Respectfully, go read Zhuan Falun and then comment on this thread.
On Dec 23, 2012, at 1:02 PM, BGB wrote:
On 12/23/2012 11:25 AM, John Carlson wrote:
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:37 AM, BGB cr88...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/22/2012 9:11 PM, Julian Leviston wrote:
I think you've missed the point.
The point is... you need to use your body and your emotions as well as your
mind. Our society is overly focussed on the mind.
could be, fair enough...
The point is, if you don't use your body and emotions, they'll be sure to
let you know. Perhaps in 15 years or so. Check out half-life of an IT
worker, relevant post on /.:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/1435217/half-life-of-a-tech-worker-15-years
... The mind is co-dependent on the emotions and body, not independent.
well, except I am already late 20s (will be 29 in a matter of days), and by
this point arguably already using dated technologies. (but, the usual
catch up is absurd, as most of these new technologies end up largely
forgotten in a few years anyways, while the older technologies remain in full
force...).
IOW: mostly still using C, as Java is still lame, and C# still isn't very
good on non-Windows targets (as many of the advantages it has on Windows,
cease to exist on VM's like Mono). but, seriously, what is the point of
playing catch-up? or taking C# seriously as a tool for much more than
quick/dirty GUI apps and writing Paint.NET plugins and similar?...
biggest thing I have written in C# thus far was a codec for a custom
JPEG-based image format (it is like JPEG but added more features, *1), and
mostly in the form of a Paint.NET plugin. in many ways, C# is much less
well-suited to this sort of thing than C is (for example, for the image
codec, I have both C and C# versions).
*1: alpha-channels, expanded components (normal, luma, depth, ...), layers,
lossless encoding, some additional transforms and filters (can help improve
compression), ... basically, ended up bolting on some block-filters derived
from those in PNG as well, which can help compress things better when dealing
with certain types of images (flat colors and gradiants, or blocks containing
sharp edges). it is, however, not strictly backwards-compatible with existing
JPEG decoders (depending on which features are enabled). when the alternate
filters are enabled, it also uses a different entropy-coding / VLC scheme.
now, back in time, my early/mid 20s were a time of strongish and more poorly
controlled emotions, and I put a lot of time and effort mostly in getting
things mostly under control (such that being upset about something need not
interfere with my external behavior or ability to complete tasks). (like,
say, if a person is upset about something, it interferes with them writing
code or working things, ...).
after a while though, a person largely stops feeling upset about things.
granted, there is always a risk of them coming back in some more aggressive
form (or, occasionally, playing tricks, and bypassing its usual sandbox).
granted, there is still the issue of memory-retrieval, where emotions can
apparently interfere with the types of memories that are brought up (so,
emotions are sort of like a cat that keeps getting up on the keyboard when it
wants something, and one usually wants the cat to not be on the keyboard).
sometimes it is necessary to get involved and try to stabilize them though,
because otherwise emotions can go into a sort of feedback loop, resulting in
adverse psychological and behavioral effects (often: conscious fragmentation,
*2, partial loss of sensory input, reduced ability to move, ...), but things
will usually return to normal once emotions burn themselves out and dissipate
(I think the last time this happened was ~ 5 years ago though).
*2: this state is a bit complicated to describe. I am left to realize that I
don't really want to describe it, nor is it probably really topical here
anyways.
as-is, lacking a job, I am mostly trying to make it on my own, admittedly
without a whole lot of success thus far.
as for the future, I don't really know...
John
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