Musings of an idle mind

What have I learnt in all these days?

Engineering colleges in Mumbai are worthless. At least when it comes to computer engineering. Rohit had written about this a long time ago, about the growing irrelevance of computer engineering. Not that I disagreed with him then, but sometimes some things just make those beliefs stronger. Like the fact that many times in our classrooms, students actually know more than their teachers ...

Emacs rules! It is the best editor around! Now, only if someone could add code completion in it ...

For those who study Theoretical Computer Science : friendship is NOT a reflexive relationship.

Windowmaker is one of the best window managers out there. Download it, and see your productivity multiply! The support for hot-keys is amazing! (actually, it's possible in KDE too, but it simply hogs too much memory).

Real people have real problems. Forget assignments, forget project deadlines, forget submissions ... most have other issues to deal with. Most of us have built superficial relationships all around us. How many of those people are really going to be there when you really need them?

You can't trust blogs anymore (except this one ;). A flurry of fake blogs has dented the credibility of blogs. I read this somewhere on the BBC website. Even I wrote an article regarding ethics for bloggers in the college magazine. Will put it up if possible.

You don't always get what you want. Forget the past, and try to move on, however hard that might be. Keeping others happy doesn't always mean that YOU have to be a part of their happiness. Just let go.

Open source rules! Dhruv just patched XMMS to give me some improved functionality (not that I asked for it, but did anyone ASK for sliced bread? Or the TV remote?).

Rasputin lives. Many still prefer to listen to people who tell them what they like to hear, not what they should hear.

"An OS is a simple program, with complex data structures". How true. After reading up on operating systems, you feel as if the development of OSes has followed a very natural and obvious path, and if it were for you, you too would have probably come up with the same concepts. However, you do find a few gems in the course, for example, the time dependent priorities of Unix processes.

Some people don't work unless forced too. And not all people possess the capability to force them to work. Those that do, are probably good managers. Chingi, someday I'll learn. And brilliant people aren't necessarily the best managers. Noticed this about a teacher of mine.

The CSI National Convention isn't "national" at all. It isn't even fit to be called a local festival. What a colossal waste of resources! The Microsoft guy actually complained about the low attendance, the rest were probably too timid to complain about the largely empty auditorium. And some of the competitions had less than five participants! At least give me good food people.

Most people live artificially. They aren't what they show themselves to be in public. Sometimes, the real person is better than the artificial one. I hope the people for whom this stands true realize it soon.

I need to study.