Mar31

The Startup Code

by coder on March 31st, 2012 at 2:12 pm
Posted In: Architecture

Through my career of developing software i always use to educate folks on writing structured code that is maintainable. Today trying to manage my own business i find the deli ma of sales driven startup nature of a technology business and an established business with money to invest in the technology.

It seems there is a larger gap in what is perfect vs what is needed. If cash becomes an important aspect and to drive the company for profitability there will be prices to pay in the future when trying to maintain rushed code. How to we find a balance to this problem.

Maybe the challenge i am facing is to adjust my thinking from a CTO mindset to a CEO mindset. Certain sacrifices are needed to be made to cross the chasm. Maybe adding 10 layers of nested if statements doesn’t sound so bad if the goal is to make a sell-able product to push to market to capture the need of a customer.

The feeling is almost like feeling religious about a certain aspect of doing things and changing the behavior. ultimately each decision has a cost involved. I thought i write this article just to set the story straight.

I am not sure even going agile help when building the application from ground up when it comes to making that first sale.

 

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Mar29

Telephone Etiquette

by coder on March 29th, 2012 at 5:50 am
Posted In: Emotion, Mind

This morning i received a phone call, bare in mind that i do not have caller identification. I answered. “Hello”. The caller said “Where you talking from”. Be honest i hate when people call up like this and ask the callee to identify them self. Maybe its just my own issues with authority type personalities. So my response was pretty honest i said “I am talking from my mouth”. The caller hung up.

When i discussed about this matter on Facebook as usual the first response i received was “I am an idiot” which in matter of minutes the poster it self had deleted since i responded with “Maybe your the one who called, and do you speak from your ass instead of your mouth?”

Then came my Grand’Ma who told me that i should not be so rude to people and respond nicely. I am not quite sure about the rudeness of the truth when someone has no right to ask the question they did ask. People should learn to use the telephone wisely. These are some of those things they forget to teach you in school. people them self don’t find the behavior incorrect.

Tell you for one i am done feeling sad, mad or bad because of other peoples idiotic thinking. in the past feeling for others had gotten me no where but trouble. yes maybe i have learn to be selfish with my feelings and not fall for emotional blackmail of others. I agree many may not even understand these concepts. Well if you don’t please take my sincere apology for not being able to observe your own thoughts in response to what others say.

Especially where i am from (Sri Lanka) people have not learn the much needed respectful ways of using telephones. Some people call you 10 times if you happen not to answer. Some people feel inadequate to tell the other person they are busy so they stop calling. I am not saying i am perfect nor that i have not made some of these mistakes my self but i have learn from my wrong doings. These type of etiquette also applies to text messaging and other formal or informal matters on a daily basis. I guess some people don’t realize some behaviors as rude and some people find truth to be rude.

Where should the middle ground of this matter be. I let you decide on that and rest my case.

Thanks for reading.

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Mar24

The Attention Span Length

by coder on March 24th, 2012 at 2:21 pm
Posted In: Body, Faith

With modern day fast moving technology one this is for certain. All our attention span as humans have also shrunk to the same time it takes to type a text message. Is this behavior due to the increased population? the amount of friends we have to keep up with? The unlimited amount of needs we have desires for? If you are able to take a trip in a mental time machine you can imagine your self in the world without technology.

Lets walk down to first century where maybe the amount of friends you had was just the people in your village. if you happen to have a visitor from the next village maybe there would be a feast in your village. It may have taken months for a message to be sent from one kingdom to another.

Language development over a pictorial messages may had made communication between villagers better. Taking a long jump from then to industrial revolution with the usage of fossil fuels and polluting the planet began in the early 20th century.

With all these advancement of communication have we become a race of beings without a vision for an overall planet. why do we fight with different agendas between nations. When would the time that would come where we all stand under one flag as earthlings?

Even when it comes to matter of peace and love here is my last words, the modern trend has driven all of us to shorter attention spans, its almost like unless your girl friend tells you that she loves you ever 5 hours you need to hear it again type of world. where when our parents had no cell phones they managed to love one another when they hear from each other ever 2 weeks thanks to the postal service. think about before the invention of telephone. :-) technology makes us lazy for sure.

I received a response on readit to this article saying it is vague. I am not quite sure what is vague about todays fast moving technology and unlimited needs of people that causes shorter and shorter attention span to one thing. Only very few people are successful at this type of behavior.

I’d be glad to hear back from you regarding what type of evidence is required to support the length of attention span in relates to technology. i feel someone lacks imagination to travel back into history and realize the world without technology and how people communicated back then.

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Mar23

My Thoughts About Cancer

by coder on March 23rd, 2012 at 1:58 pm
Posted In: Emotion, Faith

Before i begin let me advice you that i am not a M.D (Medical Doctor), i am more of a philosopher who looks at the world from both creative and scientific ways. I have faith of a perfect creator and a creation, i believe things happens for a reason. somethings may seem avoidable based on decisions made prior but there are also no point grieving on past patters but to learn from mistakes.

Last i heard from medical society that there is yet a cure for cancer to be found. Many seems to believe that smoking causes cancer. Although there are smokers who had smoked for 50 years that are perfectly healthy. There lays some fundamental questions as to what is the cause of cancer it self. A friend of mine said the medical industry had found the origin cell that tend to cause such cancer behavior in human genetics by Kinzler, Kenneth W.

Let me share a piece of my mind to the matter, i feel stress can be a leading cause of cancer. stress it self can be defined as a thought in our mind that tends to keep bugging us, its a matter of uncertainty or some other form of troublesome matter. let it be financial, family or other subject matter, certain thoughts can happen to circulate our mind without us being able to come to proper conclusions.

The reasons we are not able to come to conclusions could be because we are afraid to seek out for other peoples opinions, our own shame of the problem we are facing not being able to have the courage to share it. The genetic co-relation between those who are able to cope with challenges in life vs those who are not is beyond the discussion of this article.

In my humble opinion cancer is caused by a chaotic mind. if you meditate you can avoid cancer. stress is a direct result of a chaotic mind. the co-relation observed is incorrect as to smoking causes cancer. the correct observation should be stressful people tend to smoke to avoid stress then in return get cancer. but there is also people who smoke for other reasons than stress and some people cope with stress better than others.

To summarize the topic i firmly believe if we are to live a very peaceful mind with less stress and manage our daily challenges with some type of believe and faith we will be able to live longer and healthier lives.

What is your opinion?

 

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