Rock Bottom in style

Cities

In the last six months I have lived in four different cities Syracuse, Redlands, Sunnyvale and Santa Clara in chronological order, visited another five Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and Las Vegas. It feels like I am on some kinda City steroid regime.

All my life I have been on the move since my father had a transferable job but that was like a move once every 3-4 years, never in my life did I have such a streak of moving around and constantly getting to see new places. Even though all this moving has been part of the job-hunt process, in some ways I feel great that I have seen so much of the world at just 25 years of age.

Some cities I want to live in future are

New York, Paris, Shanghai, Tokyo, Sydney, London and a few more, given the current trends I think I can complete this list by the time I am 35 ;). Lucky I would be if I can achieve that.


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P.S. I have not counted the cities I saw on my cross-country drive from New York to California in April :D.

You call yourself a programmer ??

If yes then try to explain this statement to your brain

some really efficient, extensible,abstract templatized interface ,templatized on the function pointer to some creational policy , possessing user-friendly traits ,providing the client a beautiful mechanism to create the base class pointers to derived classes through createinstance() ,having overloaded operator paran "functor" to hold the previously created function state obtained by parsing a newly dequed XML -serialized message class object , received by a client socket from a remote server thread .............................eventually producing output


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Funniest Job Interview

Very recently a gaming company contacted me back regarding a job opening they had. Well as always the first step is a phone interview so I agreed to it and sent them a schedule of my availability (on Tuesday) that I am available on Thursday and Friday.

The fun starts here:


I get a call on 'Wednesday', the dude asks me these questions in 10 minutes,

1.Do u play MMO games?
2.What kind of games do you play?
3.Are you familiar with C++?
4.What is a constructor?
5.What is the difference between a constructor and a method?
6.Have you ever worked for a gaming company? (Only No I said in the whole process)
7.Have you worked in a build and release environment?
8.Are you familiar with perforce?
9.Did you make integrations in Perforce?

And within 20 minutes I get a letter of rejection. What could have he possible concluded about my technical abilities specially when I did not make a single mistake. Well there was nothing to make a mistake, the questions were so damn simple.
If he wanted gaming industry experience then it was already evident in my resume that I dint have any of that.

Well if you are out there just to kill time then please do not kill mine :P. I am more than happy to interview as apart from getting the job I stand a very good chance of realizing my weaknesses and areas where I need to work harder, but please do not play around.

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I don't get it.

Car owners to be offered up to $4,500 for 'guzzlers'

So you reward the dumbfucks who made the stupid decision of buying those gas guzzling vehicles in the first place. I simply don't get it, instead of giving tax rebates to the wise men you reward the stupid ones.

If any of you understand this please enlighten me on the motive behind this decision. I would be more than happy to listen to anything positive about it.

Me, myself

A lot of people have recently commented that I have changed a lot since they last met me or interacted with me, and the truth is I definitely have over the last 3 years or so. So let me define my new self here just to keep you people updated ( as if anybody from the past reads this blog :P), but still let me complete my responsibilities.

1. To begin with I am more interested in Mozart, Paul McCartney, Bach, Nicholas Hooper and so on than I am in Metallica, Tiesto or Slipknot.

2. I spend more time reading than I do chatting, socializing, driving, playing combined together.

3. I am single.

4. I cannot eat spicy food everyday anymore.

5. I have no problems staying awake for days at a stretch if its for programming.

6. I really really want to do a PHD from a good school, and I still may opt to enroll for it.

7. I am a strong believer of Murphy's Law.

8. Now I understand European movies, at least much more than before.

9. Evolution is the motto of life.

There are also some things about me which have not changed at all

1. F rule still applies :P, I am sure all the dudes reading this will understand well. Blonds still rule.

2. Favorite vacation destination is still GOA.

3. I am still a boy unwilling to give in.

4. I still am attracted to luxury like a moth to a flame.

5. I still am lazy.


Hope this helps.

Adios

A few standards I maintain in LIFE

Havent posted in a while so thought of making a close to meaning-less post.

Ever since I owned my first computing machine I have had the instinct to maintain a clutter free, beautiful, unique and practical desktop screen. Its been almost a decade of evolution on my machines and so has been in my taste to justify the above stated properties on my desktop screen.

My current desktop looks something like this

I get chills down my spine when I see a desktop with gazillions of icons each smaller than the bacteria residing on my fingers and I salute the people who have such desktops both for their laziness and their endurance to change.

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