Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

blog.stephenwolfram.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 415 posts

Re: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

#4

Post by henning »

I think there's great value in walking with no distractions and it is definitely still very productive if it lets you focus and gather your thoughts. Many great thinkers in history (Immanuel Kant, Charles Darwin, Carl Jung, doubtless many others) had walking as important part of their routine. But, there's no accounting for taste, and whatever works for you is all that really matters.

Re: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

#5

Post by techgipper »

Funny, I do this with my digital trash can:

When I was consulting at Bell Labs in the early 1980s I saw that a friend of mine had two garbage cans in his office. When I asked him why, he explained that one was for genuine garbage and the other was a buffer into which he would throw documents that he thought he’d probably never want again. He’d let the buffer garbage can fill up, and once it was full, he’d throw away the lower documents in it, since from the fact that he hadn’t fished them out, he figured he’d probably never miss them if they were thrown away permanently.

Re: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

#6

Post by vortico »

How cow, this guy is the world's most organized person. I operate in the exact opposite way. The more disorganized, temporary, inconvenient, and cluttered my workspace is, the more I can ignore the outside world and focus on the abstract problem at hand.

Re: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

#7

Post by Jerry2 »

adwhit wrote: post #3

Wolfram talking about Wolfram for 14,000 words. The most Wolfram thing imaginable. Wolfram!

Reminded me of this classic:

>A group of friends and I used to do dramatic readings of the About the Author text from the Mathematica Book, which begins thusly:

>About the Author

>Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today.

>The guy wrote that himself.

>Wait, while searching for that, I see he updated it slightly in later versions:

>About the Author

>Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, and a well-known scientist. He is widely regarded as the most important innovator in technical computing today, as well as one of the world's most original research scientists.

>I guess the original didn't fully express the boundless expanse of his awesomeness.

>"Does anyone want to bet as to which will gain self-awareness first: Wolfram Alpha or Wolfram, Stephen?"

http://chrishecker.com/Kurt_G%C3%B6del_is_Laughing_His_Ass_O...

Post reply on HN