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Change and consistency about self
// July 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // Life, Personal
I think there are thousands of quotes and sayings about the ‘change’ and we know that it is (change) a way of life, it is an inevitable. Everything is changing around us and perhaps, at lightning speed. However, for me, the most interesting aspect of change is ‘change in individuality’;’ personality’ and most importantly ‘change in our thoughts and beliefs’.
I sometimes laugh at myself when I think of my thoughts at different age; when I think of my opinions and thoughts at age of 15-20 years, some of them seem quite absurd and funny. They seem quite irrelevant and illogical. What I was thinking about an employer as an employee was absolutely different than what I think about an employee and employer today. What we (or shall is say I?) were thinking about a ‘wife’ before a marriage and what we are thinking about her after a marriage is absolutely different (Don’t take me wrong, I am only talking from ‘personality’ standpoint!).
One of my friends told me a very interesting story which is quite relevant here. One friend was telling to his friend
“When I was at age of 10,I thought my father is a stupid and he does not understand anything. At age of 15 I believed that my father has not matured yet and he needs to learn a lot. When I reached at 25 I felt that my father still needs to get more matured and now at age of 35 having two kids, I firmly believe that my father is absolutely right and he was always matured and experienced person. Whatever he did was the best that could have been done by anybody in given circumstances.”
This is about how a Son feels about his father during different stages of life but, same is true when we think about our beliefs about ourselves. At some age I was thinking that I am very strong person and have very strong control on my circumstanced but today I don’t. My views about few individuals or I can say about all individuals have change drastically over a period of time.
I know this a natural and obvious, however, does this mean I was wrong at some stage and I am right today? Does this mean, we are wrong today and we will be right in future with more experience and information? If this is the case then it seems illogical to have any strong views or statements at any stage of life (time) as we know it is going to change.
But, I don’t think so, we have full rights to make statements and have views based on the information and knowledge we have at this stage. If judgments and conclusions are relative why we should be bother about them. I might feel same about my blog tomorrow that I was wasting my time but does this mean I should stop today?
Osho says
“Consistent person is an idiot!”
Peanuts and monkeys
// June 23rd, 2010 // No Comments » // Life
This is what I read today on one of the leading bidding website
“We are looking for an experienced programmer in PHP + MySQL with good knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax… Candidate must have already worked on e-commerce websites with at least 4 years experience and must be skilled enough in web security (mySQL Injections Attack, Script exploits, Null poison attack, XSS…).
DO NOT BID IF :
- You are not serious
- You are Not honest
- You are not reachable 24/24 7/7 “366/365″! by phone, sms and IRC (skype, icq)
- You are not fast in programming an fixing issues
- You are not good in communication or your English isn’t fluentONLY, If you think you are genius you can bid on this project. We say genius and we REALLY mean it!”
I was smiling when I read this with the budget they have assigned for this requirement.
Everyone wants ‘the best’ at the cheapest price. Let us be an honest, we all know that this is not possible. I really don’t understand that why people don’t understand basic fact of business that ‘there is nothing free’ here. Everything has cost involved and if you are asking for the best skills; you need to pay accordingly.
Sometimes we know what should be correct price for what we are asking but still we wish to pay less, we assume few things.
We think they might be in need of money desperately and will agree to do this at cheaper rate and sometimes it happens and we get happy. However, we again forget basic fact that if we have paid peanuts and what we should probably get.
If you are expecting high quality, quick-turnaround and the best product in the world, you should be ready to pay the best price in world. You cannot “eat the cake and have it too”.
During my graduation I asked one of my friends, “What kind of a husband you would like to have?” She said “He should be tall, handsome and smart”. I told her that this is very rare combination. I wanted to tell her (but did not) that such combination is ‘rare’ and in case, if you find in somebody, he is not going to marry you, first look at yourself !
Perhaps, this is true with everyone; we don’t want to be a realistic and we always expect more than we are willing to pay. We assume that we are saving money but we don’t see that we are exploiting somebody and we are expecting ‘Good luck’ which is not always there and then we start blaming different factors, we get racial, we forget humanity and we lose empathy. We are not ready to admit that we took ‘chance’ and it we knew that it has high probability of failure.
Once we don’t get expected results, we start assuming our gambling as a valid business deal. We feel we are cheated but we should ask ourselves “Was that a valid business deal or we just took a chance”?
