2012-09-23

The party is over and I can't no longer feel the hangover of it. Reality is back on track. Staring right in to my eyes with no intention to step aside. This is probably what people call fear or cowardice, I can feel it creeping up to me. I can feel my legs trembling and shaking. The fact is that I quit my job. The other fact is - I'm starting a new one tomorrow. People are the creatures of habit. Habit is comforting, it makes us feel safe. But it can make us sleepy and lazy. Current situation is nowhere near safety and comfort. But obscurity can also be thrilling and exciting. It makes us fresh, it makes us feel and it makes us grow and move forward out of comfort garage into the highway of unknown. And yet it slows down the tempo of the life passing through - so that You can experience it all. Enough philosophical rambling, let's face it. Tomorrow.

2012-09-04

There is a reason why I don't like user interfaces in native language and it's simple enough - I can't figure out what menus, buttons and labels mean and what I could accomplish if I clicked one. When I see one, suddenly, all my knowledge in computer science vanishes. I feel like a user who has seen a computer first time. So, probably, You will say - it's my problem that I don't know my native tongue. Let me tell You that long time ago before the era of computers there weren't such words in it, at least not meaning what they mean now. Let's speak in examples as I may not get anyone on my side (example just below).
Can anyone explain me how on earth a simple English word "share" got translated into "bendrinti" when the meaning of this word in the context it is being used is "share it with others". So, what does it mean in English now - "make it common" - what does it mean at all? Dear teachers or people who do that, there are plenty of old good words in Lithuanian, no need to invent new ones and shock our minds. Why don't You choose to translate it into "pasidalinti", "paskelbti"? How do You come up with new ones? Do You even consult any decent computer science specialist when picking those? Well, I know these questions are rhetoric ones and probably I won't get any answers. It's not a new problem and it's been addressed by many of people who spend at least 8 hours a day in front of computer screen, but probably eye-glasses and old sweaters aren't impressive enough to weigh down the arguments of those wearing suits in government. I just hope that google will look once more at what has been done with "share in google+" button when translating it into Lithuanian and change its mind. I wish this for this year's Christmas. And I know, it's plenty of time - that's why it's doable.

2012-09-02

We get smarter every day. At least until certain age when the grey cells of our brain start to leak out. Of course, only lucky ones who manage to stay alive for that long. But senile dementia is not the topic of today (and I hope it will never be or not very soon). So, getting back to topic - about getting smarter every day or at least realizing something. Truth #1: we move forward if we get our a$$ kicked - can be proven by basics of physics, so I won't even start to. Truth #2: we can control the direction of movement if we control the force who kicks our a$$ - common sense. We can do it ourselves (You might think, that the skills of acrobatics are needed, but believe me, You don't really need them:) ) or ask someone else. The problem with later one - unless they are really sadistic - You can't really control the amount of force. Truth #3: it's so hard to do it to ourselves, especially if we sit comfortably in a rocking chair... at the age of thirty. Truth #4: that's why most people recover from crisis - they get their butts kicked. And may also be true, that after good times come the worse ones - just only because we don't receive any kicking force at the back at that time.