Samantha Atkins wrote:
> Someone asked offline whether I was a new person on the list or a nym of
> someone else. For the record I am a new person here and not a 'nym of
> myself or anyone else and I am not related to Brian Atkins. I simply
> have the same not-that-uncommon last name.
Would it be fair to ask how long until Atkins overtakes, say, Smith?
^_-
> What else? The pattern is a bit different in that I have strong
> empathic abilities and a deep mystical streak. I mainly and
> successfully fight the latter these days and don't make that much use of
> the former. But at one time I almost decided it was time to junk the
> high-tech career and become the first Sister of the Church of the Holy
> Nanite. :-)
Well...you don't have to fight it. Empathy can give you insight into
human nature...and to the best of our knowledge, which species built all
this high tech stuff that we're working with? Guessing based on, "if I
was a typical programmer/system designer/whatever I know the maker of
what I'm faced with was, how would I have set this up," has saved me
much time in the past. That is one of the things that sets applied
computer science apart from, say, chemical engineering.
> What can I say? I have an intermittenly over-active
> God-module.
You try to be God sometimes, too? ^_^
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