Jan talks about life and everything in between

An advice to all programmers

Administrator — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:39:35 +0000

Linus Torvalds - creator of Linux

"So start small, and think about the details. Don’t think about some big picture and fancy design. If it doesn’t solve some fairly immediate need, it’s almost certainly over-designed. And don’t expect people to jump in and help you. That’s not how these things work. You need to get something half-way _useful_ first, and then others will say "hey, that _almost_ works for me", and they’ll get involved in the project."

Anders Hejlsberg - chief architect of Delphi and C#

"If you ask beginning programmers to write a calendar control, they often think to themselves, They need to ship a calendar application in two months. They put all this infrastructure into place in the control, and then spend two days writing a crappy calendar application on top of it. They’ll think, "In the next version of the application, I’m going to do so much more. Once they start thinking about how they’re actually going to implement all of these other concretizations of their abstract design, however, it turns out that their design is completely wrong. And now they’ve painted themself into a corner, and they have to throw the whole thing out. I have seen that over and over. I’m a strong believer in being minimalistic. Unless you actually are going to solve the general problem, don’t try and put in place a framework for solving a specific one, because you don’t know what that framework should look like."

Try to follow DRY and KISS principle at the same time a little YAGNI.

Some lessons in life

Administrator — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:18:05 +0000

Saw this from a forum…

Lesson One

An eagle was sitting on a tree resting, doing nothing. A small rabbit saw the eagle and asked him, “Can I also sit on my as s like you and do nothing?” the eagle answered, “Sure why not?” So the rabbit sat on the ground below the eagle and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Management Lesson: To be sitting on your as s and doing nothing, you must be sitting very high up.

Lesson Two

A turkey was chatting with a bull. “I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree,” sighed the turkey, “but I haven’t got the energy.” “Well, why don’t you nibble on some of my manure droppings?” replied the bull. “They’re packed with nutrients.” The turkey pecked at a lump of manure and found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after the fourth night, he was proudly perched at the top of the tree. Soon he was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.

Management Lesson: Bullsh** might get you to the top, but it won’t keep you there.

Lesson Three

A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground in a large field. While it was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of dung, it began to realize how warm it was. The dung was actually thawing him out. He lay there all warm and happy and soon began to sing for joy. A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung and promptly dug him out and ate him.

Management Lessons: (1) Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy; (2) Not everyone who gets you out of s hit is your friend; and (3) When you’re in deep s hit, it’s best to keep your mouth shut.

Pedestrian

Administrator — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:31:17 +0000

Why oh why do some people cross the pedestrian lane even though the traffic light is green? I just can’t find the logic! Is 30 secs to a minute that important to risk it all? Accidents happen not because of ‘fate’ but because of some ‘idiots’. Maybe we should all give the ‘idiots’ the Darwin Award. And oh pardon me, I’m almost late, you see I’m blogging this while I’m crossing the streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet….. *screetch* *nooooo* *blag* *kapow* *smack* *kaboom* *arggggg*

Dragonball Zimpson

Administrator — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:42:30 +0000

What if Matt Groening created Dragonball Z…

Click on the image to full resolution.

Joke Time Part Uno

Administrator — Mon, 26 May 2008 08:46:08 +0000

Joke time para sa mga bisaya. Nakadungog ra ko ani mao kung di mo makatawa, korni ang original na nagsulti. Pero kung makatawa mo, mas ok kay ako man nag post.

*Lalaki nikaon sa isa ka karenderia

Lalaki: Hmmm, pwe pwe, unsa mani oi! Nganong wala may lami inyong pagkaon dire?

Waiter: Sir sir, unsa may problema nato?

Lalaki: Walay lami inyong food, asa man inyong cook?!

Waiter: Sir, pasensya wala naman mi cook, pipsi ra…

Toinks

Messpelleng

Administrator — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:25:09 +0000

Why do people misspell my simple name John to Jhon? Always! Everytime I would order a cup of coffee at Starbucks, or whenever I would go to the local laundry shop, or I’m dining [sic] in a fastfood they always never fail to write my name in ORs as Sir Jhon. And here I thought we are a big Christian nation! Ever seen the name of Saint John the Beloved misspelled as Saint Jhon? Or Saint John the Baptist as Saint Jhon the Baptist? I bet you haven’t! Pronouncing John is ja-han, not jay-hon! Next time I’ll be telling everyone that my name is Peter and I’m expecting they will write it down as Fighter.

