When I finally get to use my master’s degreeGeneralRants by Sunny Srinidhi - September 1, 2016February 9, 20170 According to my knowledge, getting a master’s degree is seen as an achievement, a sign of dedication, passion, and greater intellect. I’m of course talking about the West. I could be wrong here, but that’s what I’ve heard, read, and seen. But when you come to the East, Asia specifically, every other Tom, Dick, and Harry has a master’s degree. In fact, if he has only one, or this one over that one, he could be good for nothing! You have a master’s degree in Arts? Seriously? What the hell are you going to do with that? Go back to college and get a master’s degree in engineering, software engineering. Okay, that was a bit too much. But yes, some degrees are
Importance of proper documentation in a projectRantsTech by Sunny Srinidhi - August 17, 2016January 9, 20201 In the tech industry, it’s not uncommon for developers to work on project maintenance. You could be asked to fix a few bugs in a system which is already in production and has a user base. Or to add new features, or to refactor. Sometimes, you’d even be asked to rewrite the whole project in a different language/framework. For all these, it’s very important to setup the existing code on your development machine, and understand it properly. And for this, you need proper documentation. Most projects today have their own git repository. It’s very unlikely that a project is distributed within a team by copying it on to a storage device. Even your incomplete, two-year old pet projects are usually on
Introvert, extrovert, ambivert. What are you?General by Sunny Srinidhi - March 30, 2016February 13, 20170 I googled ‘define introvert,’ I got this: a shy, reticent person. I googled ‘define extrovert,’ I got this: an outgoing, socially confident person. Googling ‘define ambivert’ gave me this: a person who has a balance of extrovert and introvert features in their personality. Broad definitions, I know. You probably already know in more detail what each of those three words mean. I’ll try to pen down my opinion of each of those later in this post if possible. I’ll start this with what we think is obvious. Gradually, I’ll try to make more sense of this by looking at what a few of my friends have to say. There’s no scientific research behind all this, by me or my friends. Each one of us is either an introvert,