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Where's Your Coding Happy Place?
jammag writes "Cranking out code — your very best code — requires being in the optimal environment, muses developer Eric Spiegel. He explores the pitfalls and joys of the usual locales, cubicle, home, the beach. He claims he's done his best coding on an airplane. In the end, though, he suggests that the best environment is a matter of the environment inside yourself, your internal mood — and to hell with the cubicle or wherever. You have to be focused on quality, regardless of the idiot clients. It's all inside your mind. Where's your coding happy place?"
A long time ago, I bought a feeder. I put it on the porch. It was beautiful to see birds standing close to me.
A week later, however, there were a lot of them. They started to build nests on the roof, tables, even in my car.
Then, the inevitable showed up: shit. It was everywhere. On my roof, on the tables, on my clothes... on everywhere! After some time, they started to be aggressive. They were over me, even though I was the person who was feeding them. Some of them were loudly and arrogant. They were invading my house, making sounds all the time, to remind me to fill the feeder if there wasn't food.
After some time I couldn't even sit down on my own chairs. I decided to throw away the feeder, and after three days they weren't neither on the garden nor in my house anymore. I cleaned and I put everything in order, eliminating even the nests. Soon, everything come back to normal: a peaceful and safety place, without any troublemaker asking for 'the right to free food'.
Now, is time to think about it.
We got with our hard work and with the work of our parents and grandparents a system with many benefits: access to a universal health care system, a little imperfect but better than nothing. We have public schools and public transport, economic facilities for the most needed people, etc. and we let to anyone that was born here to be a citizenship of our country.
Then, thousands of illegal immigrants come here, and get all the same benefits that we have. Because they are illegal immigrants, they don't need to pay taxes. Because of that, they are paid more than us, because in order to pay to a legal worker 2000£, the employer needs to spend about 4000£.
To pay the extra expenses, we need to pay more taxes.
Council houses are being taken by them, sometimes by force, and we are the ones that pay the rent, just like happens in Becontree and Bransholme.
If we need to go to the hospital we need to wait more hours before we get attended, because the hospitals are invaded by illegal immigrants, including workers that do not have the degrees we need to get those jobs.
In the schools, our children have to bear the problems when they're studying, even when they're eating, because the dining hall is set up by religious impositions.
Christmas will be eliminated to 'not hurt the foreigners' sensibility', showing no respect for our sensibility... that is the sensibility of the owners' house!!
About a 75% of criminal acts against common people (we) are committed by a 10% of the population (illegal immigrants); meanwhile, prisons are so full of criminals that, with the help of ineffective justice, are released from prison in short time, so they start to commit crimes again.
If we try to stop all this madness, we'll find protests, organized by assholes that scream against human rights violations (because these assholes don't give a shit about our rights) or they say that we have the same rights as them, because our parents and grandparents were the ones that pay all taxes when we were kids. So, it seems that my father doesn't have the right to choose where will his money go, whether to his children or to someone else's children. My father only had one children. My Colombian neighbor has six. Because of the global financial crisis, we'll see if I can have one children.
I want to make clear that this is just my opinion, but maybe it is time for the government to throw away the feeder, and clean the house.
If you agree with me, reproduce this message.
If you disagree with me, continue to clean shit... just like Germany was cleaning long time ago.
With a spoon resting on a flat surface and a used syringe in one hand, pulling the rubber band off of my bicep.