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The nature of my most pressing need(s):

by Petruchio (Vicar)
on May 13, 2002 at 05:22 UTC ( [id://166110]=poll: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

Vote on this poll

Self-Actualization
[bar] 56/12%
Ego/Esteem
[bar] 31/7%
Social
[bar] 41/9%
Security/Safety
[bar] 19/4%
Biological/Physical
[bar] 23/5%
All of the above. I'm a mess.
[bar] 77/17%
None of the above. Mu.
[bar] 42/9%
XP. Please, please, please vote me up!
[bar] 30/7%
Um... which tier is coding on?
[bar] 31/7%
The Need to Kick Maslow's Heinie.
[bar] 13/3%
Vroom tells The Faithful what we need. This week: Kool-Aid.
[bar] 23/5%
The Need for another poll option.
[bar] 72/16%
458 total votes
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Re: The nature of my most pressing need(s):
by hagus (Monk) on May 13, 2002 at 11:48 UTC
    For those wondering what the 'mu' reference is. Not that there would be many of us who haven't read the entire jargon file from 0 to Z ;)

    Incidentally, has anyone ever made it through Hofstadter's G.E.B. ? I have a bookmark about 1/3 the way through :)

    --
    Ash OS durbatulk, ash OS gimbatul,
    Ash OS thrakatulk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul!
    Uzg-Microsoft-ishi amal fauthut burguuli.

      vroom says Kool-Aid, I agree
      vroom says the space ship will be here to get us soon, and to keep farming the crops for the Great Harvest
      I agree

      Kool-Aid Kool-Aid Kool-Aid Kool-Aid Kool-Aid Kool-Aid

      Follow vroom, for unto vroom becomes Kool-Aid.

      work it harder make it better do it faster makes us stronger more than ever hour after our work is never over.
        Daft Punk meets a Kool-Aid Aum Shinrikyo cult!! You weird me out man!!

        --
        Ash OS durbatulk, ash OS gimbatul,
        Ash OS thrakatulk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul!
        Uzg-Microsoft-ishi amal fauthut burguuli.

      I finished G.E.B. but its cover is more battered than most of my books, due to the extra time it spend in my bag because of the bits where I couldn't absorb more than a few pages at a time.

      the hatter
      Thanks for the explanation on the meaning of mu! I'm surprised that I haven't heard this one before. I would image that politicians in our country would have adopted this word with open arms! ;-)

      - wil
        I'm very fond of the Discordian text on Mu,

        = Zarathud's Enlightnment =

        Before he became a hermit, Zarathud was a young Priest, and took great delight in making fools of his opponents in front of his followers.

        One day Zarathud took his students to a pleasant pasture and there he confronted The Sacred Chao while She was contentedly grazing.

        "Tell me, you dumb beast." demanded the Priest in his commanding voice, "why don't you do something worthwhile. What is your Purpose in Life, anyway?"

        Munching the tasty grass, The Sacred Chao replied "MU".

        Upon hearing this, absolutely nobody was enlightened. Primarily because nobody could understand Chinese.


        --jwest

        -><- -><- -><- -><- -><-
        All things are Perfect
            To every last Flaw
            And bound in accord
                 With Eris's Law
         - HBT; The Book of Advice, 1:7
        
      I'm bookmarked about 1/3 of the way through also, and I haven't looked for it for some time now. It just takes some effort. And besides, I need last year's acid to get further and further from my system before I have room for any more of GEB. ;)
      Yes, I read GEB - it was amazing, I couldn't put it down! I thoroughly recommend it to all hacker types. The only bit I didn't grok was the complicated maths bits, I couldn't get my head around those. (a bad admission for a programmer I suppose).
      A self-respecting geek might not have read the jargon file from cover to cover? Sheesh. Even my teeny-bopper daughter could tell you what mu is! :-) I printed out the HTML Jargon File and it lived in the bathroom for several months.
Re: The nature of my most pressing need(s):
by JayBonci (Curate) on May 13, 2002 at 06:23 UTC

    "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."

    -Oscar Wilde


    Hmm.. but there is that two a day...sometimes.

