forgot ipad

So the stupid me forgot my iPad at office. It was Friday and I was just in a hurry to start my weekend. But then from the metro I called my senior there and asked hi to put it in a safe place. No harm done.

Also I was just astonished how good I am at forgetting things. More at not giving a feck than forgetting really. ( just came across a chat meme with the word 'feck'. Rad? ). So I tried to recall what my iPad's screen size is: hmm, 11 point something. But what if someone asked me. Bezzatti. So I just went through apple's website.

Mine is a 16 GB ipad3, wifi+3g with retina display screen of size 9.7 inch , 2048by1536 resolution, dual core Apple A5 processor, 5MP back and VGA front camera. It has upto 10 hours of continuous wifi browsing, video or music, dolby digital 5.1 speakers and lots of other cool stuff.

Impressive.

olx -> aliens?

I posted an ad on olx.com to sell my old books some months back. I got a response yesterday. Someone interested in buying it. But now I can't find the book even after I've been searching all morning. Come to think of it, just a crazy thought appeared. May be once you post something on olx.com, it just disappears and gets transported to their silos. May be olx.com was started by aliens.

heartburn

I seem to be having a heartburn.

Symptoms are severe burning sensation in the food pipe, reflux of acids in the throat, stomache and a general uncomfort in the chest. I have been having this problem for sometime now. I suspect some kind of lung infection. I feel better relieved to some extent when I think it just might the stomach instead of my lungs. I am going to see the doctor tomorrow anyway.

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.