Read this articule, if you are a software engineer or code monkey (a.k. a. programmer)

Read this!

To my friends that work in this field also, which do you want to be?

Keeping this one short, trying to finish something here at work...

Edit: While I try to find my boss, read this article too.

Happy times, sad times

Well sad times because my brother and niece just left, they came to visit unexpectedly well not for me since I new of the visit. But it was a surprise visit for my parents, this past Saturday was my dad's birthday and we had a blast. Lots of families and friends came to visit. Also we went to the beach yesterday and it was awesome, lots of fun times there with the family. :-D But they had to go back today, my brother still needs to finish a few things for his PhD studies and then time for him to go to work. Cool isn't?!

Well today I find if I drop the class I'm taking, the professor sent an email yesterday with a bonus for our 3rd take home work. Apparently we are failing the class somehow, could it be the uncertainty the professor has shown in not explaining the types of analysis he asks for. Or could it be his unwillingness in answering some of our questions, I mean I was about to call him incompetent one time in an email conversation we had. If you see this 0 * log (0) without any type of explanation the answer to this is error, log(0) yields error no mater what. Well said that anything multiplied by 0 is 0, which to my understanding is wrong error can't be multiplied by anything since it's something wrong that has yielded. It wasn't until he sent me the explanation of the formula we were using that it has been stated that when you see 0 * log (0) = 0, that is the only way when you can say that log(0) =0 is when it has been stated. He said from day 1 that the course would have a hands-on approach, yeah fucking right...

Anyways, from past experience if I see I'll be failing this course I'll just drop it. Nothing good will come-out if I try to keep doing this and not learn much from this course. What it'll hurt is that I'm paying for this classes out of my pocket, and it's a lot of money to waste away. Guess I'm dumb, I should've taken a course that was a necessary for my studies and not a special topics class. And I thought I had learn from my first time going through this Master's Studies. Buuu for me!

Money, fucking Money...

Who the hell thought of this thing called money and worst yet who made it that we depend on it so fucking much?

Here is my small rant...

Well the best thing at the moment, I'm starting a new relationship some of you guys met her. And she is wonderful and awesome! The only bad thing at the moment is that she is in Venezuela, so yes a long distance relationship for the moment still. ;)

So looking at airfares so that we can see each other on a more regular basis, well first thought lets find cheap fares and fly there. Well not so cheap, at least for the moment, the cheapest for me was Miami but for her would be around $780. And this is only the airfare, so we check the Dominican Republic about $500 each, also Aruba about $500 each. So what's cheap about all this nothing. And we aren't adding hotels and food, which should make the trip like what a little over $1k each. Fuck this is too much!

But thank god one of us is smart, and it's not me, she tells me it'll be cheaper if you fly to Vzla or I fly to PR. Only 1 flight ticket and we can stay at each others place so no hotel. And we help each other with the fare, so a $500 fare goes down to a $350 fare and no hotel and less money on food. This is the best plan for now as far as seeing each other on a more regular basis, YAY!

Well, I also need to add that I want my own apartment. I mean a $25k as down payment is good, I can get an apartment and just pay over $800 or so a month for it. So I need to act fast before all the money the government is giving away runs dry. Another thing that's coming to hurt my bank account is the damn car insurance, that'll blow donkey balls. And all the toys I want media center, wii games, digital camara. Shit I need to get a better paying job or go to the 18th stop in Santurce and see if I can sell myself. Oh, almost forgot school I have registration this week and that's another $800 at least.

Anyways, back to work for me I think. Thanks for reading incoherent posts like mine.

And this is what I like about Computer Science

So all of you who read this blog, I'm still thinking it's only you two wiitards I mean friends :P.

Read the comments. And these too.

Take your time reading the comments from this post on /., I haven't read the article where all this started from but from what I understand from some comments it's kinda of useless really. Apparently it's the president and vice-president of AdaCore bashing Java. Well, this isn't about that article but about the comments left on /. about that article.

To my friends that I want to see succeed and become more than just code monkeys, take a look at this comments and do some training like they say. We all ready have the basics which they talk about, we just need to go back do some review and then look at what's next. I know I know, that the job market looks for some things specific. But ask yourself or your next interviewer what it'll happen to those nich markets when something better comes along. Will they go out and look for someone else, spend tons of money to train those code monkeys on what's new or hire you because it's quite easy for you to understand and grasp the knowledge and concepts of what's new? This my friends where I wish to be and will start working to get there.

Like some comments state, all the tools out there are useful. It just depends where you need to use them,

a quote: "if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail".

I like this quote very much, lets not only have a hammer as out tool(s).

See ya next time!