Seri Petualangan: Bowling dan Ramen “Romusha”
Sabtu malam, 24 November 2007. Setelah kebingungan mencari orang-orang yang hendak diajak maen. Setelah berdebat tak berujung hendak maen kemana. Setelah memastikan bahwa kita tidak bisa berkaraoke di Happy Puppies karena super penuh dan mengantri. Yasu, akhirnya kita kembali ke rencana awal, ke Saphire untuk bermain bowling.
Whehehe, ternyata menyenangkan juga maen bowling yak? Menggelindingkan bola yang rada berat ke arah target. Brooollll!. Strike!!! Yes,, bisa strike sekali .. lebih gampang daripada maen bowling di 3530 :p. Foto di samping diambil setelah selesai satu set, 4 lawan 3 orang, habis 160-an ribu (sewa lane, sepatu dan beli kaos kaki@5000). Ayo ndi, kita maen bowling lagiy!
Senin malam, 26 November 2007. GosonX, Pramur, dan aku sepakat untuk makan ramen. Mulanya aku yang kelaparan mengajak GosonX unutk makan, tapi seperti biasa kamu tidak tahu hendak makan kemana. Sewaktu GosonX hendak mengajak Pramur makan, aku nyeletuk: “Ramen, kilometer 10!”.
Setelah di-gugling,oh dasar orang sok IT, akhirnya kita mendapatkan informasi tentang lokasi dan juga keyakinan bahwa malam masih buka. Blog yang kami jadikan referensi kebetulan adalah blognya jeng matriphe (kenalan sewaktu jaman helpjogja dan ternyata kenalan si manusia-fetish-ayanami). Jeng matriphe, yang waktu itu berkunjung bersama manusia-fetish-ayanami dkk, menamai ramen ini sebagai ramen Romusha yang sepertinya memang tidak salah. Mangkuknya lebih mirip ember/baskom daripada mangkuk mie. Anehnya, saya malah bisa menghabiskan porsi segedhe gaban ini lebih dulu dari di Gosonx dan Pramur. Ah, kalian memang masih cupu!! :p
Foto-fotonya bisa dilihat di halaman flickr milik GosonX, sekalian dengan foto-foto di Saphire mungkin.
Why, IE?
Dear AlMighty, why are You keeping IE market alive? Is it some sort of a balance of goods and evils? I know it’s up to us to choose. But dear Lord, some of us are just plain dumb and not capable of choosing in between.
Dear AlMighty, shed your light upon us. Show us the the path You’ve been blessed. The standard compliant one.
And dear Lord, give me the strength to withstand this wreck created by “Why your job look awful in IE”.
Now I lay me down to sleep
Pray the lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
Pray the lord my soul to take
Kena genjutsu, 20 rebu melayang
Rupanya benar feelingku pagi ini. gelisah sebelum berangkat ke kantor, tak seperti biasanya, padahal mood unutk mandi tidak susah dicari. Rupanya itu hunch karena akan ada sesuatu tak normal pagi ini.
Tidak lama setelah berjalan dari kos-kosan, tepatnya di tikungan menuju jalan raya, ada pria naik motor hendak bertanya. There’s nothong to stop, I’ve already late afterall :p. Mulanya bertanya tentang asrama mahasiswa daerah, setelah itu pengen pinjem hape buat nelpon. Aku bilang pulsaku abis, kalau smsm mungkin masih bisa. Dia bilang, ntar kalao sms mereka ndak mengerti, orang-orang di daerah x ni suka ndak ngerti. Aku udah mau cabut, dia tanya: kalau muntah darah itu kena DB gk? Wah, secara aku bukan orang kedokteran ya aku jawab kurang tahu. “oh, kriain kamu anak kedokteran, UGM kan biasanya kedokteran. Kulihat kau tampak seperti orang yang baik-baik, jadi walau tidak kenal kuberanikan bertanya”.
