Facebook is not necessary for Chinese, but Chinese want to use services without censorship.

It is undeniable that China is growing up with science and technology, though there are too many pirates working on 'science and technology' to cheat the gov of fame and money.

As a Chinese, I think it's wonderful but there are some mistake with part-of-speech.

As a non-Chinese, I would love if you could expand on that comment :-)

Does it change the general point?

Well, it is obvious that the CFG model (of core grammar) is over simplified in the speech and somewhat misleading even though there is ambiguity in it. Anyway, it is just a simple talk. But I think the speaker is not really talking about programming language but more about computational linguistics...

Why Python, Ruby, Javascript, Java, PHP, and etc is Not My Favorite Programming Languages. That's subjective and completely worthless for others.

Agreed. Basically, he could have gone with almost every modern language there and the result would be the same.

Just use CloudFlare, it’s easy.

Agree with Gys.

I’m uneasy at my data hosted on your webapp. I think it’s better to manage my data with a desktop application.

This title gives ambiguity to readers.

I don't think it's suitable to distribute the backups until shadowsocks is fade from the gov's memory.

Use Chinese CDN (such as Upyun, Baidu CDN, Qiniu and Aliyun) for http file downloading (with a subdomain provided by the CDN or you'll need to apply permissions at MIIT as ICP) instead of rsync or ssh tunnel. Or rsync your data to Japanese Servers (Linode, GMO, etc) and ask your customers to download through http or https.

The problem is to upload data to China, we are not downloading anything from there.

"Or rsync your data to Japanese Servers (Linode, GMO, etc) and ask your customers to download through http or https."

We've used Amazon CDN before even for Chinese customers and they have closest node in Hong Kong - they still(Chinese) have difficulties to download our packages. I doubt using Japanese server would solve our problem. Thanks anyway.

CloudFront, the CDN from Amazon, have already been blocked by the GFW. But you can use CloudFlare or Baidu's CDN, etc.

Due to political reason, I think Chinese gov seriously and actively censor package from Hong Kong

Long live the shadowsocks.

People who do not yield to the GFW already made backups of all the repos under github.com/shadowsocks. And new tools to bypass the GFW is under development.