Primary school when math is not good, often fail to pass the exam, math teacher’s teaching ideas clear and strange, love to let poor students take turns when the division representative, receive homework, help to correct, send test papers, calculate the average score, etc., these are student times again familiar with the matter.

I remember that the boys with the best math scores at that time got full marks almost every time, and their homework was almost equivalent to the existence of templates. No accident, he was recommended all the way, and later when he took the college entrance examination, it was said that he had a high fever, but he still managed to enter a good school to study information engineering, which is really enviable.

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At that time, I knew nothing about the major of information engineering, until I heard that the Internet industry has a high salary and no major limitation, so I threw myself into it with enthusiasm. As I worked in a non-technical job, interacting with a variety of colleagues, I realized that many programmers majored in information engineering.

Believe it or not, programmers dominate the World of the Internet, and there is even a festival dedicated to them — Programmer Festival 1024. Well versed in binary algorithms, they even borrowed 1,024 yuan, but actually set the festival on this day has a more profound significance, in the hardware base, 1024M is equal to 1G, it is easy to associate with a bar.

At most Internet companies, however, the holiday is just another day, without the legendary programmer motivator or extra vacation time for programmers, who are still trying to consume brain cells in exchange for bread. The coders of Silicon Valley are ready to change the world, but in China, coders are actually a group of Internet migrant workers nicknamed “programmers” — the least noticeable and least social people in the office.

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Wearing the same T-shirt or plaid shirt, most of them are deeply shortsighted, and their hair is often dishevelled with streaks of gray, receding as fast as the naked eye can see until they are completely bald.

They are silent and passive, occasionally arguing with the product manager over principled issues. They are shy and shy, especially when faced with jokes from female colleagues. They can, on the other hand, maintain a high degree of concentration in front of the computer, remain highly active on the Internet, and think logically all the time.

Tapping through strings of code that lay people can’t understand, they pride themselves on being the rule makers. Think about it, it’s really a “middle two” setting.

It reminds me of a real event my friend mentioned in Sina — on the wedding day of a programmer, there happened to be an explosive news that made the weibo server crash. The groom had to sit on the ground at the wedding site to repair the server on the spot.

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We hear such jokes, the first reaction is to feel funny, and then is sad. There are a lot of magic stories like this. They work hard, they are always on call, but when a product is successful, no one programmer is particularly remembered.

I have seen a set of data, 45 percent of programmers work more than 10 hours a day, 5 percent of programmers work more than 14 hours a day. When you pass the city’s technology district at night, you will find that there are countless overtime workers who are exhausting themselves and burning their few remaining hours of sleep in order to keep the buildings bright all night long.

But tragically, they face serious health problems, high rates of sudden death and, in their forties, corporate retirements and youth attacks as their learning and energy levels plummet.

This is my industry, the Internet is a place of joy and sorrow, people outside the siege envy our high salaries.

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It is a new field, no one has explored the way, everything is unknown, full of countless possibilities, catch up and surpass only in a moment. You never have to worry about being left behind, but the price is equally high, and there are plenty of practitioners overwhelmed by data and results.

Many of my friends have said the same thing — they feel as if they will never be happy again.

1024, this festival is not only dedicated to programmers, it is a tribute to the cruel coliseum of the Internet.

I hope you can at least be kind to the programmers around you for this day, and give them less needs and more care, so that they can feel the warmth of the virtual world.

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