Who taught: Carol You might think that I do not study English hard enough when you hear this story. But, look, you cannot know all of the words in English, right? About a year ago, I was invited to a meeting where about 7 people of the company that I used to work brainstormed and [...]
Category Archives: From work
peter out and peter principle
Who taught: Jeff Today, Jeff, one of my friends at CMU, and I had meetings with students. The meetings were for testing an application done by students and reviewing source code. As we talked about work, we got into a conversation about his previous works and how much he had to travel. He said, at [...]
It is all greek to me
Back in my previous work, I had to do a lot of conference calls with clients. There were also many chances for me to conduct customized trainings to clients. Most of the stuff I talked about was, of course, related with how the search engine works or how to configure or customize search applications. Fot [...]
English pronunciation
Who taught : Andrew, Jake, James and Carl There is a new tv show started last week. It is called, “Outsourced.” I love it. It shows a lot of cultural differences between America and India. You should really try to watch it and let’s talk about it later. Do you know what file type I [...]
Nickel and dime
What is quarter? The answer is 1/4 or 25%. Then, what is the quarter of 1 dollar? That is right. It is 25 cents. People in the U.S. and Canada call 25 cents quarter. In fact, you would hardly hear 25 cents. They mostly call it quarter. How about 1 cent? Penny. (I do not [...]
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