Rules of a Zen Programmer

Post by throwaway1980 » Sun, May 05, 2013, 8:54 PM UTC

jferguson wrote: post #17

> Like for example manually copy/pasting stuff from your managers Excel sheet into phpmyadmin. This can take you days, and it is really boring. You cannot always quit your job when you got a boring task. As valuable as accepting inevitable boring tasks is, that seems to leave you not much room to want to automate the task. Does anyone have something deep to say about simultaneously being accepting of your circumstanc…

The only insight I have is that doing so is a balanced, middle road response (left road is accept everything, right road is change everything). The Serenity Prayer captures this attitude:

http://www.cptryon.org/prayer/special/serenity.html

if you can get over the pronouns.

Post by exit » Sun, May 05, 2013, 9:10 PM UTC

skrebbel wrote: post #14

exit wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what makes this characteristically german?

Warning: generalizations and prejudice ahead. The first sentence because it sounds so simple but is in fact deeply philosophical. Walk around in Germany and talk to people, and keep tabs on how often you hear seemingly simple "by the way" lines that could be considered lovely life wisdoms in their own right. The second sentence because Germany, for me, is a country of culture, activism and the Piratenpartei (1). Copy…

thanks for explaining

full disclosure, i live in germany and can't arrive at an essential characterisation of the people here

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