The Google’s new programming language, Go, after a few years of development, has finally reached the v1.0 milestone recently. Like a lot of programmers, we just want to try it out. Although I have looked at it when it was first announced a few years ago, but I haven’t bothered since then. Today, I just [...]
Last week, we received a certificate of gratitude for donating our books to the Shanghai Foreign Language Institute, along with a small framed painting from the students. We are glad those books found a good home, and hope they will be useful to the students. That’s great. If you are running of space at your [...]
I had hundreds of books, the dead tree version, that is. When we moved from Silicon Valley to Shanghai, we gave out two third of the books we had, and brought with us the other third, those that I still use myself, especially those classics in computer science. And a bunch of sci-fi novels that [...]