Ujung-ujungnya mau pinjem 50 rebu. WTF! Tadi anehnya waktu itu udah mau aku kasih (tanpa sadar 50 rebu itu besar juga!), tapi berhubung aku sendiri agak krisis genjutsunya rada susah bind ke diriku. Llau minta duit buat telpon ke wartel. Ah mungkin ini caraku untuk lolos. Tapi sayang aku salah nark duit dari saku. Yang kutarik justru dari 20 rebu dari saku kanan, padahal di kiri ada 10 rebu yang kusiapin buat naek bis. Eh, kok ya 20 rebu itu yang diraih ma dia. malah bilang 30 ribu aja buat naek taksi. Makin gk jelas gini orangnya. tapi waktu itu tetep aja rasanya masih rada normal. Berarti genjutsunya sudah mulai bisa ngebind. Akhirnya aku berhasil melindungi 10 rebuku walaupun mengorbankan 20 rebu. Genjutsu-nya kuakhiri dengan jutsu salaman dan dengan seal senyum. Kemudian saya pun melenggang dongkol ke arah jalan raya untuk melanjutkan berangkat ke kantor.
Coba kalau ini adalah istri saya, berhenti pun dia gk bakalan mau mungkin karena feelingnya so strong. Apalagi kalau udah di”todong” duit, pasti langsung merapal jutsu “Liat atas sampai bawah, tinggal pergi”. Sayangnya, saya lemah dalam urusan genjutsu akibatnya ya seperti cerita di atas. Kena sekem, begitu kata Aa Nata. Aseeeeeeeengggg!!!
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Seminar Nasional “Open Business: The proven Successful Strategy for Enterprises”
Berikut ini adalah catatan saya tentang seminar nasional yang kemarin saya ikuti dalam rangkaian ILC 2007. Taidnya saya sudha menulis pengantar yang lumayan bagus tapi apa daya, setelah firefox saya killall karena freezing, tulisan pengatar saya pun hilang bersama lenyapnya pid firefox-bin. Intinya, seminarnya bagus dan saya senang setelah mengikutinya — meskipun banyak poin dari pembicara yang tidak bisa saya ingat. Beberapa poin menarik adalah dukungan ristek untuk kegiatan riset dan startup berbasis open source. Juga ada 3 business model (diperinci menjadi 9 poin) dari IBM yang bisa dijadikan referensi untuk menyusun strategy bisnis berbasis open source. demikian, silahkan dinikmati catatan saya setelah jeda berikut ini. Mohon maaf sebelumnya karean tulisannya belum sempat saya rapikan dan banyak mengandung tanda tanya (seolah transkrip tak jelas). Douzo~
Which side to choose
I’ve been thinking about this for quite a while. I have this identity dilema, in particular with identity association. There’s some institution I can associate with but there are other which I felt related to but difficult to associate with. A real example can be found within today’s ILC (Indonesia Linux Conference) 2007 event. Who am I? What institution I should associate myself with? There’s this KPLI (Linux User Group Indonesia) Jogja where I should have been a member of, though never give much of a value to. There’s also ubuntu jogja/id where the only relation to me is that I’m using K/ubuntu on my laptop :D. Luckily, there’s actually one thing I can clearly associate myself with. That would be: id-anime. Thus, that’s just what I wrote on the presence list of ILC 2007 this morning. To be exact: KPLI Jogja/id-anime 
Recent “you aren’t cut out to be developer” memes, especially the one posted by Andry here, has questioned my faith again. I love his: when all we got is hammer then all problems will look like nails. Yes, being a fanbois or evangelist might cost us objective perspectives. However, evangelists and fanbois are ones who push our technology beyond its limit, thus resulting in new features and bug fixes.
On yet another side, we can see some sort of trend in IT vacancies. There are a good number of technology spesific demand of IT worker, such as: Crystal Report, Struts, DHTML script, etc.
On my side, I grew up with BASIC, Pascal, and then Delphi. I started PHP somewhere
during college. My first real job assigned me to deal with Delphi
again. And one year later back to PHP on web development. Then I did
some “better” javascript — learned closure, and other better javascript
practices — not just onmouseclick anymore. Mixed it with XHR, and XUL
when I started falling in love with Firefox.
