Thought Outflux | Anirudh Sanjeev

With all this yabber about it costing only $200(no, not $199), to turn into an iDouche 2.0, I’m surprised nobody’s designed a website or a wordpress theme around apple’s cellphone. God knows how many iDorks will buy a “premium theme” which any high schooler can make out of an imagemap.

here’s the idea:
You make a theme which looks like apple’s cellphone. you’ve got a home row of apple’ish icons which show all the categories and four buttons on the bottom for home, archives, contact, etc.

And clicking on that will lead to a design similar to the email design of the apple cellphone. (hard to explain what it is, but it behaves like a cellphone in your browser)

And yes, you read it first here, and this idea is under a creative commons attribution noncommercial sharealike license.

P.S. Some iGenius probably has done this already but since I don’t scour the internet for random information, you can leave a url in the comments.

I found this article via some link digging, it’s a time magazine article and I found it to be a very nice read. I might write a bit more about my thoughts later. Back to work I go!

TIMEasia Magazine: A Tale of Two Indias

Two billionaires, two lifestyles—and both light-years from that old India of saris, slums and snake charmers. The last of the three great state-run economies, India watched China and Russia open up; in 1991, it loosened the socialist bonds that had caused decades of shortages and a moribund “Hindu rate of growth.”

After a long hiatus(is that the right word), more, and interesting articles will follow.

Offtopic: I found this article which did some interesting research about average salaries by programming language:

The Unix Geek: Programming Salaries

Objective-C $82,000
C++ $80,000
TCL $80,000
C# $79,000
Java $79,000
Python $78,000
Perl $77,000
Ruby $74,000
JavaScript $72,000
Delphi $64,000
PHP $64,000
Visual Basic $64,000
C $60,000

What’s interesting is that C is at the bottom of the list, and while many I know swear by it’s performance and “close to system” nature, doesen’t seem like too many people need that much native interaction with the system, and purity at the moment.

I’ve personally never written a line of C in my life. Sure I’ve written printf statements here and there when needed and used the standard C library, but all my code starts with “using namespace std” no matter what. The trouble is I started learning C++ from an object oriented perspective (using this book), and never went back since.

I’ve never understood Indian schools’ rigidity with C. Many consider allowing C++ will make it “easier” and will not test the real skill of a programmer, but forcing declaring variables at the beginning, preventing object oriented design, poor memory management, and very random crashes aren’t supposed to enforce dicipline, but rather just restrict potential and ideas.

Moreover, with STL, which comes by default with C++ and the Boost libraries, etc, will allow you to fix the real problem at hand rather than wondering why your quicksort isn’t working.

I’d tell anyone not to use C unless they absolutely have to: either for extremely high performance tasks(even then which can be written as a C library and sourced to C++) or for kernel interaction, etc. It doesen’t seem likely that C is good enough for a large, expandable application, and to an extent even C++ fails to do it in the long term.

But after a month at google, I’ve noticed how they’ve thoroughly *exploited* the c++ programming language, without modifying it in particular. After working with such a smartlly engineered development system, I’m worried how I can ever go back to vanilla c++ again.

Moral of the story: A programming language should do what you want it to, not the other way around.

There are so many protests nowadays, the anti-Beijing one, the anti-OBC one, the anti-Iraq one, etc, etc. There are “in” and “happening” protests now. Moreover, west bengal is considered to be the protest capital of the world.

I’m pretty pissed off with the OBC reservation thing. I’ll write more about it later, but you can check out this great open letter by IIT Kanpur faculty:

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I don’t really mean any offense on this post, if your opinions don’t match mine, I suggest you go snuff it.

Blogs on blogging are crap. They had nothing to say and ran out of whatever crap they had to say in the first place. Most of them nowadays are like self help books, seem to say something but is just restating the obvious, like "blog regularly, and decide what you want to write about, think and edit your posts before posting them", blah, blah blah.

The hardest thing seems to be to blog on blogging.

Thus I’ll start a blog on blogging on blogging, suggesting them ideas for more crap and how to convince their readers that they can become overnight millionaires by re-writing about the odd apple-shaped stain on steve jobs’ undies.

Challenge: Leave a comment to one article on a blog on blogging that doesn’t quite restate the obvious, not a list(more on them later) and required some *original intellectual effort* on part of the author, and I’ll take my words back.