Purposive without Foresight

This topic has been boring in my blog, I know. Dear readers, please bear with me, this is my last entry for the mainstream German media this year. After this entry, I’ll focus on interesting stuff such as software programming, investment, and animes.
Yesterday, in the subway station in Hannover, the projectors there kept broadcasting [...]

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Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) becomes the newest most profitable bank of the world (source: bloomberg.com) Last year, the champion was Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC). Below is a list of the top ten largest banks by market capitalization (rank, bank name, country, market cap in billion dollars):

1. Industrial & Commercial [...]

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It was not long ago. Dirk and I moved to Hildesheim and I started to seek job. Soon there was an interview invitation from Hannover. I printed off the “how to reach us” map from the company website and went to Hannover alone for the job interview.
At that time, the only subway station in [...]

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When I was studying in UAS Kaiserslautern campus Zweibrücken, I was too lazy to cook for myself and counted on the student restaurant for daily lunch and evening snack. Usually I ate a very heavy lunch and fetch a small salmon burger for dinner.
Before long, all employees in the student restaurant knew me. When [...]

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I’ve been living in Germany almost 1/4 of my life. I love this country and truly feel proud of it in many aspects, not too much less than I love my motherland China. “The Country” is a very abstract concept. Out of appreciation, I’d like to write down many ordinary German people, and ordinary happenings [...]

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Programmers know that when a software system grows into a certain size, bugs are not avoidable. We write and run all kinds of tests for quality control. Still, error-free is extremely difficult to achieve. The only constant in the software business is “change”. We debug, we refactor, we rewrite a system from ground-up if affordable [...]

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Dirk read my last entry and asked why I did not send that as email to ARD. First of all, I think it would not really work. The scream out of anger does not meet a standard that ARD would take seriously. I felt angry so I scream at my own place. If the readers [...]

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Last Friday I went home four hours earlier to watch the 29th Olympic opening ceremony live on ARD ( the main German TV channel. It is publicly funded ).
I cried from the beginning to the end while I was watching the ceremony. The selfless contribution of tens of thousands actors and volunteers touched me [...]

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