I’ve also fell in love with Qt/KDE. I was astounished by a member of
KOffice developer which was 23 years old when I’m reading it some years
ago. It wasn’t Ariya Hidayat. I knew Mas Ariya some times later when I
was checking out the about box on KWord. In short, these stuff and
people are what I’ve been looked up to :). And then, these recent month
– started when I moved to Research and Development department — I started coding in Java (and minor C++, out of Qt/KDE context).
My yet simple history of learning programming languages, Andry’s post, and the trend of vacancies requirement in technology context are sides. We can choose on of them but we can’t have all. This is where my confusion come in place. We are limited with time and brain capacity (please excludes geniuses here), yet we have to be ready to jump into the IT worker market. Some employers tend to choose wild bullets so they can shoot right away. While others don’t mind to have gun powder to power their cannon with. Unfortunately, the later is hard to be found. What we tend to find here is the former.
Well, I guess I need to grow up and pursue wisdom. I think it’ll be a simple problem, once I can tame my ego :D. However, let’s not spoil the fun. I’m sure some of you have the exact or similar issue. Tell me what you think about it.
Picture note:
Focus Group Discussion on KPLI: Business and Legality Issue, during ILC 2007. I’m wearing red t-shirt. Credits to Yan Arief.
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80/20 Rule
I’m not quite productive recently, no new significant lines were written. So, I think I’ll take some peace of mind defragging my brain. It’s still using VFAT you know. So, I need to sort things out every once and a while to make it work in order.
Okay, I think most of you have heard/read that there’s this 80/20 rule within Google. Google allows its engineer to work freely during their 20% of their work time (need more citation here). I won’t go much deeper on it. More about 80/20 left as an exercise to the reader (see reference below). What I’d like to say here is what has just crossed my mind few hours ago. I’ve always thought 80/20 percent from employee perspective, without really understand what’s the value for both, me and any of my employer (yes, I’m hoping to work to various employer ;).
So, I think it’s pretty clear that 20% means more freedom, employee can do “whatever” s/he (she or he) likes and have a totally fun experience with it. Free means s/he’s no longer restricted onto what to solve and how to solve (in lazy engineer term: what to play and and how to play). No time restriction, only excitement. It’ll then become the most luxury leisure an engineer can have, given the company might not provide real world luxury leisure to compare. In the ends, it refreshen up the engineer, scores another time of his (engineering) life. A happy engineer.
On the other hand — from human resource perspective — not only the 20% will be an attractive point in a recruitment and long stay purposes, it will also maintain productivity level at an always acceptable (at the least). Weekly working hour will indeed be reduced, but in the long shot it’s like making your gears live longer and prevents it from premature retirement. Thus, employer vehicle can run as smooth and longer as (hopefully) expected.
So, am I endorsing and proposing 80/20 rule her? At some point yes. However, there are still catches to think about. Even an employee can found a 20% free time, its utilization is still to be questioned. What worst are an employee didn’t know how to make the most of it or, the other way around, an employee found a great way to abuse it. And speaking of abuse, given a broad choice to work on and appreciation on whatever s/he has done, I think it can be reduced to minimum. Of course, real world experience leisure may still be needed to break to 80/20 monotone pattern (it’ll happen anytime soon).
Finally, to quote from enterpreneurs-journey: “You won’t find fulfillment only by consuming”. Very much true, isn’t it?
Reference:
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Aku juga kangen :*
Hihihihi, si adek ini. Aku juga kangen kamuuuu *maluwwwww*
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10 signs that you aren’t cut out to be a developer
Dapat 10 point ini via Mas Ariya. Sudah lama ingin kutanggapi, tapi belum menemukan poin favorit yang bisa saya tangapi dengan tepat alias mengena. Baru saja dapat poin yang pas, yang jika diingat-ingat ternyata lumayan match dengan prinsip selama ini. Berhubung jin Inggrisnya tidak muncul, tulisan ini akan banyak menggunakan Bahasa Indonesia :). Here, we go ..
