With an IMDb rating of 6.3 and 37% score from Rotten Tomatoes, I doubt most of us have even watched the 2009 movie "Surrogates" let alone remember it. However, ever since this pandemic began and we have been forced to be stuck between four walls to avoid the imminent threat outdoors, I cannot stop thinking about this movie. For reader's convenience, allow me to give a brief description of the plot of this movie. It is set in the future with advanced tech where the people are always in the safety of their homes while controlling their robotic surrogates ( which look like the best version of themselves ) remotely with the help of a special simulator of some sort. These surrogates roam around the city running errands, doing jobs ( Bruce Willis's surrogate is an FBI Agent! ) and carrying on the everyday life outdoors for them. You can lie down on your couch, eat all day and get fat but the outside world will not find out because your surrogate does not age, neither does i...
Coders & Programmers might get nostalgic seeing that headline, but for the mass audience on the internet the history might not be somewhat familiar. "Hello World" was used as a programming tutorial by Brian Kernighan in his famous book "C Programming Language" in 1973. It has been the most famous program known as the first example in nearly every programming language for every programmer ever since! From a research project inside Bell Labs, research & development branch on AT&T, this grew on to be one of the most popular two words in the programming world. This only made sense for it to be the first post on this blog as well!