我曾以为我的成长过程是“正常”的，不管“ 正常”是什么意思。

I thought that my upbringing was "normal," whatever that is.

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虽然和现在的孩子相比，我的成长环境可能有些严格，但我非常感谢父母给了我一个明确的人生方向。

Although my upbringing was perhaps a bit strict compared with modern children, I'm very thankful to my parents for giving me a clear direction in life.

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我的成长经历不平常，但也不独特。

My upbringing was unusual, but not unique.

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I know this is a simple example, but when you mature as a programmer, one of the first things you should do when you sit down to tackle some problem is write something like this pseudo code.

我知道这是个很简单的例子，但是当你们成长为一名程序员后，当你们碰到问题后第一件事情就是,该写一些类似于,伪代码的东西。

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and so I grew up, sort of very, very aware of international cultures or thinking about them as much as I could.

所以，在这样一种环境中成长，我一直对各国的文化很感兴趣，也总会思考一些这方面的事。

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I mean, you grew up in an age when computers were blazingly fast, and have tons of memory, so why in the world do you care about efficiency?

我的意思是你们是伴随着,计算机快速发展成长的，计算机都有这么大的内存,那还在乎效率干嘛呢？

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