지난 3년간 직장생활을 정리하자면 average Joe보단 성공적이고 운도 따랐다. 오늘 내 테이블 앞에 또 다른 기회가 펼쳐졌다. 몇년에 한번 올까 말까한 기회. 다 갖지는 못 할 기회지만 욕심이 났다. 그래서 다 갖지는 못하지만 끝까지 최선을 다 해볼 생각이다. 그 기회를 다 활용을 못하겠지만 가능한 선에서 최대한 활용할 수 있으면 그것 자체가 기회이기 때문이다.
My wife and I are having a lot of fun with Hell’s Kitchen. Not that we love Gorden Ramsay’s food (we will really visit his restaurant someday), but all the challenges that each contestant has to go through to get to the point where they really want to be.
One really entertaining part of the show is Ramsay’s management skill(?). Some people will say he needs anger management, but I can understand that it is not really his problem that he is swearing and yelling so much. Watch a few episodes of Hell’s Kitchen and you will understand, too, if you understand how difficult restraurant business would be - I personally don’t have hand-on experience but considering all the complaints and even legal action that you can get from customers, he totally makes sense. In fact, it can make people do things better because of the high expectation and relatively lower tolerance. I personally believe in that.
Telsa has introduced a new model called Model S. Fully electronic car that you can drive around 300 miles with single charge (45 min quick charge). 0-60mph in 5.6 seconds. Wow!
When I first saw Roadster a few years back, its base price was completely out of my range ($100,000), so I never checked it back. A few days ago, my co-worker mentioned it to me, I didn’t think the design was this good!
I have been thinking of getting Toyota Prius when my RSX dies (wonder if that will happen in 10 years), but I am changing my mind. Honey, I want this car! I just wish any one of the Big Three doesn’t touch this company so that they don’t fuck it up.
Yesterday, I spent 2 hours to rewrite one parser code that my report wrote. The goal was to see if the parser could perform better while the code looks more organized and simpler to follow. For every text process, I tend to use the regular expression because of the simplicity and cleanness it provides, but I was not 100% sure if it could overcome the performance issue as Managed Code is known to be slow in many aspects.
The first attempt was disaster as it took probably 2 or 3 times more to process the same amount of data. While I was reading the code again before I gave up, I realized one mistake and one thing that I forgot. Regular expression in .NET is slow by default during run-time unless a specific option is specified during initialization – RegexOptions.Compiled.