Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Code Wars : Episode 3 (The White Adder)

(Well it’s actually “The white ladder”)

Name: Her Shah (HS) (Name changed to protect Identity)
Sex: Female (Sex changed to accent name)
Age: Major (And if you account for the height… well… it stays the same… who ever said anything about age being dependant on size… geez… I am surrounded by morons.)
Height: 6' 3"
Brain:Body Mass = long int.

He is probably the quietest guy in our team, with a great attitude. He is the most calm and composed when it comes to coding, a great sport who does not feel shy exposing his legs once in a while for the gurls to oogle at.

HS is generally shy when if comes to the matter of the heart (comme moi et boods, c’est vrai, je parle et ecrit francais tres bien, merci … don’t even bother to understand this… its in French…) and keeps his friends to himself. We however do suspect that he does have a babe and the reason for the suspicion is the frequent flyer points that he has collected from traveling to Hyderabad.

HS generally follows the top down approach of analysing things and has a higher view of details , with 6’ of elevation; it’s difficult to view any thing base up. He generally refrains from commenting on anyone/anything while we go on a suicidal rampage (Note: suicidal for the person we are commenting on and rampage for us), but when he finally comments the outcome is so great that the person commented upon never looks back in the eye.

Though not obvious, this is one cool guy who drinks, smokes and makes hay while the sun shines. He has an undisclosed soft corner (What is undisclosed is the location of the soft corner) for “Ghauri – the nuke” (up next on ma blog… read all about him) and goes go-go on seeing ghauri sporting a Crock… (Intentionally abbreviated).

He has a passion for learning stringed musical instruments and is a quick reference when it comes to syntax in COBOL. As for the technical aspects of him... You need to send across a self-addressed stamped envelope at this address …(xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Address masked to protect identity).

We (as in me and HS) share a lot in common, one of the most distinct things is that we resemble each other, ppl generally mistake me for him and vice versa , even after taking into account the fact that he is a good 6 inches taller than me… well coding in COBOL makes people denser.. It’s an occupational hazard that we live thru.

The other thing that we share in common is that both of us have a “/dev/null” salary account. I never knew that they had such accounts at my bank ... that is until it was too late...
For the sake of the common man, here’s Wikipedia to the rescue:

K-gyan: In Unix-like operating systems, /dev/null or the null device is a special file that discards all data written to it, and provides no data to any process that reads from it (it returns EOF). In Unix programmer jargon, it may also be called the bit bucket or black hole.

The null device is typically used for disposing of unwanted output streams of a process, or as a convenient empty file for input streams. This is usually done by redirection.

In simpler terms, the account actually flushes out our salary before we could even catch a glimpse of it.

I don’t have much to write about this awesome guy…given the fact that he is not much of a prank player… so ppl put your hands together for this steadfast friend, Her Shah….

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