Diko Ko - Invisible Friends

The Move

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

Anki

I'm reading Lab Girl (Hope Jahren) these days and have struggled with my lack of vocabulary. I have been used to engineering and some political/economics jargon, but English literature (mostly emotional/descriptive terms) is still challenging. The book is more a poem than an ordinary memoir. So, I've tried

business

GameStop Frenzy

I have been a GameStop 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. But GameStop was a center of a global issue last week for another reason - the stock market

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What You Do is Who You Are

When I read Ben Horowitz's last book (The Hard things about Hard things), I had emotionally challenging days. I was running my own startup, and the figures were getting despairing. So, I was attuned to the book line by line. The book has come to one of my life books,

go

Pipelining with 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 a preemption point as

movie

Soul

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." I think it should be one of my lifetime movie. Personally, my best movie of 2020 is Greyhound (What a great 90min movie!). But it

book

Tyranny of Merit

If "Disunited Nations" was my book of 2020 for my brain, "Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? (Michael J. Sandel / Farrar, Straus and Giroux)" was the one for my heart. Prof. Michael J. Sandel may be more famous in Korea than in the US. His last book

book

Disunited Nations

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, but I realized it

life

Queen’s Gambit

"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 of my expectation. In the usual

go

Dependency Inversion in Go

Two years ago, some engineers in my company had a study on the book "Hands-on Dependency Injection in Go." Overall, the book was about the famous SOLID principles: Single responsibility principleOpen/closed principleLiskov substitution principleInterface segregation principleDependency inversion principleAt that time, I couldn't get the last one: the dependency inversion

life

The Price of Credit

If I have to name one I hate most, I can give you a name without hesitation: Woo-Suk Hwang. In 2005, he published in the journal of Science that he successfully cloned the human embryonic stem cell. He was called the "Pride of Korea," and no Korean scientist got so

The Rule of Games

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.

life

A Dental Appointment

Yesterday, I visited my dental clinic. It was a regular checkup, but I put off my appointments two times because I thought dental treatment could be the most dangerous activity in this pandemic era. I was still a bit afraid, but I thought the recent COVID-19 state is relatively stable

anime

RIP. Mr. Matsumoto

Last week, there was a cool article from Vulture about the history of the animation. In those 100 great moments, I believe I know the most from the Japanese anime. As I said before, watching animes has been a part of my life. But there was a personal moment I

life

The 12.9-inch iPad Pro 2020

In late July, my daughter complained that her iPad - the first generation of 9.7 inch iPad Pro that I used before - was too slow. So... (you know) it was a perfect excuse for my upgrade. I turned my third-generation 2018 11 inch iPad Pro over to her

life

Walking Down the University Ave

I love my AirPods Pro (who doesn't?), but there has been making rattling noises recently. It started several months ago. I heard a noise that something is trembling in my right side AirPod. It was not so severe then, but it has been getting worse. I found that it was

life

Patrick Stewart

In the early 2010s, I used a service called Everpix. It was a cloud photo service that I could save my photos and view/manage them in any device. Nowadays, iCloud Photo or Google Photo is ubiquitous, but there was no one like that, and I loved the service. However,

game

Ultima IV - The End

The end of Ultima IVSo, I completed the Ultima IV last week. There is no pre-defined route in Ultima IV, but the requirement to enter the abyss - The Great Stygian Abyss - is as follows: 1) Find all runes of 8 virtues.2) Get to know all mantras of

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Ultima IV - Quest of the Avatar

It was 1987 (when I was 7th grade) that my mom bought me my first computer: Apple II+. It had around 300,000 KRW price tag (about $375 at that time). Considering my family's financial status at the time, we could hardly afford it. But I believe it has changed

covid-19

Travelling during the pandemic

My daughter and I arrived in Korea a few days ago. We’re currently under 14-day self-quarantine. I couldn’t imagine what a journey during the pandemic looks like. But my daughter graduated from elementary, and now it’s her summer break, and we’d like to have a family

anime

Space Battle Ship Yamato 1 Ep 22.

Finally, I watched the 22nd Episode of Yamato 1 - The Rainbow Star Cluster. It was an incredible story that a genius engineer beats an admiral who planned and executed a perfect strategy. Space Battle Ship Yamato is an extraordinary anime to me. Though (as a Korean) it is hard

life

Scariest Days

It has been more than a month passed after the shelter in place order was activated. It would be good if I could say it had been peaceful and dull days, but I couldn’t because I had been sick. TL; DR. Now I’m fine, and I don’t

wwdc

WWDC20 and Shelter in Place Day 4

Contrary to my wish, WWDC20 is going to be an online-only event. Apple said it would be “a new experience.” I’m positive about the decision. But at the same time, sorry for missing some traditional moments: the midnight line-up, rush for the shop opening, and there would be no

life

Barbarian Days

I bought a paperback of “Barbarian Days (William Finnegan).” It is unlikely for me to buy a paper-book in these days (most are e-books), but I buy a few if it is an excellent book. The physical book has some merits over e-books. Most of all, I’d love to

life

The New Office

My company HQ moved to a new location - Redwood City - from Palo Alto. I think the main reason would be (as I’m not an executive) the cost. The previous office was a sub-lease from a VC. It was located in the head of the University Ave. (a