[lugm.org] University of Mauritius Head technician

Tue Apr 24 03:57:27 UTC 2012

What I think :D... IT has become boring and has ended up becoming just
application development which mostly does database fetching back and forth
from a db and present it nicely to a user :s.  It is still a job but :p its
not worth it :D... currently being a brick layer involves more creativity
than being part of those outsourcing Mignon out there (me included since i
work in an outsourcing box).

+$3|v3n

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Avinash Meetoo <avinash at noulakaz.net>wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 17:20, selven <pcthegreat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> but " this is your own fault.  system and society do not instill
>> passion.  ", I've seen the bald man doing his lectures :p He actually
>> does manage to ignite that passion into those students, I've seen the
>> Charisma & teaching skills of the man at work!
>>
>
> The bald man thanks you for your kind words :-)
>
> But :D whatever we are all speaking of right now :D ... It is like a fart
>> without smell... for this will stay on a random server somewhere on the
>> net, for as long as people don't start breaking stuffs and raise chaos all
>> over the country ... which shall never happen.
>>
>
> You're right. But I sincerely believe that, instead of having revolutions,
> it's better to make the system evolve to something better. As a matter of
> fact, the Internet is proving to be an important tool for learning and this
> will force teachers to adapt.
>
> Bright people can learn a lot by themselves. Of course, a good teacher can
> also contribute a lot but not as a creator of knowledge, more as a curator
> and as someone who can share some real life experience (and this is an
> important issue as, as far as I know, most teachers have never really
> worked as developers and/or system administrators so they lack this kind of
> insight).
>
> We are not given the chance to grow up and become what we want [well the
>> very few who do manage to do that do not have anything offerred either]. We
>> are just GROWN like products to satisfy a certain "industry's NEED". So far
>> I don't see any difference between a piece of equipment and a human,
>> because both seems not to have any choice or very lil choice at the end of
>> the day.
>>
>
> This is somewhat true especially when you read about I.T. (whatever that
> means) becoming a pillar of the economy in Mauritius.
>
> Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter are what they are because
> some bright young people decided to change the(ir) world and they did. They
> did not create their companies because the US Government was interested in
> making I.T. become a pillar of the economy. They just wanted to be
> different and to change the lives of people. I'm afraid that this is still
> rare in Mauritius...
>
> What do you think?
>
> Avinash
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> +$3|v3n
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Nishal Goburdhan <ndg at ieee.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 20, 2012, at 11:40 AM, David Hitillambeau wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> > As Avinash pointed out, I do believe that inspiration & passion is
>>> what we are missing here:
>>> > The system and society do not instil the sense of vocation whenever
>>> it's time to choose a walk of life.
>>>
>>> this is your own fault.  system and society do not instill passion.
>>>  this is a personal thing.
>>> if you are looking for someone else to generate passion for you, in what
>>> you do, you're sadly mistaken.
>>>
>>> take a long, hard look at yourself - you're the techies;  the fiddlers;
>>>  the people that are *meant* to be passionate about what believe in!
>>> isn't this what drove you to want to tinker with linux / *nix ?
>>> and yet, the best you can come up with, is to pick on other people
>>> trying to do their work done, in a manner that they know how to ?
>>>
>>> if you're not willing to make && make fix,  you don't deserve to
>>> complain.
>>>
>>> --n.
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>>
>>
>>
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