Coder Lee YongHo – Chapter 87: Code 16600 (1)
Competitive business prohibition clause.
It was California Business and Professions Code Section 16600 clause which was added to the Californian civil law in 1827.
While big Korean businesses fatten their stomachs under the industrial technology outflow prevention and protection law, the businesses in Silicon Valley compete fiercely.
Techno Valley in Pangyo, Korea, cannot and will not become like Silicon Valley.
Of course, it wasn’t because of only this that Silicon Valley rose up to be the area of worldwide startups.
However, this law was representing the biggest value that Silicon Valley had.
Personal ideas are the topmost priority.
YongHo felt electric currents down his entire body while reading the articles related to code 16600.
He subconsciously exclaimed.
A culture that respects the individual more than the organization.
A culture that takes failures as experience.
This was the complete opposite of what YongHo experienced in the Korean IT industry.
A business culture that respects organizations rather than its individual.
A culture that treats creative ideas as nonsense, and 4 dimensional.
‘No wonder it’s called the city of startups.’
Of course, there were disadvantages here and there.
However, people all gather at Silicon Valley since the advantages weigh more than the disadvantages by a large margin.
Even so, he thought ‘perhaps, maybe’. YongHo looked for Brad to be sure.
Brad, who heard YongHo, also didn’t seem to think much. Such an attitude made YongHo relieved even more.
“Thank you.”
YongHo felt that Brad was thinking him as important. He listened to his ideas, and became interested in the things happening around him.
“Yes.”
After talking with Brad, YongHo found his passion again.
When he went back to his office, everyone was concentrating hard on their work. They were absorbed in reading the source that YongHo committed which made the RMSE Score 1.000.
‘Seems I need to do this first quickly……’
Then, he exuded an aura of ‘I’m really busy right now’ for a few days by typing madly on the mechanical keyboard.
Only the typing sounds of the mechanical keyboard was resounding across the quiet office.
YongHo, who was sitting inside a café, was anxiously waiting for someone. As if to hide such anxiousness, he was typing the keyboard of his laptop on the table.
YongHo was disappointed several times, but eventually, his expression became bright.
“Mr. Jeff!.” (T/N: Dang, it ain’t SoHyun, lol, all that description above…)
Seeming uncomfortable at YongHo’s such exaggerated reaction, Jeff had a difficult expression while sitting down.
“You know how much I waited for you until now.”(T/N: YongHo, you don’t say that to other men… Haiz…)
YongHo was planning to ask Jeff about the recommendation algorithm that he was making. He was planning to express what was written as codes into mathematical formulae and listen to his explanation.
“How is it? Did you have a look at the source?”
Moreover, Jeff was already a famous person within the software industry. He had more than YongHo. YongHo thought that there was no reason for Jeff to backstab him so he could show him the source of the recommendation algorithm he was tuning until now.
Jeff looked at YongHo without even looking at the laptop. In Jeff’s common sense, this was incomprehensible.
Moreover, there were explanations in the form of comments here and there in the source. As YongHo had solved the problem he had difficulties with, it was also hard to believe that the source YongHo showed him was from someone else.
YongHo begged Jeff. In Korea, nobody complained about anything if the program ran without hitches.
However, it wasn’t like that here.
For YongHo, who only learnt from other people, this was a new experience.
The information the bug window tells him should be correct. However, it was insufficient with just that if he wanted to tell another person about it.
This was the biggest reason why YongHo was meeting Jeff.
On a piece of A4 paper, several equations were dancing around. Even Jeff didn’t know everything. However, as he had the experience on top of his basic level of knowledge, he could understand something fast no matter how hard it was.
However, superior intellect didn’t imply teaching well.
Jeff, who was amidst of explaining, stood up and stretched his body as if fed up.
Fortunately, what looked like alien language was changing to be more numbers and signs.
YongHo was only looking at the piece of A4 paper which Jeff wrote to explain.
“And you didn’t even learn higher level algorithms. You’re really interesting.”
“I don’t have any thoughts on going back home before I understand this, so please.”
“Then shall we go to the next part?”
Jeff also hurried with explaining the next part. He didn’t seem to want to spend his time with another man for an entire day.
He couldn’t work forever. To pretend to ignore the hot pleads of his colleagues around him, his back was hurting too much from their gazes.
He also had the things he learnt from Jeff. YongHo sent a notice to all his team members.
There will be a simple explanation in the conference room at 2:30 p.m. Please come if you have the time.
YongHo set out for the conference room. YongHo. The entire team had gathered to listen to YongHo’s explanation.
‘First, I should draw their attention using the results and go over it fast.’
./js-mse-check.sh
YongHo first ran the program to check the results. The value which appeared on the screen was 1.010. It was 0.01 higher than last time.
‘Even I find it amazing, how amazed must they be?’
Once, he wrote a really high number but there was no result. Instead, a word he saw for the first time could be seen on the bug window.
He found it amazing that there was something impossible with the bug window.
“I think you have probably read over the source I’ve uploaded. And so, I’m planning to briefly explain about it today.”
It seemed the things he had learnt from Jeff was effective as the curiosity written on the people’s faces here seem to go away a bit.
They knew a bit after reading the source. However, listening to the original creator was different. This gave them confirmation whether what they understood was really correct or not.
“Any questions?”
“I can’t answer all the questions now since I don’t have enough time, but I will have sessions like this to explain a few times a week.”
Tell the team members what he had learnt from Jeff. To do that, this method was the best he could do.
When leaving the conference room, Dave was waiting for him with his thumb held up.
Dave also seemed to be excited. The RMSE Score kept rising. In addition, the only complaints that the team members had, satisfying their curiosity, was being solved bit by bit.
“If you’re busy you can be like that. And also, YongHo has the qualifications to do that.”
It was an explanation which Jeff, the top of the top, gave. There was no way there were any flaws.
YongHo spoke while smiling. Although it was small, his own area was appearing at this place. YongHo could now smile in satisfaction.