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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Dheeraj : Dad, I want to learn typing because the new computers in my school have keyboards like a typewriter.
Dad : How will that help?
Dheeraj : It will help me write programs faster. Now I have to look for each key before I type.
Dad : No, it wont.
Dheeraj : (Not Fair!Dad does not know about computers..)
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15 years hence, I know now, Dad was right.
I will tell him this the next time I meet him.

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Monday, February 21, 2011

When I turn outward, I waste my energies
When I turn inward, the echoes confuse me,
Inaction bores me and there is not a chore that interests me,
I cant hear you anymore, are you scared to speak up?
Or totally exhausted and about to die?

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

READ the README!!

I wanted to add kdb to my kernel. I went to the download site, downloaded the kdb patch for my kernel version and the architecture. Would not work. I looked up the net and found nothing.

Then I went to the download page and looked at the README and found that there is another common patch to be downloaded for kdb to work.

Looking back.. I do the same many times. Go to a Mall and ask the security personnel where the restrooms are. They show me the signboard and I wonder why I did not look at it myself.
I am not stupid. Really. These moments of stupididty pop up and I am embarassed at myself.

Now on I will make a conscious effort to look for directions before assking.
Hoping I will not shy away from asking directions when I find none.

Monday, June 11, 2007

'You have Betrayed Us', coming from the Division Head sounds not only Absurd but also Funny.
It moved on to become threatening when he said 'You have done this to Us, don't do It to Anyone Else, Some or the Other day it Will come back to You'. When charges of unEthical behaviour and unProfessionalism were levelled against me, I asked 'How', and he could not find words to answer Me.

Actually at that time I felt guilty. But now I cant help laughing at the whole incident, which was my resignation. The shining eggshaped bald head of the person blurting out stupidities is all I can remember.

How did I betray them? I resigned. This caught them on the wrong foot. They are shit scared of the client, who I am sure flogs them with a hunter. Hence this furore about betrayal.

I never cried betrayal when I was told I had lost my employment along with thirty other people when In****sa I***a closed down. That's the way of the industry.

Well I think they betrayed Me. Arm wrestled me into a team I did not want to be in the First place by spinning a web of lies. That is what all these software companies do, to most people working there. There is a pseudo concern about employee satisfaction. Dont believe them. Its a bunch of liars.

Well I think that the best place to be is in a university, tinkering away with technology while someone pays you for the fun you have. But I think such funds tend to get misused. Alternatively if I started my own Outfit, I would not have the time to see that each employee achieves his personal goals along with mine. Everyone has to think for Him/Her-self.

Its time I started planning for the dive school I wanna set-up!!