Are you lazy?

[Kyriakos]

This is a poll. It takes minimal effort to vote

I am quite lazy. At least a 3, if not 4.
It's not a good state of affairs.

 

[warpus]

I'd like to think that I'm a good programmer, which by extension makes me lazy to some degree.

An explanation why "lazy" is not necessarily a bad quality when you're a programmer

Lazy, because only lazy programmers will want to write the kind of tools that might replace them in the end. Lazy, because only a lazy programmer will avoid writing monotonous, repetitive code—thus avoiding redundancy, the enemy of software maintenance and flexible refactoring. Mostly, the tools and processes that come out of this endeavor fired by laziness will speed up the production.

Doing your best to get around any extra work certainly sounds like the definition of laziness. But Lenssen asserts that in the process of eliminating those unnecessary steps, the “lazy” programmer also is getting rid of future drudgery. If this programmer has to do something more than once, he will consider automating it, thus speeding up and improving the process.

Being lazy also will drive a programmer to determine which software tools make work easier and to ensure that work can be maintained and refactored easily. A lazy programmer will find tools that help him stay lazy instead of creating a tool himself, preferring to take advantage of the efforts of the open source community. If there is an existing solution that has already been tested and proven, this programmer will find it—and once again, his laziness has actually streamlined productivity.

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In other aspects of life.. it depends on the situation.

And of course women can be programmers too, but a woman did actually write this article and has decided for whatever reason to go with "he" here.

 

[Samson]

Yeah, I am lazy in the sense of warpus's post, and also in the normal sense as well. I hope I put effort in when the value justifies it, but I am not sure.

 

[Narz]

I think the concept of laziness is a lazy metric for understanding human motivation and action.

To clarify I think most times when someone calls another (or themself) lazy what's really going on is they're not 100% bought into whatever action they're trying to force themself to take.

If the reward is high enough and one believs it will come and/or if the activity is intristicly rewarding enough laziness goes out the window.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I've started doing tasks that I'm initially disinclined to do because they seem too onerous and counting off how many seconds it takes to complete them.

Usually, these tasks end up taking under sixty seconds; one took 17 seconds. Which tells me that I think of 60-second tasks, even 17 second tasks, as onerous.

Which tells me that I'm lazy

 

[H4run]

Everybody seems to think I'm lazy
I don't mind, I think they're crazy

Running everywhere at such a speed
Till they find there's no need (There's no need)

Keeping an eye on the world going by my window

Taking my time

 

[Hrothbern]

I am a lazy postponer of everything that not really grasps me in its fangs.

One of my most beloved Dutch sayings is: "liever lui dan moe" (rather lazy than tired).

EDIT
oh... I picked 4

 

[The_J]

I picked 2, but maybe I shouldn't, because between voting in the poll and writing this I've been to the gym for a workout .

I'm lazy in other things though.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I'm too lazy to vote, because it means I'd have to actually think about it.

And I've just spent all day on the CBC news site, posting about an appalling opinion piece by a new Canadian who worked at a polling station, in her own words had polite interactions with every voter she talked to, but all the while was wondering if the people she spoke to were right-wing voters who supported parties that hate her (she's Muslim).

She singled out an elderly white woman using a walker as her first example, of wondering if this person hated her even though she was gracious and polite. Talk about managing to offensively stereotype the same people who would be more inclined not to vote for the racially/religiously intolerant parties. I don't think Elections Canada will be hiring her again, after going public like this.

So right now I'm not really in the mood to talk about voting, even when it's just a friendly poll here (no, I'm not wondering if @Kyriakos hates me; I'm reasonably sure he doesn't).

 

[AmazonQueen]

I'm a hard worker when I have a pressing deadline but tell me you need something done next week and I won't start doing it until 6 days from now.

 

[Berzerker]

lazy breeds lazy, thats how people become obese

its hard to get into an exercise routine when you're used to lazy, but once you commit the body starts wanting more

 

[Hrothbern]

lazy breeds lazy, thats how people become obese

its hard to get into an exercise routine when you're used to lazy, but once you commit the body starts wanting more

Yeah
Managing laziness... if you would want that... is managing hunger to do something.

Present bias your main tool. Present bias favoring getting the fast small rewards over the longer term larger rewards.

Managing the small fast rewards-satisfactions-achievements that fit in the longer term goal a great way to do your homework.

Always break down the big things in small things

 

[Kyriakos]

It's a vicious circle, and yes, if one does get obese it will be a lot harder to snap out of it.
I like the intro to the Kaiji anime: "Kaiji is an unambitious bum" Some people just don't bother, regardless of the potential possibly being there.

Btw, I changed my vote from 3 to 4. Way too lazy

 

[Kyriakos]

It seems that almost everyone is super-lazy here...
I'm in good company.

 

[elmurcis]

Definitely 4. Not sure about 5, hard to judge. I can be pretty "stubborn" sometimes with doing some things for longer time that I could just skip. But haven't worked "paid" job for almost 10 yrs, living from direct jobs and milk production just because I can have minimal hours of job per day, keeping most hours of gaming (most people sleep less hours) per day!

 

[Snerk]

I was going to answer this yesterday but I was too lazy.

I kinda wish I wasn't lazy but I definitely am.

 

[H4run]

I was going to answer this yesterday but I was too lazy.

I kinda wish I wasn't lazy but I definitely am.

You are a good human being Snerk, may God bless your lazy soul.

 

[Hygro]

I dunno I didn’t vote yet so yes

 

[Snerk]

Lazy people tend not to be evil, so I guess we have that going for us. But I'm glad there's people out there who gets up at dawn to milk the cows and all that.

 

[AmazonQueen]

Lazy people tend not to be evil, so I guess we have that going for us. But I'm glad there's people out there who gets up at dawn to milk the cows and all that.

But they probably spend the rest of day worshipping Satan, dealing drugs and stealing candy from babies.
Not dairy farmers in particular, just people who get up early.