Mi pasado es solamente una buena lección:.

I've spent the last 10 years of my life traveling around the world trying to give meaning to my life. I've experienced cosmopolitan, ascetic, bohemian and rural towns. And you know what?. After all this time, I can assure you that it's not about where you are...but with whom you are while sharing this experience!!.

And why do I emhasize this?...well, I've seen too many people trying to excell by their own, just to realize that in the end it doesn't matter...it's not your (job/whatever you do) what defines you, but  whether or not you have someone to share it with...

And all of this just to say that in a few days Ingrid, my {colleague, partner, girlfriend, equal}, will join me in this experience in Guadalajara. In brief, I'm glad not just because I'm giving a new meaning to my life, but because I have someone important to share it with =):.

Y yo que siempre defendí que era una tontería,
y yo que tan decepcionado estaba del amor,
y tú llegaste a hacerme ver lo que yo no creía.

As the air grows cold:.

Recuerdo desde pequeño esos debates sobre que a los chilangos no se les aprecia mucho en el interior de la república...pero, como en muchas otras cosas, la experiencia me ha mostrado que no todo es tan sencillo como parece. Déjenme explicar.

Una de las principales críticas que siempre he escuchado de los (llamados) chilangos es que son gandallas (alguien que es abusivo y que tiene malas intenciones), y para probar si esto es exclusivo de este grupo o no, estas dos últimas semanas he interactuado con los jaliscienses haciéndoles ver (en ocasiones de manera exagerada) que no soy lugareño...

El resultado: me han cobrado mucho más por los servicios que he solicitado (transporte, limpieza y servicios en general) que lo que hubiera pagado de haber sido lugareño (contrastado con colegas del trabajo/vida diaria/foros de internet). No me he quejado, porque creo que si alguien abusa es porque tal vez necesite el dinero...pero no deja de ser interesante que de aquello que se quejan, sea lo mismo que los defina:.

Y todo esto sin discutir cómo definen por aquí a personas de otros lugares (tanto de la república como fuera del país)...por supuesto que no todos ellos, pero me ha tocado escuchar algunos comentarios un poco xenófobos...

Sin querer entrar en polémica, la gente del centro del país es mucho más incluyente...y eso me gusta =):.

Left a bag of bones
A trail of stones
For to find my way home

Between the cities, between the thrills:.

What do I think about my first days in a new city starting from scratch?...well, so far, so good!:.

I'm glad that most of my colleagues are just like me (in more than one sense). For example, most of us come from other places outside Jalisco (kudos to Guadalajara for attracting talent), we've all had a bad time trying to rent an apartment here (we're new in town, we don't know anybody!), and most importantly, we're passionate about technology and building things that matter.

I still don't know the city in detail (to be honest, I believe that the only way to truly know a city is to walk all of its streets at least once), but so far, I love the fact that I can use my scooter pretty much anywhere!.

It sure is a promising start =):.

It won't last forever,
or maybe it will.

We belong to where we're going:.

Sometimes all it takes is for somebody else to trust in you...

And to be honest, I've always liked this...to start from the bottom (somewhere new) and see where it takes me. 

I'm ready =):.

There's a way that you look me straight in the eyes,
only lasts for a moment, 
it lasts through the night.

And I know she'll be the death of me:.:.

Have you heard about those mythical [Mountain View* company] interviews where you must master red-black trees and remember all sorts for sorting algorithms?. Well, due to a NDA I can't tell you more...just that if you ever apply for any [Mountain View* company], you'll probably be interviewed by a programmer who thinks that a random algorithm test is a good way to tell a good developer from an average one...even when said programmer only cares to write the test five minutes before you meet him (his own words!!)...the result: you'll find so many grammar problems that when you point them out, said programmer will just blush and will try to move on:.

I could tell you about another [Mountain View* company] guy who wouldn't accept the use of a Java's Collections method in the middle of the interview...but that at the end of the interview will blame you for not relying on standard API's....say what??...When you remind him that he specifically said not to use the Collections framework (which is part of the standard API)...he will say, OK (but an OK which means: I'm letting you down, no chance I'm perceived as I'm no expert).

I'm just tired of people posing like they know what they're doing...

But at least we'll both be beautiful,

and stay forever young.

How in the hell does one heart swell:.

It's a shame what I witnessed today.

Besides programming, football and CoD4, there are few other things that I truly enjoy...but today I witnessed such a monstrosity in the Mexico-Panama match that I must stop supporting my football national team.

Corruption, blatant corruption everywhere!!, I cannot support that!!.

So, I promise not to watch any match (or for that matter, support my football national team) at least until the next world cup. Chances are they won't be there anyway...

If you're feeling bad, 

wave your hand at a cab,

and hitch a ride to the other side of the town.

Y encuentre un campo lleno de caña:.

Sadly...no... Even those companies ranked as "the best companies" to work in Mexico still run in an old fashioned manner.

Let me say it again: it's not the technical knowledge that matters, it's not how cool you talk (or how many swear words you know?), it's not even about the 'fictional' time you have to solve a problem...and you know why?: because all good designs evolve (it's not like they're born out of thin air)...

You don't know/remember an API? It doesn't matter, you can master it in a couple of hours. But I guess that from a worker's (programmer/second class citizen) point of view it makes all of the difference...which is really sad!. 

To all of you who happen to read this blog...please remember that you're not just programmers (workers/second class citizens)!, you're developers!!. But please (oh! please) don't let that go into you head and demand people start calling you by some random animal name (true story!!) and start acting like the world doesn't deserve you...

I guess it's OK. So far all of my interviewers have made huge mistakes (no way to iterate over arrays?, no Threads for external behaviour?, and most recently, suggest a one-to-one relationship in a clearly one-to-many relationship?), but there's no penalty for them...I guess all developers are equal, but some developers are more equal than others:.

Thank god we can apply to other companies that might recognize talent in a different way:.

Sigo cruzando ríos

Andando selvas

Amando el sol.