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sorpaas··on Purely Functional Linux with NixOS [video]
What I really worry about is my nonfree wireless driver and Nvidia driver, which doesn't seem to be available on Guix.
sorpaas··on Programming Language Rankings: June 2016
Clojure worked for me until I started to do parallel programming. I tried to use core.async but immediately found that I'm using two distinct style of programming, and code reuse became a serious problem.

I didn't find any resources on how other Clojure programmers deal with this problem, but this eventually lead me to drop Clojure and Clojurescript, and use Elixir and Elm instead.

sorpaas··on WikiLeaks releases AKP email database
An initial search gave me lots of spams and malware...
sorpaas··on GNOME's plan to discourage portable Gtk apps
Not a problem for NixOS!
sorpaas··on You probably don't need a JavaScript framework
Greenspun's tenth rule: Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

Now let's add Javascript to the list.

sorpaas··on NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
IMHO, this is all due to lack of a standard library in the Javascript world.
sorpaas··on Package managers should be immutable, distributed and decentralized
Nix (https://nixos.org/nix), probably?
sorpaas··on YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running
> it then produces a delay if the ad can't be downloaded

That's exactly how Chinese video websites like Youku and Sohu Video work.

sorpaas··on Investigate switching away from GitHub
The thread mentioned that leaving Github would mean losing visibility / discoverability. Just wonder why people rely so much on Github for that. Maybe all we need is a a search engine / directory for open source projects?
sorpaas··on The Chinese character system is a brake on development
See Wikipedia [1]. Movable type was first invented in China around A.D 1040, about four hundred years earlier than in the western world.

In Qing Dynasty, the government used it to print 64 sets of the encyclopedic Gujin Tushu Jicheng. Each set consisted of 5040 volumes, making a total of 322,560 volumes printed using movable type.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_type

sorpaas··on Show HN: Figure, a Fig powered mini-Heroku
That's for deleting apps, since docker volumes may produce something that only root can access. Haven't found ways to get around it, any suggestions?
sorpaas··on What happens when DNS in China is poisoned and pointed at your server
Also Chinese here, GFW is really a shame for us.
sorpaas··on China to create $6.5B venture capital fund to support start-ups
This national capital has already been set up since 2009, so there's not so much new things about it.

If you can read Chinese, here's some "inner people" commenting about it: http://www.zhihu.com/question/24838323

sorpaas··on Aloha Followers – Find out more what languages your Twitter followers speak
Why you need permission to see my twitter password and post on behalf of me?
sorpaas··on Show HN: My Personal Hacker News Reader
The article id is public (they are public on the Internet anyway). But it's not possible (at least as designed) to access any user-specific information if not logged in.
sorpaas··on Show HN: My Personal Hacker News Reader
Sorry I'm a bit late.

No. It's not possible to guess someone else's article (I guess you probably mean reading records here). Those reading records must be get or set with a cookie that indicate the user has logged in with the right account (which is done by ajax in the code).

sorpaas··on China Just Blocked Thousands of Websites
I'm really surprised that so many people are still just talking about it in an economic prospective. I'm not talking about Human Rights or Freedom because the government don't event accept them. I just want to surf the Internet.

Currently it works well because we get more and more tools to deal with GFW, but do you know how frustrating it is in the early days of the Internet in China that you spent nearly half of your life just to solve "networking issues"?

Put yourself in others' shoes for a moment please.

sorpaas··on Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform
Thank you Microsoft!
sorpaas··on Please remove mitsuhiko/*
It seems to mean go back from the committer to the project that is funded, not tip4commit's coffers.
sorpaas··on Ask HN: Startup School Europe: were invitations sent?
Neither do I. Still no invitation yet.
sorpaas··on Mail Pilot App
Why we again treat our mail box as a GTD list? Isn't it more convenient to use a fully functional GTD task manager such as org mode?
sorpaas··on Advice for ambitious 19 year olds (2013)
This article is talking about 3 important things:

* Build important stuff.

* Learn new things / be around talented people.

* Take right risks.

sorpaas··on Accepted projects – Google Summer of Code 2014
Sad. I didn't make it either...
sorpaas··on Put.io
If you live in China, you will find Xunlei(lixian.xunlei.com) and Xuanfeng(lixian.qq.com) all have similar functions.