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I grew up in China. Line cutting has always been annoying, even infuriating, for me. The last few times I visited back, I noticed the young generations are much better in this aspe…

I have similar experiences in both systems. Growing up in China, it is easy for me to navigate in US cities. Beijing is primarily of grid system. The first time I went to Europe, I…

The table corruption bugs were triggered when the load was very high, as far as I know. It happened twice to me. In both cases, the corruption couldn't be corrected. The worse part…

I think the media tend to use "depression" as a general term to describe mental illness. The persons who committed suicide may suffer other forms of mental illnesses. There are a g…

Pollution is indeed a big problem. I think it is closely related to both economy and national psychology. The economy has to develop to a point that the government decides that it …

Diet might be another important factor. Asian tend to have balanced meals that include significant amounts of vegetables, fish, seafood, etc. I think the condition is improving. Mo…

As a molecular and cellular biologist in my previous life, I would say it is coincidence, although it is exceedingly rare, as you said. I don't see the possibility to acquire it, b…

You can have very messy code with an excellent language. You can also have beautiful code with a poorly designed language. Let's do a thought experiments. Have a pool of SWEs fresh…

This is true. However, it is more important to evaluate both the quantity and the "quality" of advantages and disadvantages. For disadvantages, how serious are they, how easy are t…

You miss the point. I learned all these tricks in school as well. I loved them. I felt "smart". After working for so many years, I only remember the basic ones. If you ask me the "…

I agree. On the other hand, we engineers need to look at ourselves in the mirror. After all, we engineers conduct the technical interview. I was involved in hundreds of tech interv…

I had a very similar experience many years ago. It was an start-up. The interviewer was the ex-CTO of a widely used open source project/product, and led the engineering team in the…

No projects are budgeted to 45 minutes. The real world scenario for such limited time is debugging in production issues. It is a completely different scenario. The people who jump …

As someone in a similar situation as the author, I actually agree with you. It is perfectly normal that people who are not in similar situations don't know how to interact with suc…