Genuinely curious, been looking into it recently - what're the problem with unregulated public offering? Things i can think of are insider trading, misleading information, ponzi scheme, etc.
Thanks for the input! I'm a cofounder at Echo. From our experience, one tricky part of Android dev is the garbage collection. For the end users, garbage collection sometimes creates noticeable lag. That's one of the worst experience we want to avoid. So for Echo, it's almost always worth the tradeoff to reuse objects and avoid unnecessary new object creation, which means less garbage collection. But like you said, the middle-age objects could pose some problems in the future. Judging from the past trend, garbage collection will always be one rocky part of the Android land, which was quite a lesson for us when moving from the ios arc world :)
There is a fantastic book - "Why the west rules, for now" that deals with this question (the name sounds quite right-wingish, but it's actually a great history book). I highly recommend anyone interested in this topic to read it.
If I can bring some interesting observations of the author to this discussion, it's that West (including mid east+europe+later america) and East (mostly China+later japan) led at different times. West had a 2000 year head start and reached its peak during Roman empire. East finally caught up around 600 AD and was ahead till the eve of western industrial revolution. Backwardness in some period of history (whether it's in nature resource, technology, social organization), became advantages in others. So you see the power shift constantly happening.
The ultimate reason (obviously i'm doing a huge reduction here) the writer claimed that caused the last shift of power between East and West was simply that America was too far from China. China got the thoughts/technology it needed. Europe found a flood of new problems and solved them with new thoughts/technology.
While I don't completely agree with his arguments, it's nonetheless an interesting and well supported point of view and much better than many other books out there that deals with big history topic (eg. "Guns, Germs and Steel")
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I feel in chess it's about concentrating your power with the goal of total elimination of the other side in one battle. With go, there are multiple battles where you make trade-offs - short term vs. long term, territory vs. influence. Focusing on solely one part of the equation is almost always not optimal, yet you can still develop your unique style of play. You would often feel it's not a zero-sum game where both sides are taking what they want(though in the end only one can win). Also with the huge branching factor, go feels more dynamic and fluid.
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