This was a ancient Chinese story regarding Zeng guofan (曾国藩). Zeng is a military general and Confucian scholar in Qing Dynasty. He has a large group of counselors working for him. But one thing bothers him is that a lot of people leaves after working for a short period. One day, he asked one of [...]

I always remember what my undergrad final year project supervisor said: “it’s just another set of API”. Every time I start to learn a new language, or new platform, his words jump out of my head, and I understand it better every time.

There’re always new technologies, platforms, languages, terminologies in IT industry. People [...]

Here is a question from Quora,

What are some of the most mind-blowing facts?

And two of the answers make me think.

1. Life < 900 Months

“Your lifespan is likely about 900 months. That’s a 30×30 rectangle of boxes, if you care to draw them. ”

This is a scaring fact. There’re [...]

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough!

–Albert Einstein