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> I wouldn't say it's a scientific observation but I've definitely gotten the impression that it's taking people longer to outgrow the cycle of immediately sear
by eadmund 9y ago
> I wouldn't say it's a scientific observation but I've definitely gotten the impression that it's taking people longer to outgrow the cycle of immediately searching for a copy-paste answer and moving on without developing a better understanding of the issue for the next time something similar shows up.
I wonder if that's a phenomenon on the same spectrum as HN-Driven Development, where whatever one has last seen posted on HN is clearly the New Best Thing Evar. It's a bit like a voluntary outsourcing of one's own agency.
- acdha 9y agoI definitely see a connection between that and complexity: people think that they need what someone else with a bigger, different problem did and amplify the number of things they need to learn.
- gonzo41 9y agoYour right there arnt that many top rated post on HN about someone running up a small ec2 instance with wordpress and mysql. A lot of web stuff is plugging in the DB and not tripping over the cord. Yet thing of all those crazy frameworks that keep popping up and they look so impressive! Just something to think about aswell. When things were simpler and there was less choice there was also more concentrated documentation. It wasn't a bad investment to by a book about a language.