        --jb
Re: The nature of my most pressing need(s):
by systems (Pilgrim) on May 13, 2002 at 11:04 UTC
    What if I or we were born in a pre-computer era?
    I believe we do what we do to support our social life.
    Perlmonks.org is about socialization not about work or Self-Actualization
    I think if some poeple code or WORK on their computers because they enjoy it then it's a social habit! not a work habit! Even if they get paid for it.
    That is why some people are happy at work and others are not, because their work became a social habit!
    Self-Actualization won't be as needed If you live alone and no one else recognize your sucesss!
    Therefore I must say that We (human kind) are all about socialization!
Re: The nature of my most pressing need(s):
by guha (Priest) on May 13, 2002 at 17:44 UTC

    "All of the above. I'm a mess."

    Perl is a mess and that's good because the problem space is also a mess. -- Larry Wall

    Does this make me
    A) a programming language,
    B) a problematic space ship to be used by vroom,
    C) just another messed up poster (JAMUP)

      It's said owners begin to look like their dogs, maybe it's also true that programmers being to resemble their languages?

        Oh-no! My langauges are C++, Perl and PHP!

        No wait... programmers do not resemble their langauges... they begin to think in their langauges! My brain has threading and XML support, does yours?

Re: The nature of my most pressing need(s):
by Chainsaw (Friar) on May 13, 2002 at 16:06 UTC
    Well this topic is very curious since I started to work my grater necessity is to learn to handle the necessities of the clients and work with whom never in my life I throw before.

    And in personal life learn to say no 'cause sometimes I put the leg (I'm mess).


    God help me always to see the other face of the coin. And prevent me from accusing of betrayal those who don't think just as I do.
Re: The nature of my most pressing need(s):
by thaigrrl (Monk) on May 15, 2002 at 20:41 UTC
    where is beer on this list??!! a good Chimay is all I work and live for ;)

      vroom says beer makes us weak and lazy. Poisons the soul.

      We need Koolaid. So that the aliens may give us new bodies. Bodies that may allow us to code without using our hands and feet. We can code with our thoughts

      (/me drinks koolaid)

      my $_ = " //------\\ ||| o o ||| ||| c ||| |||\----/||| ||| || ||| /----------\ /----\/-----\ |censoredcen| \----/\-----/ | | | | | / \| / ***** \ / censored \ | censored | | censored | | / \ | | / \ |";
Re: The nature of my most pressing need(s):
by emcs (Scribe) on May 14, 2002 at 04:24 UTC
    Okay: My coding skills are still weak.

    But I realize that all good monks must eventually post some real code.

    So: Here goes; I have been working with the tutorial node.

    #!perl -w use strict; print "Do you like deep perlish questions at the voting booth?\n"; my $input = <>; chomp $input; if ($input eq 'y') { while ( <DATA> ) { chomp; my @SelfActualization = split /\|/; print join(' ', @SelfActualization), "\n"; } }else{ if ($input eq 'n'){ print "Non of the above for me. MU."; } } __END__ You have no hangups.|You love Psychiatrists.|You have strong Ego.| High Self esteem.|Isn't life just great.

    The dogs bark; but the caravan rolls on.

    emcs

Re: The nature of my most pressing need(s):
by mikfire (Deacon) on May 14, 2002 at 19:48 UTC
    Where's the gin ( or beer or <insert favorite alcoholic beverage here> ) option? I would claim that my most pressing need is for more gin!
    mikfire
Re: The nature of my most pressing need(s):
by djw (Vicar) on May 14, 2002 at 13:56 UTC
    /me drinks down the delicious kool-ai.... *death*

    djw
Re: The nature of my most pressing need(s):
by malaga (Pilgrim) on May 16, 2002 at 06:02 UTC
    My vote would be different today than yesterday. what if everyone could vote on this once a day - would the totals be different from these? And would they be different each day? What if everyone needed a social life on the same day, and needed self-esteem on the same day, etc.
Re: The nature of my most pressing need(s):
by geekoid (Initiate) on May 15, 2002 at 16:57 UTC
    My white dress shirt.
Re: The nature of my most pressing need(s):
by Putzfrau (Beadle) on May 16, 2002 at 12:42 UTC
    The only reason i know who Maslow is, is because I had to take a bloody "Human Relations" class in my last year of cs. As if we grads didnt know how to interact with these so called "humans". I was insulting. Other than the Kicking option i could go for some Physical/Biological goodness right now...mmmmm.....breakfast

    "The way of the Hacker, the Way of the Sword and the way of Zen are identical, for they have the same purpose - that of killing the ego." -- Adapted from Yamada Jirokichi

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