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Christian Graus wrote: So I just gave up, that day
Good on you if you have the ability to do just that.
I wish I could convince a certain brother-in-law of mine to do the same.
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I'm autistic, so those things are easy for me. But it can be tough
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She didn't leave you then ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Nope. We had a roller coaster year but we're still together.
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Good man
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wow, I'd never have imagined that. Congrats on the decision, keep it up - and come post something silly here if the temptation is too strong, we'll help waving it away with even more silly answers
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Thanks. I'm not sure I could have just stopped when it was 20
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I am glad you managed to find the resources to stop.
You are one of my CP heroes - helped me a lot in the early CP times ( with other fellow CPians : Nish, JSOP, Pete, Mick, Michael, Dan, Luc, Ravi, elephanting Henry, Joergen, and so many more incredible people), very active in the Lounge, first with so many articles written, etc... the legend.
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*blush* I am 23 years in to a career that exists because people helped me on CP in 1999, but I don't remember names.
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1999 ? So you even knew CP before the database disaster in the early 2000 ? Wow !
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We may have the same guesses
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Likely, although with so many options the same pattern can come up with some different choices.
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Just made it!
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Alex changed his nickname from Al to ChatGPT.
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I had a former supervisor equate programming to juggling - many balls in the air at a given time. I know that's nothing new, but it fits. You tear into a problem, unwire the code, then string it back together. We all know the pain of distractions while the code is unwired, while many balls are in the air. OK, what got me thinking this morning was Christian Graus's New Guitar post. I was wondering if a collection of programmers is more likely to relate to a new guitar post than other communities. I relate. I'm not an accomplished musician, but I play. My guitar sits right next to my computer. I often back away from the keyboard and strum/pick a tune to work my way out of a rut. Is there something that might make a musician more likely to be a computer person, or visa-versa. Of course we know music is mathematical and programming certainly has a mathematical component, but I don't think that's it. For me it's the balls-in-the-air aspect. Fun music for me is playing my banjo or guitar in a jam session with other players. When I don't know the song, I'll look at a guitar player's hands to see what chords they are making, then play the same chord structure on my Banjo. So see a guitar G, play a banjo G is the first translation. Sometimes the banjo is tuned in C and capoed to a D, which requires another translation. So, the guitar player is playing a G, I need to be playing around G, I'm tuned in C, but capoed to D, better play an F shape. That's going on at the speed of the music. That's music's balls-in-the-air situation. So there's my thesis. Music and programming both involve trying to hang on to several things at once, and that's why you find so many programmers are also musicians.
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I don't think programming has the immediacy of the activities you mention. As such, maybe there isn't the thrill either.
If you also read the thread about medieval coding, a comparison was made to construction work.
P.S. I am definitely not musical and I am inept at juggling. The best I can juggle is to bounce (three) lacrosse balls on the floor, which I think most people consider an advanced technique. I find it much easier than trying to juggle in the air.
modified 8-Nov-23 12:13pm.
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Maybe the programmer and luthier have more in common than the programmer and the musician! Sometimes I feel more like the luthier, and sometimes the musician.
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