chick·en
n.
Slang. A coward.
adj.
Slang. Afraid; cowardly.
intr.v. Slang chick·ened, chick·en·ing, chick·ens
To act in a cowardly manner; lose one's nerve: chickened out at the last moment.
“To chicken out” means “to become scared and not want to do something”.
Hell, I hate chickens. I like eggs, with the sunny side up.
And yes the north-south divide does exist and I am experiencing it from unexpected quarters.
Just when you think you have everything in control.
There comes a twist.."Kahani mein twist"
Adam
I am an atheist,I am normal and I am An Ideal Boy too.
But I am not content (never ever) and I don't care about the whales.
What Character from "Good Omens" are you?
Link courtesy Silverine
Silverine talks about the great north south divide.
That’s one sore point. I can see the southies vs the northies argument going on for a long time but as soon as the bad northies are driven out of the dravidian land voila!! You have kanndu vs the tamilian and mallu vs the telegu lot.
Wake up silverine. It’s something more then north vs south, its about our (read Indians) ability to form groups and fight against each other. The british have left but their divide and rule policy lives on.
I am a northie and I stay with a kannada guy, never had any problems. Its people like you and your colleagues who have a myopic vision who create such fissures in the society.
I was in
"Desire is the key. I don't feel it consistently,
but when I have it, I can't be beaten"
-Chris Evert
Former Tennis Champion
About three roses, pink(assume white),yellow and red.
About a yes and a sheesh.
About an ancient soul and a tree trunk.
About potty soup and the art of picking nose.
About walking in rain and having too many cups of coffee.
About a friend going places and feeling happy about him.
The Bangalore theatre
No we are not going to stage some play but if you want to get informed about the plays being staged in Bangalore then that's the place to be. Started by Crime Master Gogo, looks like he got this idea during his last train journey in which he got 'N' number of electric shocks. Anyway all is well that ends well.
The theatre scene in Bangalore was rather dull, infact nothing compared to Chennai where they have the likes of Evam. But Rangashankara is all set to change this.
Somehow this icky feeling is not leaving me. I have been trying hard to get over it but it’s just not going away. I was up late, last night thinking about it.
Is there any innocence left in this world? I asked this question because of the things I have been exposed to in the last couple of days, because things that happened a year back have come to haunt me again.
Why people manipulate others to get something for themselves? Why some people don't care about others feelings?
Also, am I too possessive?
May be I should go back to my Panda book.
Ferry day trip ticket.. 15$
Backardi breezer.. 5$
Aaloo Parathe.. 8$
Listening to "Washing powder Nirma" jingle in a Sydney restaurant.. priceless
:)
Happy!!
"Second-rate persons select third-rate persons.’’
--Dr P V Indiresen
Director, IIT Chennai
Spent two hours on a seven page chapter about "Understanding the Pitfalls of GetHashCode()".
Total waste.
The members of communist party of Australia are so afraid of retribution that they ask newspapers not to publish their real names.
That piece of news made my day.
Wondering when this will happen in India.
Read: Algorithmic and Heuristic approaches towards software development
Well yes, we both played in the hands of the higher powers at the same place for quite a long time and ended up slogging our ass off for products, one of which sold a couple of licenses and one which never materialised. Anyway I never thought that product is going to sell a single copy. Good that two people bought it. God bless them.
Lesson learnt: "Nobody is going to listen to an engineer who knows something about bzness. But they will listen to people who know little bit about bzness and nothing about technology."
Now, engineering degrees. That’s one sore point. People who get them now days are not engineers but mugpots. You mug, you score and you get a degree. They simply don't have the ability to think on their own. Being from a reputed college can assure you that the degree holder has some firepower, at least the will to succeed and be more then 'one of the guys'. But that’s about it. The same goes for certification, for example just ask a .Net certified professional (?) about Tracing and you can see him going belly up. Yup!! Even I am one and that’s how I know.
One should hire people who can think and solve problems, may be not even solve problems, just give an approach. The rest will follow.
As far as approaches towards software development goes, let me assure you that we do very little software development. We are mostly into maintenance and support.
And that’s why you see most companies applying the Algorithmic approach and hire people who can be typist.
Software industry in India is young. Infact we are a young nation, just 50 years old. But the software industry is not that young abroad. Here, I am sitting next to a professional who has thirty years of experience in this field. And let’s accept it; this is just like any other industry which will be affected by the economic cycle. Sun will shine in the day and long nights will follow. That's the way it is for people who make Steel and that’s the way it will be for us.
We are not eespesial!!
Rahi baat Chinese logon ki to, may be one day their cheap typists will replace our typists.
Big deal.
After working with my first employer for two years and struggling with the lack of process now I am working for a company where they generate more process documents then code.
They simply do not let you code.
For the last project I kicked off, I prepared 12 documents in two weeks time and then I was left with 10 days to finish the coding effort for the first phase. And that’s not the end. In those 10 days you have to fend off efforts of a quality manager who knows nothing about the difference between 'by ref' and 'by val' but when you try and reason with him, comes and tells you that since he is studying for MCAD so you should take his word. God bless Suhas who handled that jerk. You cannot argue with dumb people because once you start doing that they will drag you their own level and that’s the end of it.
As the saying goes "Excess of anything is harmful". But to decide the threshold you need intelligent people, which we don't have.
