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> Three years later, I am still very much the apprentice. Well, three years is really not a lot when it comes to developing an intuition. Just enough to grasp
by seba_dos1 8y ago
> Three years later, I am still very much the apprentice.
Well, three years is really not a lot when it comes to developing an intuition. Just enough to grasp some basics.
> a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people
Yeah, I seem to recall Douglas Adams saying that the easier it is to read a text, the harder it was to write it.
At the beginning of my career I was constantly being praised for how fast I work. Well, I did stuff that worked, the effects were quickly visible, everyone was happy.
Even though there were code reviews to weed out the ugliest stuff, I wouldn't want to go back and maintain that software today :P
- leggomylibro 8y agoIt might just be one of those universal truths: you need to understand something very well to explain how it works in simple terms. Or as some smart person once said, "brevity is the soul of wit."
- flukus 8y ago"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter" - attributed to just about everyone: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
- pvh 8y agoThe character who speaks that line (Polonius) says so in the midst of a rambling and contradictory monologue, though we can certainly give Shakespeare credit for coining it.