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I have problem with understanding the mindset of people that don't want to learn how the car work or how the computer work. But that is probably because for me

I have problem with understanding the mindset of people that don't want to learn how the car work or how the computer work. But that is probably because for me it is easier to understand how something mechanical or electric work than to understand how people work..

Clubber 9y ago
Many people don't buy cars to understand how they work, they buy cars to go from point A to point B. Computers are much more useful to people than they were 30 years ago, so people don't buy computers to use a computer, they buy computers to accomplish a task.
maxxxxx 9y ago
If you bought a car in 1950 or a computer in 1980 you HAD to understand it if you wanted or not. That was a downside for many people but had the upside of bringing up people who knew how things work. Most people don't care about learning how things work. Otherwise we'd all be engineers. And even among engineers there are only a few people who want to understand how things work.
freehunter 9y ago
There is something, likely many things, in your life that you don't understand the details of, something that an expert in that subject may chastise you for not knowing. Something that you take for granted that it just works, and never stop to think about the logistics. And that's fine. You have your specialty, they have theirs. And when you need help with it, you don't need to be an expert in the subject because you can hire one for a short period of time. I'll be honest, I don't know how my furnace works. It just does. And when it doesn't, I call an expert to fix it. Because that's gas and fire and a whole lot of pipes and there's an air conditioner somewhere in the mix and I think that's a humidifier attached? Doesn't matter, I have more important things to think about and I don't want to break it even more (or worse, blow up my house). I'll let the expert handle it.
- rypskar 9y ago
  Sure there are lots of stuff I don't know, but I do want to learn at least the basics about them. Not even saying I think it is something wrong with people that don't think like that, only that they in that way are different. Different is good and is what bring progress. I hire people for doing stuff like electricity and doing service on my daily driver, not because I don't know how to do it but so I can use my time on other things. But to me going out to the garage and work on an old car is therapy, it is relaxing and take my mind off everything else
melkiaur 9y ago
I understand perfectly well how my car works. I know I could change the oil if I wanted to, yet I also know that I have never and will never do so, because it's messy, time-consuming the first couple of times, and you still have to dispose of the old oil anyway. That mindset, my mindset, is completely alien to people of my parents generation. I think it's the same thing for hobby programming in my generation.

Clubber 9y ago

Many people don't buy cars to understand how they work, they buy cars to go from point A to point B. Computers are much more useful to people than they were 30 years ago, so people don't buy computers to use a computer, they buy computers to accomplish a task.

maxxxxx 9y ago

If you bought a car in 1950 or a computer in 1980 you HAD to understand it if you wanted or not. That was a downside for many people but had the upside of bringing up people who knew how things work. Most people don't care about learning how things work. Otherwise we'd all be engineers. And even among engineers there are only a few people who want to understand how things work.

freehunter 9y ago

There is something, likely many things, in your life that you don't understand the details of, something that an expert in that subject may chastise you for not knowing. Something that you take for granted that it just works, and never stop to think about the logistics. And that's fine. You have your specialty, they have theirs. And when you need help with it, you don't need to be an expert in the subject because you can hire one for a short period of time. I'll be honest, I don't know how my furnace works. It just does. And when it doesn't, I call an expert to fix it. Because that's gas and fire and a whole lot of pipes and there's an air conditioner somewhere in the mix and I think that's a humidifier attached? Doesn't matter, I have more important things to think about and I don't want to break it even more (or worse, blow up my house). I'll let the expert handle it.

rypskar 9y ago
Sure there are lots of stuff I don't know, but I do want to learn at least the basics about them. Not even saying I think it is something wrong with people that don't think like that, only that they in that way are different. Different is good and is what bring progress. I hire people for doing stuff like electricity and doing service on my daily driver, not because I don't know how to do it but so I can use my time on other things. But to me going out to the garage and work on an old car is therapy, it is relaxing and take my mind off everything else

melkiaur 9y ago

I understand perfectly well how my car works. I know I could change the oil if I wanted to, yet I also know that I have never and will never do so, because it's messy, time-consuming the first couple of times, and you still have to dispose of the old oil anyway. That mindset, my mindset, is completely alien to people of my parents generation. I think it's the same thing for hobby programming in my generation.