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Probably thats why many programmers have many great ideas but fails to come into reality. They cannot gain any fun from side project since they automatically wa
by luigi23 8y ago
Probably thats why many programmers have many great ideas but fails to come into reality. They cannot gain any fun from side project since they automatically want to ‘learn’ new framework, language, etc. Instead of messing around and looking how their idea grows into something fun.
Its about having fun from creating, not from learning the proper way since beginning.
Its clear when you tell your friends about your new idea - they would say ‘oh thats sounds cool!’, but when I tell the same to my programming friends I would rather hear ‘you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem, so it doesnt make sense’
- sixdimensional 8y agoIMHO, after enough years, it becomes less about wanting to learn the new framework etc. and more about wanting to actually accomplish a specific thing. Put in another way of saying it, when you get tired of the constant pace of change of our toolsets, it becomes more about the problem and solution rather than the specific tool you use to solve it. Don't get me wrong.. I still do love learning all the latest and greatest, and keeping my hands on the tools. But over time, after a long time of getting distracted (or even disrupted by the "need" to keep learning new stuff), I feel at least that it can get tiring and to the point of interrupting any actual productive labor towards a bigger goal. So I agree with you.
- i_made_a_booboo 8y agoYou nailed it. It stops being 'wanting to' and starts being 'having to' and that is a subtle inflection point in an engineers life.