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symbioidljI found an article on skinning an OS on osnews.com, and in it, the author says:
" So who does like skinning? I think there is a group, between the end-user and the geek. They are too technical to be considered end-users, but they are not technical enough to be geeks. They do not program, nor do they want to learn how to. On the other hand, they do try out other operating systems. They just do not know of all the underlying technical stuff.
This group is small, very small. I think you can compare it to climbing a mountain, in order to get a good view. Some people loose there courage when at the foot of the mountain. They sit down and think: "This ain’t for me!" They are the end-users. Others become more and more enthusiastic when they reach the mountain. They immediately start climbing, they fall down once in a while, but they keep on trying, and eventually they reach the top. They are the geeks (by the way, I am not using this term in a negative way). Then you have that middle group. They also start climbing, but with less enthusiasm. They do not fall down, but they do move at a much smaller pace than the geeks do. Eventually, they just had it with this climbing thing. They sit down, and enjoy the view. They might move up little, they might move down a little. But they do not reach the top, they do not see the use in that; the view is also beautiful here.
The end-users look up and they see the middle group. "God, they are bunch of mountain rangers!" The end-users do not see the geeks; they are too high to be seen. The geeks look down and see the middle group as well. "Bunch of quitters!" they think. "
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I have a small feeling that this is what![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
abadman kinda thinks of me. Not a complete and utter geek, but still know more than most people about computers...
really though, it fits my whole life. I'm pretty much at that middle level with everything.
It's not that I like it. I don't.
But I realize that this is a perfect metaphor for me. It's why I'm a "jack of all trades/master of none" sorta thing. And though, at times, it depresses me, I am glad to have that breadth of knowledge and desire to expand outward, but yeah, I wish I could just get a little deeper. But this goes back to my whole "I feel stupid" lately... Before I could always dig deeper. but now, I just feel fucking dumb. sigh.
whatever.
who cares.
i don't.
" So who does like skinning? I think there is a group, between the end-user and the geek. They are too technical to be considered end-users, but they are not technical enough to be geeks. They do not program, nor do they want to learn how to. On the other hand, they do try out other operating systems. They just do not know of all the underlying technical stuff.
This group is small, very small. I think you can compare it to climbing a mountain, in order to get a good view. Some people loose there courage when at the foot of the mountain. They sit down and think: "This ain’t for me!" They are the end-users. Others become more and more enthusiastic when they reach the mountain. They immediately start climbing, they fall down once in a while, but they keep on trying, and eventually they reach the top. They are the geeks (by the way, I am not using this term in a negative way). Then you have that middle group. They also start climbing, but with less enthusiasm. They do not fall down, but they do move at a much smaller pace than the geeks do. Eventually, they just had it with this climbing thing. They sit down, and enjoy the view. They might move up little, they might move down a little. But they do not reach the top, they do not see the use in that; the view is also beautiful here.
The end-users look up and they see the middle group. "God, they are bunch of mountain rangers!" The end-users do not see the geeks; they are too high to be seen. The geeks look down and see the middle group as well. "Bunch of quitters!" they think. "
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I have a small feeling that this is what
abadman kinda thinks of me. Not a complete and utter geek, but still know more than most people about computers...really though, it fits my whole life. I'm pretty much at that middle level with everything.
It's not that I like it. I don't.
But I realize that this is a perfect metaphor for me. It's why I'm a "jack of all trades/master of none" sorta thing. And though, at times, it depresses me, I am glad to have that breadth of knowledge and desire to expand outward, but yeah, I wish I could just get a little deeper. But this goes back to my whole "I feel stupid" lately... Before I could always dig deeper. but now, I just feel fucking dumb. sigh.
whatever.
who cares.
i don't.
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Date: 2003-09-23 07:35 am (UTC)and you are not stupid
rather, you are brilliant
keep smiling =)
peace
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Date: 2003-10-04 02:16 pm (UTC)I think it is more of a motivational or directional thing. While I have a lot of fun programming, you can't really learn programming skills when you don't have anything to program. And I don't really know what I could write... it's a lot easier when a project is given to you, for a class or for a job. And then I could start learning as I needed the skills. I usually learn something through creation... It's more difficult to learn and then start creating.
Though I supposed I could get involved in some open-source project. I'll have to look into that.
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Date: 2003-10-04 03:10 pm (UTC)I tend to lack direction, so that's a good point...
When I make music, I just play with the patterns til I find something I like... With coding, I suppose, you can't really do that. In this sense I can see coding more as science than art.
I don't think you can "doodle" code.
I think this is an interesting perspective and maybe one I can try to incorporate into my thinking about how I approach projects.
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Date: 2003-10-15 10:26 pm (UTC)but it would have to be more objective, since coding always has a problem to be solved. it needs direction, and i think that doodling is inherently idle and directionless.
though coding is a bad word, since it describes more the physical action. problem solving like this take place away from the computer a lot of the time.