Hi all, in case you missed my post on blogs.perl.org, see:
* http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2013/03/ann-my-transition-from-software-developer-to-writerentertaineramateur-philosopherinternet-celebrity.html (short URL - http://xrl.us/bonezw ). Reading from it: <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< I'd like to make an announcement: after some serious thought, I decided that from now on, being a software developer (which I am not too bad at) will only be the means (but the absolutely necessary ones) to me being a writer / entertainer / philosopher / Internet celebrity (a little bit of all those and then some) whose main pride and passion is his personal web site, which is full of a lot of material, and various pages and material is constantly added to it. Note: I am not going to "quit" from the Perl world or am going to stop programming completely. In fact, programming in HTML, XHTML, CSS, XSLT, Website Meta Language, Perl 5, Bash, Vim/gvim, and many other general purpose and/or domain-specific languages, is absolutely necessary for what I do on a daily basis. Furthermore, I have little patience for laymen who do not wish to learn HTML, and just require more and more of our (= my peers and mine's) time to be wasted in a typical "Parable of the broken window" fashion. I think even most of our sisters, mothers (and yes, I'm being facetiously sexist on purpose, because a lot of the most clueless people we can think of are male), etc. can learn some basic programming skills and even be good at that with the right attitude. When put in a corner, they will be forced to learn it. and that programming is becoming more and more essential for everyone to know. Furthermore, clients who wish to remain ignorant (and often hostile) forever should be avoided, with a clear honest and sincere explanation telling them why and how to improve. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Note that I am still looking for a half-time jobs and/or projects as a software developer in order to earn some cash, until I become self-sustaining as a writer/entertainer. (The post also mentions a different post of mine called "Putting all the cards on the table (2013)" as well as "How to Achieve World Domination" the proper way by writing something specialised.) One opinion I did not note in the post, was that during Helenistic times, philosophers (who were then very amateurs and amateuristic - http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html ) were likely considered as no-goodnicks and cheap entertainment, and spoiling the youth, and often being extremely bad form and non-sensical. Naturally, these times were very different from now, when physicians were treated as necromancers (who attempted to reverse the gods' wills of a person dying of natural causes), and people employing many slaves, and most women still not enjoying most of the liberties that they have today, but hopefully - you get the point. I aim to be an amateur philosopher (where amateurs are people who like what they do, people who bend the rules, and finally - people who are not professional), but not necessarily a bad one. I've also been working on going out more - networking in real-life, socialising in various forums in the vicinity of my house in Tel Aviv, and enjoying myself, which I feel makes me more emotionally stable instead of working on the computer all day and every day. Someone I talked with on instance messaging, told me this was the key for getting rid of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_disorder (a.k.a manicâdepressive disorder) and I feel much better now. There are a lot of attractive women (and men, naturally) walking around in places like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv_University (to which I can walk from here) or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Gabirol_Street (which is a short bus ride away), and it feels good hanging around there. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Interview with Ben Collins-Sussman - http://shlom.in/sussman No selfârespecting tomboy would use Mandriva. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il