the end of the day!

Supposedly the last day at college has passed. I was thinking of my transformation through these years. All those sassy quips and double entendre are now part of past. All those outright stupid general amusements, puns and  innuendos are now a piece of remembrance. No professors, no lectures and no exams. There is no more secrets to keep. College life is over.

Now begins a new life….

turning taciturn!

To be heard by someone is a real good nature. Perhaps its natural to ask and hear someone remarking on some topic. Some times this character can go wrong and its called foot in mouth syndrome where people speak too much irritating the listeners to beef on personal embarrassment. They may even turn annoyingly loquacious which can ignite someone pull the trigger aimed right through his medulla oblongata!

Those who believe that perfect communication happens when there is 50% talking and 50% listening, is mislead by wrong knowledge. A perfect communication will have only 20% talking and 80% listening plus thinking. Listening patiently is a divine quality. It doesn’t mean you have to answer ‘yup’ or ‘nope’ for lengthy questions. Talk only when you want to talk and for the other time listen. Listen to your mother, your father, your sister, your girlfriend, your boss, your colleague. Listening helps building rapport with people.

So pay attention, listen to them, and be taciturn!

Sherlock Holmes – Film

Holmes series became my favorite detective story since I read Arther Conan Doyal’s ‘Hound of Baskervilles’ back in 2003. Now a motion picture is born. I really liked the film and don’t know the reason why popularity drops each day. I am impressed with the performance of Holmes and Dr. Watson and definitely its a good story to watch. Curtain raisers were able to recreate the ambiance of Old London and 221B Baker Street. Film has already won Golden Globe but so many negative reviews is creating a bad impression. Anyway I liked the film.

People with pretty low emotional quotient

I see two category of people. Those who live in present and those who live in future. People living in present will have only one philosophy or principle to follow, ‘Have fun for the whole life”. Enjoy each and every moment as nobody can bring it back. Lets say they are at point A. On the other hand those who live in the future. They plan and foresee things and act accordingly. They believe there would be some shortcut for anything. Not caring about what is happening, they spent the whole day planning for tomorrow’s. Lets say they are at point B. If life is a line between point A and Point B, All people in this world live in an arbitrary points on this line.

I stay somewhere around the mid(A,B). Population at my point is pretty large. so to distinguish and classify people at same point, there is another variable called ‘Emotional Intelligence’ or simply EI. Amazingly the value of each person in same point is unique with respect to that point.

So, that is a serious theory. And let me say how life will be screwed. When position of the person tends to Point B, then the EI tends to zero. And  this is the reason why all these problems happening.  So people with pretty low EI Please hold on to point A !

Python-twitter, a surprisingly easy to use API for twitter

Many thanks to Akkana Peck for the article about a twitter client in python where I got links to new world of twitter client developments. Python-twitter is an amazing python interface to the twitter API. Believe me friends its so easy to use even for a beginner like me. Now I can update my status, read friends etc from command line without relying on any heavy add ons on my firefox. Akkana’s article on twit contains all help and it will be a good start for a serious development. Let me experiment more on this.

scanf() equivalent for python

Recently I encountered a problem. My requirement was to read two inputs, a character and an integer from one input line. Classic method is to use the scanf function with type specifiers %c and %d respectively. I’ve been searching for this functionality and was quite surprised to find that there is no equivalent implementation in python (if I’m not wrong since 2001 when this problem was raised).

Instead there is an alternate way that I use to read multiple type of inputs from single line separated by spaces. Here is what we can do

from string import atoi
e=raw_input('Enter 2 integers')
c=atoi(e.split()[0])
i=atoi(e.split()[1])
print c,i

We can also use int() float() function to convert the raw input to required type. An example is shown below

e=raw_input('Enter int and float')
a=int(e.split()[0])
b=float(e.split()[1])
print a,b

I know this problem is been discussed for so many times. I guess this feature is not going to get implemented into python since its used very rarely. Thanks for an excellent documentation for python where I found the solution.

Bothering about Resumes

Every time a recruitment happens, I see people running around in college worrying about resume format, resume contents etc etc. Most of them think that the resumes will help in finding the niche in one’s profession.

Think of resume only as a tool to excuse the HR officer to reject you. Surely no HR is going to give you job only seeing your resume. Most of the resumes in front of him will have no real cover letters, no odd look, all same ambitions and experience. For the first impression you need a resume which stands out from rest but also you need lot other things for a lasting impression.

when it comes to an interview, what matters is not your resumes but you yourself as a person. At this point what many of us lack is even a mere attempt of self marketing. Just imagine like you have the full authority to fix price for your abilities that HR is looking for. That doesn’t mean you literally dispute on the salary, but that thinking line will give you immense power so as to make the HR feel like if you are not in then it will be a loss.

Make a good rehearsal for your interview because more you do, more is your chance of shooting right answers and that too with confidence. And remember, Great jobs.. jobs people die for.. are not offered speculating the resumes emailed to them. Ever. So why bother?

I have a Dream !

When was the last time you appeared before an audience? When was the last time you delivered a speech which was widely appreciated by the listeners? When was the last time you put forward a point in a discussion or in a meeting that twisted the whole story? When did you last address people that made a lot of followers?

Silence is golden just because you are not burning some calories but your heart and soul in singing a song in your voice. I have not heard such a great speech in my life which Martin Luther King Jr. had delivered aiming for an end to discrimination. I want everybody to read this article in wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream