[xr09]

OK I'm a Cuban programmer and can tell you this measure sucks big time, if the blocked government wants anything from Google Code, Sourceforge or any other "restricted" place they have mirrors, nice people on other unblocked countries willing to help and as last resource a tor proxy will do. So this measure only asserts read-only access, nothing else. Actually US goverment looks stupid when do things like this, you can't stop software to spread all over the world it's nonsense.

Anyway I prefer Github, Google is not the cool company they used to be, now most of their products look like stripped-down copies of others.

#ifndef HUMOR

#def HUMOR

I think we on the "Evil Axis" should have our own code hosting platform.

Possible URL: http://evilhub.com

I'm thinking in projects like:

ak47-assembler

missile-launcher

dropbomb

spy-detector

nuclear-cad

whitehouse-boom-boom

familyguy-downloader (we love stewie too)

#endif

[JPKab]

Dude, you made my day. I'm pretty fascinated by my Gringo stereotypes of Cuba colliding with a programmer on HN.

I'm picturing a guy with a laptop, palm trees in the background, lots of antique cars driving on the street behind him, a brass band somewhere nearby, a pork sandwich on a plate. Please, please be wearing a Che/Fidel hat.

In all seriousness, I'm curious about the internet situation there. How's the bandwidth these days?

[xr09]

You missed the "Havana Club" rum bottle and a mulatta. ;)

Well, the internet access is a delicate topic, lots of schools have it, government offices, but not much civilians yet, they say is coming soon, but the problem is they fear technology (old people mostly), they see it as a possible way of US Gov. and Miami oppositors to take control of our minds or whatever.

Old people have fears, they have their reasons, young people have ideas, we want to push forward. And is like that, some get tired of waiting for a change and go away to a more tech-savvy place, but is not an option for everyone.

The bandwith is better than 5 years ago and improving, it's not wideband but we can live with that.

Anyway, it sucks to have studied IT Engineering (so far, thousands of us http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Information_Scien...) to end up setting up printers and not creating awesome stuff, people in charge have no faith in knowledge products.

I realized a big truth reading Peopleware: The "Spanish Theory of Value" is killing us.

[phowat]

I clicked the evilhub.com link out of curiosity and it redirects to a porn-youtube kind of site. Just a heads up to people browsing this from work.

[xr09]

Damn, I had my hopes with that name.