Reading Time: < 1 minute 再说说software rewrite：我在上班的地方，参加过两次rewrite （重写）的项目，现在的项目是其中一个，大概做了两年多了：中间换了不知道多少contractors，现在好像还没有看到the light at the end of the tunnels。每次此类项目，management 一开始都有非常optimistic 的expectations：但实际工作中不是这样。 Why rewrite is hard? Or the hardest? I can think of a few reasons. 1) Management usually has very realistic (overly optimistic) expectations. I don’t know what kool aid the management drinks, but somehow there is current “sort of working system”, somehow lead
Reading Time: < 1 minute 最近四次经过上海，我一般都住虹桥火车站CBD旁边的凯悦嘉轩酒店也就是 Hyatt Place，她家就在火车站/地铁站🚉天桥对面：可以走路走到，前提是最好手上不要拿太多的行李🧳。具体地址是：虹桥商务区申虹路9号, 上海, 中国, 201106. 我一般是用凯悦 World of Hyatt 的点数换的：一般是五千点一个晚上，我觉得还可以。凯悦的点数我是直接从 Chase Sapphire Preferred (CSP) Ultimate Rewards 那里转过来的，一点换一点。一般认为CSP Ultimate Rewards 一个点值2美分，五千点相当于1百美元。 她家上海店的布置跟美国的很像，但是她家的早餐自助餐比美国的要多很多选择。我开玩笑说早上吃得饱一点，到下午四五再吃晚饭就省了一顿饭的钱（again开个玩笑）。其实我发现到了我现在这个年纪，尤其要注意吃饭吃个七分饱，要避免桌上美食的诱惑，与肚里的馋虫作坚决的斗争。这次我带了家眷一起住酒店。好像她们也考虑了我的想法：一个房间有两份免费自助餐，再加上12岁以下小孩全免。市场价自助餐大概是68 还是 128 元。我这次就把自助餐让给了我的家眷：我去了永和大王，以前我也去过那里吃过中餐或者晚餐。这次我发现点餐完全是微信小程序：我的手机漫游有时不是很给力。 除了虹桥天地 The HUB 以外，那个旁边还有一个龙湖天地天街 Paradise Walk – 我喜欢那里的西贝莜面村。这两个地方都有相当多的吃饭的地方，中外的都有不少。嘉轩酒店旁边还有一个很不错的浙江台州的餐馆叫台乡缘（在甬虹路上，从嘉轩/金臣中心过马路就到）。我最近经朋友邀请，去吃过，她们哪里的海鲜和台州菜相当不错。大屏幕上的台州风土人情也是非常好。我老家是宁波，在台州北面，我们都靠海。台州菜和宁波菜有相通之处。风土人情也是：比如说摘茶叶，我小时候摘过。随着城市后的发展，以前一些农村的小吃慢慢地就消失了，还有方言，因为慢慢地大家都讲普通话了。 如果你喜欢咖啡，那一带有相当多的咖啡店：我想得起来的有 – 星巴克，瑞幸咖啡，加拿大的 Tim Hortons, 上海本土走高端路线的 Manner 咖啡，美国的 Peet’s coffee, 醒美咖啡 SayMay Coffee, 等等，应该还有很多。在龙湖天街那边有一张地图，上面标着大多数的咖啡店。很多牌子的店，不止一家：比如说星巴克，瑞幸。 备注：虹桥火车站，地铁站，再加上虹桥机场，加在一起，又叫虹桥交通枢纽（地面上还有长途汽车站）。地下，路面都比较复杂。我记得我2017年第一次从火车站到旅馆，花了点时间才找到，走到。我上面写了地址。油管上有不少关于火车站的介绍，也可以看看我的一个短视频介绍。我在虹桥天地那里，有时也会给人指路。这一次也指了一次：帮助一对夫妻从虹桥天地 THE HUB的地下，搭乘 Cordis Hotel（康得思）电梯到旅馆门口，坐上车。 最后我把嘉轩酒店 Hyatt Place
Reading Time: 2 minutes Storytelling is a very important skill to have, especially in a country like the USA, and at the this say of age. I think it’s important to have this skill over the history too. For example, in this article, we can see storytelling helped human beings survive, and I quote below: Since our ancestors evolved
Reading Time: < 1 minute I received a new HP EliteBook 645 G10 for work recently. Note I wrote about Desktops, Laptops And Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI For Work 我在美国上班20多年用过的那些电脑 recently too. I recall with my 1st new work laptop, an IBM ThinkPad, as I was working from home in 2008, I would be somewhat concerned if the laptop fans
Reading Time: 2 minutes Some random thoughts I had on consumer products companies stocks: I think it’s probably better to bet on $V and $MA instead of $LULU, $NKE, $DECK, $CROX, $SBUX and last but not least: $ONON which I have a small long position, thinking selling it around summer Olympics. I just sold few $LULU shares and I
Reading Time: 4 minutes (Below is from a tweet/X thread I wrote last year) #Performance testing is important. At the same time, we don’t want to the performance tuning too early, or set an unrealistic performance goal. A better way in my opinion is to tune/optimize the app (or web services) performance as it scales up (getting more users).
Reading Time: 4 minutes Or ransomware as a service or RaaS, please refer to this Pensacola News Journal article, search for “Black Basta” for the detailed information. I felt this article was well written. Unfortunately, this one is the place I used to work – Ascension Health (company official note on this cyber security event). I also talked about
Reading Time: 11 minutes 中文版 – 谷歌翻译 – 美国上班20多年用过的那些电脑 I started working in the US since Oct 2000. In a few years, hopefully I can retire from my current software dev job on my own terms (rather than let’s just say being replaced by AI :-). When I 1st started to working in the US, back in year 2000,
Reading Time: 2 minutes I talked about arbitrage quite a bit in my blog, but in terms of profit I didn’t make much until year 2022 – I followed Warren Buffett and bought into Microsoft Activision Blizzard acquisition. I got this idea when I attended #BRK2022 shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. Most recently, I speculated a few more, one
Reading Time: 2 minutes cobble together per Collins Dictionary: If you say that someone has cobbled something together, you mean that they have made or produced it roughly or quickly. Or Google AI overview – “Cobble together” is an American English phrasal verb that means to produce something quickly or roughly, often without great care or effort. For example,
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