treat code with respect

One of the most inspiring things I have learned here at Info Edge is the amount of respect that everyone gives to the code. Cron scripts here are treated with emotions, talking to them while making them, feeling anxious when the script is running, appreciating the script when the results are good like a human and feeling sad when something breaks.

Also the lingo used here in normal conversations to discuss issues has a touch of typical informal-indian lingo that we used as kids.

"Wahan code phat rha h... mere server pe theek chal rha tha but live pe mar gya" 

( The code is breaking there.. it was running fine on local server but died on live)

"Bohot sahi kaam kar rha h ye.. saara kaam sahi se kia isne is baar, jaldia bhi kardia isne.. good h" 

(The code is working really good.. did all its work reall well this time and also took very less time.. nice). I love it here. :)

Office!

We use ubuntu here. When I first started using this OS a long time back, one feature that interested me was that of locking screen. I always imagined using this feature being inside an office with cubicles and preventing other colleagues from accessing your terminal when you were out for a coffee or something.

I just imagined it that way with no previous experience, just the picture I derived from american movies: just a manhattan style office, coffee vending machines, cubicles, terminals with linux with locked screens, those typical plastic window curtains, high rises visible across the window, etc.

Now that I spend 9 hours daily inside my Info Edge office and some of that virtual picture has substantiated splendidly. There are cubicles alright, coffee vending machines, my own linux terminal which I can lock whenever I go for a coffee or sandwhich; those exact curtains, and trees visible outside them. Its unreal. Its great here. The work is good, people are nice and everything.