't allow unobstructed access to foreign websites that aren't even remotely related to politics I don't see that transition any time soon. </rant>

The difference is between "given this particular hardware and OS setup, the driver will work correctly, guaranteed." vs. "on your (discontinued) Sony laptop with a strange hardware interface running the beta Slackware release the driver will probably work"

I'll take a shot. If I understand it correctly, basically components have dependencies. For example, A depends on B and B depends on C, etc. If you have A depends on B... and somehow along the path you have a cycle, eg. E depends on A, you have a problem because in order to install A, you need to install B, C,... E. But in order to install E you need to install A first. So you have to break the dependency cycle.

Nah, they will just sweep it under the rug in the name of national security. Not even a post-mortem because that would put some highly ranked people whom about to become the advisors of the defense industry on the grilling fire.

I'm curious because once you have the ability to understand several-hour-per-page materials reading novels should be a breeze?

Bug report: the add public key page doesn't recognize the public key exported by GnuPG which has the header

  -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
  Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin)
I figured out that the second line with version should be removed but the error message is not quite helpful.

Inventing computer with Chinese/Arabic is inherently harder because it's more difficult to type such characters. Once you pass the punctuation card stage, now what? Build a huge keyboard with 10s of thousand of Chinese characters? It took 13 years for MS-DOS to support typing in Chinese.

I would argue it is broken. >It can handle a limited amount of traffic, and controllers can't see anything outside of their own airspace—when they hand off a plane to a contiguous airspace, it vanishes from their radar.

To me there's no way to tell if the plane flies out of their space or drops out of the sky at that moment. If that's the case the search and rescue won't be better had MH370 happened in the US.

I originally discovered this issue a month ago when debugging my friend's Lenovo laptop. Neither chrome nor IE can render battle.net correctly because the HTML injection is not properly escaped. Since the problem persists after a fresh recovery, I guess it's from some pre-installed software. I almost reported it to FBI.

China 11 years ago

Well, not really. Then you have all the funding agencies above them.

China 11 years ago

Speaking from personal experience, the atmosphere in the U.S. is a lot better than in China, in terms of the recognition of importance and respect to science and technology fields as well as scientists and engineers. I feel an implicit discrimination towards engineers in Chinese culture in the sense that "you are regarded successful if you hold a management position and live a (perceived) decent lifestyle, but not if you get your hands dirty, tinkering around stuff and being managed." when I worked in China. In Chinese college, the "elite majors" including cooperation and government management usually have the highest bar of admission.

But for some kinds of applications it seems that the only viable options are still C and C++ ... and you could never, ever, make it so fast and small using any other language. C++ and C are the only options you have here.

Is Go a viable alternative now?