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But in the EU you pay for those with your taxes, so it is self-sustaining.

There is a polyfill for IE.

https://github.com/remy/polyfills/blob/master/EventSource.js

As a Venezuelan, living in Venezuela but having lived in the US and China, I can tell you that people here enjoy some very ridiculous subsidies and have to suffer some very draconian laws, which aside from corruption, mismanagement, etc. represent the main factor of how we got here.

College is free, hospitals and medicine at those hospitals is free (quality in those places has gone down the drain over the decades, so if they can afford it, people prefer the private ones), a 37,000 liter gas truck is actually cheaper than buying a box of eggs. Govt tried to replace the gasoline subsidy with a switch to natural gas in vehicles, and the NGV was being provided for free.

On the economic laws front, since 2013, they have imposed strict currency controls, meaning that you can only buy dollars legally through a government sanctioned auction that is next to impossible to make it work, unless you are a relative of somebody there. That in turn has created a massive chaos on the supply chain, from car parts to medicine and basic goods in general. And as always with these restrictions, flourishing black market with skyrocketing prices that led to the current hyperinflation.

Oh and the vast majority of the population pay very little, if any, in taxes. They just have to "declare". Most tax revenue comes from private companies profits and the state oil company of course.

So people want to have the same socialist services as people enjoy in France without the tax rate, while at the same time you have a govt making it hard for business to operate and massive oil income to support the whole craziness. Recipe for success in the wrong way.

I like PHP as well, and ended up getting jobs that had these massive codebases that needed to be updated to modern standards. So, maybe not sexy but plenty of work.

Anyhow, I was recently fiddling with Elixir. Forget the hype and all that. If you like programming languages in general, I think you are going to enjoy this stuff for weekend projects.

Well, to be honest if you want to use websockets, you better do that part in Node.js, Elixir or Go. The creator of Juggernaut, which was one of the most popular websocket library for Rails, ended up porting to Node.js until he said that people should stop using websockets and rely on Server Sent Events instead.

https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/eventsource/basics/

Other than the historical facts, this article is kind of a weird read. The author seems to be guilty of the same thing he's accusing the Chinese president, namely using history to support their version of how this might play out.

Reading that link it says nothing about disabling Google analytics, which is what the parent post implies is at play here. It is not clear that is the case, but if it is, the disable button does nothing to help you.

Firefox's about:config does not seem to work on FF Focus either.

I should point out that Baidu is good for China IF you are searching the Chinese internet. Which means writing stuff in pinyin or Chinese characters. It is pretty cool how it deals with pinyin though.

Plus the other benefit of Baidu is that unlike Bing, where you would get a whole bunch of results, only to find that the page was blocked in China for one reason or another, Baidu allowed you to actually work without too much hassle inside that ridiculous censorship system.

My thoughts exactly. I keep seeing posts in Hacker News promoting Google Cloud through innocent looking blogs. Do not know if that was the case here, but there was another also from Australia, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14809102

I'm pretty sure the platform can hold its own being a Google product and all, but this reads a lot like the posts from Microsoft MVPs back in the day.

I have made a conscious effort to avoid Google products as much as I could for some time, part social experiment, but also because I could use Bing without having to use a VPN while living in China.

My personal results are that you can totally ditch Google Search, Gmail, etc, and no, Google stuff is not orders of magnitude better. Nowadays, living outside the GFW again, I switch freely between Bing and DuckDuckGo, but it will always be a pain in the ass not having access to Youtube. That, imho, is Google's killer product.

And then you have things like Yandex which is a tad better than Google in Russia and Baidu which does the same in China (compared to Google HK)

Ryzen performance is awesome, but the design of that page, omg, it is almost unusable based on how bad the information is presented on Linux/Firefox.

Have you ever had to work with a piece of software, where, since you were not using Gentoo or something, your package manager had a very old package and had to install a new version from source?

I remember around 1999 some sysadmins would say, create your own packages from source stuff that you need. Given the current filesystem, permissions, etc. creating your own stuff is not for the faint of heart. So what you did was search the web in hopes somebody had done it for you.

Fast forward to recent times, if you had to do devops where PHP was involved in some way, you would have felt remi was a guy that should be receiving free beer. Explain why we have arrived to that sort of situations.

Luckily nowadays, the world seems to have centered around Ubuntu, from Docker to whatnot, which makes everybody target Ubuntu at least. But to this day, I'm still a very fond user of Gentoo, even if the compile everything from source approach is a bit crazy, and its latest reincarnation, Funtoo, precisely because it gives me a machine that has everything I need when the time comes to deal with "the package not in my package manager" TM.

On Mac OS X, it has been considered that putting an application folder/icon in the trash (even if some other stuff might happen in the process), was a superior approach to Add/Remove Programs or find package name/uninstall with package manager approach of most distros.

So maybe you are a die hard fan of old ways, but it clearly is a mess and not user friendly at all. Just look at why the LSB was created and more importantly, why nobody is following it 100%. If that does not seem like a problem to you I don't know what to tell you.

As for the root structure, they do mention in the article that it is optional. It can be turned off by disabling the kernel extension.

I did not say the help needed to come from Google, but that it had to be paid for, and not exactly with pocket change.

Excuse me for being so stubborn, but this article reads like a paid for piece by Google. There is not enough information about who Andrew Walker is, and last time I checked, you needed to have some real professional help to create those kind of infographics.

