Thought Outflux | Anirudh Sanjeev

Don’t let the AC/DC title deceive you. I just thought it looks catchy. Anyways, I started my work at google today, my first day in my first job, and not as scary or overwhelming I thought it would be.

I don’t know what I’m allowed to write and will have to be quite careful, but overall it’s awesome, but I saw the word “Google” mentioned around 800 times the whole day(yes, i actually tried to count)

Great people, great workplace, and coffee when you need it. Need one ask for more?

more details when they happen, though don’t count on it.

…with Django. In my twenty minutes of using it I wrote a webapp that would’ve taken easily five to six hours to write, and this one’s just my first.

This is the beginning of a long and beautiful relationship between me and django. Everything’s so logical, magical and simple. And it’s completely different from anything I could ever imagine and conceptualize.

And it’s in python.

And another great thing is that Google App engine has backward compatibility with django, or rather seems to be built on top of django.

^_^

Here’s a nice idea for a movie. Like how lots of movies are focussing on ants, bees, and other little things which we don’t give much a crap about: red blood cells.

The whole movie focusses on the life of a cute little blood cell, and he’s still in school, and he wants to go see the heart. He has friends in all other organs and has little adventures with them.

then he almost is released from the body and narrowly escapes coagulation in the middle of the movie, when the host body gets a shaving cut.

Around the end, the host starts eating more, and the whole arteries are blocked by evil fats, and after sometime the artery gets so clogged up that no blood cells are allowed to go inside.

the host is about to go into cardiac arrest in the middle of the forest, when our hero uses his innocence and willpower in trying to break the layer of fat on the arteries. Inspired by this, all the adult red blood cells decide to help and the host survives.

Okay, not so clever when written on paper, but hey, talking bees and ants sound stupider. (though jerry seinfeld doesen’t)

Also,

Did you hear about the dyslexic devil worshipper?

He sold his soul to Santa. [via]

With all the news about the olympic torch going around and being extinguished in france, I’m willing to pass on the proverbial baton as I’ve decided to put a stop to the development of my flagship project: OneClick due to academic reasons, other projects and sheer laziness.

The current version had some cool features, including verification, automatic detection, etc.

I don’t have time to write much, but if you’re interested in continuing the project and have good php experience, I’ve written some solid and well documented code currently in SVN.

Once finished your code will be fetched and installed in over 30000 blogs worldwide (estimate).

More details can be requested via email.

If there’s one thing I really hate, it’s making important, binary decisions. Over the semester I’ve been faced with the same scenario three times: There are two options available and both have their own pros and cons, but they are mutually exclusive. There’s no way you can have both, and it’s severely counterproductive having to go back.

Battleground 1: Pick Bass v/s Finger Bass

Scenario: I play the bass, some of it. I started playing out using a plectrum like a standard guitarist, while a vast majority of people prefer to pluck with their fingers. Now I’m used to playing with a pick and am quite comfortable with it. However certain songs aren’t easier to play using a pick, and feel and sound better with fingers. While most metal and punk styles of music is suited to by a punchy, high attack sound of a plectrum picked bass guitar, the elusive finger picking style is taunting me. However it’s quite dumb to try and do both, and rather get pretty good at one and stick to that. Now which one to pick is the question.(unfortunately, no pun intended)

Battleground II: Windows v/s Linux

I’m a god in my windows environment, and know how to fix any problems and what to do and what to use. However I love a command line and hate using a mouse, and something about a Linux desktop is just very appealing. A clean, minimalist feature packed gnome desktop is amazing. With great development tools, media support, and bliss for programmers and customizers, it’s great to use. Even the inferior audio quality was pure earcandy when pulseaudio came along. And best of all the cool screen color invert feature that made reading things on the screen so much more plesant.

Yet there were still so many things lacking. A rock solid IDE, ridiculously bad font rendering, loading qtlibs when I don’t use qt based apps, and many more. However I still liked linux. Until one day when I wrote a tree searching program and instead of setting the tree height as 4, I set it as 44 and my system tried to allocate eight gigabytes of memory and stopped working. After which the xserver on linux never seemed to work the same. Graphics on windows was affected too but I somehow got it to work. Bottomline, I’m not able to use linux anymore, and that desicion has been made up for me.

Battleground III: Python v/s C++

This one’s kept me going on for sometime. I want to pick a language and *master* it. While I know C++ like the back of my hand, python seems to be so good, easy and well designed. On the other hand, if I try switching between the languages, I tend to add semicolons or delimiting braces in python by force of habit.

More on this later. I have to go get some sleep.