Coder Lee Yongho Chapter 37

Long straight hair that sparkled in the light.

The white fingers were typing the fingers as if they were seducing men.

Looking at the internet window, it was the website which YongHo visited a lot.

The woman stopped still while having bit into a peach. The sweetness of the peach could be felt from the pink lips.

An absolute majority of the open source projects were held in English-speaking countries. Stack overfly, too, was an activity that that answered people’s questions without any sort of reward.

[email protected]/* */

Some of YongHo’s answers were even in the top 100.

The woman who confirmed the ID seemed to have decided that she will look further into this as she started looking at the posts made by YongHo.

“He has some skill.”
A face that was white to the point of being pale showed that she was not an outdoor person. Perhaps due to her excitement due to her curiosity, a slight blush took place in her pale face.

YongHo never expected that the knot would get untied so easily.

-Oh… You didn’t get contacted. Unfortunately, there was a limit to the employment capacity this time.

But YongHo wasn’t.

When he got the fail notification he instead got more confident. All the uncertainty before the decision was made had disappeared. He felt that something was lifted from his heart.

Just because something was lifted from his heart, didn’t mean that he didn’t get angry.

An angry tone was mixed in with the frustrated voice. Such change of emotion could be felt by the human resources team employee.

“……”

Even after the call ended, YongHo stared at his phone in a daze.

-You’ve been invited to a group talk.
When he confirmed, HyeJin made a group talk, inviting SungGyu, SuMin and himself.

HyeJin: Sunbae, why are you so late? Are you going to be late on the first day?

SungGyu-Hyung: What are you doing? Come quickly, it’s boring here.
Ji SuMin: Tardiness is not good.

They were looking for YongHo. His eyes blurred while looking at the chat. A teardrop fell on to the phone screen. YongHo stayed with his head held down for a long while.

Dinner time.

“What’s this?”

YongHo’s parents’ faces were full of shock after they opened the envelope. A 10 million won cheque was in the envelope. He gave An ByungHoon 20 million won and the rest was in YongHo’s bank account.

His parents had difficult lives all their life. It was a matter of fact that they would be shocked to receive a money like 10 million won. At their shocked figures, YongHo had difficulties telling them everything so he just told them vaguely.

“And what?”

“What?”

“I think I can get employed by a bigger company.”

“There is a sunbae from my school who got into Osung, and he said that a person with my capabilities could do in his company so he said he would look into it. Isn’t IT needed everywhere nowadays?”

“Well, I did hear that nothing works without computers nowadays.”

“Yes, so I’m trying to go to a better place.”
Perhaps due to the cheque he gave them, the talk ended well. YongHo’s parents seemed to be more interested in the envelope rather than what YongHo was saying.

He didn’t go to the graduation ceremony.

But he also didn’t drown himself in alcohol.

And none of his job application papers passed.

Fail.

Big companies demanded a good educational background, TOEIC(Test of English for International Communication, very important in Korea when looking for a job), and high credits; and middle sized enterprises and small businesses preferred experienced people who can get to work right away.

‘F*ck, even the papers don’t pass.’

Once, he went to an enterprise that contacted him after seeing his résumé on SaramOut.

The second was an employee from an estate agent project.

Meanwhile, one place contacted him. When he searched the internet, he found it was an IT company. They said to come for an interview since his papers passed.

The fact that he may become jobless for life at this rate made YongHo sensitive.

It was a continuous stream of anxious days when he thought about the fact that he could contribute to that number.

However, even an opportunity to get experience was rare.

The location of the company was Gasan Digital Complex.

On the subway, he thought of the past. The experience he got with SungGyu when he went there to receive the money from the part time job passed through his head like a kaleidoscope.

As soon as he entered the small 15 pyung(≈50m2), YongHo had to listen to an absurd talk.

The female employee said bluntly.

“I came here to have an interview but what do you mean by that?”

The female employee who was sitting at the entrance didn’t even give YongHo a glance. She sat there while looking at the computer screen and retorted.

“I said return. I don’t know why, but the president said that he won’t have an interview after he looked at your résumé.

“Didn’t you call me AFTER looking at my résumé?”

“Excuse me.”

He had to turn back without even having an interview.

He vented his frustration on the innocent wall but all he got was the pain of having hit a solid and impenetrable wall.

The continuous fails made YongHo more obsessed with stack overfly.

His English was insufficient but he could understand simple words.

awesome.

I love it. (I doubt people will actually say this though)

Although reality was sh*t, here on stack overfly he wasn’t envious of anyone else.

YongHo answered other people’s posts but he also replied to the people who asked questions through messages.

‘Hmm……’

‘Dijkstra’s algorithm, huh.’

It was then that SungGyu helped. He advised that he should learn the algorithm by heart if it was too difficult and YongHo really did learn the source word by word while programming.
Fortunately, learning it by heart did have an effect in studying and when he learnt it, he started understanding the theory behind it.

He didn’t even need the bug window.

‘He forgot to renew new the weight on each vertices.’

As an algorithm that is used to find the shortest path, it is used a lot in GPS navigators and maps to find the shortest path between two places. (Author says that but they usually aren’t)

‘I screwed up a lot too.’

‘It should work if the weight is renewed in line 121.’

‘Let’s make an updateSearchResult method too.’

When he ran the program, the result was as it should be.

He wished that the receiver could smile after solving the problem, as he added the new line.

-I laughed while thinking about the past, thanks to you.
It was the English he got from koogle translate.

Chapter end