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  LinkedIn is out of China and replaced with LinkedIn Jobs

The popular job searching site LinkedIn has come out a special version for China which is just offering job searching capabilities and messaging capabilities in the connections. The social media capability like news feeds and peoples activities are stripped out. Now if you are in China and open LinkedIn app, it will prompt you and ask you to download an app called LinkedIn Jobs. You will not be able to dismiss the dialog and you are forced to download the other app if you wanna continue to...

   LINKEDIN,LINKEDIN JOBS,CHINA,MICROSOFT     2021-12-24 20:13:24

  How to check when an API is introduced in GoLang

Normally people would not pay much attention to which GoLang version is being used as lots of functions are backward compatible. However there are cases where GoLang version does matter as some functions may not be supported by old version of GoLang. For example, strings.Builder is introduced in Go 1.10, but below code would fail to be compiled on Go 1.10. package main import ( "fmt" "strings" ) func main() { var b strings.Builder b.WriteString("polarisxu") fmt.Println(b.Cap()) } The ...

   GOLANG,API VERSION,GO TOOL     2021-02-07 00:43:24

  Reset submodule to checkout state in git

Sometimes there would be a submodule or some submodules within one git repository, in some cases the submodule may be out of sync with the checkout state as some files in submodule may be changed unexpectedly. How to reset the submodule to be the same as the original checkout state? Let's take an example that we have a git repository A and there is a submodule called ruby-gems under it. Assuming the submodule at remote origin has commit a. And on our local environment, the repository A has a lat...

   GIT SUBMODULE,GIT RESET     2020-09-05 08:30:57

  Fix SSL 'alert protocol version' issue while git clone remote repository

Git provides ways to securely connect to remote repository and clone remote repository to local machine. This post will teach you how to fix the "SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version" issue while cloning a remote repository. The issue would look like: If this error occurs, it is most probably caused by out of date git version being used.To improve its security awareness, some weak cryptographic algorithms have been disabled and all git clients should upgrade to latest ones to acc...

   GIT,GIT CLONE,GIT SECURITY     2018-07-08 05:41:39

  Install and configure git plugin in Eclipse

When developing using IDE, it's always a good experience if everything can be done in the IDE including development, testing and version control. This also applies to Eclipse.  In this post, we will show the process of installing and configuring git plugin in Eclipse. The pre-requisite is that you have git installed on your local machine.  The detailed steps for installing and configuring git plugin are below. 1. Installing Git plugin Install using "Install New Software..." menu. ...

   ECLIPSE,GITHUB,GIT PLUGIN     2018-10-13 04:22:06

  Is Toutiao taking general content creators seirously?

Tiktok is now very popular among the Z-generation around the world. This is an app created by the Chinese company ByteDance. In China, the Chinese version of Tiktok called Douyin is not the only popular app created by ByteDance, there are a few other apps created by ByteDance are also popular such as Jinri Toutiao, a news app famous for its recommendation algorithm similar to Tiktok, also Huoshan Video, another video app similar to YouTube. This Toutiao app encourages general people to create co...

   JINRI TOUTIAO,CONTENT CREATION,TOUTIAO,BYTEDANCE     2021-10-03 01:10:27

  The four key figures behind the success of JavaScript - Douglas Crockford

JavaScript's success can be attributed to at least four key figures: Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript Douglas Crockford, the creator of JSLint and JSON John Resig, the creator of jQuery Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js. We are already very familiar with Brendan Eich and the invention process of JavaScript, so let's start with Douglas Crockford, the second in command of JavaScript. Alliance In the 1990s, Microsoft's dominance overshadowed the whole world. At this time, two challengers e...

   JAVASCRIPT,DOUGLAS CROCKFORD,HISTORY     2023-05-07 06:42:30

  Chinese Developers Release CEC-IDE, Claimed as First Independently Developed IDE

China witnessed the recent launch of a new IDE called CEC-IDE, which boldly claims to be the first IDE independently developed by Chinese developers. Initially, this release was anticipated to be a moment of pride for the country, as it marked the availability of a homegrown IDE. However, the situation quickly took an embarrassing turn, and the entire narrative soon became a subject of ridicule. It has come to light that the so-called independently developed IDE, CEC-IDE, is actually built upon ...

   CHINA,CECIDE,CEC-IDE     2023-08-27 00:43:31

  Find where the start up page is set in Firefox

Recently I encountered a weird behavior where a strange webpage showing up every time when I launched my Firefox. The first thought came into my mind is that my homepage of Firefox had been tampered. It might be changed because some software changed my browser settings to promote something. So the next immediate thing I went to check was to see my Firefox browser settings. To my surprise, the homepage setting was not touched. It would still open the Momentum screen which would display some beaut...

   WINDOWS,FIREFOX,HOMEPAGE,STARTUP PAGE,HAO123     2021-10-02 02:28:53

  10 Best Android Apps of 2016

The year 2016 has been gone with all its good and bad memories. But in the field of information technology, this year was another boost in which the field rapidly grew and explores some more essentials for the ease of users. In the field of mobile apps, specially users of Android OS, the year 2016 was awesome because in this year, they got many useful apps created by the highly qualified app developers of the world.Experts of Android OS rounded up a lot of apps created in the year 2016 and they ...

   MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT COMPANY,CUSTOM MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT COMPANY     2017-01-10 14:07:32

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