It was supposed to be a straightforward CLI app, 500 lines of code maximum, and it was during this process that I learned first hand that the complexity of building software increases exponentially with time and added features. Of course, I’d want to use my time meaningfully. If anything can occupy my time, I’d beg for it at this time. To me, this sort of stuff takes more time than if I were to build a web app. To keep me from going insane, I decided to build something. I’ve spent 99.8% of all this time indoors reading and learning, mostly about Ruby and astrophysics. Any day now, I hope to wake up and read a news headline: “Virus conquered, Everyone Go Out and Play!” (That’d be a horrible headline if I were a journalist). The last fifteen days have passed very swiftly for me. We’re Rubyists, let’s talk about Ruby, shall we? I’ll be leaving the virus issue to the virologists. For most, it’s our families, pets, games, watching all the Harry Potter series or anything you can hold on to indoors. In these hard times, we need something to distract us from the reality of what’s happening. Had our politicians and leaders paid heed and played germ games instead of war games, prepared and braced for the worse with viral outbreaks adequately, and had some governments not suppressed public health information, this probably wouldn’t have happened… not at this scale. Besides people losing loved ones, jobs are being lost, making it even tougher for some of us to find new projects to work on.īack in 2015, Bill Gates gave a TED talk that I’m sure nobody knew about until now. I’m deeply saddened and brokenhearted by how lives are being lost, and how society has been repressed to react to combat the virus with all the social distancing measures and lockdowns, a looming deep recession and all the detrimental side effects this virus has triggered. Little did I know that my generation would be living through one.Īnother question I pondered was if these pandemics are cyclic, why haven’t we in the 21st century, with all the advancements in technology and medicine, learned anything about how to prevent these epidemics and pandemics, most of which are endemic? Perhaps we aren’t the most intelligent species in the universe after all. I had read a lot about plagues and pandemics years back wondering how and why these viruses spring up, wreak havoc and then just vanish into thin air! I realised these outbreaks were periodic, spanning several months if not years.
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