Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 10:34:03 +0000 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> To: Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do hackers drive? Message-ID: <200311011034.hA1AY44L032769@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 31 Oct 2003 20:13:20 EST." <6.0.0.22.0.20031031200457.05471108@pop.face2interface.com>
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Marty Landman writes: > >>>The revelation is that I'm starting to understand that many non-programmer > >>>_don't_ generally evaluate their car trips like this. Driving is something I usually do by successive approximation. I usually have a pretty good idea about where I want to go, but traffic and other road problems are usually enough of a problem to make too much planning a waste of time for me. > I had this sort of conversation with a search engine guy in Europe a few > years ago. We both sort of thought the same way... optimizing our actions. > Even though he wasn't a programmer. I guess just the fact of making your > living working with computers is enough. I tend to plan what I need to do next with a sort of Gantt chart in my head. So if I go into the kitchen, I'll turn on the kettle in anticipation of wanting tea, before doing laundry chores. I tend to do that somewhat efficiently (and very conciously) ever since I learned how as a kid. I nevertheless am a rather untidy individual :-) M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH
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