A challenge by hackerrank, I highly recommend this to bachelors student once they are about to start job hunting…or my grad students to come back to the grind.
https://www.hackerrank.com/domains/tutorials/30-days-of-code/difficulty/all/page/1
All posts by Fernando Carrillo Castro
Gramps goodbye
Last time I spoke with my grampa, my mother called me when I was driving from home to the university, I was trapped in a traffic jam in a roundabout, my mother told me that my grampa loved me very much and that he blessed me; at that time my grampa couldn’t speak because he had a lot of things on him.
The last time I really spoke with him was some weeks before that, he was lucid, smart and wise as ever at his 80+ years old.
I don’t remember why but he ended up teaching me about Cartago, the rise and fall and why sometimes people says that they are going to “Cartago” something.
At the time I had 2 bachelors degree, 1 MBA, several certifications, teacher at couple of masters and he was still teaching me something related to something I just said.
Congrats papa, we may not be on the same plane/dimension anymore but I still remember you and love you.
Astrologist, astronomer and astronaut
Last interview I had, I was dismissed by being an astronaut, by a person who believes to be an astronomer but in reality seems to me is just an astrologist.
Astronaut is the person who walks in the stars, this is a real professional, very hard to accomplish, physically and mentally
Astronomer is the person who studies the stars, real profession that takes years to accomplish
Astrologist is a person who believes stars influence our lives and mood, this person is a phoney.
Rat and little rat
Several years ago I introduced my then girlfriend to my grampa at his house.
He as always asked for her last name and proceed to told her that he knew her grandfather and name a few of his children; we chatted for a while, everything was fine.
After she left, he told, you know her grandfather nickname is ” The rat <INSERT LAST NAME HERE>”, and you know what a rat has as offspring? I said: ” little rats?” and he replied “Exactly”.
He was a serious man, who didnt do small talk nor chitchat, but he definitely how to transmit what he was thinking…not that I shared that particular thought.
No tengo suficiente tiempo
Brother from another mother
I have a friend who is like a brother to me, whenever I was in Venezuela and somebody invited me somewhere, it was expected that he will show up there or that if somebody visited me at my house he will be there.
When I went to Venezuela in vacation, he will move in to my house, I mean if I stayed on Venezuela for 30 days, he will probably be on my house for about 20 days, he will get to my house one day with several changes of clothes, eat with me, go to work, come back and repeat.
He has been the only people that I know that has been able to know what I’m thinking just by looking at my face and the other way around too.
We don’t speak as much as we used to do before, we don’t see each other face to face anymore like we used to do, but he will always be my brother from another mother
(S)He might be good but it has a mayor flaw
Several years ago I asked my programming teacher about a rumour I heard about other teacher being better than her teaching programming.
She told me that the other teacher was good, maybe even great, sometimes the students from the other teacher got better grades than her students on the exam, but she never went to a class given by the other teacher to actually check if she explained better or not than her; but more important the other teacher had a major flaw that couldn’t be repaired in any way, I asked what was it, and she told me that matter it fact all the other teacher had the same flaw: they weren’t her.
That was a long time ago, even before I became a teacher but everytime a student of mine asked me if another teacher is better than me, I just reply this, (s)he might be good but it has a mayor flaw, it ain’t me
He might be your dad but he ain’t your daddy
Nobody cared about Yondu until this film…and then We got this ='(
Pest control
Dalek Caan is supreme!
The fury of the time lord
Another of the best moments of 10th, now against Viserys of house Targaryen, as always obsessed with this family.
He was being kind.