{"id":3308,"date":"2010-02-10T03:02:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T08:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3308"},"modified":"2010-02-10T03:02:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T08:02:43","slug":"repost-moores-law-is-crapsteveys-blog-rants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/10\/repost-moores-law-is-crapsteveys-blog-rants\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:: Moore&#039;s Law is Crap::Stevey&#039;s Blog Rants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great advice. Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Big Choice<\/strong><br \/>\nWe all have to choose how to spend the time we&#8217;re given.<br \/>\nIf you don&#8217;t choose, it just slips right by you. I know. On a trip to Vegas not too long ago, I made a pit stop in a casino restroom, and as I was washing my hands, there was this older guy there, also washing his hands. On a whim, I asked, &#8220;Hey man, how old are you?&#8221;<br \/>\nHis reply? &#8220;Seventy-two! I have a son: I remember the day he was born like it was yesterday! I was holding him just like so. Well, guess what, he turned 40 years old just last week! It goes by in a flash! Before long, you&#8217;ll be lookin&#8217; at THIS!&#8221; He pointed at his wrinkled mug, and concluded his monologue with: &#8220;Haw, haw, haw! HAW HAW HAW *cough* *cough* HAW *cough* *hack* HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW!&#8221; and walked out. I think I made his day, although I can&#8217;t exactly say he made mine.<br \/>\n<strong>When you graduate from college (or high school, for that matter), you have a simple choice facing you. You can either keep learning, or you can stop.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>There is an almost unbelievably easy heuristic for knowing whether you&#8217;re learning. It goes like this: no pain, no gain. Learning is hard. If it&#8217;s easy, then you&#8217;re coasting; you&#8217;re not making yourself better at something fundamentally new that you couldn&#8217;t do before.<\/strong><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/steve-yegge.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/moores-law-is-crap.html\">Stevey&#8217;s Blog Rants: Moore&#8217;s Law is Crap<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great advice. Read the whole thing. The Big Choice We all have to choose how to spend the time we&#8217;re given. If you don&#8217;t choose, it just slips right by you. I know. On a trip to Vegas not too long ago, I made a pit stop in a casino restroom, and as I was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/10\/repost-moores-law-is-crapsteveys-blog-rants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:: Moore&#039;s Law is Crap::Stevey&#039;s Blog Rants&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,78,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice-for-the-day","category-rant","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}