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Story sounds made up. Definitely not an acceptable cultural norm in China.

From my understanding, Sarah Godin is a fake FB account that he made to test his bug out.

If using a word, such as "disruptive", will give you a small gain in marketing advantage, or the lack of will give you a disadvantage, then people will always spam/abuse it until it becomes a meaningless buzzword, or until investor grew earwax to protect themselves from it, or until it is perceived that anyone uses this word is most likely BSing. Then people are going to adapt away from using such a word. Most people probably understand that their stuff isn't the next facebook, but they will try everything to get the last bit of investor attention.

The cost of designing a page such as this over a minimalist website is so negligible in terms of the amount the government spend and take everyday, that it is simply not necessary to nitpick. This could be just thought of as an experiment in governmental website design. I think sometimes the "people" act like the worst managers that they micro-manages and want to squeeze every penny, while missing the big picture.

If you are working by yourself, this trick only works sometimes. If you have extreme apathy against your subject matter or absolutely no idea on what you should do, then putting down a bad idea would just result in a bad idea written down, and there is nothing that follows. I only experience partial success with this technique (in cases, where I have some idea on what I am doing, but I am just debating internally about minor details).

Articles like these make me realized I am completely spoiled. I am in no position to complain about debugging when modern technology afforded me a much easier time than 30-40 years ago.

Yeah, they simply decide to do an early upgrade instead of spending time to clean them then do a upgrade sometime later. I guess their only lack of foresight is for not donating these PCs away.

The Chinese government post one of these every year to "counter" the one that US-based human rights watch do every year. They definitely know that they are in no position to criticize. However there needs to be some context as to why they are publishing this.

Is the small percentage of veteran developer really due to low retention rate? I am guessing it is more due to the industry not being as big 10 years ago. 20% of respondents with 10+ years could means the gaming industry gotten 5 times bigger 10 years ago.

Well, you probably never(?) lived in a state like Singapore. You are basing your fears only on stories like this. Imagine the opposite way around, Singaporeans probably fear more about living in a ghetto than their own state.