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There're plenty of certification exams in the tech field though they're never required by law, and most companies wouldn't use them as a primary criteria in making decision of new hires.

Not sure about Americans, but more and more Chinese are moving back to China when they could have lived in LA or New York or anywhere they want. Also, Hong Kong is not as important as it used to be. It's also very common to see people from Hong Kong and Taiwan moving to China mainland to work nowadays, especially if they work in tech.

The only fact reported by this article, is that a Singapore company is trying to acquire a US company, and the author has to make it ALL about China. If people didn't read the article careful enough, they'd probably not see the word "Singapore" at all

My guess is that many of those hackers willing to take much lower salary for ethics and morality are either already rich or do not have the burden of supporting a family yet. It's already hard for someone to take low salary job when plenty of much better paying jobs are available, it'd be way more harder for someone to do that consistently throughout their life.

It is not lost. There are still plenty of tools that helps individuals publish their own web content, yet most people would simply post on social media now.

I think most people only want to get their ideas published. Whether it is in the form of tweets, blogs or their own sites, it does not matter much. If social media were available in this early era, average people wouldn't need to publish their own sites.

Before reaching any conclusions, would you let us know how specific is Technology X? Is it like a library or a framework? How uncommon is that?

If it's something commonly used by lots of developers and needed by lots of companies, I think it'd be fair to think of it as a bad signal at least.

The giants (Google, etc) have great engineers, but they also often use technologies that's very different from the general public.

Being an engineer from those companies are great, but it doesn't automatically qualify you for any job on the market.

As we keep sending probes to Mars, maybe some of the toughest forms of life might be transported to Mars and become Martian before human does

How long is the train ride usually? I've never been to NY

Good point! Would you prefer to have Obama in office for his 3rd term or Trump?

This is pure bullshit

Well, plenty of the richest people in China has no connection with the red families. The most prominent companies in China now, like Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, are all founded by regular people. Who would have thought Jack Ma would become the richest people in China?

The inner disagreement in Communist party of China could be as big as whether to adopt democracy or more central control of power; whether to stick to communism or drop it. That hadn't break the party into multiple ones so far

The only chance that would trigger China invading Taiwan is that it declares to be an fully independent country, in which case China will probably do so at any cost, even if it means full scale war with U.S. Will U.S. be ready for that?