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Catchy title. Diagnosing "procrastination" seems to be all the rage nowadays, people will almost always identify with it.

Also, you can wait for a notebook with a mobile version of Core i7, when Intel finally catches up with everything AMD has to offer (eg integrated memory controller).

Q2 next year?

My thoughts exactly. For me, a glossy display is really hard to use, functionality is ruined.

That's the way my brain is wired, I can't help it. I only hope that notebooks with matte displays don't disappear, and that I can install Linux on them.

Full movie: http://www.perl.org/yapc/2002/movies/themovie/yapc2002-big.m...

Script: http://www.perl.org/yapc/2002/movies/themovie/script.txt

Fab "Mad Scientist" performance by Damian Conway, bonus cameo appearence by Larry Wall.

Gotta love the Perl Community!

That's a shame. We have to thank AMD for the x86-64 architecture ("64-bit for the masses").

Hehe, so true. Geeks usually place their religion all over licenses, languages, editors, operating systems, methodologies, etc.

Some people choose ideologies. There must be an evolutionary explanation for religion somewhere.

Diablo I & II were the last games I played. I stayed away from computer games because I don't need another time-sink.

And then I read about Diablo III... The thing is highly addictive. The diablo-receptors in my brain already started firing :-)

Instead of navigating with tabs, you can try this in your .emacs:

(iswitchb-mode 1)

Very speedy buffer-changing that's hard to beat.

Here's a good explanation of what went wrong:

http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html

"The IPv6 designers made a fundamental conceptual mistake: they designed the IPv6 address space as an alternative to the IPv4 address space, rather than an extension to the IPv4 address space."

We're always looking for a Silver Bullet. Does someone know if there are papers out there that correlate unit testing with better results in software projects?

Sorry, but why not go right to the good stuff?

You'll find a great list in Harold Bloom's "Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds".

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0446691291/

About this subject, checkout the latest cryptogram:

http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0805.html#3

As usual, Bruce Schneier has solid advice.

Knuth's TAOCP, Vol I (page 79 on the 3rd edition) has a very nice introduction to Fibonacci numbers.

The article doesn't mention the classical problem proposed by Fibonacci: "How many rabbits can be produced from a single pair in a year's time?"

(each pair produces a new pair of offspring every month, each new pair becomes fertile at the age of one month).

"[P]rocrastination is actually a subconscious lack of competence."

I agree, I think a sense of "perceived incompetence", insecurity and confusion can lead to procrastination.

Trying to define a problem well, or breaking it into smaller ones, can help a lot. The same logic can be applied to projects.

Keeping up with Reddit and HN can also lead to frustration (yes I see the irony :), there's so much happening in web development. If only there were a way to ignore fads and keep up with the really important trends...

Emacs is my editor of choice, very powerful and portable. Its complexity can be frustrating sometimes, a bit of a time-sink.

Altough I'm currently using a Mac, I try to resist the temptation to use Textmate. It may be easier to use and extend, but it is not Free Software.

I wonder if in the next releases Emacs can be made more friendly to users who keep forgetting about how its internals work and the elisp syntax :-)

The author has ceirtainly touched a nerve.

I wonder if Perl 6 will be a better Ruby... I do hope we can start to use it by this year's end.