Who sent me that email (part 2)

No matter what this guy's initial intention is, he turned to be very friendly... Maybe he realizes he shouldn't email me with his company email address?! ----- Me: I am in Seattle today, but I am leaving tomorrow. I had an interview yesterday, but I guess i did not get the job. So to be frank, your email sounds kind of sarcastic, even if you didn't intend. ----- RZ: Welcome to Seattle... [some email correspondences omitted] Me: I bet you found my resume inside the trash bin of one of my interviewers. :) ------ RZ: First this is not related to your interview. I just saw your resume beside the recycle bin (out, not in) in the copy room, and I had a look at it (I did not keep the resume). I must admit that your resume is [guess what he says LOL]. [omitted]

Who sent me that email...?

Hi Angie, Why not come and work in Seattle? For example, I have broken English, broken work experience and broken education (only a bachelor in China, but in computer science – though), but I am here. My only work experience was in Zhuhai (Bordered on Macau) before I came to Canada. Regards, *RZ* ---- Hey, where did you get my email? Angie ---- I got it from nowhere, or God forward it to me. Regards, *RZ* ---- Why did you write me then? ---- My first feeling is that a woman should not pursue the field of computer science. This kind of job is for a man (or a dog). My second feeling is that if you really like computer science, go to North America. For example, long winter days and rainy days are good for your thinking. Regards, *RZ*

Seattle - Day 3

My family in the Seattle area and my new cousin

It was 8 years ago when I was in Seattle...

Had a small talk with my uncle about my "workaholic" supervisor in Germany. It is true that many people who are considered to be successful in their careers have a not so successful personal/family life. If they indeed feel comfortable about it, I still don't see why this is wrong. I only see it as a different choice of life. If every person on earth is family- and not career-centered, I guess there will not be so many scientific advancements like what we have now.

Interview@Redmond

Microsoft campus

A typical dialog between my collegues

Can you imagine, if I stay in this field for 5 years, maybe I will act like "John"...? I am on my way to become a computer freak??? kuocl - ic, so I don't need to cover this feature in my test case, right? John - Nope, it is fully tested by the autobuild test cases that use it. John - There should be tests that it does NOT work on an image running on a box. John - Indeed, that's part of a larger class of tests. You should test that extra elements and attributes are ignored by all the WS-RM SOAP methods and SOAP header elements. It's all supposed to be extensible. Not that this is a high-priority test. kuocl - John I am kind of confused about your last sentence. cannot understand what "part of larger class", "extra elements and attributes are ignored by all the WS-RM SOAP methods" "Not that this is a high priority test" mean. kuocl - sorry, a little technical for me to understand. John - All of the control messages between machines speaking WS-RM are in SOAP, which is (of course) in XML. For instance, . See the definition of this on page 17 of the specificiation. Note the ... all over the place. What they are saying is that you are free to extend the protocol by putting a XML element inside the , and the recipient should just ignore them if they aren't understood. This is what all the XPATH expressions with "any" in them, like the one at line 544, and the one at line 599, are expressing. The one at line 544 is about adding an attribute, it's valid to do http://localhost:900/. John - The one at line 599 is the one that allows inside . John - We won't emit any extensions, but if Microsoft were to send a message with such an extension, we should silently ignore the extension. John - Note however, that this extensibility is NOT universal in SOAP. There is the MustUnderstand attribute in a SOAP header, and you will see some requirements about that in the specification. For instance, headers must have MustUnderstand, so they would be , so that you can't have them accidentally ignored. John - (Not sure about the capitalization of MustUnderstand.) kuocl - your point is to make sure that box can handle extended elements and attributes correctly, if no mustUnderstand="1" specified, which means box just ignore those elements and attributes. John - As for not high priority, I mean that these are tests I'd leave to the end of the project. There's almost no chance it doesn't work right, there are more important than this. John - Right, but mustUnderstand only applies at the level of elements that are direct children of . So has the SOAP meaning of must understand. But if inside that there was , that mustUnderstand does NOT have any SOAP meaning. kuocl - yeap,

MaoKong Gondola 猫空纜車

MaoKong Gondola

This is the newly opened MaoKong Gondola in Taipei. I feel like I am a real tourist.

The making of Radish Cake

Fulong Beach 福隆海水浴場

The annual HoHoiYeung concert at Fulong Beach, North-Eastern Coast

The weather was nice, but it was simply too hot. LOL, this is my first beach concert, I seldom go to a beach in HK, I wonder if there is a beach spacious enough for that.

The concert was okay, I am not into music anyway. The beach was so full, and you had to queue for 2 hours to cross the beach when the concert ended - we didn't queue though :p