From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2024-04-13, D  wrote:   
      
   > True. I think god created handwashing dishes as a way of   
   > meditation. ;)   
      
   Well in that case, I hope to remember to put on some George   
   Harrison next time I'm communing with my dear Dawn! (name   
   of a popular dishwashing soap brand here)   
      
   > Amen! I enjoy the minimalism of the vim + shell   
   > workflow. It is black and white (well, some color might   
   > be added in modern vim) and no windows, no notifications,   
   > no sounds or other distractions. Just you, your thoughts   
   > and the act of seeing them appear on the screen.   
      
   As  intended it!   
      
   > But I feel like I'm an endangered species. Whenever   
   > I go to work as a consultant for a "modern" company,   
   > they insist on apps, chats, notifications, stand ups,   
   > sit downs, agile-this or agile-that, and the personal time   
   > for creativity and actual problem solving just disappears.   
      
   Heh. I've not seen the word 'agile' in a while, but I   
   actually wrote and recorded a song spoof (of the Beatles'   
   "Revolution") called "Agile Nation". I'll have to dig   
   around for that sometime.   
      
      
      
   Okay, here are the lyrics:   
      
   -----------------------------------------------------------   
   you say we're part of agile nation   
   well, you know   
   we all want to change the code   
   you act like it's a new vocation   
   well, you know   
   we all want to change the code   
   but when there's endless iteration   
   don't you know that i can start to doubt   
   don't you know i'm changing code, all night   
   all night   
   all night   
      
   you say we need fagan inspection   
   well, you know   
   we all want to fit it in   
   you ask for no defect rejection   
   well, you know   
   give the build another spin   
   but if you want changes to code that is out the gate   
   regression won't catch subtle problems 'till much too late   
   don't you know i'm changing code, all night   
   all night   
   all night   
      
      
      
   you want less management attention   
   well, you know   
   we all want to move ahead   
   you tell me it's the competition   
   well, you know   
   we better innovate instead   
   but if you're confusing the stock price with market share   
   you may as well think with your head in your underwear   
   don't you know i'm changing code, all night   
   all night   
   all night   
      
   all all all all all   
   all all all all all   
      
   all night, all night, all night   
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   Let me know if you want to hear it. I don't recall it   
   having the potential to make the charts, but it was a fun   
   moment in time.   
      
   Hmmm... did I ever mention "the gdbeatles"? That's the   
   mythical band I invented for co-conspirators in software   
   development days. Maybe I could make them available   
   again somehow. Looks like I revealed one in a post in this   
   newsgroup back in February. Their hit "'Till There Was GNU"   
   actually made it to Richard Stallman's attention:   
      
   https://drive.google.com/file/d/11n8lG0xee0iAjaDwuOEvp2JWYqKsU_Yi/view   
      
   > Now, if I would only be in it to earn money, I would   
   > be a happy camper, since I could show a full schedule   
   > and charge for a full schedule. But since my focus is on   
   > delivering actual work, even though I might work far less   
   > hours if I am allowed to work the way I like, that is,   
   > without distratctions, I suffer.   
      
   Sheesh, it's always the same with you: money vim money   
   vim money! ;-)   
      
   > So within my own company with my own consultants, I have   
   > built a little sanctuary for myself. They do have chats,   
   > but they know I'm an email guy and for 99% of the time they   
   > respect that, and roll with it, even though they might   
   > chat with each other. And for that 1% we do video calls   
   > or sometimes, chats, even though I'm not happy with it,   
   > but sometimes we need answers and decisions fast.   
      
   But haste makes... oh, forget it.... :-)   
      
   > then enjoying the old, familiar mechanics of "making it so"   
   > via "slrn". It feels like an old friend, even knowing it   
   > probably won't be read - or, at least, not widely enough   
   > to justify the effort to any *sane* person....   
      
   > Well, I guess it is its own meditation kind of. I use   
   > alpine, which is meant as an email client first. But   
   > in the spirit of "make it so" I managed to enhance the   
   > snappyness and comfort of reading news in the email client   
   > to a remarkable degree. I was on the verge of downloading   
   > a dedicated news client, but thanks to a bit of scripting   
   > and discovering that someone along the decades seemed to   
   > have thought the same way as I and started to implement   
   > some functionality, but never finished it, I managed to   
   > beat the square peg into the round hole. ;)   
      
   C'mon, dude! *Everyone* knows you're supposed to start   
   with a hexagonal peg! :P   
      
   >> No idea how to explain the ecstasy of such to a mouse /   
   >> trackpad / tablet / phone person, but it's rock solid   
   >> palpable.   
   >   
   > I wonder if they feel the same when happily clicking and   
   > tapping away to navigate their social media poison?   
      
   Hard to believe, and yet I'm so baffled by most others   
   that *more* than anything and everything seems possible.   
      
   > True. Depending on the mood, and if the trolls have   
   > a certain amount of humour, or if their replies are so   
   > wonderfully bad they lead to laughter, I can kind of enjoy   
   > it. But if it turns into sniping and personal remarks,   
   > it is not so interesting for me any longer, and that's   
   > when the killfile come into play. I use alt.atheism as a   
   > killfile candidate farm, and it's been very effective at   
   > that. =)   
      
   Trolling's never bothered me. In fact, I enjoy antagonising   
   online others I feel have it coming -or- can spar in most   
   excellent ways.   
      
   I've personally never used a killfile, though. Due to my   
   occasional dabbles in thoughts pertaining to Jehovah's   
   Witnesses, I actually called them "shunfiles" for a while,   
   because the JDubs are (or were...) big on shunning.   
      
   I just plain don't like the idea of possibly missing out on   
   something uncharacteristically (for a troll) interesting   
   due to automation being incapable of seeing interesting   
   nuance. I'd rather feel I wasted a little time on crap   
   than possibly wasted an opportunity for a snappy/clever   
   response. A killfile seems like a tree-sized club, and I   
   prefer being more actively surgical.   
      
   But I understand alternate points of view on the subject.   
      
   I'm not accusing you in saying this, and I'm going to   
   sound like an insensitive monster of an asshole, here,   
   but most people I've seen use killfiles on/against me did   
   so because - although they couldn't admit it to themselves   
   - they quite simply couldn't "bring it". They start out   
   thinking they can, but once I see they resort to profanity   
   and increasingly shorter responses, I know I own them,   
   and I consider the moment they add me to their killfile   
   admission they know it too, otherwise they'd persist in the   
   illusion of being able to sufficiently "bring it".... ;-)   
      
      
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