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Also, though I have no sources on this other than personal experience, linux skills are frequently indicator of heavy prorastinator.

Craiggybear 14y ago
> "Also, though I have no sources on this other than personal experience, linux skills are frequently indicator of heavy prorastinator." What on Earth are you talking about?
davidmr 14y ago
That's a curious association I've never made. Can you say a bit more about that?
- praptak 14y ago
  What draws people to Linux is the possibility of tinkering. It's not like tinkerers are always procrastinators but they prefer tasks that engage their "tinkerer sense": trying out a new API or maybe doing something unusual with an old one. Doing something mundane with a known API is something they will avoid. Such tasks are probably in the majority of those found even in the most exciting jobs. This is what I believe to be the cause of the association. Source: generalizing my own experience to the whole population of Earth. Btw, I gotta get back to work too.
- dsirijus 14y ago
  Well, where there's much to play with, you end up playing much. I frequently find myself playing in my .vimrc, .screenrc, .bashrc and other confs to not much obvious productive output. Changing window managers, console terminals and anything basically, all in excuse of not working on job at hand. On the upper hand, beats playing solitaire.
unimpressive 14y ago
Realizes he's had a Clojure REPL open for days untouched. I have no idea what you're talking about. EDIT: Six minutes later sees this post and realizes he STILL hasn't gotten back to what he was working on.
slurgfest 14y ago
Procrastination means absolutely nothing if there is good output. If you are not on the floor of some factory sweatshop, it isn't necessary to have continuous even output. Procrastination can be managed. One can procrastinate on one task by carrying out another. If I do not work for an hour and then make the perfect change, that's better than floundering for six hours.
- dsirijus 14y ago
  Usually, when I do feel like not working on what I need to be working atm, I work on something else I DO feel like working on. Even when it costs me a deadline miss, I end up with something tangible in the end. That's my best yet strategy against procrastination.
  - wpietri 14y ago
    You are not alone. Consider the art of structured procrastination: http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/ http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
  - nicholassmith 14y ago
    I always find the work you do that you are interested in usually has implications for the work you don't want to do, positive implications usually.
polynomial 14y ago
That's not procrastination, that's push-back. ;-)
eli_gottlieb 14y ago
The three virtues of a programmer are laziness, impatience, and hubris. Thanks to Larry Wall.

Craiggybear 14y ago

> "Also, though I have no sources on this other than personal experience, linux skills are frequently indicator of heavy prorastinator." What on Earth are you talking about?

davidmr 14y ago

That's a curious association I've never made. Can you say a bit more about that?

praptak 14y ago
What draws people to Linux is the possibility of tinkering. It's not like tinkerers are always procrastinators but they prefer tasks that engage their "tinkerer sense": trying out a new API or maybe doing something unusual with an old one. Doing something mundane with a known API is something they will avoid. Such tasks are probably in the majority of those found even in the most exciting jobs. This is what I believe to be the cause of the association. Source: generalizing my own experience to the whole population of Earth. Btw, I gotta get back to work too.
dsirijus 14y ago
Well, where there's much to play with, you end up playing much. I frequently find myself playing in my .vimrc, .screenrc, .bashrc and other confs to not much obvious productive output. Changing window managers, console terminals and anything basically, all in excuse of not working on job at hand. On the upper hand, beats playing solitaire.

unimpressive 14y ago

Realizes he's had a Clojure REPL open for days untouched. I have no idea what you're talking about. EDIT: Six minutes later sees this post and realizes he STILL hasn't gotten back to what he was working on.

slurgfest 14y ago

Procrastination means absolutely nothing if there is good output. If you are not on the floor of some factory sweatshop, it isn't necessary to have continuous even output. Procrastination can be managed. One can procrastinate on one task by carrying out another. If I do not work for an hour and then make the perfect change, that's better than floundering for six hours.

dsirijus 14y ago
Usually, when I do feel like not working on what I need to be working atm, I work on something else I DO feel like working on. Even when it costs me a deadline miss, I end up with something tangible in the end. That's my best yet strategy against procrastination.
- wpietri 14y ago
  You are not alone. Consider the art of structured procrastination: http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/ http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
- nicholassmith 14y ago
  I always find the work you do that you are interested in usually has implications for the work you don't want to do, positive implications usually.

polynomial 14y ago

That's not procrastination, that's push-back. ;-)

eli_gottlieb 14y ago

The three virtues of a programmer are laziness, impatience, and hubris. Thanks to Larry Wall.