Just when I thought that waiting for something good to happen without doing
anything about it won’t cut it anymore, I heard the good news from
the Rakudo community: they released an early adopter distribution of Perl 6.
The language has grown so much more elegant with version 6, and now we can
actually use it in a meaningful way. This may just keep me going through
September!
If you can vote here, you may not yet have a clear opinion on the future of
our unemployment insurance. Well, you should: here’s some (German) reading material.
Also, you may enjoy reading about people who tried to go a bit farther
this summer: Michael, Samuel.
Not out of a sense of accomplishment but simply because it was raining, I
was playing my favorite space
game for a ridiculously long time. What surprised me was my newfound
tolerance for level grinding which I didn’t possess a year ago. While patience
is generally an admirable trait, being able to do dull and repetitive tasks
for hours upon hours is nothing to be proud of.
In gaming at least, this strategy lets you reach your goal eventually. Real
life has some powerful anti-grinding measures, aging for example.
“Computer Science aficionado Sebastian’s page: or how I stopped
mindless web surfing and learned to love analyzing programs. And then took up
mindless web surfing again because it took all of my energy to avoid doing
low priority stuff.”
