New Year Tips For Everyone

Tips for programmers (and other readers) before 2016

We are about to enter the next year, 2016, and we haven’t yet learnt anything from our mistakes that we have made last year. We may have learnt new things, new ideas and new technologies but unless we learn from our mistakes we are not going to get anything better done in 2016. And, I would hate to hear the same questions in 2016 that I heard in 2015. So, here goes the 5 tips for programmers that I want them to take under considerations before moving forward to 2016!

No C++, no C#, no Java. But a human-to-human talk is all this post is about. I am not going to talk about computers, but you! Programmers make up the computers, computers are nothing but a bunch of transistors passing on electric current from one IC to another. You, my brother (or sister) are the one who matter. Time to share some memories, I guess?

Do not go gentle into that good night

I am a very big fan of Interstellar movie, this poem of Dylan Thomas I remember and I use each time when I am about to lose hope in myself. 2016 is about to come, make up some resolutions, and make up plans for the party as it is “about to happen“. Do not lose hope, if 2015 was not a good year or if you did not get success. There are many reasons to moan and grieve, but there are many other reasons to smile at 2015 too.

A New Year always doesn’t have to be celebration, sometimes you need to consider new innovations before moving on to the New Year. Most of us are still working to make our 2016 better! Think of them and work.

I remember, 2014 was not a very much good year for me. Things were rough, odds were all against me and… I was losing hope in myself. I joined C# Corner in January, 2015. I remember myself posting articles with an intent to just share what I had. I did not want any accolade, just shared them. That made me feel good and I had no wish or dream for anything as a repay. And on the eve of 18th March I received the MVP award from C# Corner! I really feel very thankful to them, for granting me with such a pride. I would like to recommend the same to others.

You can read the poem at Academy of American Poets.

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

© Dylan Thomas

Keep dreaming, keep awake

I am not a writer, nor do I consider myself to be a great author but I have a personal saying that I usually use for myself:

Wake up, open your eyes and start dreaming…

I believe dreams are not what we see in sleep. Dreams are something that doesn’t let us sleep. You cannot just simply skip your dreams, you can dream of anything and if you do not achieve it. You didn’t simply dream enough for it! This is a very simple rule.

All of these discoveries have been made through imagination. There was no concept of gravity until that Apple fell. There was no concept of relativity until Einstein imagined something while sitting on a chair. All of these, they are imaginations, dreams, that people work so hard to bring to reality. If you do not bring it to reality, work harder.

Physics, chemistry, computer science and many other fields, including Astronomy, are all based on human conceptions. You cannot just do anything with current ideas. You have to look at the verge of chances and then make a decision.



So, now, can I hope you are going to dream, dream bigger than you did in 2015? :-) The bigger you dream the better the results would be! Take it for guaranteed, brother.

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