life
I was busy this month, both personally and professionally, due to the move. Although I cannot tell all details, my recent tasks have been mainly a migration: transfer data to a new structure. It is no sophisticated works. But any discrepancy can introduce catastrophic side-effects, so it has kept me
life
I'm reading Lab Girl (Hope Jahren) [https://www.amazon.com/Lab-Girl-Hope-Jahren/dp/1101873728/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=lab+girl&qid=1612737909&sr=8-1] these days and have struggled with my lack of vocabulary. I have been used to engineering and some political/economics jargon, but
business
I have been a GameStop [https://www.gamestop.com] member since 2009. I love to visit their retail store (though I couldn't visit during this pandemic) and their print-version magazine (very rare these days) Game Informer [https://www.gameinformer.com/]. But GameStop was a center of a global
book
When I read Ben Horowitz's last book (The Hard things about Hard things [https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+hard+thing+about+hard+things&gclid=Cj0KCQiA0rSABhDlARIsAJtjfCc_PIxPZpB1-LF_S46TIr2T5mSQihrX2S2G5wc1nTik7kKMsEcg_-oaAkKrEALw_wcB&hvadid=241639809987&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9031971&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&
go
A few days ago, a friend of mine posted a question about the Go concurrency control. The question was, "Can we assure that doSomething(0) always runs before doSomething(2)?" The answer would be, "No." We cannot determine the order in which goroutine can run at
movie
Goodbye, 2020, and welcome 2021. During the last end of year break, I had watched a bunch of movies at home. And there was "Soul [https://g.co/kgs/RBRGcq] ." I think it should be one of my lifetime movie. Personally, my best movie of 2020 is Greyhound
book
If "Disunited Nations" was my book of 2020 for my brain, "Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? [https://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Merit-Whats-Become-Common/dp/0374289980/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=tyranny+of+merit&qid=1609703215&sr=8-1] (Michael
book
During the last Thanksgiving break, I read "Disunited Nations, (Peter Zeihan / Harper Business)." On the verge of 2020, I think it is my (personal) book of the year. The central theme of the book is "geography shapes everything." I always had thought that geography is critical,
life
"Queen's Gambit" must be one of the most famous TV shows worldwide these days. I enjoyed it last Thanksgiving day, and I'm also the one fascinated by the show definitively. Spoiler alert: a little bit. At first, I cringed, as it was totally out
go
Two years ago, some engineers in my company had a study on the book "Hands-on Dependency Injection in Go." [https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Dependency-Injection-Go-maintain-ebook/dp/B07FSKBWVR/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=dependency+injection+in+go&qid=1606703396&sr=8-2] Overall, the book was
life
If I have to name one I hate most, I can give you a name without hesitation: Woo-Suk Hwang [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang_Woo-suk]. In 2005, he published in the journal of Science that he successfully cloned the human embryonic stem cell. He was called the "Pride
I love baseball. I’ve been a fan of SF Giants since 2008. I also got to love football (yes, American football) too last year. Last year, the 49ers made so many fantastic moments. I think those two have a similarity that “it ain’t over till it’s over.
