Archive for the ‘Opinions’ Category
Episode 7: Parenting License
I watched The Dead Poets Society today. It’s about an English teacher who tries to teach his students how to live. Go watch it.
The Dead Poets Society struck a chord with me because I have been thinking about the same issues it talks about for the past few days. What got me thinking was a [...]
Episode 2: What Grinds My Gears
Buzzwords. This is what Wikipedia has to say about them:
A buzzword (also fashion word and vogue word) is a vague idiom, usually a neologism, that is common to managerial, technical, administrative, and political work environments. Although meant to impress the listener with the speaker’s pretense to knowledge, buzzwords render sentences opaque, difficult to understand and [...]
Thoughts on Using a Mac as a Development Platform
This post was inspired partly by this Reddit post.
Take my opinions on the Mac as a development machine with a grain of salt, since I’m neither a professional programmer, nor do I contribute to any major open source projects. I’m still in the early stages of hackerdom, and most of the code I write is [...]
My Adventures at the Zonal Transport Office
Whenever I hear someone mention a government office of any sort, I find myself thinking of middle aged women who look strangely like that distant aunt of yours who likes to give you unsolicited advice because “.. youngsters like you need the guidance of your elders.”. I associate government ventures with forgotten, derelict buildings and [...]
Learning New Programming Languages and APIs – What I Was Doing Wrong
For the past few months, I have been trying to learn how to write GUI applications for the Mac. The two best toolkits for this task are Cocoa and Qt. Since I have never written any GUI code before and none of my projects have ever been very complex, learning these two libraries turned out [...]
Jingo!
Everyone knows about Satyam, so talking about it here would be pointless. I think whatever happened will be good for the industry in the long run. I have no idea how Satyam has survived for so long, considering how bad their services really are (at least the consumer-facing ones). I also don’t know why Hewitt [...]