From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs? Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 03:40:52 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87iocro9uj.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <20150411125610231765777@bob.proulx.com> <87lhhx7f6s.fsf@gmail.com> <874mojtxx5.fsf@debian.uxu> <20150415152734176578287@bob.proulx.com> <87twwgaxrm.fsf@gmail.com> <87y4lrk7ev.fsf@debian.uxu> <87iocrx0ar.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429494023 26625 80.91.229.3 (20 Apr 2015 01:40:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 01:40:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 20 03:40:23 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yk0hB-00026B-DX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 03:40:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51530 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yk0hA-0001bA-FY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 21:40:20 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.etla.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 58 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:lsIR+v88MpcZW1N6dlquhrUAbmY= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211596 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103877 Archived-At: Bob Proulx writes: > When I was 20 years old I didn't need any memory > aides help me remember anything. Years have past and > now I find those hints that take me to the related > bug reports to be needed for me to re-cache in > memory what I need to know about a particular > problem. Many years ago I read a book called "Programmers at work" - @book{programmers-at-work, title = {Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer}, author = {Susan Lammers}, publisher = {Tempus Books}, year = {July 1989}, ISBN = {1556152116} } - in which I think it was Charles Simonyi (the inventor of "Hungarian Notation") who played a little game every time he went to sleep. He'd visualize a castle with ten rooms, and in every room there are ten items. I tried this game myself but was a bit disappointed because I realized you could "cheat" but putting only weapons in the armory, only clothes in the wardrobe, etc. Or you could have only items with the first letter A in the first room, then B..., etc. I don't know if this really improved my memory but sometimes it made me sleep, probably because it shut out other thoughts so brought relaxation. On the whole, memory does not improve with age (as does nothing) but I don't think 20 year olds necessarily have good memory. Many of them don't have good memory and that relates to them having a short radar in time and in space. If they really put their "mind" into remembering things they would. But living in the moment - which is their spaciality - can work against them and this is visible for example in young people telling people the same stories over and over. "You already told us that." "Oh, I did." > Many of those be deja-bugs again in the future. > Being able to review the history and get up to speed > faster by reading those bug reports helps. Problems reoccur or are variations of old problems. That's the basic truth to it all. It is like a computer cache. Proximity in space and time. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573