Android

Finally, I moved to Android abandoning iOS behind. There is nothing wrong with iOS it was just kind of boring after 2 years. Android is so much different and its interesting. It does not have the iOS feeling 'just works' so it is little more engaging. Well, my primary idea is to make some apps for myself, I think it is time for some android development. If you use google products you would definitely find Android platform your home. On the top of that, I saw on news that HTC is loosing money so I decided to contribute a little to HTC and bought their phone :D

Happy birthday Shiblee!

I think I am going to start my 30th year in this little planet and still I have no clue what I am doing? Still I need to learn how live a life? even worse what is life? Am I looking for something? I have a friend who believes human brain is a complicated equilibrium and we are suppose to feed it constantly, maybe someday something will come up out of all these! Could be! Maybe I am just feeding my brain!? or maybe I am preparing myself to for my selfish gene? Someday it will leave me and my purpose in this world well served!? Or maybe life is an example of anthropic principle, it is what we can perceive in our conscious and beyond that there is just a big unknown. Maybe every different things have their own conscious and they alive in their own way! who knows! Sometimes I feel like this world is an amazing place, there is so much unknown in this world that we can't say anything for sure! 

The most interesting part of life is when I am very sure about something that I know it, the next moment I realize I know nothing about it. I think in this queer world anybody can pursue even the tiniest thing possible and never knows the whole. These days I have a feeling, I would continue wondering in this world forever without knowing ant bit of it. Sometimes I feel like there is nothing called life. Is there any glory being alive? Or life is life, just like other things in this world. Richard Feynman once said the purposeless-ness of human life does not scare him at all. I often think 'purpose' is the wrong question to ask, what is the right question then? Well I don't know, I even know less that I do before. Happy birthday Shiblee! Life is fun! So much fun!

One of my friend said this is the best day of my life. I often think why? Maybe because in this day my conscious matched with the conscious of thousands others in this queer world! 

25 rules of wisdom

1. Even the boss must get his fingernails dirty.
2. A handful of luck is better than a mountain of wisdom.
3. For every one word you say, let your enemies say 10.
4. Cash is cash, even if it comes from an elephant's stomach.
5. Never reveal 100% of anything to anyone.
6. Never make a decision when you're angry.
7. A man is nothing without his word.
8. Keep your mouth shut. If you have to lie, keep it short and simple.
9. The best way to dodge an enemy's bullet is by never being in a position where he can hit you.
10. When you can't win a war by playing fair, bend the rules. Better yet, break them.
11. Never forgive betrayal.
12. Whenever you're in doubt about whether an enemy should respect or fear you, always choose fear.
13. A woman's anger can always be subdued with a diamond ring (and a man's with sex).
14. Behind every great man is a great woman.
15. Nothing lasts forever.
16. Never give a tip to someone who isn't looking.
17. If you go to war, always strike first. Strike hard, and hope it's the only strike you need.
18. Peace is only a prelude to war.
19. Have a priest on call if you choose to be a careless man.
20. When in doubt, follow your gut.
21. Man appoints, God disappoints.
22. Keep your friends close, your enemies closer.
23. Overestimate the time something takes, and underestimate its rewards.
24. To make money, you have to spend money.
25. Lucky is the man who suffers humiliation in front of others, for his revenge will be sweeter.

Bonus. Watch your backs and keep your noses clean.

I have stumbled upon this 25 rules of wisdom this morning. They are interesting. It does not matter whether I believe them all or not. Definitely I have some kind of supportive bias toward them otherwise I would not share them. My personal favorite is Rule#16. Never preach an advice unless you are sure listener is crying for it. I think all of them are interpretation dependent and I have my own and I hope you can get one for yourself as well.

Hiking

Finally I managed some time to fix the last hiking photos. I took some photos last time and I am not happy with most of them. I have been using 35/f 1.8 for last couple of months. I don't think I became a fan of this lens but this is lens is very sharp and useful for some situation. However, people like me who think their feet weight ton, this lens is not quite comfortable.

Acer Aspire

I got my second Acer Aspire Laptop last week. It is a Acer Aspire TimelineX. It is a true budget laptop around 400$. I used my last Acer Aspire for about four years. Well, I guess laptops are not meant to be used more than that. I used two hp laptops before and each of them survived about a year. When my second hp laptop broke I broke as well and I choose budget laptop from Acer which I used about four years. It is indeed still running but having hard time catching up softwares. My hp laptops were dead and in both cases mother board was gone. I think I am happy with Acer; well, they are not the best brand in the market but they serve my purpose very well.

In fact I am so happy with Acer that I decided to advertise for them for free :) In case you are curious how much I used my laptops? I used it everyday and I rarely tuned it off. I used my laptop for my experimental purpose and each of my experiments runs for week and use 100% CPU. I have a case where my CPU was 100% used for 10 days in a row. Of course the credit goes to Intel but Acer put it well. The hard drive still runs good and I never any trouble. The only maintenance I did was I opened it up several times and cleaned dusts. One last thing to mention, the left hinge was broken for quite some time but it did not make difference for regular use. I think Acer is worth trying.

Java Generics II

There are so many things broken for java generics. I don't know why java generics is so half baked.

Here is what I wanted to do

Class X<Type>{

public <T extends SomeOtherType> X<T> copy(T param) {

   // do something

   return copy of X

}

Class Y<Type> extends X {

@Override

public <T extends SomeOtherType> X<T> copy(T param) {

   // do something

   return a copy of Y

}

Well, technically my requirement is simple and I see no harm in that. I was just trying to implement a copy method for a class which takes generic parameter. Then I create a subclass of that and trying to override the copy function; guess what? If I use Override annotation, it says no such method exists in base class, if I don't use Override annotation it says name conflict!

Update:
Well, I found the problem; the second class should be written as follows

Class Y<Type> extends X<Type> {

@Override

public <T extends SomeOtherType> X<T> copy(T param) {

   // do something

   return a copy of Y

}

huh! I don't know who is the culprit me, or java generics!