Month: May 2013

  • 「阿west有你起度真係好好」

    聽到咩都要冷靜D先
    阿west起呢個comment入面其實唔係指阿west, 係指in-shore developer

    in-shore developer唔需要好叻,純粹係位置優勢大過一切
    需知道,要manage一個off-shore developer,係需要幾多effort去克服communication barrier

    「咁其實我地唔應該outsource」
    「係呀,我不嬲都反對outsource架啦;10年前請個印度developer人工可能係香港四分之一,但係過左咁多年之後印度都同國際接軌,無論文化定人工上」

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    其實呢,番工真係好睇你跟左邊個老細
    呢樣野,真係purely by luck

    打入到一個圈子,係一件好緊要既事

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    越黎越多人走埋黎我個位講UI既問題

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    夜晚番HKU同嘍囉一齊(睇佢)寫code

    睇埋咁多javascript the good parts / JavaScript Pattern,都係要實戰過先知咩事
    on99寫勁多jQuery DOM manipulation係唔會明白JavaScript終極奧義

    睇住嘍囉寫,雖然只係明到一半
    都算係有D進步

    JavaScript究竟要等幾多年,先會成為server side既industrial standard programming language?

  • 尋晚既xanga未打完

    仲有樣好有趣既野
    有種人講野好直接,yes, no, agree, not agree
    有種人講野
    “Actually it is an issue about XYZ, back to two months ago we have discovered that aAAA and BBB, so that CCC and DDD, turn out we EEE and FFF and finally GGG and HHH”
    “You did not answer my question”

    初初我以為高官鐘意遊花園,完全係因為佢地刻意咁做
    而家明白,有種人佢唔係有心帶你遊花園,佢地真心覺得係要咁樣答人,覺得咁樣答先係「全面」
    一定要講故仔,無能力濃縮做一句句子

    我唔係呢種人,一就一二就二,我唔需要知道咁多background

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    不過呢
    擅於講故仔既野通常都擅於吹水
    更適合於呢個business world生存

     

  • 今朝既meeting真係好有趣

    有同事講下佢呢半年黎做project既經驗, 點樣由幾張powerpoint 寫成既”requirement”開始, 做到今日(都未有野睇)

    雖然無起其他大公司番過咁耐工,都想象到,而家遇到既問題,應該好common
    1. Business users think they know what they want, but actually they do not
    2. Governance. Too many stakeholders are involved in discussion. Who to make the final decision?
    3. Deadline that cannot be changed.

    1要求business analyst有非凡既requirement engineering skills, 呢D skill已經好少有架喇,加上一個BA係scarce resource,真係好難expect佢可以擺到幾多時間落黎
    「有問題?escalate比你既programme manager啦」

    3係more a office politics. 如果呢個programme死左,邊個要人頭落地?下年budget會點?有幾多人bonus會因此受到影響?

    2係…firmwide問題,有business stakeholder, 有chief technology officer, 仲有各個可能有關係既system/component owner, 個個都加把咀落黎
    如果個個人都可以一齊討論都還好
    最慘係,A+B+C+D今日討論完,聽日B+C+D+E討論;E話A講既野有問題wor, 然後大家同意follow-up, 下次A+B+D+E討論,A+E com掂數,再下次討論C又話唔妥
    呢D問題唔係話你send 左email出黎或者document 低或者raise左issue就解決到
    呢種discussion model只會raise出越黎越多issue越黎越多dependencies.

    so? 討論左十次都仲有問題,應該點?
    可以escalate,可以起programme level mark as  一個risk
    過左point of no return應該投降話我唔會起deadline前deliver到,又或者叫business再諗下呢個requirement仲要唔要

    又番番去問題2,一個只許成功不許失敗既project…

    governance, 好似係我第一次感覺到BBA既topic起workplace係有D用
    Principles of Management / Business Strategy好似都有討論過governance既問題
    最基本既係separation of ownership and management 
    夾硬塞落黎就係每個programe / system / component 都有佢既 owner + programme / development manager

    點既governance先係effective既governance?

    忽然想搵番BUSI1007本textbook睇下

     

  • 收到MStat既offer letter

    1. 點解要讀Master?
    [標準答案]再唔讀就比人淘汰/而家通街都係Master/學歴好D升職快D/多張刀/我媽成日叫我讀Master雖然佢唔知Master係咩
    [個人答案]請參閱標準答案,雖然我唔係好認同/個個都讀我會有DD壓力

    2. 點解讀Master of Statistics (Part Time)?
    我係有D興趣讀STAT既, 初初報JUPAS我已經諗過讀Stat, 只係因為6901太多人讀搞到我唔想讀/年頭聽到有上屆Graduate去左做quant, 好似好吸引咁(雖然我唔知quant即係做乜), 搞到我發夢會多做Stat+寫program既工/因為小弟認為呢個係撻皮Master,應該唔會好難讀/將來唔想做IT都有第二D野做下

    3. 點解唔讀Master of Science (Computer Science)?
    我覺得MSc(CompSc)好chur/我想讀多D唔同field既野

    4. 點解HKU?
    近lor

    5. 仲有無考慮過其他Master?
    UST果個financial mathematics, 不過太X chur,肯定chur 過MSc(CompSc)

