From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Sun, 14 Apr 2024, oldernow wrote:   
      
   > 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)   
      
   alt.philosophy strikes again!   
      
   >   
   >> 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!   
      
   Amen!   
      
   >> 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:   
   >   
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   > 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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   Brilliant!   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Please, would love to hear it in case you could find it.   
      
   > 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   
      
   Weird Al move over, there's a new sheriff in town! Are you the one   
   singing?   
      
   >> 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! ;-)   
      
   Amen to that! ;) You're starting to know me pretty well by now. ;)   
      
   >> 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   
      
   True, I apologize. Next time let's start with the hexagonal one and   
   let's see where that will get me. ;)   
      
   >>> 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.   
      
   Sometimes I get the feeling that the tapping and the clicking doesn't   
   make them happy at all. I saw a documentary that argued that small girls   
   are especially sensitive to social media and constantly comparing   
   themselves with perfect and artificial good looks and perfect lives.   
      
   I think there is great strength in not liking the majority of people and   
   their lives. ;)   
      
   >> 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   
      
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