Giving More than Taking...

So far I had seen people who take more than they give or atleast try to keep the balance. In the companies they work that is. But today I found a person who gave more than they took apparently.

I have been assigned to a project that was previously being worked on by Amna and Akasha. The manager told me that we're behind on this project so we need a boost. So they assigned it to me. Also, one of the developers has left the company. And I, to be honest, didn't really like her very much.

So, at first, there was a mess that I had to figure out, and it took me some time. I needed some background knowledge. But anyway, I fixed the stuck problem atlast. Took me a week though, and I had to read a lot of code.

There is one mysterious thing that these developers were doing. They would take development code as the starting point, would develop on that code, and then after the development is done would update the development code but there's a master code that works on the production.

The developers were updating the development code, but the master code was cherry-picked from the development code. This would take extra time and it was extremely brain-teasing to me. Why on earth do you take such a difficult path!

As the project was lead by Amna who has already left, all the developers had to say was, "we don't know we just do it this way, we guess that's how we should do it!"... aah... no guys that's not how you should do it, just test the development code and if it's good move it to the master repository, it is as simple as that...

But today while I was working on a task, which is like 3 months old when Amna was here. I found out that that task was already done. The problem they were facing was apparently the one I have already fixed and the rest is already working. So I was surprised. They completed the task and I have nothing left to do on this task apparently. It's ready to go. The time it had required is already taken and now we just deliver the task and the client would have to pay.

Though Amna is not here anymore, she had already arranged for upcoming stuff, making money for the company in advance. So, I really appreciate what she had done and I was surprised and happy to see that such people exist. And on the other hand it's me who try to keep the balance :P

And I also found out the reason behind that mysterious way of merging the code. It was to make sure that the things we do are kept hidden until it is perfect time to release them, 

I don't know my co-workers would read my blog post or not, but I have no intention to tell them at the moment the reason behind that mysterious code-merge technique...

Done with Rejections

There is a nicer way to reject. By saying good bye. Or even saying nothing is good. But blocking someone on social network is totally a different shit. That's like you're killing someone or committing suicide in a hope that things wont haunt you. Let me assure that would not be the case.

It happened to me many times. I'm expecting an answer, but instead of an answer I get blocked. I never did this to anyone except I'm usually open to criticism. And even when a person is extremely offensive against me, I would listen to him, let him say his shit, I would just not respond may be, but I would not block him.

Many a times it happened that people said offending things to me and I listened without a response. But at a later stage, we met again and they apologized, and we became friends again. But I think as the population has grown, the value of a person has decreased significantly. People now think that if they cut-off with one person, it wont be a big deal...

I'm done with this kind of rejection seriously. But I can't figure out a way to stop this from happening. There is always a block feature on social network. And it gets mis-used.

A few days ago, a colleague of mine unfriended me on a social network. But she didn't block me, so I asked her if everything was ok? And she had some personal reasons which she didn't tell me. But told me that she has some personal reasons. So, I have no grudge against her. One the contrary I actually liked the way she did it. 

But on the other hand, there are people who, if you say something that they find offensive, not just unfriend you, but block you. Leaving any way left to reconcile. I just want to tell those people that you are bludy cowards and I hate you!

Fixed my Laptop

Watching person of interest from start after a long time.

Heard yesterday that about 11 children died in an accident which is a very sad news. Though they blame train driver etc. But we all know how irrational these rickshaw drivers can be. The traffic as a whole is absolutely horrible. Irresponsible drivers everywhere.

Today I tried to fix my laptop screen. It flickers a lot. Making the laptop almost unusable. So I opened it up, all the screws. But the lid wont come out so I used a knife to gently separate the lid and it worked.

So it came out that the problem is in the wires. They're quite messed up, they were apparently short circuited by dust etc. I removed it and it's quite better now. But not completely fixed. I think the wires are damaged in the screen area too which I didn't bother opening. Also I didn't anticipate it in the first place.

Legality

https://www.pastefs.com/pid/8851

It's Friday, and Muslims are fasting because it's 12th of Ramazan-ul-Mubarak. And here in Lahore there's no electricity. It's 1:10 pm and juma prayers start at about 1:30 and there's no electricity for many hours now.

BIke for Me!

Once I was asked to buy this bike for myself, but I think they way I think the price of this thing would come up, I'm better-off with a car!

But anyway, shall see...:P

Lost my Job

A few months ago, I started working in geekstech, it's near Shaukat Khanum Hospital. Today they fired me, insulted me that I'm inefficient and took my usb's that contained my private data for which I didn't have a backup and formatted it. I will not forget that and I will not forgive that InshaALLAH