Dougy Mak's Blog

Not in school, but in everything else. School’s not making me happy, it isn’t bringing me self satisfaction and I don’t feel like I am working for anything. I just feel like a drone, a drone waiting to be free on the day I graduate, the day I set off and sail towards the sunset to start my new adventure.. Maybe I’ll take less classes, and get a job. Maybe I’ll stop wasting my money, and save. Maybe I’ll save up more, and buy my own car. Maybe I’ll continue to save up, so I have a house to put my car in. Maybe I should try a little harder in life…

I’m laying here on my bed at my girl friend’s house at 2:14 am on a Sunday and I have Physics in 6 hours. I just finished watching Pirates of the Sillicone Valley, and reading tons of articles about Steve Jobs and startup related things. I realized it is very hard to come up with an idea that would forever change the world, but when looking back on it, it’s just so obvious and leaves me wondering why didn’t I come up with that idea. Apple created many products, and forever changed the world. It continued to push industries and it was because of them that competitors developed products that you love.  Facebook changed the way we socialize. YouTube forever changed the way we consume video media. When you think about it… IT IS SO OBVIOUS! WHY DID I NOT THINK OF THIS?  I still remember downloading videos back then and watching videos like numa numa and that was how videos were shared before then came YouTube. I consider myself pretty tech savvy, and that is my Achilles heel. When you know how to do everything that you need to, you get accustomed to it and do not really think about redefining how it works to improve it. So now I am sitting here trying to come up with an idea to change the world, and I keep arriving at the same questions: Why would someone even use this? There is already a way to do this, you do it X way. If I redefined this to do it with X way, then that could work, but how much better is this? Do people just stumble on to these ideas? They probably are experiencing the problem and decided to build X to help improve their lives…. And I continue to sit here… putting myself in the future trying to experience what technology would be like and asking myself “why didn’t I think of that?”

I always get these moments of inspiration at the most oddest hours. Usually during 1-5AM, if I am awake. I want to act on it and start programming or do something, but I know I would be dead tired next day when I am in class. It’s not like I listen in class anyways, but I want to complete my degree just so I can say I have a degree in Computer Science and also to satisfy my parents wants. I always feel like I am trying to juggle my passions with school and I always end up fucking up both. I want to just cut one of them (school) and focus on the other, but I don’t have the balls to… What should I do?  Persevere for 3 more semesters…

Trying to control it by “just not playing” is not enough for me. It is too tempting for me, because it is just 1 click away! I want to continue to have fun yet I feel like I am wasting my life and it affects other areas of my life. I cannot stop gaming, I always come back to it. It is like a drug to me, and it only has 2 extreme choices. I am addicted to the feeling of winning, losing, striving, improving, dominating and game vanities. I can only control it if i remove it from my life entirely, but I cannot find an alternative activity to compensate these feelings.

You should yank the text to the * or + registers:

gg"*yG

Explanation:

• gg
  • gets the cursor to the first character of the file
• "*y
  • Starts a yank command to the register * from the first line, until…
• G
  • go the end of the file

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1620018/vi-editor-copy-all-the-lines-to-clipboard

• Edit the first file, yanking the text you want. Then open your second file from within vi (:e /path/to/other/file) and paste it

• Open both files together in a split window and navigate between them using Ctrl + w,Up/Down either by:

  • vi -o /path/to/file1 /path/to/file2
  • From within the first file, Ctrl + w, s

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4620672/copy-and-paste-content-from-one-file-to-another-file-in-vi