Question I have wondered about from time to time: does China have it's own Github "clone"?
Even if there's such a clone, it's not as good as github/bitbucket/whatever. All those chinese clones like are terribly worse than originals.
China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
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Re: China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
#12One cultural factor is the fact that developers have a low social standing in China (sometimes referred to as 马工). This leads to low pay, reduced dating pool, lack of respect from people you meet etc.
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#13I have to say that most problem is not true. Most Chinese don't prefer youtube and even for the university student knows how to pass the block by vpn and other softwares. Also in some university Google is not blocked.
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#14I don't think it's just information access issue that is issue. The way I see is that there are many people considering working and living in China as bit of risk considering government's decisions and policy can change fairly arbitrarily, which of course the one of prominently seen effect of that is change in government firewall blacklists.
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#15Question I have wondered about from time to time: does China have it's own Github "clone"?
Even if there's such a clone, it's not as good as github/bitbucket/whatever. All those chinese clones like are terribly worse than originals.
Except for WeChat? Wasn't there an article a while back touting how WeChat is ahead of Facebook in terms of user experience?
Re: China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
#16Question I have wondered about from time to time: does China have it's own Github "clone"?
https://git.oschina.net/
https://coding.net/
http://code.csdn.net/
These are more towards team collaboration. imo China doesn't have the ecosystem for open source. Too many people just take the code, rebrand and market it as their own product...
Re: China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
#17this is very much true.
Outside censorship, the working culture of China is also quite different. It's quite common to do overtime in China. work-life balance is less respected. People accept it as the normal and are proud of it.
My friend worked for an accounting company. In busy season, she had to work till 5a.m. in the morning of the next day and present her report to her supervisor at 8 a.m.
she took her toothbrush, pajamas, sleep bag to the company because it doesn't make sense to go home at 5 a.m. and back at 8 a.m. as commute takes long time too.
There is another friend working for Alibaba. Once they wanted to release a messenger app to catch up wechat. The entire team was shipped to a different city during Chinese new year, they are disallowed from leaving until the product is shipped.
I also went to a talk by Xiaomi at standford, they were very proud of having official 6 day work week.
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#18Something ironic about an "open" culture being critical of a "closed" culture.
Reality is the American's tech cultural is at its core a very closed community. Even within America, trying to create a startup outside of the Bay Area, which is insanely expensive area to do business, will require exponentially more effort, luck, etc.
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#19their simply way to authoritarian
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even if there's such a clone, it's not as good as github/bitbucket/whatever. All those chinese clones like are terribly worse than originals.
Except for WeChat? Wasn't there an article a while back touting how WeChat is ahead of Facebook in terms of user experience?
Is this supposed to be a joke? I hardly see any non-Chinese using wechat....