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Time Management (Computer Metaphors) Part 1 – Streams

Good time management is a bit like computer programming, in some ways at least … How do you handle large tasks, without being overwhelmed by their size? Streams Computer programs generally read data from some location, process it, then output it somehow. For example, a video player will read data from the disk, decode it, then draw frames on the screen. Now, what is the best policy for this? How much data should be read from the disk, before it’s processed and flung out at the screen?