No more Mr Nice Guy

Does it strike you as weird when you're bought out from a company with an exorbitant amount on your head..

 - and tells you that they need your expertise but they asked you to do every nitty gritty detail set by them to the letter?

 - and tells you they need your experience but are not listening to your advice at all?

 - and tells you they need you to provide input on enhancements but when you do, nothing is being done about it?

- and tells you that they need fresh new ideas but when you pitch some to them, it falls on deaf ears?

- and tells you that they need your problem solving skills but when you detected a hidden but imminent malicious problem and told them about it, they asked you to just follow the plan?


Heck, there's a hell lot more.

I'm totally pissed right now. How easy it is for you to deny all that I've done; my commitment, the F-ing long hours just to follow your atrocious deadline, the denied holidays, the stressful weekends. What happened to the "good job!", "great!" and what-so-ever when we followed your destined-to-doom plan earlier but the final product is a mess?

That will be the last time you'll be questioning my integrity. And yeah, since it's easy for you to say that if I don't like it, I can just get out,  no more Mr Nice Guy from me. Here it is: FUCK YOU!

Yeah you bought me out. but that doesn't mean that you fucking own me!

All the best luck and the grandeur of the heavens for your Death March.

Disgusted and burnt out.

I don't really want to blog about this. It's been 7 freaking months. I've been trying hard not to but I can't stand it anymore. The thing is, my current company sucks big time. Not as worse as the Singaporean company that I've joined before but enough to make me feel sick about it.

There's no real structure. The whole thing is a total disarray. Requirements come in really late. Estimations were done at managers' whim. developers were forced to work super overtime just to meet the impossible deadline and the worse thing is, I'm already burnt out.

Asshole managers. I seriously disgusted by an email written by one of the managers. Come on, It was not their business opening time yet, the deadline is just a few hours late and he already shot an email claiming that we already losing client's trust and we are perceived as being bad. Total bullshit. Disgusting. You're the one who over promised the client. You never consult us about the task estimation and you just stamp your own date and what the F, we're the one to be blamed? F you!

Useless team leads adds salt to the pain. You know that it is impossible to meet the crazy deadline and yet you just say yes to everything but the burden was placed all on the developers. You yourself hardly code and you call yourself an architect? F you! When things go wrong and the damnation is imminent, you start to frantically blame your developers and force them to work atrocious hours. Again, F you!

I'm already on holiday, yet you tried to called (good thing I've blocked your number earlier) me demanding I submit the codes and when you can't reach me, you spammed with sms' threatening that this will not look good on my performance review? For F's sake I've told you I'm going on holiday on these dates ages ago. Why the F did you assign me the task? F you!

Highly Political. Highly Preposterous. Highly Painful.

I bet Bill and Dave are crying in their graves right now. So much of preserving those so called values.

Income from piracy.

In the world today, nearly every business requires the use of computers and when we say to use a computer means that we are using a software that are installed in the computer to get our job done. It has come to my attention that most of us are using pirated software no matter how small the scale is even in those large corporations or in the government sector.

I have to admit that I am one of them and I'm not proud doing it. Thus, in this year 2011 I am set to use only legitimately acquired software. I am a software engineer by profession and I really understand how malicious is the effect of software piracy. At the current moment, other than my daily job, I'm also working as a software development consultant on a part time basis for another company. My concern right now is that I'm indeed using software to earn income. From a Islamic perspective, software piracy is like stealing and income for the use of it is non Halal. I guess I just realized why I'm always getting sick. So, the next thing is, I'm going to legally purchase all the required software for my business.

a post in a forum about fatwas on software piracy:

http://www.islamicboard.com/advice-support/134295165-pirated-software.html#post1307719

Agent of Change

Had a talk with a friend about being an agent of change. In essence, what he said was true. I'm being too aggressive and radical in my approach. But I stand partially at fault. Part of the blame is theirs too.

I came in with great expectations. I mean come on, claiming to be the largest company in the field, they should be able to offer better than what they currently have. I was wrong. And they are wrong too. I should not have expectations that great and they should not have made the claim. They are actually manufacturing company that produces hardware products that targets the IT field market. So, they are not actually the largest IT company. They're not even an IT company in reality.

My second mistake is 'forcing' them. I understand that it's hard to have someone who is young in the field and yet telling you that they way you're doing it is wrong. But again, look at the context and the big picture and consider all the factor instead of what you've used to do. It is easier to produce a hardware instead of a software. Manufacturing hardware is just a matter of producing the parts, assembling it and testing it. I'm not saying that it is that easy it's just that producing software is far more complex and requires a paradigm shift. Software is far from being 'mechanical'. Software requires creativity and deep thinking. It's not something that you can just mindlessly assemble to mass produce it. Software itself does not even have the capabilities of being manufactured.

Well, I've nearly stopped complaining. I'm tired of talking ideas to people who aren't even passionate and care about quality. Most of the time, they just rejected it although I've proven that there's a way to do something better. To them, delivering functionality is more important as it generates income. True, but if your codes are crappy, who the heck wants to maintain it? "Corporate Inertia" is the term for this kind of behavior.

Flashed my Samsung Galaxy S with Doc Froyo 7.6.2

After waiting so long for the official Froyo to be available here in Malaysia, I decided to just get on with the European version. So last night, I flashed from WXJM1 (European version of Eclair) to a custom version of JPM (European version of Froyo).

The whole process was very easy although I did a small mistake that nearly gave me a heart attack - I bricked the phone, but I managed to recover. It's true that they say the phone is quite hard to actually brick it. LOL.

Now I'm testing out the lag fixes. currently using NoRFS + ext4 formatting but it seems that the battery drain is quite noticable. I've read that flashing SpeedMod kernel is enough rather than applying the lag fixes. Maybe I'll try that later.

Edit: Crap! just about 12 hours I flashed the custom Froyo, the official Froyo for Malaysia came out. zzzz

How do you use your social network tools like twitter/facebook/etc. ?

For me, in my opinion, I usually use it to describe the state of my mind, pitching my thoughts, ideas or interesting articles which again in my opinion are more appropriate to be shared with friends.

I'm writing this as I feel kinda really annoyed reading updates that are of little value such as what you've been eating or ranting about something without reason. I couldn't care less about what you eat whether it's delicious or nauseating. It just doesn't add value and a waste of time and network bandwidth unless you include the details on why it is delicious/nauseating and the location of the food joint. Now that, at least have some value to be shared socially and could be helpful.

So people, please at least post something useful and have value instead of some mundane general status update such as "am at <location>" or "<something/someone"> is stupid" or "eating <delicious/nauseating> <food name>". Elaborate them a bit like telling what's happening at the location, your reason for rating the food or why you think that something/person is stupid/good. Now that, I believe will add value to the posts/updates and will usually start some discussion. "Why would we need discussion on the update?" you might ask. Well, it is simple. It is not called "social networking" for nothing.

So people, update wisely or you'll just be labeled as another idiot spammer.

People behaviors are just intriguing.

Had a conversation with a colleague a few weeks before about software development methodologies. I find it funny how people tend to reject things that are new to them. Funnier thing is they even belittle something that they never even tried.

Seriously people, don't just say something bad just because you think it is but you never really experienced it. And please, those things that are new to you doesn't mean that it's actually really new. Probably, you were just too busy "chopping down trees" that you forgot to "sharpen your axe" or just don't have the time to go to the market and look if there are things that could do better than your dulling axe.

So please, keep updated with the current trends if you are really passionate about your job. You might find that there is this "chainsaw" thing at the market could help you way lot better than the axe.