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fantasticfearson Chinese app included malware to gain competitive advantage

Value proposition, we sends ridiculous low price products to you from merchants. We facilitate the transactions. In return, your personal data’s value will be extracted by us. A high level bargain of privacy disguised in tech.

fantasticfearson Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia

Is there an infobox display?

fantasticfearson Mechanical Induction Cooker (2015)

I read nothing out of this webpage

fantasticfearson Mendeley encrypts users' database after Zotero provides an importer

Good point. I'm trying to get my dump from them.

fantasticfearson Mendeley encrypts users' database after Zotero provides an importer

Do you try tools like Scholia building bib file which is using Wikidta? https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/about

fantasticfearson I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA

P.R.China has a strong policy to control information and policy restriction. What do you think of the possible problems for YC to cooperate with Chinese companies? Does that impede the growth of a startup?

fantasticfearson Unicorn: C++ Unicode string library

It's hard but needed to differentiate between UTF-16 and UChar byte array. UChar byte array are not essentially an well-formed UTF-16 string. Beyond, why bother use UnicodeString? It's fairly easy to use. It covers the detail from your sight.

It's indeed super cool to see a modern Unicode C++ library. But anyway, is it really useful for production usage? The answer could be no. In contrast, ICU was old, battle-tested, compact and well-tested.

fantasticfearson The Internet Map

Found a lot of web site I have aware of. great.

fantasticfearson Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer

So RSA sells its customers for $10 million, and NSA wastes $10 million.