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bangkoknightson Google’s Go has some coders raving

> "The issue for PHP and even Node.js is obviously you're trapped in a single-threaded situation and what I really wanted was to be able to do a lot of things concurrently,"

Remember "Node.js is cancer"? Remember how the Node.js fanboys would bully programmers on social media who critiqued it? At no point have I seen Go programmers hype up the language and attack others.

I sincerely hope the "brogrammers" and "hackers" who beat their chest about Rails and Node.js and whatever framework was/is flavor of the day, do not start using Go.

They will be a negative force in the community and it will be sickening to see them pump up the hype and declare themselves as champions of Go.

bangkoknightson Mayor unveils plan for $1.5bn Chinese business district in London

Only yesterday it was announced "China Builds EU Beachhead With $5 Billion City in Belarus" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5783373

bangkoknightson China Builds EU Beachhead With $5 Billion City in Belarus

Belarus doesn't have civil war and terrorists blowing things up on its border.

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Hear hear. This advert should not be on HN.

bangkoknightson A Chinese farmer has built his own pair of prosthetic arms from scratch

Keep hearing stories like this.

Makes me think there's quite the hacker culture in China and other developing countries, driven out of necessity and lack of (or looser) regulation.

This farmer couldn't afford to buy prosthetics so he built his own for 1/10 of the cost and is now selling them to other people in the same situation.

I imagine in the US and EU he would have been shut down over patents, health & safety, etc.

bangkoknightson China Builds EU Beachhead With $5 Billion City in Belarus

Everything you describe sounds like China in 1980. They designated Shenzhen as a special economic zone and it became a model for the rest of the country. Whether or not Belarus benefits in the long run, who knows, but it's a good deal for China.

The EU sanctions expire in a few months, and currently only target individuals and companies, there is no general trade embargo so access to EU markets should be fine. Also China and the US are outside every single European institution but there is plenty of trade.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/15/belarus-eu-sanctio...

Being landlocked won't be an issue for exporting finished goods to the EU, but perhaps there will be an issue for raw materials and component supplies.

bangkoknightson China Builds EU Beachhead With $5 Billion City in Belarus

> The hub will put Chinese exporters within 170 miles of EU members Poland and Lithuania and give them tax-free entry into Russia and Kazakhstan, which share a customs union. It will also let them draw from a workforce that’s 99.6 percent literate and makes $560 a month on average, half the Polish wage.

Imagine a Shenzhen on the edge of Europe. This is probably a hammer blow for domestic manufacturing in EU countries.

Chinese outsourcing and freedom from EU regulation will be just an hour or two away from every single entrepreneur in Europe.