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edwinyzh

351 karma · joined March 22, 2012

Hi,

I'm Edwin Yip. I mainly develop in Delphi. My newest and key project is (https://docxmanager.com). Basically it helps authors who uses Microsoft Word organize and plan their writings, and optionally generate modern-looking websites out of their documents.

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edwinyzh··on Night Images Reveal Many New Detention Sites in China’s Xinjiang Region
American Nathan Rich knows something about Xinjiang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EovpQE6dZeE
edwinyzh··on The Xinjiang Data Project
American Nathan Rich knows something about Xinjiang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EovpQE6dZeE
edwinyzh··on Calibre 5.0
Yes, I use Delphi for all my software :) Delphi rocks and unfortunately it's mismanaged :(
edwinyzh··on Calibre 5.0
Congrats! I'm your competitor - except it's built-on top of Microsoft Word, and is still in an early state :)

For those interested: https://DocxManager.com

Edit: Sorry, I was wrong, I thought it's "ebook writer" software :P

edwinyzh··on Trump’s WeChat curbs halted by judge on free speech concerns
And then let the ordinary people to elect a president like Trump who "knows anything better then everyone else" and just got laughed at by the entire World in an UN conference? No, not a good thing in my view.

I prefer a team of government which has proved it has a true vision, which has proved its ability to execute the vision, which has proved its ability to the lead the people to a better future, which has proved its ability to protect the people from imperialism such as what we're seeing in recent years, which is aiming at and actually eliminating poverty from the vast majority of people... rather than a government which is elected by big corps.

Edit 1: BTW, I myself believed in the so-called US-style democracy and election, until I saw what happened in those "taught by the US" democracy countries such as the Middle-east, Ukraine, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, several South American countries, and especially, in America itself, in the past decades, especially in recent years. Trust me, I believed it in my heart.

Edit 2: I just got to know the name of Andre Vltchek the independent journalist who got killed recently, I read several excerpts of his reports. I think he knows something about the international things.

edwinyzh··on Trump’s WeChat curbs halted by judge on free speech concerns
Wait! I heard that the US is a "democracy country" and "believe rule of law"?
edwinyzh··on Trump’s WeChat curbs halted by judge on free speech concerns
Before 1949 China was dominated by KMT, and then KMT got kicked out to Taiwan by CCP.

The question is, why CCP won given that KMT is backed by the US (advanced weapons supply, money, and so on) while CCP was so weak in terms of army?

Because the vast majority of the people (most are farmers and industry workers) joined and helped CCP.

I think that's why.

edwinyzh··on China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet
For the record, I'm a pro-CCP Chinese who turned from a CCP hater. I hated it because I was young, saw some bad things happened in the past, and read too much biased, anti-CCP opinions.

I've become an advocate of CCP after I learned some history, after having a deeper and broader understanding of all the things, after seeing what happened in the past ten, especially in the past 2 years, and so on.

You can check my HN profile and can easily tell that I'm not pretend to be, but is actually independent of CCP.

My father is a member of CCP though. Before my age of 30 or so, the one thing that I do the most when I'm home is to argue with him about the badness of CCP.

I'm older now, and it turned out that he's opinion was right, although he wasn't able to convince me - I came to my conclusion on my own, by self-thinking, reading, and observing.

I'm not saying that CCP is perfect, I still hate the Great firewall, but it's a complex issue that I'm not going to expand on it here.

Anyone who's with an open mind and is curious about my change (I know a lot of people changed like me), feel free to ask any question.

edwinyzh··on Commerce Department Prohibits WeChat and TikTok Transactions
No, there is a BIG difference - Google, Facebook and others can operate in China if they comply with local laws; Tell me which U.S. laws wechat and TikTok violate?
edwinyzh··on Whistleblower: Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility
Of course you are not China. You are the United States which has been systematically sterilizing indigenous populations up until the 70s.
edwinyzh··on Whistleblower: Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility
Maybe because it's about bad things happened in the United States?
edwinyzh··on VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment
It's very cool!
edwinyzh··on Accused spy Alexander Yuk Ching Ma evidently beat the polygraph
China has recently abandoned the use of Polygraph (I read such a news recently).
edwinyzh··on Street View of 1940s New York
Do you why?
edwinyzh··on Browser Extensions I Can't Live Without
Thanks! Following your tips I found the Chrome equivalent (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sessionbox-free-mu...), but not sure how good it's compared to Firefox Container Tabs
edwinyzh··on Show HN: Brick, a free Notion-like tool for zero-hassle site making
So looks mine is on the right track:) https://docxmanager.com
edwinyzh··on SQLite as an Application File Format (2014)
You are right! In our Delphi/Pascal community we have https://github.com/synopse/mORMot, which is a full client/server DB, remote ORM and RPC system based on top of SQLite.
edwinyzh··on Windows Explorer Through the Years
For document tabs, file tags, notes, and so on, can I recommend my DocxManager (https://docxmanager.com) for "File Manager for Word documents"?
edwinyzh··on Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
Not sure why, my eyes have never been able to bear with the dark modes on all software...
edwinyzh··on Windows Explorer Through the Years
I second your rationale because I always do that like you.

And the good news is that, you can achieve that with Listary. I'm using an old version of it due to few years ago I found that new versions do perform as fast as the old ones.

edwinyzh··on Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?
or a Free Pascal server (powered by mORMot (https://github.com/synopse/mORMot))? Natively compiled, high performance, and supports almost all OS's and CPU's
edwinyzh··on Htmx – high power tools for HTML
Yes, I wish the author will offer a smooth upgrade path for the existing intercooler.js users, because my heard wants such a thing to be adopted by people. I like the concept very much!
edwinyzh··on Qt 5.15 LTS
Pascal/Delphi code is soooooo clean to read and code in! And it's quite modern: https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal_introduction.html
edwinyzh··on Qt 5.15 LTS
Or https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

- Decades of active development - Proven concepts (same paradigm as .Net, VB and Delphi) - Supports a lot of OS/CPU.

Edit: To get started easily with tasks like cross-compiling, getting the trunk edition, and so on, use (https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fpcupdeluxe) to perform the download and installation.

edwinyzh··on Why NetNewsWire Is Fast
Sure, that's how quality software is built. And performance is a key part of quality software.
edwinyzh··on SQLite 3.32
I also didn't know about it before! Cool
edwinyzh··on SQLite 3.32
For Windows also check HeidiSQL (open source, very feature-rich)
edwinyzh··on China’s new plan to seize the world’s tech crown from the U.S
If the goal ever reached (personally I'm confident in the long run, but not sure about the time frame), it must be the present government. Why, because CCP represents the majority of the people, not the capitalists.
edwinyzh··on Next dream job can be in an HTTP header
About ten years ago I discovered tencent was doing a similar thing in the console of Chrome's DevTools
edwinyzh··on Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?
Unfortunately, it's for Windows only
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