@nitwhiz There are times when I have to go on a site/blog I've never heard before for work purposes (like fixing a weird environment error or something). I don't think whitelisting all of them would be feasible ;)

Microsoft Word

More like "reading the code of some intern who only had competitive programming experience before and therefore named every variable 'a', 'b', 'xx', 'mx'"

@Fast-Nop Kind of. But there are always new services/privately owned VPNs, making it almost impossible to block all of them.

Moreover, there are still businesses/schools that rely on blocked sites, so I guess they aren't too harsh on VPNs.

@heyheni I assure you that most of them are not better.

Gitee is quite irritating to use. Apart from the slow response and confusing UI, it has a tiny user base (if it somehow mirrors all repos on GitHub then I assume it would receive more attention (not sure how that would be legal though)).

Some other copies here are downright nightmares. What, double 5 seconds ads on YouTube is annoying? Well, welcome to Youku's 60 seconds of unskippable ads.

@Gnu-Not-Unix Stack Overflow seems fine currently.

It actually isn't that terrible for programmers, as almost all Chinese programmers use VPN to access Google and similar services. However it is quite annoying to load up my VPN every time I need to take a quick peek at someone else's repo.

And of course, the "banning everything" trend is quite concerning...

@Forside Python is already in path (by using the installer option); however, Windows still insists on opening it via Microsoft Store. This can be disabled in the app execution aliases in settings, but overriding the opening of an executable with another application isn't something people would expect in my opinion.

@unclesam Nah Scratch is the best language. That is definitely a fact.

I'm definitely right because I have 2 very factual links to back me up:

https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/...

https://devclass.com/2020/04/...

@gopher I wasn't aware that he was new to Git until the situation happened. Guess I should watch out in the future.

"using namespace" globally is considered a bad practice as it pollutes the namespace ;)

return person.company == Company.APPLE;

Comments don't make past the compiler tho...

Well...

@telephantasm To be honest most people don't accept the answer "programming"...

"Programming is not a hobby. I'm asking you if you do anything fun like basketball or playing violin."

@jespersh Nope. Just checked with option, ctrl, option and shift.

After googling the problem, it seems like that creating a text file via right click on Mac OS just isn't a thing...

(Seriously Apple? The user can import files from iPad/iPhone via right click but cannot create a blank text file?)

@norman70688 Yep. I was talking about the multiple extensions.

Should've used something like "${filename}.png.jpg"...

@dder

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