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* secret of Carstens speed
@ 2007-12-02  8:47 Rustom Mody
  2007-12-02  9:09 ` Manish
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Rustom Mody @ 2007-12-02  8:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

I know this is somewhat OT but... Gawd Carsten you are just too fast!
We newbies cant keep up with learning org mode with the speed with
which you produce it! I donwloaded one tgz yesterday (my 2nd download
in a month, 3rd if I count the 4.67c that comes with bundled with
etch) and theres a new one today!

Can we have some tips on your productivity? Yeah sure you use emacs
and org-mode but there must be other things as well I guess.
What emacs modes do you (most) use.
What are the other aspects/steps of your toolchain for rolling out a
new release?
etc etc

Rustom

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* Re: secret of Carstens speed
  2007-12-02  8:47 secret of Carstens speed Rustom Mody
@ 2007-12-02  9:09 ` Manish
  2007-12-02 11:01 ` Leo
  2007-12-02 20:58 ` Carsten Dominik
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Manish @ 2007-12-02  9:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

On Dec 2, 2007 2:17 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> I know this is somewhat OT but... Gawd Carsten you are just too fast!
> We newbies cant keep up with learning org mode with the speed with
> which you produce it! I donwloaded one tgz yesterday (my 2nd download
> in a month, 3rd if I count the 4.67c that comes with bundled with
> etch) and theres a new one today!
>

ditto.

> Can we have some tips on your productivity? Yeah sure you use emacs
> and org-mode but there must be other things as well I guess.
> What emacs modes do you (most) use.
> What are the other aspects/steps of your toolchain for rolling out a
> new release?
> etc etc

+1
Please.

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* Re: secret of Carstens speed
  2007-12-02  8:47 secret of Carstens speed Rustom Mody
  2007-12-02  9:09 ` Manish
@ 2007-12-02 11:01 ` Leo
  2007-12-02 12:00   ` Rustom Mody
  2007-12-02 20:58   ` Eddward DeVilla
  2007-12-02 20:58 ` Carsten Dominik
  2 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Leo @ 2007-12-02 11:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

On 2007-12-02 08:47 +0000, Rustom Mody wrote:
> I know this is somewhat OT but... Gawd Carsten you are just too fast!
> We newbies cant keep up with learning org mode with the speed with
> which you produce it! I donwloaded one tgz yesterday (my 2nd download
> in a month, 3rd if I count the 4.67c that comes with bundled with
> etch) and theres a new one today!

Nobody forces you to upgrade. I am using 5.13 and it works just fine.

>
> Can we have some tips on your productivity? Yeah sure you use emacs
> and org-mode but there must be other things as well I guess.
> What emacs modes do you (most) use.
> What are the other aspects/steps of your toolchain for rolling out a
> new release?
> etc etc
>
> Rustom

-- 
.:  Leo  :.  [ sdl.web AT gmail.com ]  .:  [ GPG Key: 9283AA3F ]  :.

          Use the best OS -- http://www.fedoraproject.org/

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* Re: Re: secret of Carstens speed
  2007-12-02 11:01 ` Leo
@ 2007-12-02 12:00   ` Rustom Mody
  2007-12-02 20:58   ` Eddward DeVilla
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Rustom Mody @ 2007-12-02 12:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

On Dec 2, 2007 4:31 PM, Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Nobody forces you to upgrade. I am using 5.13 and it works just fine.

Of course.

Its one's own need ultimately. 5.15 had the feature of automatic
remember filing which I thought was important. 5.16 does not (as far
as I know) have something that I need (right now).

So one upgrade was needed, one not. Anyhow upgrading is a fairly
simple business.
After untarring, edit the line
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/path-to-my/org-5.16")
in myorgsetup.el. No need for make-ing

My real point was the second one -- what makes Carsten so terrifically
productive?

As said earlier, this may be OT in a technical sense but I guess
everyone who is using org mode and even more, those striving to
improve their usage of org-mode, are interested in productivity --
hence I thought it ok to put the question.

If its inappropriate, sorry :-)

Rustom

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* Re: Re: secret of Carstens speed
  2007-12-02 11:01 ` Leo
  2007-12-02 12:00   ` Rustom Mody
@ 2007-12-02 20:58   ` Eddward DeVilla
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Eddward DeVilla @ 2007-12-02 20:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Leo; +Cc: emacs-orgmode

On Dec 2, 2007 5:01 AM, Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2007-12-02 08:47 +0000, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > I know this is somewhat OT but... Gawd Carsten you are just too fast!
> > We newbies cant keep up with learning org mode with the speed with
> > which you produce it! I donwloaded one tgz yesterday (my 2nd download
> > in a month, 3rd if I count the 4.67c that comes with bundled with
> > etch) and theres a new one today!
>
> Nobody forces you to upgrade. I am using 5.13 and it works just fine.

True.  I stay back level when there aren't any update I need and I'm
too busy to experiment.  Still, it frighteningly impressive how
quickly Carsten can add significant updates to org-mode when he's on a
roll.  He's good.

Edd

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* Re: secret of Carstens speed
  2007-12-02  8:47 secret of Carstens speed Rustom Mody
  2007-12-02  9:09 ` Manish
  2007-12-02 11:01 ` Leo
@ 2007-12-02 20:58 ` Carsten Dominik
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Carsten Dominik @ 2007-12-02 20:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Rustom Mody; +Cc: emacs-orgmode

On 12/2/07, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> I know this is somewhat OT but... Gawd Carsten you are just too fast!
> We newbies cant keep up with learning org mode with the speed with
> which you produce it! I donwloaded one tgz yesterday (my 2nd download
> in a month, 3rd if I count the 4.67c that comes with bundled with
> etch) and theres a new one today!
>
> Can we have some tips on your productivity? Yeah sure you use emacs
> and org-mode but there must be other things as well I guess.
> What emacs modes do you (most) use.
> What are the other aspects/steps of your toolchain for rolling out a
> new release?
> etc etc

Hi Rustom,

Well, a good friend of mine saw this question from you today,
and she was kind enough to suggest to me:

> maybe you should confess that you are working on org mode
> whenever you want to avoid doing other more urgent things...

Well, think it is definitely true that I am using Org-mode to
procrastinate.

On a bright note, I believe that you can easily be efficient at
doing what you love to do. I get a big kick out of creating and
maintaining this community, there a few things I enjoy more.

To answer your question more seriously:

Much of the development around Org-mode is organized around
mail.  All mails that com into emacs-orgmode I immediately sort
into bugs, other ideas I'd like to at least think about, and stuff
I don't need to do anything about (thanks to people like Bastien...)

I do have a 1 hour train ride to work and another hour back, and I
tend to spend at least one of these valuable, completely un-interrupted
time slots working on Org-mode.  Plus one of two evenings a week.
I try very hard to not do anything on it at work except for an
occasional email.

I have set things up so that releasing and uploading a new version
is as easy as

  make relup TAG=5.16

so it is easy to do.

My computer setup:  I do work mostly on a MacBook Pro, with
x11 installed, using an X11 version of Emacs - I've spent too
many years in that environment to give that up easily.

I am not a touch typer, I use 6-8 Fingers and make lots of mistakes
as all of you know who have tried to read and fix my documentation.

So there is no secret at all, it is just the joy of doing it, the drive
of feedback from you all, and a bit of addiction.
Well, there are worse things one could be addicted to...

- Carsten

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