Satori, if it's even real, is just an affliction that make you unable to care about coding because you've distanced yourself from the real world so much.
Stop making threads about metaphysical nonsense.
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Anonymous2007-07-05 19:35 ID:9NEbyGtg
Evolution of a Satori programmer:
-Programmer enters college.
-Programmer reads SICP.
-Programmer misses the main point of SICP: that your code be optimized at all levels, high AND low.
-College figures that any retard can figure out how to optimize high-level code and teaches the Programmer skills that aren't immediately obvious to most of their students.
-Programmer graduates, gets a job.
-Programmer gets his first assignment: writing a sort method.
-Applying what he learned in college without even stopping to think and plan, writes a selection sort in assembly.
-Programmer is fired.
-Programmer finally catches on and realizes that high-level optimization is important, and remembers the last time he heard about it in college was in Programming 101 with SICP because the college assumed their students would remember that lesson throughout college.
-Programmer re-reads SICP.
-Programmer finally relearns that lesson.
-Programmer views low-level optimization as a waste of time.
-Programmer lands crappy job after showing off his quicksort written in scheme.
-Programmer learns to resent programming because he sucks at it and spends his days crying at home at how his life turned out.
-Friends find out. Programmer tells friends he meditates to cover up the fact that he's crying. Just kidding, the Satori programmer has no friends.
Evolution of a non-Satori programmer:
-Programmer enters college.
-Programmer takes Programming 101 and reads SICP.
-Programmer learns and remembers the concept of high-level optimization.
-Programmer goes on to learn low-level optimization and master both skills.
-Programmer lands a job showing off his quicksort written in assembly.
-Programmer maintains successful career, starts a family, lives comfortably, and programs games for fun in his free time.