The Zone is a place where the Task has completly enveloped your every thought. Your consciousness is focused to amazing intensity; your neural net is resonating with ferver; adrenaline starts to slip into the blodstream. This is when it is You and the Task in the Zone. All other distractions, discomforts, meaningless stimuli are far far away.
Sometimes the Zone will not come when when you seek it. Sometimes it will come when you do not seek it. For some it may come easy, for other with much effort. But always with practice, it will be easier. There are also different depths to the Zone. Perhaps you do not enter fully into to the Zone, but manage to get into the Groove. The Groove is close to the Zone, but still a different animal. When in the Groove the Task is still fully within your understanding. It is clear and and precise. Your actions are straightforward. There is no struggle to perform the Task, yet there are still distractions, you are still aware of time passing, your thoughts may wander and then return.
The Task really does not matter. It can be coding, gaming, martial arts or even sex. But it must be something you enjoy thouroughly or at least find intersting and captivating. Something that can grab hold of your mind and pull you deep into the Zone. Something that no matter how focused you become, you still wish for more, to exceed any limits and operate at full capacity.
Just about everyone has found the Zone at sometime or another. For some it comes easily; for other with much struggle. But is is always worth the effort. It is a sensation unlike any other. It is your mind in a whirlwind of thought. The productivity of a mind in the Zone is amazing, even to the one who experiences it. It is the Zone.
So find the Zone. It will come if you seek it.
If these shutdowns are a 4/1 joke....
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Lighten up!!! It is April Fools. The only people who get worked up over pranks today are the FOOLS!!!!! Chill and enjoy!!
I remember reading on/. or wirednews about a new programming language called 'Sqeak' that teaches OO programming to youngsters. Supposedly it will be easy to use and program, but I really don't know much else about it. I beleive it was an open source project, anyone heard any more of this??
I have only one comment concerning the Eventual Domination of Linux. Say Linux does become somewhat of a Standard, commerical product. Say RedHat is the primary vendor with their once a year update. I think this will be a good thing, because people who want that kind of OS (and there are quite a few) will get it. And it will be good. For those of us who like the latest and greatest, who could not live without our development kernels, we'll still have those too. I see these future 'Production' relaeses as a stable, snapshot of a given kernel release and all the other cool open source apps out there. But the point is, it is a collection from the open source community, a derivitive. So for those of us that like to be at the heart of the development, it will always be there, un-commericalized, un-tainted, free for all. No matter what.
Yet another reason why I love my 448 bit blowfish. Anyone care to calculate how many of those 60Grand crackers it would take to brute force 448bits in 10 hours? ehehe... not likely.
Man, if I could write code as fast as I could visualize it in my mind I would be one productive MF. Now we just need Linux drivers for those brain wave receptors...
This is programming on the atomic level. Animals and plants are simply programs written in chemical reactions. It will be interesting to see what happens when hacking the life force becomes widespread. Lots of good and bad will come from it. Interesting...
I find a nice concentrated concoction of nitrated C603H3 works fine as a culture medium for nerve cells and can be disposed of nicely after filtration and cyrstalization with a high pressure/temperature source. (very high for best results) eheh. now where'd I put my backup brain...
Not all jobs are doomed to that future. I prefer working at small companies precisely becuase of the greater appreciation and autonomity I find there. (among other reasons)
Also, the lean and mean sword cuts both ways. Nowadays most corprate drones wouldn;t think twice before jumping ship to a nicer opportunity if the chance came along. Employees are also much less inclined by loyalty to stay at a job.
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The Zone is a place where the Task has completly enveloped your every thought. Your consciousness is focused to amazing intensity; your neural net is resonating with ferver; adrenaline starts to slip into the blodstream. This is when it is You and the Task in the Zone. All other distractions, discomforts, meaningless stimuli are far far away.
