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Be wary when something is described "too hard", but the describer doesn't/can't give specifics on why it is too hard. If a person can't give a generally unders
by femto 10y ago
Be wary when something is described "too hard", but the describer doesn't/can't give specifics on why it is too hard. If a person can't give a generally understandable description of the difficulties, one has to ask whether they understand the topic well enough to make a pronouncement of hardness.
> Then you'll understand there are no experts.
I disagree. There are, but experts have to keep learning in order to maintain their expertise.
- shawkinaw 10y agoThis line is what got me: > There are literally more topics than one could read in a lifetime. Literally no part of that sentence is accurate.
- vacri 10y agoThe author doesn't specify whose lifetime :) It could be the lifetime of a mosquito. Or, more fitting, the lifetime of a network packet with a low TTL...
- jethro_tell 10y agoEspecially considering, all documentation and concepts regarding email have been written/designed in a single lifetime.
- dllthomas 10y agoThat's no guarantee, given that they have been written/designed by multiple people in parallel.
- NhanH 10y agoI'm not sure I follow here. Why is that sentence incorrect?