Entries Tagged 'life' ↓

I found this the other day

http://www.fukung.net/images/2674/designer.gif

I find it so true, it applies to programmers too, in fact it applies to everyone that works providing a service. Enjoy.

that is exactly what I have been doing for the past…. well lastpost-thispost. But that’s over. I just can’t be like that.

I have been wondering about several things lately. Lets take for example a loan I get a paper from a bank normally that says they are going to give me several other little papers in exchange for me giving back even more papers in several years. Now the good thing about this is that those little papers turn into something useful for example a place to live so people actually care about .

Another example is when you know something that you know will benefit others but you are not allowed to say it, for example there is a way to gain an advantage in getting more papers than what you should get, now the thing is that part of the agreement for you to get more papers involves not telling anyone that you are actually getting more papers because that will generate a momentum that will end up in even more papers being push out. Now the dilema is after you got your papers how there is nothing stopping you from hanging out the information, but whoever gave you the papers trusts in that you won’t release said information.

Another good way of trust is when you are working, you actually give part of your live (according to the local papers it’s 44hours per week) and you are trusting that after 2 or 4 weeks depending on your trust agreement, you will get some papers which you will eventually take to someone else that trusts he can give those papers to someone else so we all get what we want, or don’t want but need or simple don’t want but someone is making us get them.

So in the end the economy is just a huge trust network in which everyone  is just trusting the other part doing good, now the most interesting part of everything is that no one trusts on the other part, and yet the only way they can live in society is with trust, irony is beautiful….

This post had sometime on the “drafts” everything but the last part was written several months ago.

Today someone ask me why aren’t you finish with the java certification, my answer was something like “well you know because ehhh yea”, but in reality I knew exactly why. I have lost faith on the language, java no longer excites me, sure is useful to have the compiler bark at you for every little detail. But they have added so much crap on top of it that programming Java is no longer fun.

The first place where I think Java stop being fun, was when you totally needed an IDE to write anything useful, and of course when everyone was using eclipse. Don’t get me wrong eclipse is very nice, it even won me over from netbeans, but what I don’t like about it is when someone has no clue of what’s going on because they have delegated all knowledge of it to the IDE, one particular case version control, you will be impress of how many people don’t know how to work with CVS and/or SVN, just because the smart-asses at eclipse decided to do things “a little different”.

The second place which is actually in order of how I found out and now how much they suck, is J2EE.  Interesting enough the problemwith J2EE is not sun but everyone else. Starting with the application server, why on earth you need a program to run a program unless it’s running several programs? Then the zillion frameworks and crap on top of http + html it’s just ridiculous.

Now that said I finally got my act together and went to take the exam, considering the fact that I barely study for it, that I had about 10 days of party and that the thing asked a lot about “the name of the methods that does foo” I got a not so decent score but I pass. So yes my friends you got a new SJCP in the group (yay!) Now lets keep on bashing on how cobolist it’s starting to be and how big huge and monstrous systems are not the way the computer world should be heading too.

I just wanted to point out this great book someone send me the other day. I’m not sure of it was because my situation is very simular, and in fact I have reach the last chapter (both in my life and reading it). And even though I had no rockefeller I knew it was time some time ago. Here is the ebook, and yes it’s in spanish.

I have seen a pattern lately and I want to be sure it’s not just a coincidence.

About a year ago a friend of mine announced she was leaving to study a masters in Spain. Something is business as that’s what she studied. After that a dear friend of mine moved over to USA to work, then another business friend went to Spain, and another friend moved over to Argentina. I know someone that is planning on leaving to Australia and another for Canada. I know at least 3 more people that already left to USA. Yesterday yet another friend told me she was going to Spain for yet another master in business, and she is probably going to get married to her boyfriend and he is going to go with her. she also told me she knows a lot of people from our university are doing that too; and no, she doesn’t knows the first two that are already in Spain. Another ex-coworker is going to Spain soon although the time is not business as she is on IT. And I just read the girlfriend of the guy in Argentina is going to Spain.

That makes it at least 15 people I know that are doing i. Now what I find interesting is that all of them share the following. They where great students, they are great people, they excel at their work, and they are not thinking of coming back. They all belong to either IT or business administration, and it seems that business is going to Spain and IT to USA. Now what puzzles me is why? And I think it’s because they have reach the top in here. Not the top as in they are the big boss of their company or CEO, the top as there is nothing better to do than the boring day to day go nowhere maintenance of systems. (note both people and software systems). I’m almost certain most of them are not leaving because of the money, they know they will expend much more money and they won’t win that much, and some of them know how hard moving to another country can be. But I think they are just looking to get out of the loop.

Just a quick note on a great interview. I really like Moore, I have to agree that sometimes he has a very narrow point of view, and a very cruel way of saying it, but he is right. As for the “introductory” piece by Dr whatever, that was just a low blow by CNN. Come on really how you introduce someone questioning his crediability. Anyway here is the video

UPDATE: here is the promised point-to-point response

There are time when being ovidient bytes you in the ass.

For example the shell and rm, yes you know where I’m going. It turns out that the following command inside a makefile @rm -rf $(PREFIX)/bin/deluge does something really extrange. And yes it’s all my fault because I force it twice.

For some reason the r flag went to $(PREFIX)/bin and deleted everything, which I’m stil confused as to why.

ohh yes and $(PREFIX) was set to /usr, lovely isn’t it?

any ideas of how can I restore those files? I assume if I get the basic binaries for installing .deb it will show me the broken packages (read: all packages) then I could reinstall them all?

update:  So I got a liveCD and reinstalled my / keeping intact the home, this is one of the things I love about unix, even my windows positions where intact all I had to do was use the same username.

It’s amazing how time flies I just when thru some fotos and found out one friend had a child which seems to be 3yrs old, another has been walking around the world, another has a boyfriend that plays in a rock band (or something like that), an old girlfriend is very happy with her new guy, and ended up becomming one of my best friends best friend, ahhh I knew that was going to happen. The same rocker girl friend graduated from university, a “el toca” todavia le dicen asi, and he is in the photos of another guy that found a girl friend that finally got him :p another one is in the other side of the world. And I have no idea what the rest of them are up to. Another is a teacher, well I was expecting that anyway :p

and I wasn’t there …

Now this impress me it’s the kind of thing that always impress, but when you know who is in the picture it’s double that.

yesterday I renew maetico.com a year has pass… even though this site was empty for some days this reminds me of how fast time goes by… even worst it reminds me of all the things I need to do that I haven’t….