On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Micha Feigin<mi...@post.tau.ac.il> wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:21:22 -0400 > Hal Vaughan <h...@halblog.com> wrote: > >> > ... >> >> I'm being blunt, but, honestly, I run a business on custom software >> I've written and I can do it because I learned from those who knew >> more than I did. If I refused to learn from people on this and other >> lists, I'd be an idiot and would still be wasting most of my life at >> the keyboard. I found one can save days, weeks, months, or even >> years, by listening to those with experience. You don't seem to want >> to listen to the experience of many. >> > > Learn from other people's errors, you don't have time to make them all > yourself ;-) > > Like others said, learn whats the right tool for the job, do the jobs you feel > like and leave the others to the ones who like other jobs better. Don't > forget to live. > Like I like to say, I'm more scared of not living than of dying. I hope you > can > figure out the meaning ... > I also find that messing about in languages I know nothing about tought me > also > about those I do know something about and also tought me what I don't want to > do and what I'm wasting my time on with the wrong tool > >> That's fine, but don't come crying to us in 3-4 years when you realize >> how much time you've wasted with such a capricious fetish. >> > > I'm still claiming that the world would have been a better place if computers > hadn't been invented, or at least if user interface (cli, gui, whatever) has > never been invented, and the more I learn the more I'm convinced on that > matter ;-) > > I used to be more of a purist like you but after going through, c, c++, java, > matlab, perl, fortran (yes it's still alive and kicking ...), assembly, basic, > pascal, logo, lisp and I don't know how many others I came to the concultion > that if I can save three weeks programing, let the program run a couple of > days > instead of a couple of hours (assuming it needs to be run once or twice) and > go > out to date my wife, mountain bike, kite surf, watch the sunset or whatever, > I'm much better of and sociaty is not the worst of it. If I do not change the reality, I will suffer till I'm dying; If I try to change the reality, maybe i will just suffer 20 years, and rest for my last 20 years. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > >
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