Joining dots
// June 19th, 2010 // No Comments » // Technology
When we started PHP development in 1999 we had no idea about the future. We started because that was only an option given to us by an employer or by customers. We were still learning the technology by reading and PHP manual was the only reference available at that time and we used to read the manual one by one.
It is correctly said that you cannot join dots forward, you can only do it backward and how it is true when I think about the way I started learning PHP. I started because it was only language that was being use at the company I Joined; I was more a Microsoft guy and only knew ASP at that time. On first day I learnt ‘echo’ and ‘mail’ function of PHP and that really surprised me. How easy it was! The simplicity and easy syntax attracted me towards the language and it was smooth and easy path the learn the language
We never thought (even dreamt) that world’s most popular website Facebook after the Google will be running on PHP. I really feel good now that I started learning a promising technology.
PHP is now becoming more a technology rather than just a scripting language. There are numerous websites which advocates the PHP and debate continues. From a programmer standpoint, I don’t think that any other language is having a strong combination of simplicity and robustness. There are technologies which are strong and robust but may not be as simple as PHP.
Even from businesses’ perspective it really does have a competitive advantage, from my experience with couple of other technologies; I know that it takes almost double efforts and cost to develop similar project with technology other than PHP. Of course this is really not a rule but it is probably correct at with reference to projects in which I have been involved so far.
Albeit, PHP is our best choice, we are not prejudiced and we work on any technology (.net, asp.net, PHP, Facebook, Joomla, Java, Modx etc) which provides business and we must be learning a few new in recent future.
The absolute
// June 16th, 2010 // No Comments » // Life
Sometimes I really wonder about relativity and absoluteness. What is there in this world which is absolute? Albert Einstein says time is also a relative it is not absolute. They also say that space is also a relative to time and it is expanding. Our beliefs and thoughts are not also absolute and it keeps changing with time. Happiness, paid, wealth, power, attitude and I think anything which can be evaluate or measure is a relative matter. It cannot be absolute.
Size is also a relative matter, if we think about microorganisms; a spoon can be a entire world or universe for them and who knows there can be an entity for which our universe is a size of spoon. It might look funny but it is quite possible because size is what we feel based on our perception, experience and our own size. Why universe can’t be an entity or a body of which we are micro parts like bacteria on a spoon?
Why universe cannot be a series of frames which we see moving/dynamic based on our capacity of FPS (Frame per second) observation. Do we see same world (speed, dynamisms, colors etc) that other animals do?
The question here is “What is relative and what is absolute?” Observer or scene is relative? Or both are relative? If both are relative then it creates more confusion.
I think at micro level it seems all dynamic and relative but it must be static or absolute at macro level. If we start thinking from micro level i.e. from my village, city, state, country, continent, world then galaxy it seems all complex, relative and dynamic but if we do other way it becomes more generic than it should be. I think ‘generic’ is a key and it should be simply L.H.S=R.H.S; how we derive this is a complexity we may have created, and nature may not have any idea about this?
The absolute must be unique and one. There cannot be two absolutes and I think that’s what we may call as a ‘Truth’.
Instant and quick
// June 15th, 2010 // No Comments » // Life
Instant, fast quick, high speed and ‘on-demand’ are the words of modern times. We say that almost all client wanted project yesterday. I think we have started expecting the results as we think. Our thinking is perhaps faster than a light and we also want t output with same speed.
It takes seconds for me to call and say ‘hello’ to a friend on other side of world. We tweet ‘I am going for a bath’ and whole worlds knows that I am bathing at this time in few seconds. Speed has change the way we do business like never before. We talk to other side of world like we are talking with a person on next chair. We need an information and Google does a magic in few seconds, no efforts. Certainly we need to move at high speed, there is no tortoise in this race, everyone is a hare and none of them is going to sleep.
However, for a moment if we think other side of a coin, this speed has killed few very important joy of our life. We have lost Patience, Joy of journey, experimenting, learning, failure, waiting and calmness.
We don’t want to wait on 30 seconds traffic signal, we don’t want to wait for pizza to get properly cooked and prepared, and we need in 30 minutes. I wonder if scientists are working on catalyst type of vaccine which can deliver a baby in a month, there should be a great demand.
We agree, we get something and we lose something, we don’t bicycles because we use cars. However this trade-off does not have an advantage always. Perhaps, we are moving too fast.
Don’t you think we are moving faster than our biological clock within our body? Perhaps, that’s why we have ‘life- style’ related health issues. Don’t you think we are moving faster than nature itself? Are we really ready and capable of breaking a ’sound barrier’ of nature?