On 12/23/2012 11:25 AM, John Carlson wrote:
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:37 AM, BGB <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On 12/22/2012 9:11 PM, Julian Leviston wrote:I think you've missed the point. The point is... you need to use your body and your emotions as well as your mind. Our society is overly focussed on the mind.could be, fair enough...The point is, if you don't use your body and emotions, they'll be sure to let you know. Perhaps in 15 years or so. Check out half-life of an IT worker, relevant post on /.: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/1435217/half-life-of-a-tech-worker-15-years ... The mind is co-dependent on the emotions and body, not independent.
well, except I am already late 20s (will be 29 in a matter of days), and by this point arguably already using "dated" technologies. (but, the usual "catch up" is absurd, as most of these "new technologies" end up largely forgotten in a few years anyways, while the older technologies remain in full force...).
IOW: mostly still using C, as Java is still lame, and C# still isn't very good on non-Windows targets (as many of the advantages it has on Windows, cease to exist on VM's like Mono). but, seriously, what is the point of playing catch-up? or taking C# seriously as a tool for much more than quick/dirty GUI apps and writing Paint.NET plugins and similar?...
biggest thing I have written in C# thus far was a codec for a custom JPEG-based image format (it is like JPEG but added more features, *1), and mostly in the form of a Paint.NET plugin. in many ways, C# is much less well-suited to this sort of thing than C is (for example, for the image codec, I have both C and C# versions).
*1: alpha-channels, expanded components (normal, luma, depth, ...), layers, lossless encoding, some additional transforms and filters (can help improve compression), ... basically, ended up bolting on some block-filters derived from those in PNG as well, which can help compress things better when dealing with certain types of images (flat colors and gradiants, or blocks containing sharp edges). it is, however, not strictly backwards-compatible with existing JPEG decoders (depending on which features are enabled). when the alternate filters are enabled, it also uses a different entropy-coding / VLC scheme.
now, back in time, my early/mid 20s were a time of strongish and more poorly controlled emotions, and I put a lot of time and effort mostly in getting things mostly under control (such that being upset about something need not interfere with my external behavior or ability to complete tasks). (like, say, if a person is upset about something, it interferes with them writing code or working things, ...).
after a while though, a person largely stops feeling upset about things. granted, there is always a risk of them "coming back" in some more aggressive form (or, occasionally, playing tricks, and bypassing its usual "sandbox"). granted, there is still the issue of memory-retrieval, where emotions can apparently interfere with the types of memories that are brought up (so, emotions are sort of like a cat that keeps getting up on the keyboard when it wants something, and one usually wants the cat to not be on the keyboard).
sometimes it is necessary to "get involved" and try to stabilize them though, because otherwise emotions can go into a sort of feedback loop, resulting in adverse psychological and behavioral effects (often: conscious fragmentation, *2, partial loss of sensory input, reduced ability to move, ...), but things will usually return to normal once emotions burn themselves out and dissipate (I think the last time this happened was ~ 5 years ago though).
*2: this state is a bit complicated to describe. I am left to realize that I don't really want to describe it, nor is it probably really topical here anyways.
as-is, lacking a job, I am mostly trying to "make it on my own", admittedly without a whole lot of success thus far.
as for the future, I don't really know...
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