Oh, and I have just checked, and I really hate when people do this without a disclaimer: "3wks has been a Google Cloud Services Partner since 2012, building digital solutions for enterprise customers and public sector organisations specialising in web and mobile solutions on GCP."

Yes, they clearly have the resources to do that. Maybe you can propose a prototype in Rust?

You are more than welcome to contribute and since you have a very strong opinion it seems you know your stuff, so go for it, nobody is charging a dime to work there in any case.

$1000 bucks can get you decent living standards in developing countries. But I would not say by a long shot he is in the top 5% by any standard.

Developing countries main characteristic is the huge disparity between the haves and have-nots, which of course, leads to emigration and crime among other issues. Countries with a large middle class therefore are relatively better off.

In any case, making $4000 per month or more is what'll get you royalty style living in those countries.

Please make sure the new one works well with mobile devices. I tried the current dashboard but only works in the desktop, looks really nice though even if a bit cluttered. But otherwise keep up the good work.

As far as truth is concerned, there can be no algorithm that can take care of that for a very simple reason. Media has an inherent bias all the time, be it geographical, cultural, political, etc.

Read an article in the BBC about the Russian Federation or China, and it will always have some sort of, oh but check this bad thing these guys are doing, or they are weird in some way.

Do the same with Fox News and you will come out with a view that Democrats are ruining the country.

I could go on and on, but the most effective way to get your daily fix is, read both sides of an issue by their promoters. Read what the bigot and the gay guy are saying. What the jew and the muslim are saying. What the Chinese and Japanese are saying.

Make up your mind, choose sides, but at least you will have tiny pieces of info that were conveniently left out by the other side.

I thought HN was not about politics according to the guidelines.

And I suggest following gettext's lead in this regard, so that on your code you would have something like:

i18nstrings = {'My string':<?= _('My string') ?>, 'Second string':<?= _('Second string') ?>};

then you can just do stuff like elem.innerHTML = i18nstrings['My string'];

Of course, you process the language header in the backend.

I reviewed a couple of i18n libraries for javascript but ended up liking this approach more. It was simple and effective.

It seems that you need a VPN. Best way to bypass stupid restrictions like that.

Of course, the downside is that you will probably have to get two accounts so that you can still get stuff in Dutch. I was doing this stuff while in China, still a bit slow but doable.

Or you just charge a good salary, since after all if one is to be an employee, let's keep things good for everybody. To the owners, this is your company, and for us, hell if you want to build a rocket to the moon I'll help but this is my fee.

So you are saying that the Wright brothers did not innovate because Alberto Santos Dumont among others did the first experiments regarding aviation (or heavy aviation as they say)?

This is the first time in my life that I have heard about mixi.jp. Facebook was able to capture not only the US but almost the whole world for that matter. Again, dismissing those achievements as if they were nothing really does not give them proper credit.

Just tell him it is annoying, half-jokes work wonders for this kind of stuff: hey, you should watch out for this guy, he will drive you insane with his headphone assault, as if he was testing a mic or something.

I worked with this great guy once but he had this tendency to fart from time to time, until during lunch with the team, I just said, jesus, I'm going to install a fart detector under every chair to see who is the sucker farting all the time and then just call him out loudly. Not going to say that it worked 100% but, it was like a 90% improvement, plus we all had a big laugh every time we hit the topic.

He used the tools in the right way, and it was no small feat that should be dismissed that easily. Just a quick summary:

1) Give consumers what they want instead of what you think they want.

2) He used tools as intended. Instead of wasting time implementing Erlang trying to achieve the best messaging platform ever, he went with something that was popular and was easy to understand for everybody at the time, which was PHP. Then went on to improve the system as they needed with HHVM, React, React Native, etc.

3) As much as somebody can hate Facebook for being a social network/privacy leech, which is something a lot of programmers dismiss precisely because of the social part, just the fact they popularized React as one of the defacto front-end frameworks speaks volumes about how they can push real innovation for everybody else.

4) And even simple stuff like sharing pictures. I still remember vividly how awkward was to share pictures before Facebook. Sure, I think Flickr or similar stuff was there already, but nobody is going to keep clicking on your gallery so they can see how an amazing photographer you are. Sometimes the greatest innovation is in the simplest things, and if you ask me, this was THE feature they brought to the table.

Well, my college (not a fancy one mind you) was actually using povray to get people started on opengl circa 2000. Don't know if it was the best method but it worked. As for OpenGL itself, back then the best resource I remember were the NeHe tutorials

After dealing with mandarin and sichuanese, sorry, I cannot agree with you. Some languages are just plain hard.

All I will say is that you should close Wikipedia, go learn French in Southern France for 3 months and then comeback and reread what you wrote.

Just because other countries have different systems, does not mean it is not working out for them, or that we need to start doing silly number comparisons that say nothing about the culture of each country.

France is doing pretty good in the engineering department, naval, nuclear and aeronautics are top notch. I would guess that the university system is not that bad eh?

The US has a great learning system for higher education, and the expensive part is covered with the high salaries you get afterwards. Plus the best part of being in America, always be in the front row for new movies, videogames, etc (well, Japan sometimes gets the games first, but oh well)

So don't be a hater, just go out and explore stuff. Diversity is what makes us great.