Getting Better at Life, Most Days. Better = more skilled, more open, more experienced.
The Ruby programming language is, for me, a joy.
I just spent some time trying to work with NewLisp, then Scheme, then Common Lisp and, while those platforms have their merits, they aren't for me. At least not when I have a burning need to get some work done.
time ruby --disable-gems your-script.rb
This has significant speedup on my machine, of course if you need some gems then you shouldn't do this.
Consider also: – crystal (compiled ruby-like, but not Ruby per se) – mruby (lightweight Ruby)
I haven't managed to get mruby to do what I want with a YAML gem, but that's OK since all this is just premature optimization instead of writing the software I need to write.
enable dropbox cd ~ && wget -O – “https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf - ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd if that fails install these: sudo apt install libglib2.0-0 libglapi-mesa libxdamage1 libxcb-glx0 libxcb-dri2-0 libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-present0 libxcb-sync1 libxshmfence1 libxxf86vm1
To use a greater than sign inside a block of quoted text. You have to start it with just one.
Just one: (>) > two is ok (>>) > two more is ok (>>) and back to one. > space between doesn't matter.
The first line is what matters. But it must have something on it.
I've always been a perfectionist.
But I'm gradually learning that good enough is fine and that progress is more important than perfect, and that perfect is the enemy of done.
These are sayings that I have posted above my desk at work; none of my co-workers have really noticed them, but they're nice to have around. They're useful reminders.
But the best cure for my be good, my always proving myself, and my I must be perfect all of the time default mindset, is this classic lecture by Dr. Heidi Grant (start at 19sec):
It's life-changing.
In short, if you're like me and don't have time for a 20-minute video, science shows that people tend to have two mindsets:
If you've ever read or heard of the book Mindset by Carol Dweck, it's the same as what she talked about with growth mindsets (get better) and fixed mindsets (be good). However, I find Dr. Heidi Grant's work much more accessible; I've gotten alot further reading her book Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals than I ever did with Dweck's book. Dr. Grant's audience is much more mainstream then Dweck's.
This philosophy, this belief, this faith is the underlying bedrock of this blog: that each one of us can work hard, improve our skills a little bit, and do it all over again tomorrow. And, in a month or a year we won't believe how far we've come.
So watch the video, and see if it helps you.