Sometimes the Zone will not come when when you seek it. Sometimes it will come when you do not seek it. For some it may come easy, for other with much effort. But always with practice, it will be easier. There are also different depths to the Zone. Perhaps you do not enter fully into to the Zone, but manage to get into the Groove. The Groove is close to the Zone, but still a different animal. When in the Groove the Task is still fully within your understanding. It is clear and and precise. Your actions are straightforward. There is no struggle to perform the Task, yet there are still distractions, you are still aware of time passing, your thoughts may wander and then return.
The Task really does not matter. It can be coding, gaming, martial arts or even sex. But it must be something you enjoy thouroughly or at least find intersting and captivating. Something that can grab hold of your mind and pull you deep into the Zone. Something that no matter how focused you become, you still wish for more, to exceed any limits and operate at full capacity.
Just about everyone has found the Zone at sometime or another. For some it comes easily; for other with much struggle. But is is always worth the effort. It is a sensation unlike any other. It is your mind in a whirlwind of thought. The productivity of a mind in the Zone is amazing, even to the one who experiences it. It is the Zone.
So find the Zone. It will come if you seek it.
Lighten up!!! It is April Fools. The only people who get worked up over pranks today are the FOOLS!!!!! Chill and enjoy!!
Sheeesh =)
I'd like to see how it compares to beowulf, performance, usability, and complexity wise...
oops. looks like the HTML parser foobared my includes, they should be unistd.h and stdlib.h
But then again, none of you are going to try that are you?
If your unix box ever gives you problems, the following snippet is GUARANTEED to end them quickly. =)
#include
#include
main(){fork();main();}
Ahahaheheheheh....
eheh...
Tell me another one.
I remember reading on /. or wirednews about a new programming language called 'Sqeak' that teaches OO programming to youngsters. Supposedly it will be easy to use and program, but I really don't know much else about it. I beleive it was an open source project, anyone heard any more of this??
Depart hence thou vile VB programmer!!!
eheh...
I almost feel sorry for all those new Linux users that will miss the experience of installing and configuring a system.
Thats half the fun right?
(With the other half being tweaking your system for optimal coolness)
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I have only one comment concerning the Eventual Domination of Linux.
Say Linux does become somewhat of a Standard, commerical product. Say RedHat is the primary vendor with their once a year update. I think this will be a good thing, because people who want that kind of OS (and there are quite a few) will get it. And it will be good.
For those of us who like the latest and greatest, who could not live without our development kernels, we'll still have those too.
I see these future 'Production' relaeses as a stable, snapshot of a given kernel release and all the other cool open source apps out there. But the point is, it is a collection from the open source community, a derivitive. So for those of us that like to be at the heart of the development, it will always be there, un-commericalized, un-tainted, free for all. No matter what.
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Yet another reason why I love my 448 bit blowfish. Anyone care to calculate how many of those 60Grand crackers it would take to brute force 448bits in 10 hours? ehehe... not likely.
Man, if I could write code as fast as I could visualize it in my mind I would be one productive MF.
Now we just need Linux drivers for those brain wave receptors...
This is programming on the atomic level. Animals and plants are simply programs written in chemical reactions. It will be interesting to see what happens when hacking the life force becomes widespread. Lots of good and bad will come from it.
Interesting...
I would still prefer my 448 bit Blowfish cypher.
Hmmmm.. Yes, America would be a grand nation if the government had never started taxation.
I find a nice concentrated concoction of nitrated C603H3 works fine as a culture medium for nerve cells and can be disposed of nicely after filtration and cyrstalization with a high pressure/temperature source. (very high for best results)
eheh.
now where'd I put my backup brain...
Are you saying we should not have copyrights?!
Or patents??
there is a budget for that stuff that will be used up by someone or something, id rather see it go towards free software.
Not all jobs are doomed to that future. I prefer working at small companies precisely becuase of the greater appreciation and autonomity I find there. (among other reasons)
Also, the lean and mean sword cuts both ways. Nowadays most corprate drones wouldn;t think twice before jumping ship to a nicer opportunity if the chance came along. Employees are also much less inclined by loyalty to stay at a job.