Poin yang rada pas (dalam hal ini tidak match dan berarti mendukung profesi sebagai tukang ketik), dan sesuai dengan riwayat adalah: You’d rather be trained than self-teach. Sesuai penjelasannya di techrepublic dan hasil bolak-balik memori di otak, saya jadi rada sadar kalau saya seringkali “meremehkan” kursus/pelatihan. Ada memang beberapa kursus yang pengen saya ikuti antara lain kurus bahasa jepang, emnggambar manga (:D), dll. Di luar list tersebut biasanya saya kadang punya ketakutan bahwa materinya tidak akan sepadan dengan biaya yang dikeluarkan atau materinya itu-itu saja. Dan ujung-ujungnya optimis bahwa lebih baik belajar sendiri daripada dilatih di tempat kursus.
Poin lain yang cocok (dalam hal ini tidak match dan berarti mendukung profesi sebagai tukang ketik) adalah: You do not take personal pride in your work. Well, yang ini pasti sudah bsia dilihat dari riwayat blog ini. Jika anda sering membaca, tentunya tk sedikit saya melakukan SPAM dengan memposting source code yang sempat saya tulis. Selain mengharapkan feedback, sebenarya juga terselip sedikit (ok, tambahin sedikit lagi) rasa bangga atas code “keren” yang telah saya tulis :D.
However, ada juga poin yang tidak pas (dalam hal ini match dan berarti tidak mendukung profesi sebagai tukang ketik) dengan saya dan membuat saya rada pesimis :D. Poin You are not a “details person” cukup benar. Daya serap informasi yang saya miliki cukup membuat miris. Sedikit saja overload, misal waktu dijelaskan tentang detil sistem dalam req. gathering, maka hanya 10% pertama yang akan masuk ke otak. Sisanya tak karuan lagi karena saya pasti sudah melayang dengan pikiran akibat 10% tadi. Singkatnya, pintu masuk otak saya adalah sebuah lubang botol
Begitulah. Saya agak yakin Anda akan sedikit bingung dengan tulisna saya karena saya memutar-mutar yang match dengan artian tidak match dan sebaliknya :D. Itulah salah satu kelemahan saya, tidak bsia menjelaskan sesuatu secara simpel terhadap orang lain. Dan seringkali membuat saya kecewa sendiri karena menyebabkan saya tidak bisa berbagi sesuatu yang saya anggap keren, dengan orang lain. Masih ingat dengan jelas, waktu saya menjelaskan sedikit tentang design pattern (sejauh yang sudah saya pelajari, ie: berarti sedikit :p), para audiens yag mengantuk dan berkantung mata tebal. Sigh.
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Is this it or .. ?
Some meeting today did really shake me. Somehow, my mind got thrown back to my short message yesterday. It was about my prayer, asking for light and strength, whether stay put or to walk away. Neither was never been easy, and it feels I’m sitting in the middle.
Early e-mails today, somehow, lift up my mood. But, the meeting took it down again. Somehow it’s like I’m being told again, how long I’ve stuck these years. Further more, without anything significant I can be proud of. I think about (programming) languages, I’m thinking of switching (focus) into something new. I even think about how I’ve dreamed about being a game developer, and how much I’m still having such desire when I read gamasutra.com the other day. I was quite pessimistic though. Since I wonder there’re any game studio willing to employ a non C++ wizard.
Oh, I’ve dreamed about new hardware to play with, new boundaries to explore, about pushing limit, about answering “can we do it, how we do it”, about sharing, about feedback .. about something wicked cool I’ve lost from my feeling lately ..
Oh, I’m so far far far away from satisfaction land ..
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Lost in days
Nope, isi posting ini tidak akan seheboh serial Lost, yang tidak saya ikuti, dan apparently the series itself are lost in never-ending-typical episodes (dugaan saya).
Nope, saya tidak akan membahas lebih jauh tentang tipikal terbuai dengan kesuksesan dan kealpaan Lost, Smallville, or Prison Break (plus many Sinetron) untuk membuat exit strategy. Yang akhirnya fade away dalam never-ending episodes. Tak seperti Kurt Cobain yang sukses dalam mempertahankan fame.
Yep, I was offline these recent 5 days. Gone to my sister in law wedding ceremony — Nov 4th. The event was superb. Getting to know more about relatives, and playing with nephews. Hello, Tita 
Photos will be coming. Also, I’m planning throw a quite interesting baton soon. So, keep reading this space
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