Code is poetry

Only a passionate programmer would know what I mean, and how does it feel to say that your code flows like poetry...

I recently found that written on a wordpress plugin page..

So when does code look like poetry? When its logic flows from one case to another in a seamless manner.. like a river, gracefully accepting whats thrown its way, making amends for them and happily moving ahead.

It doesn't happen always though.. I've written enough code to know when my code flowed like a calm river meandering through its path towards the ocean ... much like a poem..

Like my ex boss's car sticker said, mocking at the big bad world, "I'd rather code" ...

eBay's "Shop directly from USA" campaign

Have a look at this campaign from eBay:

Now isn't this a smart way of doing the following:

1. get rid of your redundant, superfluous inventory in one country
2. increase sales in another part of the world that is still growing at a great pace
3. use your resources (in terms of presence and supply chain infrastructure) to optimize profits

Maybe these guys made a new global warehouse somewhere in eastern europe or something that can service more countries etc..

what ever the case maybe, I think this idea of selling stuff from one country in to another totally rocks!

what do you think?

Tragedy of being the bridge between two worlds

I've realized lately that I have officially crossed in to the land of No Man's Land..

Well, is it a bird? is it a plane? hehe no its MsBA in Technology Management. And this is the tale of two lands.. Technology and Management and the narrow No Man's Land in between them

I have never been a purist. In fact ever since I learnt that Nature loves entropy, I never got around liking the idea of being a pure anything. No pure cricketer, No pure artist, No pure singer, No pure Guitar player ... and the list goes on till I came to this: No Pure Technologist, and No pure Manager.

So far so good. There are many types of me around in the world. Yes yes, I know what you are mostly thinking about. But keeping perverse sexual connotations apart, its good to be jack of all trades and master of being just that! Or so I thought till I visited the countries around my narrow strip of land.

Country: Technologasia

The citizens here usually looked just straight ahead. For them everything around them was an element of a list (or array, or set, or Class, or Struct) of equations, or data members, or neurons or digital signals. I visited the capital of this country called sillicity (pun intended). I walked up to the first person I saw the town hall, and here is the discussion I had:

me: Excuse me, do you know any good restaurants around here?
Sillicity citizen: I don't know. I am just follow this path to get to my place of work, and use my super brain to find the quickest route to my work place. So I don't have time to look around for restaurants.
me: Oh so you don't eat out at all?
Sillicity citizen: You silly man, I am a technologist. I eat drink sleep equations, gadgets, numbers, and circuits. (angrily) Where are you from?
me: (taken aback a little): umm... I am from Technology Managementsia.
Sillicity citizen: I've never heard of that school. I am sure its not ranked anywhere, and therefore I am sure you are a much lesser human being than I am. Why do you even need food! Your quota of food should be used to feed fish; which we eat to sharpen our brains!

And then he walks away.. on his Segway...

Saddened by this sudden indignation, I go to the next iPhone store, buy an iPhone and look up good restaurants. Enjoyed the food, and walked south (in some context, south of quad), and reach

Managementistan...

There were many people walking around, and they WERE looking everywhere. Dressed very nicely and had a fixed 8 cm x 5 cm smile on their faces. I walk up to a pretty looking citizen.

me: Hello, could you please direct me to a restaurant around here?
Manageristanian: (sizing me up) hmm. I know there is one somewhere here, but I don't know how to get there. It's a pretty nice place. They charge 5 times the price they do in Technologasia, and have exactly the same food! I love their standardized processes which they use to make the same food everywhere.
me: Oh but why would I pay 5 times the price for the same food?
Manageristanian: That's because they serve it in a very fashionable bright red plate. Thats very today you know... But since you ask such a dumb question, where are you from?
me: umm I am from Technology Managementasia you know, the... (She cuts me abruptly)
Manageristanian: oh yah nevermind, you coders. Never get the big picture of anything. Just find some food round the corner and satisfy ur hunger and try to learn from our existence... We live by example.
me: oh I am sorry to have bothered you..

I walk away, open my laptop, hack into a nearby store's server and get some free coupon codes and use them to get me a good suit for free. I similarly get a free coupon for the restaurant have the food for free, and ride my segway home...