Teasing Batman

Administrator — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:33:05 +0000

Another much-anticipated movie this year is "The Dark Knight", sequel to the ass-kicking "Batman Begins". A few teasers or shall we say viral campaign appeared on the net such as this site, and also this one, but here is a favorite of mine click here and you will be welcomed by an error page, don’t worry, go to Edit then Select All, you will be greeted by ha ha ha words, after which copy it and paste it in a notepad. Then replace every H and A with " " and then see you in December.

Remembering HS - part uno

Administrator — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:58:04 +0000

Last Tuesday, former ADDU HS 4Blue classmates gathered around for a drink or two at Greenbelt. Among the attendees were Sally, Janoah, Jeanny, Kate, Crystal, Rhea, Mikko, Dino and Charles. It was a fun night until the waitress informed us that bars in Greenbelt 3 closed at 12 MN. WTH?!?

Anyway, naisip ko, sobrang tagal na rin pala since kami nagkita-kita, about <10 years ago, sobbing moments. Imagine that! Then it dawned on me, I can’t anymore remember high school, maybe because I am a nerdox way back or maybe I just want to erase that memory. Anyway, back then all I ever had were school and home. You can’t blame me, my baon at that time was around PHP 20, yes PHP 20! But aha! It became PHP 40 when I was in 4th year, but PHP 40 at that time was next to nothingness. I remembered during my last years in high school that the only source of snacks I had were kikiam and mentos, imagine that, filling your stomach with air to alleviate the hunger. After snack time, I will still have around PHP 20. For lunch I will just buy a rice, a bar-be-que and a free soup for only… drum roll please… PHP 10!!! Hooray for province price! (So that must be the reason I am a walking skeletor back then!)

The Incredible Hulk - Exclusive Trailer

Administrator — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:11:16 +0000

Just a quick update, a new exclusive trailer (exclusive to whom? internets?) of ‘The Incredible Hulk’. This is a reset from the original Ang Lee directed movie. Click here to view the trailer. Here’s hoping that they will erase from my memory Ang Lee’s version, if you like that movie then good for you. With Eric Bana out, Edward Norton is the new Bruce Banner with Liv Tyler as Betty Ross (woohoo!). And oh Tim Roth (amazing actor btw) will play as the villain Abomination. WTF?!? Why??? Why did you introduce the villain already, your killing the thrill!

Oh well… *sigh* I just read the comic series World War Hulk and I couldn’t wait for this movie to hit the theaters. And oh, Neo and Agent Smith would like to thank you for using their fight during that last scene.

They was important to me…

Administrator — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:41:37 +0000

Jeez, just finished watching the Bb. Pilipinas Pageant Q&A portion and wow, the whole TXT generation is really coming back to haunt us. Watch it here. I am not good in English, but damn those things were taught in elementary! And don’t f****ng tell me to let them answer in Tagalog because we are in the Philippines, the mere fact that she is a college masscomm student, MASS COMMUNICATION for pete’s sake!, in one of the top universities in the country that should be an indicator that she is [sic] at least fluent. With so many blunders, nothing against her, but why did she win again?!?

Excerpt from the Q&A:

Q: What role did your family play to you as candidate to Binibining Pilipinas?

A: Well… my family’s role for me is so important because there was the wa- they’re they was the one who’s very… Haha… Oh I’m so sorry… Ahhmm… My pamily… My family… Oh my god… I’m… Ok… I’m so sorry… I… I told you that I’m so confident… Eto… Ahhmm… Wait… Hahahaha… Ahmmm… Sorry guys because this was really my pirst pageant ever because I’m only 17 years old and haha I… I did not expect that I came from… I came from one of the tough 10. Uhmmm… so… but I said that my family is the most important persons in my life. Thank you.

On the side note, I want to kill myself because I didn’t watch the Incubus concert. F******!