Sunday, September 09, 2007

sublime inhuman treatment

Have you ever given a second thought about the food that’s on your plate? Where and how, are among those few simple words that could put your mind into a thought loop. Some of you might just get over the whole idea of tracing to the roots of your food.

I used to be one of those who never used to bother about where my meal came from and what all was done to get it to your plate। You must be wondering what I am talking about, its simple, I am talking about the food on your plate that used to be as much as like you breathing before it got slaughtered for you.





I am not supporting any animal rights activist/ group/ liberation. I am just trying to say “Why have we become so inhumane?”

मेरो प्यारो रीडर पशु पक्छी लाई माया गर

Saturday, March 24, 2007

List of Programming top 10 lists

I've only quoted a brief summary of each item. If any of these sound
interesting to you, I encourage you to click through and read the
original author's thoughts in more detail



Jerry Weinberg: The 10 Commandments of Egoless Programming


  1. Understand and accept that you will make mistakes.
  2. You are not your code.
  3. No matter how much "karate" you know, someone else will always know more.
  4. Don't rewrite code without consultation.
  5. Treat people who know less than you with respect, deference, and patience.
  6. The only constant in the world is change.
  7. The only true authority stems from knowledge, not from position.
  8. Fight for what you believe, but gracefully accept defeat.
  9. Don't be "the guy in the room."
  10. Critique code instead of people— be kind to the coder, not to the code.


Dare Obasanjo: Top 10 Signs Your Software Project is Doomed


  1. Trying to do too much in the first version.
  2. Taking a major dependency on unproven technology.
  3. Competing with an existing internal project that is either a cash cow or has powerful backers.
  4. The team is understaffed.
  5. "Complex problems require complex solutions".
  6. Schedule Chicken
  7. Scope Creep
  8. Second System Syndrome
  9. No Entrance Strategy.
  10. Tackling a problem you don't know how to solve.


Omar Shahine: Top 10 Tips for Working at Microsoft (or Anywhere Else)


  1. Process is no substitute for thinking.
  2. Get out of your office.
  3. Use your product (the one your customers will).
  4. Fix things that are broken rather than complain about them being broken. Actions speak better than your complaining.
  5. Make hard problem look easy. Don't make easy problems look hard.
  6. Use the right communication tool for the job.
  7. Learn to make mistakes.
  8. Keep things simple.
  9. Add value all the time.
  10. Use their product.


Michael McDonough: The Top 10 Things They Never Taught Me in Design School


  1. Talent is one-third of the success equation.
  2. 95 percent of any creative profession is shit work.
  3. If everything is equally important, then nothing is very important.
  4. Don’t over-think a problem.
  5. Start with what you know; then remove the unknowns.
  6. Don’t forget your goal.
  7. When you throw your weight around, you usually fall off balance.
  8. The road to hell is paved with good intentions; or, no good deed goes unpunished.
  9. It all comes down to output.
  10. The rest of the world counts.


Andres Taylor: Top 10 Things Ten Years of Professional Software Development Has Taught Me


  1. Object orientation is much harder than you think.
  2. The difficult part of software development is communication.
  3. Learn to say no.
  4. If everything is equally important, then nothing is important.
  5. Don’t over-think a problem.
  6. Dive really deep into something, but don’t get hung up.
  7. Learn about the other parts of the software development machine.
  8. Your colleagues are your best teachers.
  9. It all comes down to working software.
  10. Some people are assholes.


Steve Yegge: 10 Great Books


  1. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
  2. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
  3. Design Patterns
  4. Concurrent Programming in Java(TM): Design Principles and Pattern (2nd Edition)
  5. Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Edition
  6. The Algorithm Design Manual
  7. The C Programming Language, Second Edition
  8. The Little Schemer
  9. Compilers
  10. WikiWikiWeb




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Friday, March 09, 2007

Embark upon to explore the world beyond this world within yourself.

Someone close to me once said “what are you thinking of…I should name your world”. I never knew what she was talking about. I never thought that there was a world within me, my own world, a private world and I play the god. During one of those usual smoke breaks Subash told me that it is better for a person to go with the flow; not to fight against the current. Wait for the right moment and when the current weakens fight your way to your goal. His ideology clogged my mind. The personality Subash’s words depicts is of nothing but an opportunist. How ad nauseam the question “What is wrong in fighting against the current, Does it slow you down?”" became. All I can say is fight back, it makes you strong.

Relaxing with my closed ones for a caffeine kick at Koshy's, I looked around, the crowd seemed jolly. Everyone was tuned to their own emotions, but all seemed satisfied for the moment. Never really thought what’s the shibboleth that they hold on to which brings smile on their lips. Sipping my coffee I abruptly said, Lochan I want a name for my self in the History. He stared at me and moved his gaze to the ceiling looking for something. All of a sudden he ruptured, "Why you want fame?". I had nothing in my mind all I knew that I wanted it. It was nothing but a dream, a hollow dream. Manu smiled at me. He had nothing but the recurrence of the same question. I really never looked into the world within me and asked myself why I wanted fame. Lochan return back to us saying “You just care too much of the people around you. Don’t you?" I was dumbstruck, had nothing but a déjà vu of those usual embarrassing moment. I really cared about the world out side me and all this while I never looked into the world within me. The argument did go for long . At the end all I could infer is, all you need is dedication and drive for perfection in what you do and the rest is for the mass to decide where you stand. Don’t get so much involved in other people’s perception; look within to know the world beyond this world within yourself.

-4symmetric mind at work