Meta Learning the Hurd Stuff

From: Joshua Branson Subject: Meta Learning the Hurd Stuff Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 15:53:39 -0400

Hello, Summary: beating myself up because I'm not an expert hurd developer won't help me learn faster. So this is going to be a short positive critique of my current learning strategy, and it will hopefully help me to learn better. I realize that this is slightly off topic, but if we are a community, it would be nice if I could occasionally talk about my struggles. If this kind of email doesn't belong on the list, please let me know. So yesterday, I decided to write a GNU/Hurd translator in gnu guile. I am completely positive that I do not have the technical expertise to do this, so I figured I'd give it a try anyway and just push myself. I fired up the Hurd in a vm, and tried connecting to the hurd file via emacs and tramp. I couldn't do it. I couldn't figure out why Tramp wasn't working. I started to tell myself, that the reason tramp isn't working is because I'm stupid, and I am a failure. I finally figured out that Emacs thinks: "/ssh:address@hidden" is a local file. BUT "/ssh:address@hidden:~/" is a remote file It was such a simple mistake, but I was so mad at the world and myself that this tiny problem was keeping me from coding. This was when I discovered, that if I keep telling myself, "I hate trying to get this to work" over and over again, then I'm going to have a very hard time developing for the Hurd. Instead I should say, "I'm glad that developing for the Hurd is difficult. This gives me an opportunity to learn something new everyday! I'm greatful that developing for the Hurd presents new problems for me everyday, because it proves my resilience." Thanks for listening, Joshua

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