GitHub may have been blocked in parts of China • Hacker News Board

I have exactly the opposite experience. As a Go developer, I'm used to seeing Chinese developers and users speaking Chinese in the issue tracker showing no regard and respect to the rest of the world.

Not that I condone blocking github in China, but my experience with the Chinese is less than stellar.

Re: GitHub may have been blocked in parts of China

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Post by jjjjjjjjjjjjjjj » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 8:56 AM UTC

forkLding wrote: post #12

Don't most Chinese devs in China use VPN to access Github anyways?

Using a VPN usually slows down your connection quite a bit if it's located outside the GFW, so most devs in China probably aren't using a VPN to access GitHub (myself included).

Re: GitHub may have been blocked in parts of China

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Post by jjjjjjjjjjjjjjj » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 9:07 AM UTC

etaerc wrote: post #21

I have a friend in China who's trying to learn software development by himself. It's ridiculously hard compared to the west. It shouldn't be underestimated how Wikipedia, Stackoverflow and Github can increase your learning speed.

Sounds strange. Programming resources usually aren't blocked here - even when they're on Wikipedia. StackOverflow isn't blocked, and GitHub hasn't been blocked either.

E: Excluding Google search I've only encountered one blocked programming resource when sporadically programming on my spare time here: golang.org - which I'm guessing is because it's on hosted on Google's servers.

Re: GitHub may have been blocked in parts of China

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Post by aaomidi » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 9:36 AM UTC

jj2ay0 wrote: post #34

vSanjo wrote: post #4

A sad day for OSS indeed. A lot of great Chinese developers have helped me over the years.

I have exactly the opposite experience. As a Go developer, I'm used to seeing Chinese developers and users speaking Chinese in the issue tracker showing no regard and respect to the rest of the world. Not that I condone blocking github in China, but my experience with the Chinese is less than stellar.

> showing no regard and respect to the rest of the world.

What the fuck? They're not showing "respect" because they don't speak English?

Re: GitHub may have been blocked in parts of China

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Post by aaomidi » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 9:37 AM UTC

jjjjjjjjjjjjjjj wrote: post #36

etaerc wrote: post #21

I have a friend in China who's trying to learn software development by himself. It's ridiculously hard compared to the west. It shouldn't be underestimated how Wikipedia, Stackoverflow and Github can increase your learning speed.

Sounds strange. Programming resources usually aren't blocked here - even when they're on Wikipedia. StackOverflow isn't blocked, and GitHub hasn't been blocked either. E: Excluding Google search I've only encountered one blocked programming resource when sporadically programming on my spare time here: golang.org - which I'm guessing is because it's on hosted on Google's servers.

Does China block specific parts of wikipedia then? How do they know what part of wikipedia you're visiting?

Re: GitHub may have been blocked in parts of China

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 10:22 AM UTC

aaomidi wrote: post #37

jj2ay0 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have exactly the opposite experience. As a Go developer, I'm used to seeing Chinese developers and users speaking Chinese in the issue tracker showing no regard and respect to the rest of the world. Not that I condone blocking github in China, but my experience with the Chinese is less than stellar.

> showing no regard and respect to the rest of the world. What the fuck? They're not showing "respect" because they don't speak English?

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Re: GitHub may have been blocked in parts of China

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Post by yg6ht5 » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 10:23 AM UTC

aaomidi wrote: post #37

jj2ay0 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have exactly the opposite experience. As a Go developer, I'm used to seeing Chinese developers and users speaking Chinese in the issue tracker showing no regard and respect to the rest of the world. Not that I condone blocking github in China, but my experience with the Chinese is less than stellar.

> showing no regard and respect to the rest of the world. What the fuck? They're not showing "respect" because they don't speak English?

Yes, English is the "universal" language, whether we like it or not, and speaking in another language in a public place (such as a github issue tracker) is disrespectful, because it's like gatekeeping information and knowledge.