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Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests by liberia on Sunday July 31, 2022 @06:09PM (#32299333)
Well as a hacker, boredom is the enemy and we’re always at war with boredom. For a hacker, boredom is a form of death.
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Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests by corobo on Monday August 01, 2022 @03:20AM (#32303070)
I gotta disagree here. Boredom is where all my ideas come from. Boredom is the catalyst to wondering how Xyz works.

Boredom is taking an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem, and then realising you can put a front end on that and do it as a service for people who don't have that skillset.

No boredom, no hacking.

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Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests by lostmsu on Thursday August 04, 2022 @05:18PM (#32348414)
The second para though is not part of boredom.
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Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests by corobo on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @11:24AM (#32413517)
The second paragraph was a HN-jokey way to describe hacking a project from a personal itch to a service with a target market
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Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests by switchbak on Monday August 01, 2022 @12:50AM (#32302195)
Well, some hackers are also Buddhists, which don't tend to view boredom like that.
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Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests by NovaVeles on Monday August 01, 2022 @01:33AM (#32302419)
And that is how we get Bodhi Linux. ;)
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Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests by ta988 on Sunday July 31, 2022 @06:37PM (#32299527)
Not my experience. I'm happy to hack things so I have more alone space and time too. I don't see the two opposed at all.
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Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests by GrifMD on Sunday July 31, 2022 @07:57PM (#32300107)
This sounds like a quote from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
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Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests by a123b456c on Monday August 01, 2022 @01:33AM (#32302417)
Motivation to explore/create <> motivation to avoid boredom.

"enemy" ... "at war with" ... "death" ... such metaphors.

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Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests by xcambar on Monday August 01, 2022 @12:57AM (#32302227)
As a hacker, boredom is a powerful motivator and creator.
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Re:Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests by tjr225 on Monday August 01, 2022 @02:27AM (#32302748)
As a hacker,
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