Today introducing Sam as new guest author on this blog. He has got deep thoughts which make quite good sense in real world.

Prologue:

I just went on the shortest vacation possible to Hyderabad. The trip was “Just Like Heaven”.  Now, I am back to Hell. “Knowing” about this fact is always good but one cannot take a corrective action about it. Coz one is always a part of it. One can make any number of theories but every theory comes down to the below theory ultimately!

The Last Theory: Theory is shit!

Proof/Disproof: (cannot be proved or disproved abstractly)

For e.g.: There are two contrasting theories

1) Theory of Randomness

2) Theory of Determinism.

1) “Theory of Randomness” says that every thing that happens in this world is an accident. You have not control, whatsoever, on the happenings. The very existence of a living being is nothing but some random chemical accidents.

2) On the other hand, the “Theory of Determinism” says the exact opposite of what the theory of randomness does. I.e., everything that happens in this world is pre-planned or decided.

Now, by definition, the theory of determinism is sure about the theory of randomness as well and vice versa. That means two contrasting theories are proving each other correct. So, they are disproving their own theories (by definition). Hence any theory is just shit.

Therefore, "The Last Theory: Theory is shit!" is BULLSHIT!!

Conclusion: SHIT JUST HAPPENS!

Application: Universal (can apply this theory to anything and everything in this world)

Thank you Sam for your interest.

Sometimes it is frustrating to remain stuck in a problem which you thought is as simple as can be overcome in couple of minutes but you spend almost whole day in figuring out that problem. A problem which makes you recall your old stupid days once again, the one which might make you feel as if you have wasted your day in resolving it. In the end, when you find out the solution which was actually that simple, you might think that it is right to to call it as a day wasted.

In my case, I preferred to call it a day well utilized to learn something basic which we generally prefer to forget or put in backside of memory. This was the day when I wasn’t able to find solution to a problem which might have not taken more than 10 minutes to a software kid if he had been knowing what exactly has to be done. For me, it went on and on for more than 8 hours as parallel activity with my work to find out the dead simple solution.

The problem in my case was that a specific file type wasn’t opening in the way it should have opened in my favorite IDE (Eclipse). It was being opened in different color syntax and I wasn’t able to get code assist/content assist in the way I was expecting for JSP files. I copied/recopied/re-re-copied and so on… the fresh installation of IDE, tried to compare it with the one I was working on, exchanged the core files and experiments in as many different ways as I could but still the problem remained the same. Yeah, of course, (I know you are brilliant enough to have already thought that out) – googled again and again and again in all these hours. Also tried to migrate my existing setup to fresh setup but of no use. Finally (or perhaps not) I had started thinking of giving up on all my tries. Just then this simple piece of code over web brought sparkle in my eyes –

You have missed out one thing that we have to make the ABC viewer as the default viewer for *.xyz files under Windows->Preferences->general->Editors->File Associations.

Thanks to the brilliant lady who provided the unwanted and perhaps not so important solution to that problem – not to forget it was what exactly I wanted and hence wasn’t useless in my case at all. Once again many thanks to this intelligent gal for this simple looking but generally overlooked solution. In this specific case, I had to go to File Associations inside Eclipse and change the association of my file to different/default editor. Stupid me!

In general for any file, if we aren’t able to view a file in the way we want it to appear, all we have to do is to change the editor in which it opens.

A friend shared this link about recent news with title – India Awakening. This is the story about a victim of surgical mistake and how he fought all this way to get the appropriate claim.

Here are excerpt from true and motivating story -

Apex court orders Rs.10 mn compensation for medical negligence

 

Nearly two decades after Bangalore-based Infosys engineer Prashanth S. Dhananka became paralysed waist down after a botched surgery, the Supreme Court ordered the Nizam Medical Institute of Hyderabad to pay him a record compensation of Rs.10 million, while praising him for fighting the case himself though confined to a wheelchair.

 

Ordering the compensation for medical negligence to Dhananka, a bench of Justice B.N. Agrawal also asked the apex court’s registry to send the verdict to the victim through registered post at his address in Bangalore.

 

The bench also recorded its ‘deep appreciation’ of Dhananka for his having argued the entire case on medical concepts himself in the apex court with the deftness of a lawyer.

 

Justifying the payment of the compensation, the court said, the sum is justified ‘keeping in mind that a brilliant career has been cut short and there is, as of now, no possibility of improvement of his physical conditions’.

 

Dhananka, son of a Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (BHEL) employee, was admitted to the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences in September 1990 after complaints of unexplained intermittent fever. Doctors from BHEL hospital referred him to the Hyderabad hospital for ‘further’ tests, which showed a large tumour in his left chest cavity. After an X-ray and a CT scan confirmed this, he was asked to undergo a biopsy.

 

Though the tumour was found to be benign, doctors decided to remove it fearing that it might later exert pressure on his respiratory, cardio-vascular and neurological systems. The doctors feared it could also later turn malignant.

 

A team led by a cardio-thoracic surgeon removed the tumour. In the process, a part of his ribs had to be cut. After the surgery, Dhananka, developed paralysis of the lower portion of the body, including legs.

 

No allegation of medical negligence was made then. But, six months later, Dhananka’s father wrote a letter to the institute in 1991, alleging negligence.

 

In 1993, Dhananka moved the NCDRC seeking damages of about Rs.50 million. The commission held the doctors negligent and directed the institute to pay Rs.1.4 million to him and Rs.150,000 to his father.

 

The institute moved the apex court challenging the NCDRC finding that it was guilty of negligence.

 

It contended that it had not associated a neuro-surgeon in the surgery from the beginning and had not exchanged any opinion with sister institutes in India and abroad.

 

A forward but thought provoking -

It is August. In a small town on the South Coast of France, holiday season is in full swing, but it is raining so there is not too much business happening. Everyone is heavily in debt.

Luckily, a rich Russian tourist arrives in the foyer of the small local hotel. He asks for a room and puts a Euro100 note on the reception counter, takes a key and goes to inspect the room located up the stairs on the third floor.

The hotel owner takes the banknote in hurry and rushes to his meat supplier to whom he owes E100.
The butcher takes the money and races to his supplier to pay his debt.
The wholesaler rushes to the farmer to pay E100 for pigs he purchased some time ago.
The farmer triumphantly gives the E100 note to a local prostitute who gave him her services on credit.
The prostitute goes quickly to the hotel, as she owed the hotel for her hourly room use to entertain clients.
At that moment, the rich Russian is coming down to reception and informs the hotel owner that the proposed room is unsatisfactory and takes his E100 back and departs.

There was no profit or income. But everyone no longer has any debt and the small town people look optimistically towards their future.

COULD THIS BE THE SOLUTION TO THE Global Financial Crisis? Or, is there a catch here?

PS: It isn’t  a new solution but something which has been in play for centuries. The only difference in game at this stage is that the owners of game have changed and new owners aren’t ready to play by old rules but old owners are equally adamant. Someone will have to continue the game.

After recent notorious firing by Sapient and big haul over the sudden action, other companies in India are trying to play it safe. According to recent rumors, Headstrong has taken a quite safer way to get employees out of org. First there was firing of very few employees keeping it low, then there was order for all bench employees to not to come to office on Friday. Later it was announced that those employees will not be getting paid for Fridays on which they are asked not to come. And next step is speculated to be taken in next month which will result in job-loss of more employees.

This is second company after Sapient which is firing its smart employees from premier institutes like IIT and NIT forming such lame policies.

Disclaimer: All the details are based on discussions and nothing is verified personally.