Here is a benchmark of Protobuf, FlatBuffers, and Cap'n Proto across Go and Rust. It doesn't include JSON tho

https://github.com/kcchu/buffer-benchmarks

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They just decided to take it down again after the People's Daily wrote about it.

Quite disappointing to see that Apple has absolutely no spine when it counts, only when they are risking nothing.

Wtf Apple

This is a company that restricts what you can and can't install on your own device and you're surprised they're okay with authoritarianism?

They restrict what you can install for example to protect users from ransomware and surveillance capitalists and the like.

They are also always championing freedom and expression and the like. But they must appease China to keep that market open to phone sales sadly.

They also restrict what can compete with Apple's own products. Their interests are clear.

For those who are unaware, it is April first today.

I think you are referring to “Reflections on Trusting Trust” by Ken Thompson.

https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...

The movement does not happen in vacuum. The Occupy Central movement was initiated by Tai Yiu-ting in January 2013, and Hong Kong democracy movements dates back to 1990s. From the very beginning, Tai Yiu-ting and the two other leading organizers of Occupy Central have stressed that they want to negotiate with Beijing. They even took a very mild stand in the political reform discussion that many other opinion leaders in Hong Kong condemned as "too mild".

Yesterday's events is triggered by Beijing's "ruling" for Hong Kong's 2017 elections. While citizens would be allowed to vote for the chief executive, the candidates for the election would have to be approved by a largely Beijing controlled nominating committee. Beijing's plan is obviously non-democratic, and it is no different than a categorical rejection of all demands made by previous Hong Kong democracy movements.

It is fair to say that the large-scale non-violent civil disobedience movements in last few days and very likely in coming weeks are the result of failing to negotiate, which I think the government with the power should take the responsibility. Since the economic and diplomatic situation of China today is very different than that of 1989, it is not likely that the government could repeat what it has done before. Reopening the negotiation is not something unimaginable IMO.

Thanks. We will add the most requested feature first. So you may want to vote on a Windows client on our GetSatisfaction page to help us prioritize new features http://getsatisfaction.com/chatbox

Chatbox is a tiny app we made as a proof of concept (and for fun). We didn't have any plan to charge yet.

Hi, I am a developer of Chatbox. It is a weekend project our team created to demo an idea we found interesting - Dropbox as a platform. Please let us know your feedback :)

Did you use the dropbox api?

Chatbox stores data in Dropbox folder in user's local drive and watch for new files in that folder for incoming messages. It didn't access to user's Dropbox account nor send data to other service

Awesome idea, guys! Way to show off HK talent.

I still believed (or hope) that semantic web is the future of Internet.

If a very particular industry willing to open up their data in standard and extensible format (may be RDF or a simpler standard), like film theater listing their showtimes or governments release their statistical data in RDF rather than Excel only, many useful application could be developed on it and it is a big step towards semantic web already. And I think it is not too hard to do.

If RDF's got a problem it's that it's too simple, at least in terms of the functionality it's offered.

It's complicated as hell to do simple things in RDF, but that's a different issue, not the one I struggle with every day.

I would prefer a open semantic web approach rather than a privately owned big database