    6. 可唔可以簡單講下MStat(Part time)既structure?
    8 個courses / 4 semesters / 2 years (係咪好撻皮呢)/讀既野連Undergraduate level都不如(係咪好撻皮呢)/8個courses入面得兩個係core/part time student 可以揀所有STAT 7或8字頭既courses, total有13個 courses可以揀, 隨左STAT8002 Projects之外其他個個我都有興趣,都唔知點揀/其實我好想好想讀STAT 6字頭full time course, 果D theory courses先係我最想讀既 

    7. 有咩course揀?
    STAT7003 Foundation of statistics (Core)
    STAT7004 Linear modelling (Core)
    STAT7005 Multivariate methods (必讀)
    STAT7006 Survey research methods
    STAT7007 Categorical data analysis
    STAT8002 Project (一定唔讀)
    STAT8003 time series forecasting
    STAT8005 Selected topics in statistics
    STAT8007 Statistical methods in economics and finance
    STAT8014 Risk management and Basel accords
    STAT8015 Actuarial statistics
    STAT8016 Biostatistics
    STAT8017 Data mining techniques

    識少少野既你應該一眼就睇得出,呢個list係applied statistics多,即係唔重theory, 即係…樣樣野都蜻蜓點水咁讀D

  • 家姐番左黎,渡兩個禮拜假,今朝又飛番美國喇

    將來佢真係再番黎香港住,都唔會有機會好似而家咁
    兩姊弟就坐起隔離,想吹水隨時都得

  • 一件事差到,過左point of no return
    大家反而變得好輕鬆

    反正都救唔番,洗乜花咁多心機精力去救

    真係好難想象

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    to be or not to be, that is the question
    做定唔做都會得罪一個人LOL

    做果陣我都知另一個同事會係咩反應架喇=.=


  • 上年寫果個第三派對圖書館檢查器
    今朝拎出黎用都好地地,臨放工前再開就收左皮
    throw左個exception話can’t right on某某directory
    聽日仲要dem比人睇=.=

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    QC開始試我整既野
    IE真係好撚煩

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    其實黑唔黑雨
    你要做既野,你點都要做架啦

  • 我都係唔想比人炒者
    想保持job security, 或者提高競爭力,應該做乜野?

    有朋友好犀利咁日日做leetcode題。「我朋友,他花了幾個月把leetcode刷了幾篇,刷到能背呢,就進了facebook」
    當然algorithm只係硬件配套,個人質素/英文/工作經驗呢類軟件配套都不能少

    有朋友好犀利咁識好多open source library

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    真係應該要立定心志搞好其中一樣野,同時學幾樣野係唔會學得掂
    Design Pattern? Testing? JavaScript? Python?

    可以學既野真係太多啦…應該學邊一樣?

  • 同冷生行龍脊
    多謝冷生幫我同女朋友算左個命盤

    =___=

    冷生真係好有趣

    隔咁耐仲會搵我行山
    佢問我行唔行既時候,諗都唔洗諗就答應

    順便又去柴灣拜下Koo Man

  • IE我屌你老母

  • 上年christmas party抽中既$1000 Red Bar coupon
    之前搵中津又唔應我…
    今次出黎同DHL用埋佢

    六點坐到11點,5個鐘頭唔覺唔覺就過左

    今晚既話題都幾personal LOL

  • 我好似唔係第一次講…”human resource”呢個term令我不安
    公司聽到大家講野,
    「阿邊個,你有無resource淨可以比我個project用?」、
    「咁樣唔係用resource既好方法」、
    「過黎填左resource sheet先啦」

    明知果個resource,係一個人。點解唔講「咁樣唔係用人既好方法」「咁樣唔係用員工既好方法」,而係「咁樣唔係用resource既好方法」?
    有咁多個詞語,點解要選一個最唔人性化既字?

    「將來我地既做project,會起resource pool入面搵出黎form project team」

    resource pool, 呢個phrase更加令人心寒
    成個畫面係,有好多個人,好似魚咁,起個pool入面游黎游去
    等project黎養佢…project黎喇,就有個夾黎到,夾一兩個人離開個pool, 用完之後又掟番落黎

    同魚唔一樣既係,池溏有野食;resource pool入面係無野食…無project夾出去透氣,最終會比人淘汰

    又有另一pair詞語,我係差唔多時間學識既, sticky resource, 同sticky session
    sticky session係指…起一個cluster入面有n部機,一部機開始handle一個session之後,以後呢個session既所有工作都會交比呢部機處理
    sticky resource係指,呢個resource起某個domain做野做耐,好熟呢個domain, 之後會多D派佢黎番呢個domain做野
    其實兩樣野無乜關係,只係我想得太遠:可唔可以唔好用一個adjective, 同時配上抽象既概念同一個人?
    究竟係sticky session用緊擬人法,定係sticky resource用緊擬物法?

    發明human resource呢個詞語一定係capitalist
    human resource同natural resource都係同一類野,不過唔同type
    “resource pool”, 其實唔一定係人, VM ware都成日講resource pool,呢度可以指memory, computational power
    crude oil tank, gas holder都係resource container, 即係resource pool

    人力係一種資源,但只當人係一種資源既話
    總有一日,人會同其他natural resource一樣,耗盡。

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