JonnyRadar
The Living Force
hello all,
i noticed this the other day and it seemed striking enough (and humorous) to post here.
for those of you who are not familiar with java (a programming language), one of the ways to automate something is to create a loop. though it can be whatever one wants, the variable that seems most widely used in loops is "i". ;) it works like so:
for (int i=1, i<x, i++) {
here is the function you want to repeat
}
the code runs from top to bottom, and since it recognizes that it's a loop, when it's done, it will "go back to the top" to see if it needs to run again.
so "i" starts off at one. "x" is the "cap", so to speak. it's basically the number of times you want the loop to repeat itself plus one. "i++" means that every time the loop restarts, it adds 1 to "i". as the loop progresses, "i" continuously increases by 1 until it reaches one less than "x", at which point the loop stops.
what struck me, and i hope i'm not totally alone on this (my perception of this metaphor, i mean) is that when i began doing "the work", my variable "x" was extremely high, so that the functions of my programming (societal, religious, familial, etc...) were running over and over and over. since i've begun however, i have been working on getting my variable "x", my amount of "i's", down to one, so that the functions of my programming will not run at all.
i guess this metaphor resonated with me, and i thought i'd share in case it did with anyone else as well... :P
synchronicities abound...
i noticed this the other day and it seemed striking enough (and humorous) to post here.
for those of you who are not familiar with java (a programming language), one of the ways to automate something is to create a loop. though it can be whatever one wants, the variable that seems most widely used in loops is "i". ;) it works like so:
for (int i=1, i<x, i++) {
here is the function you want to repeat
}
the code runs from top to bottom, and since it recognizes that it's a loop, when it's done, it will "go back to the top" to see if it needs to run again.
so "i" starts off at one. "x" is the "cap", so to speak. it's basically the number of times you want the loop to repeat itself plus one. "i++" means that every time the loop restarts, it adds 1 to "i". as the loop progresses, "i" continuously increases by 1 until it reaches one less than "x", at which point the loop stops.
what struck me, and i hope i'm not totally alone on this (my perception of this metaphor, i mean) is that when i began doing "the work", my variable "x" was extremely high, so that the functions of my programming (societal, religious, familial, etc...) were running over and over and over. since i've begun however, i have been working on getting my variable "x", my amount of "i's", down to one, so that the functions of my programming will not run at all.
i guess this metaphor resonated with me, and i thought i'd share in case it did with anyone else as well... :P
synchronicities abound...