Thought Outflux | Anirudh Sanjeev

I’m bored enough to start some pseudo analysis of children’s television, in many parts (hopefully around 3) and show off how the state of things are today:

Part 1: Child to adult ratio.
For this part, I’m going to list current ongoing shows during primetime(thank you the hardworking wikipedians who managed to list this, so I didn’t have to.)

The score goes like: If the major characters are either children, preteen, or early teen(below the age of 15), it’s a “Child” centric show. If the major characters are 17 and above, it’s going to be marked “Adult” centric show.

Part 1: A: Current shows

Number of Adult centric shows: 9 (mostly off primetime)
Number of child centric shows: 25. (mostly during primetime)

Further examination shows that most adult-centric shows air from 10pm to 6am while the whole primetime features younger characters.

Part 1: B
Now we shall consider shows that used to air, not just a few years back, but a few months back too.

Child: 7
Adult: 46

Analysis

Wrapup
I know at the end it’s all the same, but I can honestly say I learned a lot from TV shows watched during the course of my life. Many teach you simple things from social behaviour, repsect for others and ethics. As a liberal, libertarian male, I don’t mind any media, as freedom is foremost, but a complete paradigm shift from adults who take care of business day after day to wackhy, out of control pre-teens, I am a little disturbed.

Where is the justice league, and justice, where is top cat and his brilliant sarcasm, where is fucking captain planet in this oil deprived, environmentally screwed up world. When’re these people going to target any issues than try to sell more shit.

I will always love cartoons. The ones these days aren’t funny, creative, innovative, let alone good to watch. Either I’m getting too old too fast (20’s a big number) or something’s going horribly wrong.

My favorite cartoons of all time would be: Sheep in the big city, Swat kats, the Addam’s family, and the new adventures of Johnny quest.

I don’t think I’ll get a target audience if I write about programming in one post, and about 15 year old cartoons in the next.
Screw target audience.

I fucking LOVED diablo 2. It was the only game that ran on my old PC and I LOVED that game.

Today, just a few hours back: http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/ !!

Thank you blizzard, for making me *happy*

Firstly, there’s a sharp difference between being a developer and a programmer, in my opinion.

While both consist of writing code, some programs are experiments, hacks or tiny tools, compared to extremely large applications with thousands and thousands of lines of code and with many people working together with lots of source control, modules, unit tests, etc.

But the funny thing is, college seldom seems to teach people about how to make their code writing better. Most people were told to use emacs in their first sitting and still do. While emacs(ugh), or vi(yay!) is perfect for managing about a 1000-2000 line codebase, something better is required.

The biggest trouble is, at the end, that people do not want to learn anything which won’t directly give them marks, or help them finish their project, even though it may mean shaving off many hundreds of hours in the course of it’s use.

For a change, I won’t rant. I’ll rather give use cases comparing the current IDE I’m using, with what most people tend to do.

Note that this is largely C++ specific, but widely applicable.
I use the C++ Development Tools for Eclipse (CDT/Eclipse) as my development environment.

Now I’m off to do work, writing code with my second favorite IDE, I’ll write another part later hopefully. I didn’t bother editing/proofreading this page(I never do), and it’s only a rant. It’s best you seek more authoritative sources on integrated development environments.

My favorite IDE however, has to be Visual Studio, and I unfortunately never use it.

(before I say this, legal nuts note that my opinion is mine alone, you’re welcome to use it if you want)

I found about the “im initiative”.

According to that, Microsoft will donate a portion of advertising revenue when people use their services to send emails or instant messages.

Let me get this straight, Microsoft is asking people to outright increase their profits for no specific reason, except that a (currently unknown to me)% portion of it will go to some nonprofit organization.

Now why do I think this is foolish?

A few of you are going to say “You cynical prick, they’re trying to help people and you’re bitching about them.”

I reply, yes, it’s a good idea to participate in the program if you regularly use Live messenger, or hotmail, and you live in a country where this is supported.

What microsoft is trying to do, however, is forcing you to use their ad-supported(ugh) service, and use it more than required, wasting yours and everyone’s time, in an attempt to think that you’re doing a great deed.

Worst thing is they’re trying to take the thing viral, right to the heart of the astonishingly dumb internet.

I used to frequent several (social) news websites a few months ago, but these days here’s what I’m seeing:

reddit: obama obama obama, bush is bad, [nsfw], and some obscure programming paradigm

slashdot: DRM, DMCA, viruses, licensing, LGPL .

Lifehacker: How to create a shortcut key to create a shortcut key to create a shortcut key to create a shortcut key.

Digg: Content unavailable as I’ve stopped reading digg due to health concerns.

Techmeme: Apple flavored yagoosoft. (yum)

del.icio.us(yum) hotlist: Common sense disguised as self help disguised as zen, how to bookmark tutorials you’ll never try or articles you’ll never read later, how to make rounded corners, how to get a girlfriend, how to convince your girlfriend rounded corners are cool.

Nobody’d ever think it’d come to this, but the internet has actually become boring.