Addiction of Social Gaming

Now a days people are just crazy about social network games. They spend whole day in virtual shops, farms, collecting virtual money to buy virtual stuff with which they achieve some goals that at last gives them, I consider, virtual pleasure.

I experienced similar thing when my brother was playing candy crush game on Facebook.  Suddenly he turned to me and said

"You get married!"

"What?.. What happened suddenly?"

"I was thinking it would be easy to get approval from 3rd person to reach next level"

*To cross some levels you need approval from 3 people in candy crush game.

Writer's Block

crazyloud:  "Hey, How are you?"
"Struggling."  said lazycloud engrossed in his thoughts.  "suffering from Writer's Block."
"But you are not a writer." said crazyloud.
lazycloud: "Yes, I am."

crazyloud bewilderedly asked  "But you have never written anything."
"Because, I am experiencing Writers Block." snapped lazycloud.
crazyloud: "Like what, Since birth?"
lazycloud : "Yeah. I scribbled few words when I was a  kid, and then writer's block hit me, and  someone suggested that I try doing other things, and not think about it. So I forgot about it."
crazyloud : "And now after 30 years you realized that you are in Writers-Block phase"
lazycloud  : "Well, Now you know."

After moments pause

crazyloud : "Do you want to go out, and discover something that might inspire you."
lazyloud : "I don't need no Inspiration, I only need something to stimulate my mind."
crazyloud : "Well, that is the definition of Inspiration."
lazycloud " Oh! Okay."

crazyloud : "Hey, I have got something you might be interested in; Our company is coming with this, new social networking website, and we are looking for some really cool tag lines. Can you come up with something?"
lazycloud: "Why not. Let me think."
lazycloud:  "What about - A platform to find yourself HOT and SE...". Before lazycloud could complete crazycloud interrupts.
lazycloud "What?"
crazyloud "Its SNW, here we... blah blah.... not some fake dating or po*no website.You know."
lazycloud :"I thought that's what social networking websites are for."
lazycloud : "I didn't know they meant real social network by that. You know what, We should really talk often."

lazycloud : "No worries. I'll think of something else."
lazycloud:  "What about-  "Now flaunting has got a style. Get a real life." and then "Chance for nerds, geeks, losers to increase their social quotient, and Bitc*es to .."
crazyloud : "Wait ... Wait..  I think the first part is Okay, but  you know, we are actually targeting normal people so, nerd ,losers and ...those are  not really needed here. We need something more Creative, imaginative ... something Magical."
lazycloud: "Well, I am a writer not some....... Investment Banker or something.. I don't give a damn for these things."
"Of course, Writers don't need those qualities." said crazyloud sarcastically.
"Well, you are not incompetent enough to argue with me." said lazycloud with some pride.

Manager's Dose Of Advice

Manager's Preaching

Resource Allocation System: Secret Revealed

Two senior persons, SP1, working since long time in the Organization, along with SP2, recently joined, organizes freshers induction program.

After praising number of process, practices and policies SP1 now talks about resource allocation system.

SP1 addressing freshers: Our Resource allocation system is one of the best. It is very advanced, and well proven system. The allocation of resources to particular project is done on the basis of number of critetias like their skills, experience, aspirations, personal constraints and, many others.It tries to find the best match for particular project.

After the session finished, SP2 with suprise and amazement says to SP1 ‘I didn’t know we have such a powerful resource allocation system’

SP1:’Yes, It employs one of the best algorithm. Any guess?’

SP1: ‘Okay. Its called Random Number generator’

Unbiased Performance Evaluation

Socially adept programmers

The programmer stereotype as described in personality traits of great programmer

The stereotypical programmer is a shy young man, either scrawny or overweight, who works by himself in an 8’x8’ cubicle in a bigger room of dozens cubicles, each holding someone just like him. He intensely concentrates on writing cryptic instructions to coax a computer to do what is needed. He  devotes his evenings, weekends, and summers to work. He has no social life and any hobbies he may have resemble his work. In some companies he is regarded as an indispensable genius; in others he is tolerated as an eccentric artist. (McConnell, 1999)

Programmers who value social image present themselves so to conform to a perception of society's preferred type of personality. Some ways in which they manipulate  perception of society are

• When asked to stay little longer they decline by saying that they have some personal commitments, they need to spend time with family, when, in fact they will be working on some open source project or breaking into high profile gov network.

• They don't use Facebook or twitter often, so they develop a program that autonomously posts status and comment on others feed periodically(using some NLP and ML techniques) to show that they spend a lot of time on social networks and are social.

• They are aware that in social conversation what matters is not the correctness of the argument, but how much laughter it provokes and how much interesting it is.

• They don't use IT jargon in social conversations, even if they know everything about them and in fact, make fun of people who use them(making fun of others is most frequently used technique in social conversations).

• They identify themselves with hippie programmers instead of nerd programmers.

• They have a girlfriend or at least this is what they tell to others.

• They never tell programming as their hobby even if programming is at the top on the list.