suryon

+1 for mentioning entry level book. Can anyone comment about quality?

Very nice. Really good job :-)

I am not going to try to convince you that's none of my business. You are either coming from top 10% of talented chinese or your family was simply rich. 90% chinese can't afford what you can.

And air pollution is not problem in China ? Are you kidding me ? Just ask my any korean in Seoul how air pollution from China is not a problem. And THAT IS SEOUL that's being hit by chinese air pollution.

The pollution in chinese cities is too big to not consider it an issue.

Sorry but your yellow fever is blinding you to see and accept the facts. I am not american nor is english my native language and i do not watch any mainstream english media.

Yes you do not see a gun violence in China because guns are banned and are only in possession of military and triads. The most violent crimes are carried by the poorest using knives,shovels or anything they can use. And that is not being reported by anybody. Or do you really believe in country of 1.5bn that it is impossible to hide these crimes ?

In China if you are a white foreigner you can freely walk around drunk because if you go missing it is not that easy to hide the truth from the public.

Guns are US problem hey have you heard of 2nd most brutal shooting ? That happened in Korea a country where even a licensed hunters have to put their weapons in safes in police stations.

The worst mafia in China is its government. I know you do not care about any of these because you live in a relatively rich region but only if you would see millions of poor souls working in China then you would finally understand.

Rich and big cities are not CHINA! They are mostly a relict of past western influence.

First of all you know nothing about me and that's fine.

Second just because you live in Hong Kong or Shenzhen it does not mean you know anything about China. Especially these 2 do not reflect anything at all about China. And that is fine that might be the reason why have you chosen them and not the other places in China.

Third. You do not seem to speak the Chinese language.

Fourth. Just because you have a positive prejudice towards China does not mean you are right.

Fifth. If you would know something about authoritarian regimes and especially China or NK you would know that hiding and punishing beggars is a common practice to save face.

Sixth. Please educate me how country of 1.3bn has a lot less beggars and violent crimes than US a country of 320m.

Seventh. If you have never lived in a communist country you surely can't be aware of propaganda and hiding of crimes. Ask some chinese friends of yours how hiding crimes, especially the violent ones goes in China. How it was in every communist state. You will be surprised.

Eighth. I understand you like China/Chinese more than Americans but do not close your eyes before the crimes of these regimes I am begging you. For all of those that died and suffered in gulags

Ninth. I recommend you to visit countryside and especially the northern region if you have the balls.

Thanks for commenting. I hope you did not get from my comment above that I have a negative opinion about chinese people in general.

It's quiet the opposite in fact. People of China have achieved a lot but I am afraid too many of chinese people had to and still have to suffer and distribution of wealth in China is worse than in the other parts of the earth.

Being rich does not guarantee that you will have a good life anywhere. There are numerous other things you have to consider. Yes a rich man can buy a big land for himself and build a wall to keep the beggars outside. He can even move to the countryside and never go out or use a private jets / helicopters.

The thing is that China is a home for a lot of people and is too polluted and crowded because of wealth distribution. If people do not care about the environment, intellectual property and a countless of other things then being rich and filthy rich are too different things.

A wealthy man can walk the streets of european/american cities without worrying too much about its health or not having a space for himself without guards. Do not forget that european / us cities are dwarves compared to Asia in general.

The movie Elysium is a good picture (maybe too exaggerated but hey) of people being wealthy in China.

Yes you can have a good life in a golden cage but it's still a cage.

This is true. And it's already becoming a reality. You can see a lot of "stupid" managers in corporations being incredibly wealthy compared to some talented technicians that actually do stuff for them. The only thing these managers are good at is pushing idiotic processes to corporate system and hoarding money.

Then you obviously have no idea what you are talking about. And the air pollution in China is something you can't imagine. The VW scandal is nothing compared to chinese air pollution.

And China is far worse than the former Soviet Union because they have more money and more control. Being lower class in China is far worse than in former states of the soviet union.

Yeah autocratic capitalist country my ass. Did you get your pills today ? There is not a true communist state in the world. Not even DPRK. But China after DPRK has the most communist traits. It's ugly regime and if you have never been there or did business with them you have no clue what you are talking about. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.

To those that believe that US system is rotten and ineffective and think that Chinese are doing something right because they are Chinese I can tell you only one thing. NEVER TRUST A COMMUNIST REGIME.

Even if you compare millionaires to millionaires the quality of life in China is far worse than in the USA. Never trust a communist propaganda. Never ever do that. The gov and chinese in general are known for trying to save face at every occasion and will fabricate anything that can benefit them.

If USA and UK is so bad then why thousands of Chinese are trying to immigrate there ? In Communist regime even if you are good and talented you will become a property of the state and they will use you for their benefit. Do not expect a good quality life but constant abuse for more propaganda and mind control.

No wonder that massive amount of people of Hong Kong are requesting british passports. Because in China you are nothing more than a property of a regime.

Windows security in general is better than Linux security in general.Unless you are running Grsec/PaX but hey i do not believe you do that on desktop.

Also you can still run EMET on Windows.

3100 is almost double the average salary of IT worker in Central/Eastern Europe and these people are considered middle class.

Take a look at China and India there they earn even less.

How many and for how long can these companies keep hiring people for such huge salaries ? And if these people can't live comfortably off these salaries then there is something wrong.

The problem is they explicitly had to create something like Bay Area. They needed the engineers to be @ place. And the same can happen anywhere if you recreate the Bay Area.

Solution: remote work

Honestly...160k salaries for some sw roles are silly. But there is need for them because the costs of living are so high. That's plain bs.

SW as a product is hard. No matter how good your backend or frontend if the whole package does not fit perfectly together.

The germans are the most boring "innovators".

Screw the sushi. Kimbab is the new hot thing.

Unlikely. Maybe under the US general. But who am I to know ?

Koreans have not even allowed the Japanese to help them with the Sewol ferry even if they were within the reach.

Do not forget the Korea. Albeit Japan is their ally they will work their asses so hard to destroy them economically or militarily if the opportunity arises.

If Japan takes action against North Korea the South will bomb Tokyo to the oblivion.

South Korea will not permit anyone and especially Japan to touch anything that belongs to Koreans. Koreans living in the NK are still citizens of SK and the land is claimed by SK.

Yes if there is conflict on the seas or in the air with the NK forces then SK will do nothing to stop the Japan.

What Japan did today/yesterday just pushed SK to be more assertive towards Japan. It hopefully speeds up the reunification.

DISCLAIMER: I am not korean.