{"id":78,"date":"2005-12-16T13:31:40","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T08:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2005\/12\/16\/advice-for-software-engineers\/"},"modified":"2005-12-16T13:33:13","modified_gmt":"2005-12-16T08:03:13","slug":"advice-for-software-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2005\/12\/16\/advice-for-software-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice for software engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Software Engineers are advised not to spend too much   time sitting before computers because the following  things may happen in their future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  1. When asked about a bus schedule, you wonder if it   is 16 or 32 bits.<\/p>\n<p>  2. When counting objects, you count  0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D.. <\/p>\n<p>  3. At the superstore, you check to see if a kilogram   is 1024 grams, a litre is 1024 mls.<\/p>\n<p>  4. When you dream, you are going to dream in 256   palettes of 256 colors. <\/p>\n<p>  5. When your wife says &#8220;If you don&#8217;t turn off that  damn machine and come to sleep, then I am going to divorce you!&#8221;, you are going to scream at her for   omitting the &#8220;else&#8221; clause. <\/p>\n<p>  6. You try to sleep , and think : sleep(8 * 60 *  60); \/* sleep for 8 hours *\/<\/p>\n<p>  7. When you are reading a book, you would look for  the scroll bar to get to the next page.<\/p>\n<p>  8. If you want to call somebody you pick up the  phone and start dialling an IP number&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>  9. You are going to look for an icon to   double-click, to open your bedroom window.<\/p>\n<p>  10. When you go to balance your cheque book, you  would discover that you&#8217;ll be doing the math in  octal.<\/p>\n<p>  11.You would look for a trash can icon to throw   garbage.<\/p>\n<p>  12.When you get in the elevator you would  double-click the button for the floor you want to   go<\/p>\n<p><strong>AcK  :~  Gunjan Saxena<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software Engineers are advised not to spend too much time sitting before computers because the following things may happen in their future. 1. When asked about a bus schedule, you wonder if it is 16 or 32 bits. 2. When counting objects, you count 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D.. 3. At the superstore, you check to see if a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forwards","tag-forwards","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}