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songco

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songco··on Java 14 GA
I use LTS in my project, my project is an big enterprise product, sell to big companies and govs/banks, some customer have very strict control on security, e.g. In one of my customers, a big bank, there's a seperate secutiry team, the team scan my the servers with my product monthly, onces the scans found any security issue(generally they are CVEs), the securty team notify product team those security issues my be fixed in 2 days, or network to/from those servers will be blocked. So we got highest level support case. In my case, security fix for java is very important, and it's not a good idea to follow non-lts java releases(there's no overlap in java's minor releases).
songco··on S&P 500 triggers 15-minute trading halt for the second time this week
From 20+ of my friends in Wuhan, the numbers most likely correct. And in my city, a small city in China with about 3M population, there's about 100 total confirmed cases in the past 2 months, there's news spreaded in local social network for every case before official confirmation. IMO, it's very hard to hide numbers.

In early stage of Wuhan(Jan 2020), there's hiding numbers, and there's lots 'rumours' widely spreaded on social network, e.g. Lots messages from medical staffs in Wuhan, so we known the numbers of Wuhan is not correct. But in recent weeks there's no such 'rumours', the gov may have strong control on many things, but it's not possible to control all(most?) 'rumours'..

songco··on Xinjiang University President Tashpolat Tiyip Sentenced to Death in Secret Trial
Is it related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_rio... ? Xinjiang is my hometown, the riots is terrible, many people died in the event(most in the first 2 days), I was impressed becuase I know one man's two twin girls killed in the riots, and the angry man orginized many workers in the next day's riots(revenge...)

It's a complex thing, as I know, there's too many media misleading, in both side.

songco··on Apple Special Event Livestream [video]
Any hardware updates? I hope there’s new iPhone se.
songco··on So you want your app/website to work in China
"local-phone-number registration requirements" because it's required that it's should be easy to find the real person(account->phone number->id number) for all user generated content
songco··on CRISPR-baby scientist fired by university
Maybe many countries have similar secret projects.... but obviously public projects are not allowed.
songco··on CRISPR-baby scientist fired by university
It's ok and good thing if the results is only positive like "Bigger, faster, stronger, and MUCH smarter". (Maybe not include Bigger?)

The worst part of this is that it may not safe. If this introduced some flaws in the babies gene, how to control this, don't allow them have babies?

songco··on The Ant Design Christmas Egg That Went Wrong
Comments from the dev of the Easter Egg: 1. He commented it's a small thing, don't need to include in changelog. So nearly all users don't known this 2. Another his comment: "I have already prepared for the complains"
songco··on The Ant Design Christmas Egg That Went Wrong
The framework mark itself as enterprise level Used by many small companies in china, and those companies delivers products to many different customers, include chinese gov/military, and maybe some the middle east customers.

So the problem is that: 1. Chinese gov/military don't allow celebration of Christmas in their office.(CCP members not allowed to have religious belief) 2. It's a critical thing for some customers like The Middle east 3. If it's a hidden Easter Egg hard to trigger, it's ok; but it's not.

songco··on Why only 2% of Chinese pay any income tax
consumption tax is 17% in China, and yes, the tax not listed on price tag, actually print consumption tax on price tag is not allowed in a certain degree...

Many people in China don't know this consumption tax, and some may say "I don't pay any tax to gov" and of cause it's not true.

songco··on iPhones are hard to use
I also use 3D touch many times every day. Mainly for mobile payments, example: 1. Pay for bus fare: unlock->find app->3d touch->select "show payment barcode" 2. Instant payment in restaurant: unlock->find app(e.g. wechat)->3d touch->"show payment barcode"/OR "scan barcode" to scan restaurant's bar code for payment

Without 3d touch you need one more step to open the app, and maybe more steps to find menu for payments(depends on apps you use)

edit: just found some apps(not all) provide widget to access features like payment...

songco··on What laptop are you using for your day to day work and why?
Desktop workstation for most of day work Laptop(Dell M5510) only for meetings, I prefer a 12 inch, slim laptop, but my company only provide 1 option....
songco··on Serverless: Cold Start War
Great comparisons
songco··on China's Peer-To-Peer Lenders Are Falling Like Dominoes as Panic Spreads
Lots of them provide more than 15% ROR, too high that some normal company also put lots of money to p2p. This is crazy and it is certain most of them(p2p) will go broke.
songco··on Google Pay
Yes, the GFW blocked all google services...
songco··on Google Pay
So another google service we can't access from China.
songco··on XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available
I have precision 5510, the main problem is random shutoffs, I suspect it caused by the overheating of ssd, my laptop hae 1T ssd, and several shutoffs occurs when I copying large number of files(e.g. more than 100GB), but I can't reproduce this when I perform the copy test.
songco··on PostgreSQL Benchmark on FreeBSD, CentOS, Ubuntu Debian and OpenSUSE
Great test, thanks.
songco··on Behind the fall and rise of China's Xiaomi
Xiaomi grocery store
songco··on Man jailed for over 5 years and fined $76K for selling VPN in southern China
Setup VPN on Cloud VMs for personal usage -> Generally ok, and you may need to stop it if police known it... Share it with others -> Maybe ok if not too many people, and you need to stop it if police known it... Sell it to others -> dangerous if you lived in China.

The GFW have the ability to detect VPN connections and you will got a connection reset...It’s more and more difficult to use blocked service/site in china.

songco··on Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State Overwhelms Daily Life
I was born in Xinjiang and lived there for more than 20 years. My parents still live there.

It's a complex thing and in my hometown, no one complain the surveillance generally.

songco··on Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life
Maybe provide an option in settings is a better idea...

Or even better, provide a level of battery saving.

songco··on Jailed for a Text: China’s Censors Are Spying on Mobile Chat Groups
Not surprised by this, for a long time, China's official policy is: all UGC must under control, or just blocked by GFW.

So the real-name system applied to weibo(twitter)/zhihu(quora)/wechat/phone numbers/forums.....

songco··on The web sucks if you have a slow connection
And the GFW(great fire wall)...
songco··on LLVM's New Versioning Scheme
I prefer versions like 16.12 or 2016.12...
songco··on China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
1. Part, When compared with average salary. Some of my friends spend 3 hours on the way between home and office everyday...even they worked in big tech companies like Baidu. For marriage, most of my classmates without house get married, this is a problem but not "little chance". 2. Yes. 3. Part. 4. Don't know, it's OK in my opinion. 5. Yes, it terrible..air/water/land

Some more: 1. food security, this is also terrible 2. lots of people don't follow rules like run the red light and cutting into the line 3. Health care, it's cheap, but the quality is poor, especially in small cities.There's more than 10 medical accident among my relatives

songco··on Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com
Agree, as a dev on a large distributed project(include software/hardware), I don't recommend any team to use distributed storage system in production IF they don't have lots experience on it..especially opensource system.
songco··on Francisco Partners and Elliott Management to Acquire the Dell Software Group
They sold us again.
songco··on $149 Chromebooks
It's a shame that all Google services blocked by China gov.
songco··on China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub
there's lots of China company/sites, you can't block all of them.
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