Likewise. Running LINQPad in Parallels just isn’t the same.

I find it strange that this Ask HN was ranked #23, then I refresh after a minute and it's #190...

There is no GFW in Hong Kong, so you enjoy unfettered Internet access.

For traffic inbound to China from HK, traditionally it's been slightly faster but that may just be proximity rather than any preferential treatment by the GFW.

Can confirm. We have datacenter space in Hong Kong with a fiber connection to he.net and it is indistinguishable from all of our other sites, globally.

End user Internet usage in Hong Kong is also indistinguishable from California. Although, to be fair, I stay at (relatively) expensive, western hotels and my Internet experience inside of mainland China is also indistinguishable from California.

Recently went through the same process. I really like the management interface and tight integration with GSuite.

They don't support all of the latest TLDs though, so be sure to check first if you want to do a complete port away from your current registrar.

Good. 99% of it was utter bullshit and any worthwhile research was getting drowned out.

Regardless of whether or not blockchian and cryptocurrencies end up being pivotal technologies in future, one positive fallout is that we are asking "how can we do this better" of some very traditional and established industries.

Norton Commander.

https://bit.ly/2SBnriS

Nothing since has ever made me feel so in control of my file system.

There have been a few clones, but never quite hit the spot.

I think Total Commander is pretty nice and much better than NC ever was. Obviously that comes from the different platforms

https://www.ghisler.com/

I second this. Total Commander is excellent.

FAR Manager is really great, you should give it a try: https://www.farmanager.com/screenshots.php?l=en

Which clones have you tried? MC worked well for me (TUI), as does fman (dual pane file manager for GUI).

I use the clone (Far) on my Mac. It runs pretty well. Also works on Linux https://github.com/elfmz/far2l

For linux there are mc, my #1 thing to install on a new server.

If you want the gui version, there is double commander, available in both gtk and qt(how do they support 2 frameworks?)

I first heard of Franzen through a book review by the Welsh professor Robert Adams. Adams is a tour de force, who brings an incredible depth and character to every book he reviews. He retired years ago, but TVO has thankfully archived some of his best.

https://tvo.org/video/archive/big-ideas/robert-adams-on-jona...

thank you for the link, I enjoyed Corrections and am still puzzled by sections of it that warrant a second reading. Mr.Adams review of the book encourages me to do this soon.

This kind of thing reminds me why I still love the Internet.

Thank you for sharing.

For whatever he gets right or wrong, this is a fascinating look back into the past. Thanks for sharing!

This is actually a big deal. You can go right through Hong Kong and never leave Mainland jurisdiction.

Talk about showing who owns who.

There was a bit of moaning about it in HK, but it was off the front page news fairly quickly.

I've been trying to see how that works for 15 minutes now and the furthest I get is to Tuen Mun, which is still in Hong Kong. I'm probably missing something trivial.