mmport80

iirc, the clients use the certs but ignore them. but to the censor they see the certs are well known, so allow them thru

I tried to do FP with Python a few years ago..

It taught me to just stay canonical, otherwise it's frustrating (maybe my expectations were too high!).

You can't come close to Haskell / Elm experience and Python will give you lots of papercuts along the way.

Rust is another language which gives us the kitchen sink, allows anyone to do anything when they are in a bind.

- quoting Jon Carmack -

whatever the compiler allows in, will eventually be included in your codebase

It's an improvement over C. But where were the hard decisions? Where is the line in the sand on safety? (I am hopingg to bbe educatted! ; ))

It's not the future, just more of the past.

I suppose, I expect more from NYT

Interesting how American citizens / informants are seduced and reckless, whereas Chinese sources act out of worries about corruption.

E7ther biases, or possibly about to change sharply in age of Trump.

Many would argue that not switching to pinyin was a huge error.

Chinese literacy isn't necessarily that great...

E.g.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-literacy-rate-in-China-so-h...

Actually - the legend goes - that Mao wanted to ditch Chinese characters in favour of Pinyin, until Stalin said every great civilisation needs its own writing system.

Chinese writing was seen as a factor in holding back the country - everything was up for change or removal.

Cool!