Jon Kartago Lamida

Personal

After Six Months

Wow it has been six month again after my last post. And I will just jot down again some personal note this time. I went to Europe from January until March earlier this year. I took a long leave from my job. I was visiting my wife in Germany, the

Personal

Another Self Reflection of Age Increment

var jon = {name: "Jon", age: 27} jon.age++ console.log(jon.age) Birthday is a special reminder. It will make us recall that few years back we had born to this world and one day we also need to depart. We do not live forever. There are two

Personal

Cascading Dream: How to Find and Adjust Passion

There are two problems relate to human passion. First, problem of person who cannot find their passion. Second, person who know his passion but restricted to reach it. Passion is the most important thing that drive us in life. It is our fuel that make sure we can keep moving

Personal

Birthday Love Letter to My Wife

Dear Wifey, Happy birthday, may Allah always bless you, have all your dreams come true and happiness always be with you forever eternal from now until here after. We know that we live only temporary. So let we live life at the fullest Be someone significant. Or at least don&

Personal

Two Years in Singapore: A Short Self Reflection

Dear day, today is exactly two years I live in Singapore. Two years ago, only few days after my wedding, I flew to Singapore for work. I still remember the moment when I hug my wife in airport at that day and leaving Jakarta the city where I study and

Personal

How to Have an Awesome Life

> Life is too precious if just to be ordinary [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KirCjpeDz2g/UoxRJIxcdbI/AAAAAAAAGLA/qplGbja-AYA/s1600/green+mushroom.JPG] Human live in this earth only in limited time. In this era, average life expectancy in Indonesia is around 70 years. We could have some bonuses  for

Personal

A Retrospective of Second Wedding Anniversary: Marriage Advice that I Will Do Properly

> In the end, marriage isn't about Happily ever after. It's about work. And a commitment to grow together and a willingness to continually invest in creating something that can endure eternity. Through that work, the happiness will come. -- Gerald Rogers I like to reflect

Travel

Several Good Movies Shot in Europe

Europe has many beautiful countries. This continent always being one of place that I want to spent some of years of my life, either by studying or working for 3 to 5 years maybe. Unfortunately both of that willing haven't come true yet. Europe always unique in my

Startup

Hackerx Singapore 2013: Bring Developers and Founders in One Place

I just attended , an interesting event this evening. The event try to arrange a meeting between startup founder with a hackerx or we can said as  an awesome potential recruitment. Hackerx is based in USA and likely this is their first event in Singapore or maybe Asia. [http://3.bp.

Personal

Booking.com Job Interview Experience

Last month I had an opportunities to for the first time. I went there to attend onsite interview in Booking.com. Booking.com provide very great facility during recruitment process. That experience was started when I see and booking.com Perl developer vacancy in stackoverflow career website. Actually the position

Personal

Amsterdam Here I Come

There's no rejected pray. When pray seems not granted immediately, it could mean 3 things: 1. Our pray is suspended to more appropriate time 2. Our pray is replaced with something we need more 3. Our pray is granted at the hereafter with something bigger About some years

Travel

Legoland Malaysia Review

This post was half way written since September last year. I just can finish it right now, because my laziness. This post will share about my first visit to the large newest theme park in South East Asia. It is exactly located in Malaysia. I will talk about Legoland. Legoland

Algorithm

First Phone Interview for Software Development Engineer Position in Amazon.com

About few months ago, one of amazon.com recruiter asking my CV through Linkedin and invite me for the recruitment that would be conducted in Singapore. The position is for Software Development Engineer that will be based in Seattle, US. With full of interest I decided to sent the CV

Java

Fibonacci Sequence With and Without Recursion

Fibonacci sequence is sequence with subsequent number is the sum of the previous two. See snapshot below from wikipedia. [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5fDTG5c4Gag/UOOvV1QRR2I/AAAAAAAAD-A/ex5N_3odfaU/s1600/wikifibo.PNG] We can implement this algorithm either using recursion or without. Let see both.Before the implementation let see

Python

Update Twitter Using Python Tweepy

I just spending sometime to play with tweepy. This post will show how to use that lib to access Twitter API.First, install python (obviously). Second, install (if not installed yet) easy_install a tool to install python package easily. Refer to this Go to console and check if easy_

Personal

A Short Reflection of Age Increment

> "Life is beautiful. Be grateful for everything you have but keep fighting to achieve every of your dreams" Age is nothing rather than just a number increment. However the increment of age should be a great moment to do self evaluation. More mature a person should made

Personal

A Retrospective of First Wedding Anniversary: Why Your wife must be the most important person in universe?

This month is special month. In November I celebrate my anniversary of marriage and my wife birthday. I get married on 19 November 2011. So, I have been married for 1 year. Time flies. Everything feels just like yesterday. I can remember almost all scenery on last year. How we

Personal

Dreamer vs Visionary

[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--bLKZ04QUDg/UI8VTu2922I/AAAAAAAAD5Q/u90vUpdt0e0/s1600/2b6031960a94b16e2c5d61d9deb934e5.jpg] I always love to talk about future dream. I like to imagine. I like to aim the target. I love the challenge. Speaking about future dream, actually there are two types of people based on how they react

Personal

Sentimental Rain

I don't have interest yet to meteorology or climatology. But climate (one of theme researched in those mentioned sciences), is always affecting our daily life. One informal signal of season change in tropical country Indonesia can be derived by it's naming. When the naming of the

Algorithm

Nine Algorithms that Changed The Future

[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d2NLotrAjw8/UIN5Bm4HIZI/AAAAAAAAD3k/tFPaVwy-t8M/s1600/20121021_115525.jpg] Let's start from the basic. What is algorithm? Formal definition can be found in text book and maybe will cited in wikipedia. For me algorithm can be explained as follow: Algorithm = Recipes Recipe is step

Management

The Power of Impulse Control

In Emotional Intelegence, one famous book of Daniel Goleman, has emphasized the importance of delayed gratification. This concept is introduced through Marshmallow Experiment conducted by Walter Mischel at Standford University. In that experiment, some children is offered a marshmallow. If the kid can resist not to eat that immediately and

Study

The Power of Rejection

A few days a go I receive a letter from Germany. My first rejection letter. Few months back I was applying to one master program in TU Ilmenau Germany. The program is so interesting. Research in Computer and System Engineering. Actually I will do anything (in positive way) to be

Study

The Power of Practice

Yesterday, almost all major newspaper around the world put headline about record breaking being done by Felix Baumgartner by his jump from height about 39 Km. 39 Km more or less is Singapore distance from west to east. With speed driving we will spent about 45 minutes from end to

Study

Preparing GRE

Today I just bought another book. On my lunch break time, I went to Junction 8 mall in Bishan. After browsing for a moment, my eyes attracted to one official GRE book from ETS. No need to long time 40 SGD have to go out from my pocket. GRE which

Javascript

Fast Method for Learning jQuery using JavaScript Console

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