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victorlin | 6 years ago | on: Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says

If the root cause of the problem is not resolved, even we overcome this virus, then now what? What's next? If the next virus hit us again, would Chinese government still try to cover up the problem and stop people from speaking up? Would WHO stop down playing the problem and advice not taking actions? It's a wake up call, while it's nice to have some heartwarming help from internet, I am more concern about COVID-19 is not the worst case, it's just a test, next thing could be way worse if we only try to look away from the root problem, like all the time we did.

victorlin | 6 years ago | on: Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says

What they say in the channel are all true, they have been traveling in China and living there for long time, they married Chinese wife. If you really look closely, you will notice that they pointed out many problems in China, which I don't think it's Sinophobia. If you point out problems in any country makes you something phobia, then there's no freedom of speech....

victorlin | 6 years ago | on: Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says

I've been watching COVID-19 very closely since 2019 Dec it, I also witnessed how WHO responses to this Pandemic. If you were me, you will notice that WHO tried very hard to please China, rather than taking people's health into consideration. Many things they did:

- Advice not to ban flight to China after China locked down hubei lockdown (yes, many country trust WHO, like Japan and Korea)

- Met and praised Xi many times, admire how wonderful they did

- Keep down playing how serious the problem can be, and didn't advice any action

And recently, China suddenly donate $20M to WHO

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/coronavirus-outbreak-china-t...

For more details, please watch this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5VGPYtbTk8

victorlin | 6 years ago | on: WHO Director: "Covid-19 does not transmit as efficiently as influenza"

If you have no idea how bad it already was when WHO suggest not restrictions needed, than I would suggest you watch this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-nv7j9HEgY

Many of the footage are before the Jan 30 WHO announcement, like the many body moving in front of hospital.

WHO probably already know what's really happening there, but still given wrong advice, so that many countries, like Korean, Japan follow the instruction by WHO, not imposing the restriction on China. And now people in these countries are suffering from the misinformation provided by WHO.

Another evidence WHO is controlled by China, that is when Taiwanese people want to join WHO to get latest update about the virus and help from the world, Chinese government doesn't want this to happen.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/22/china-health-coronaviru...

So basically Taiwan was excluded from the global health system for long time because that.

I am from Taiwan, I don't feel surprise at all that WHO is controlled by China, as they have shown it that way long time ago on the issue of excluding people from Taiwan. So that's obviously political over people's health in the world.

victorlin | 6 years ago | on: WHO Director: "Covid-19 does not transmit as efficiently as influenza"

Well, allow me to remind you the timeline

> On 23 January 2020, the central government of the People's Republic of China imposed a lockdown in Wuhan and other cities in Hubei province in an effort to quarantine the epicentre of an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Hubei_lockdowns

What do you mean nobody had travel restrictions? The report from WHO date was on 30 January 2020, when they saw this and yet suggest not to put any restrictions?

victorlin | 6 years ago | on: WHO Director: "Covid-19 does not transmit as efficiently as influenza"

Please don't trust WHO, obviously they got heavily influence from Chinese government.

Remember when COVID-19 out-broken in China, the WHO told us

"The Committee does not recommend any travel or trade restriction based on the current information available. "

https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/30-01-2020-statement-on...

Then we saw China locked down all major city themselves. Now you tell me it's fine not to ban flights from China?

And they also keep mentioning it's not a big deal. Obviously they don't want to hurt Chinese economy. I won't trust anything they say, as their interest is China government's interest, not people's health.

victorlin | 9 years ago | on: How I launch a product in few weeks

like I mentioned in the article, I found no solution for iPad, so I built one for myself. So I am not really sure what's the solution out there for devices other than iPad.

However, there is smart whiteboard device out there in market, like

Google's Jamboard https://gsuite.google.com/jamboard/

Microsoft's Surface Hub https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-surface-hub/en-us

They are not cheap thought.

And for the traction, I just started marketing, time is too short, I don't have the data yet.

victorlin | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is it just me or why does Docker suck so much?

Yeah, docker is god damn slow. The layer file system is a great idea, but its implementation sucks. When you push an image which its base image is already pushed, you will see tons of

Image already pushed, skipping Image already pushed, skipping Image already pushed, skipping ...

This is really stupid, it just cannot compare the list of layer image and push or pull the missing parts. And the pushing and pulling operations are slow like hell. It's really painful to use it in production. It slows down your whole deployment process, and it eventually becomes the bottleneck. It's really funny they pick go language which advertises for performance, but they failed to make very basic task works efficiently.

victorlin | 12 years ago | on: The Bitcoin Economics lesson for Engineers

After world war II, people in Germany burn paper money in winter. Because, by that time, fiat money is cheaper than coal and wood.

That's funny it seems that this economist thinks fiat money can't never be valueless. Well, look Cyprus, and look Ukraine now. I am not saying Bitcoin won't never be valueless, but apparently fiat money is not completely invulnerable.

victorlin | 12 years ago | on: Foxconn to hire 3,000 to support Firefox OS and software development

I didn't derides anyone. What I want to say is that when employers can't afford reasonable salary for developers, they cannot find any good ones, even they found ones, it's only matter of time they will leave. The problem here is more than salary, it is about attitude, employers trend to treat employees as cost rather than valuable asset. When people are treated like disposable tools, nobody would stay.

victorlin | 12 years ago | on: Foxconn to hire 3,000 to support Firefox OS and software development

You are basically right about China, they are raising fast. But what the news talking about is to recruit 3000 developers in Taiwan rather than in China, I think it could be so hard even to recruit 50 okay software developers in Taiwan. Actually there is no software/Internet industry in Taiwan. You can name Internet company as a long list such as Baidu, Taobao, Webo and what so ever in China, but you cannot find even a famous website which is from Taiwan. Taiwan is good at hardware OEM but not software.

As a software developer from Taiwan, I know the situation here. Hardware OEM industry makes money, they can offer better for getting talents. When CS students graduate, they would rather go to OEM company (such as TSMC) than go to software/Internet company or even startups. How can they complete OEM firms in recruiting battle?

It's really a bad environment for software development. Actually, software/Internet in China is much better than Taiwan.

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