The End of the Season
The Giants' 2021 season has been ended. I believe both teams deserved a win. But I believe it was not the 'correct' scene for one of the league's best teams to end the season. > This "swing" ended the Giants' season ... pic.
Diko Ko
Director of Engineering@Toss USA, An engineer and a producer. Previously produced Sid Story and Yogurting. Find me on BlueSky: @dikoko.bsky.social, Thread/Instagram: @dikoko
NL WEST 2021!
Watching Giants games is my joy of life. But last week, I came across a marquee message at the bottom of the TV screen saying that I might lose my Giants game coverage. I had watched live TV on Youtube TV. I had only so many options for my Internet
apple
Where will the App Store go?
Yesterday, Judge Gonzalez Rogers adjudicated on the "Epic" case in the game industry. [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/technology/epic-apple-app-developers.html?searchResultPosition=2] The judge defined the market as "digital mobile gaming" and said Apple did not have a monopoly on that market. However,
life
Shang-chi
Yesterday, we (my wife, daughter, and I) went to the movie theater to watch " Shang-chi and the Legend of Ten Rings [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shang-Chi_and_the_Legend_of_the_Ten_Rings]." I didn't take so long to realize that how much I did
travel
Lake Tahoe
My last summer vacation was at Lake Tahoe. It was my first visit to Tahoe. I heard a lot about Tahoe from many friends (mainly about the Wintertime for skiing) and articles (not only tour guides but do you know the TCP Tahoe [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_congestion_
life
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) [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
GameStop Frenzy
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
What You Do is Who You Are
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
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
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 [https://g.co/kgs/RBRGcq] ." I think it should be one of my lifetime movie. Personally, my best movie of 2020 is Greyhound
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? [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
