Friday, October 05, 2007

Programming 馬鹿

はじめましょ
So it begins, I'm back to programming once more. The love hate relationship has started again. I downloaded the tools of this sinful trade and started banging on the keyboard to relearn all the things that I thought I had forgotten. Why? It's a veiled attempt to earn some maintainance fees when the shit hits the fan when people have to start handing up their computing assignments. Most computing fees start at maybe $150 dollars for a bare minimum job nowadays, but I've been consulting (some will say consorting the devil 悪魔) with another techie in my course and decided to charge $50 bucks per assignment.

Morally wrong? I don't think so. Why? Simple, because the other students are being immoral by getting others to do the work for them in the first place. Haha, have fun thinking about the moral implications. For myself I'm quite happy to profit of the wrongness of it all. To me, I'm just adding a deterent for people to take the easy way out. People really don't understand what the grades mean here in UB. It means the ability of the student to learn for themselves. By "cheating" their way through, it only makes it more and more difficult for them to learn the advanced lessons in the later semesters. In this aspect, I'm an extreme right wing person. If people ask me to help them understand how to do something, I'm always available.

But when they don't even bother to try to understand something, and try to just get it over and done with. I usually can't be bothered with them unless I get some benefit out of it. No such thing as a free lunch, that's how the world works and if people want to behave like they own it, then they got to pay the piper.(私 which is me) I may not have liked how the world works, sought to make people care about what they are learning about, but it was all useless in the end. People don't learn even when it affects their lives are directly impacted by it. Example, math is used by every single person in the world but so few even know how much it truly matters in their lives.

What many people don't know is, that math is not a concrete science. It's not something you can touch and feel like chemistry or biology. It's a pure imagination, it's how we imagine reality works. Yes, it's an entire subject dedicated to our imagination and how we bring it to life. It's just surreal how human imagination can help us overcome this chaos that is our universe. ほんとにすごいでしょ。 Here's me signing off another rant at this crazy crazy world that makes perfect sense. Alauz Out!

Idiots of today, Geniuses of tomorrow