Comments on: Thoughts on Übergeek Immersion

By: William

William — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:25:36 +0000

Word.
I have 6 apps open, and probobly about 20 tabs in safari. Only half my henikin mini keg left too. I’m gonna go watch TV.

By: James

James — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:02:17 +0000

Yea I’m not there at your level but I definitely feel ya heh. I’ve got 6 apps, with tabs in most of course. Oh yea I also read the whole thing AND visited every link!

By: dicecore

dicecore — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:51:39 +0000

Just for the record, I read through the whole thing.
I can relate with the crazy multi-tasking aspect, switching back and forth through applications and various projects. Though when I really need to, I can shutoff that mode, prioritize and focus on an important task at hand.
Also relating with the jack of all trades. I think that is a common theme formed for those that are or have been Computer Science majors. You’re subjected to different aspects of Computer Science and you can get away with a degree with not having focus on one particular aspect. It’s a trap! Only just recently I have decided I want to try to focus on web development.
Current apps open: Minefield, Xcode, Adium, Last.fm, Frogblast, Webkit, iTunes

By: Abe

Abe — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:02:05 +0000

Not tl;dr at all. I did have to take a couple breaks, though, and I cranked up the font size a bit because looking at giant blobs of tiny text makes my eyes cross.
But yeah, that’s totally a realization I came to today — I segmented feeds off of my regular friends page on LJ (it was getting way too busy for me to keep up). So I set them up on a separate filter so I could read my friend’s journals first, separate from feeds. And then tonight I caught myself going, “Huh, I didn’t read feeds at all, did I?”. I didn’t miss *anything*, I didn’t feel disconnected. And yet I can’t stand to say “hey, maybe I’m not interested in reading this anymore”. I still am, but perhaps as filler, and not as something to devote my time to.
Stupid technology. :p
Apps open: Safari, Mail, iTunes, VPN, iTerm (with irssi open), Adium.

By: sheryl

sheryl — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:13:32 +0000

That article reminded me of you in every way.
I love firefox tabs, but that’s about it. You took all the computer smarts for the family.

By: B

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:40:11 +0000

“Was it tl;dr or did you go through it line by line? ”
Bastard! I was gonna leave a snarky tl;dr here but you stole my funnies.
To answer your question and take it a step further: 5 apps – winamp (not playing), AIM, Google Desktop, Firefox with 5 tabs, and Acrobat. Acrobat has the TI rules open cause I was posting my turn a little bit ago and forgot to close it after checking something, and the firefox tabs are Gmail, Google reader, a google search and a cr3ation search for a song I had going through my head (Maps by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, which you may now infer is why Winamp is open) and the page where I’m writing this comment.
My reader is subscribed to 11 feeds. Only one of those is a “daily random gadget crap” feed and its in the lowest priority folder, I catch up on it maybe once every other day. Of the rest 2 are “Cool stuff” blogs (Lego and Steampunk) that make a couple posts a day at most, 3 are friend’s blogs such as this, 2 are craigslist searches, 2 are blogs from some game developers I like, and the last is my flickr comment feed. I get by just fine on all this, at most I’m done reading in an hour. I spend a couple hours each morning checking that, email, and forums and then I close it all except gmail and move on with my day. I seem to do all right.
Related note: The last time I had an eye exam the optometrist told me our generation was insurance that he’d always have a job. By the time we’re 80 we’ll all be twice as blind as the current batch of retirees from staring at monitors and LCDs for 12 hours a day. He told me that at the very least take a minute every 1/2 hour – hour and just look away from any screens, get up and stetch, walk around, do *something*. Seems like sound advice.

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:48:37 +0000

2 apps. I read the whole thing. I think that you are coming to something we all come to at some point in our lives dave, too much is too hectic. I also used to subscribe to digg and slashdot rss feeds. I used to check my gmail every ten seconds (along with myspace and facebook). I spent hours each day talking on IM an doing nothing else. Lets not forget to mention browsing a “certain imageboard” for hours a day. Now though, it’s different. I turn shit off. I switched my shell to bblean and am running as minimalistic as I can. That helps me. I am able to keep things straight and stay focused. I too realized that I am so-so at many things but not really a master at a lot. That is why I have been focusing on my writing as of late. Where dinking around with CSS and PHP (which I never fully did learn) for hours used to be, is now replaced with MS Word and my novel I am writing. Seiously, once you realize that the latest and greatest isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, you will sit back and see the world differently.

By: RMFD

RMFD — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:55:27 +0000

6 apps as of right now…. oh yeah, I read the whole thing.