> "but that today it is much harder to get to the point to do something meaningful." in some ways that is true, in many ways that is false. only as far back a

> "but that today it is much harder to get to the point to do something meaningful." in some ways that is true, in many ways that is false. only as far back as 2005~, if I didnt know linux and wanted to learn it, I needed to purchase hardware. installing and messing with binaries / configurations ran the risk of making a machine inoperable. now today, its very easy to spin up something in AWS or VM. want to experiment with tensorflow on a large GPU box? 4$/hour on demand. also, we have lots of API's and libraries we can just import, and I think thats a great thing. writing a website where the login was needed but not ultimately what you wanted to explore use to be hard. now its gem install devise. makinga basic website look pretty enough? bootstrap. want to compare random forests, xgboost, and linear regression for predicting home prices? from sklearn import ... i know all these things arent doing 'new' things, but they enable the person to not worry about the details and do something cool. I think the volume of interesting stuff we see coming from blogs and articles on hacker news is a testament to that.