Ten years of friends | @Evian: I once saw a sentence: Coding changes the world!

To be honest, in the information age, no matter what industry, someone who knows programming can always do more and more efficiently.

- Evian

Today, ten years ago, SegmentFault was officially established, like a young green shoot that began to grow. During this period, it carried the warm sunshine, bathed in the soft spring breeze, challenged the torrential rain, and experienced the bitter winter snow. Fortunately, the SegmentFault Sifu presented to us today has grown into a big tree that can withstand some wind and rain. This kind of growth cannot be separated from the pruning of the administrators, and it is also inseparable from the planting of every user in the community.

As Qi Ning, one of the founders of SegmentFault, said:

"SegmentFault is a community that belongs to everyone, so at this special time, we want to celebrate it with the members of the community."

In the past ten years, thousands of developers have joined the SegmentFault community. We are excited to see each new face, and we are also moved by the old friends in the community who have accompanied them for many years. It's like meeting an old friend who has known each other for many years. Maybe old friends will suddenly disappear in a certain period of time, but disappearing does not mean never seeing each other again, but the sentence after the reunion: long time no see.

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Today, we are honored to invite our old friend @evian to participate in our 10-year Friends series.

I have something to say:

In the interview, Evian said that if one day he can no longer continue programming, he will become a teacher and continue to teach others to program. She said that a person's strength is limited, so she wants more partners to join the programming together. I think this emotion stems from her passion for programming.

She made me feel between the lines: no matter how the world changes, programming will always belong to her, and the word programming is not only her work, but also the past and the future.

The following is an interview with Evian by SegmentFault:

1. Do you remember your first acquaintance with SegmentFault? What kind of coincidence did you step into this community?

That was probably when SegmentFault was just established and was mentioned in the community. So I came to SegmentFault. The newly built SegmentFault needs people to spread the correct knowledge.

2. Have you witnessed any changes in Sifu over the years? Which part of it touched you the most? On the way to grow up with Si, what do you think you have changed?

In fact, I haven't visited SF much in recent years. But I have seen a change. At the beginning, like all technical communities, everyone had questions and answers, and it was a good time. With more and more users, more and more users are asking questions without giving the necessary information, answers that are not answers, and hashtags. SF responded accordingly. On the one hand, it guided the novice, and on the other hand, it allowed the elderly to participate in the review, in order to improve the quality of community content.

If you change yourself, you actually change a lot. Needless to say, the improvement of writing. I also learned how to get along with different user groups in the community: newbies who are not able to be patient and help but sincerely read the replies, Xiaobai who don’t ask good questions and hope that the other person can read minds, ignore Ye Xinhe, who has a bad attitude, to provoke others for fun troll.

3. Why did you choose to be a programmer? Because of the dream or because of the reality, which one is more important?

Well, maybe it's just that you suddenly find yourself on your way to becoming a programmer?

When I was a child, because of identity and other reasons, boys and I had nothing in common, and I didn’t dare to get too close to girls. Just at the beginning of the information age, I decided to make friends with computers and the Internet. At that time, information was super scarce, and textbooks I have a lot of knowledge and can't explain it clearly, and I only have the Internet. The computer is relatively open, and the things given by others are not enough, so you can create your own tools to use.

dream ah. My childhood dream was to be an astronomer, but unfortunately I didn't get the chance. In reality, it's good that I can just get a job in the field I like.

4. If one day you decide to give up programming due to various factors, what do you want to do?

Teaching others to program? After all, a person's power is limited, so he wants more partners.

To be honest, in the information age, no matter what industry, someone who knows programming can always do more and more efficiently.

5. The image of a programmer is inseparable from plaid shirts, black-rimmed glasses, backpacks and other items in the minds of many people. What do you want to say about this stereotype?

Stereotypes are bad.

The backpack is for the computer. If you want to go on a business trip or on-call, it is natural to go out. If you meet a stingy company that doesn't deserve an office computer, you have to carry the computer on your back QAQ

As for the plaid shirt and black-rimmed glasses, I don't know where that impression came from. I don't have any of these anyway.

6. Is programming just a job for you? If not, what special meaning does it have for you?

A sentence I once saw: Coding changes the world!

For programming outside of work, I will try to open source as much as possible. I also help others in meeting my own needs. After all, I also use many open source projects. On the other hand, it's nice to have your code frozen in the North Pole or to go to Mars, isn't it?

7. Is there anything that worries you at work? Where does this anxiety come from? What do you usually do when faced with anxiety?

Yes, mainly from the deadline. Another part comes from socialization that has not been learned much. If the company is unreliable, it will also worry.

There are two ways to face anxiety: avoid it first, play games for a while, and read novels for a while. Or try focus, whether it's meditation or problem-solving, or meditate on "change what you can change and accept what you can't." Anyway try to get the default mode network to stop.

8. Age has a certain influence on the profession of programmers. Do you agree with this point of view? Have you thought about your future career plans?

There is no solid evidence. Maybe today's elementary school students are better at programming than college students twenty years ago. more influenced by the times. Yes, programmers are mostly young people, but you think, how many people had the opportunity to learn programming 50 years ago?

In the future planning, I hope I can be a tech leader and lead a group of people to develop and create together.

9. Please leave your wishes for the 10th birthday of the SegmentFault community

On the computer side, there is too much messy and misleading information on the Chinese Internet. Chinese is a very good language, and the Chinese Internet should not become a garbage dump. May SegmentFault get better and better.

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Evian said her childhood dream was to be an astronomer, but she never got the chance. But now, she has been walking on the path of programming that she loves, and I think this is also her dream.

Hopefully her code will take her to places she hasn't.