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Funny, I get a great sense of pleasure from understanding things well enough to apply them, especially in unconventional ways. Whenever I read articles like th
by pretendscholar 7y ago
Funny, I get a great sense of pleasure from understanding things well enough to apply them, especially in unconventional ways. Whenever I read articles like this I get the feeling that they might actually be depressed but misattribute it. Its very difficult to debug your own happiness.
- baroffoos 7y agoI feel similarly. Its satisfying to feel that you know what you are doing rather than just randomly trying things and copying stack overflow. Every few months I get the realization that the things that I considered too hard are now simple. Its also really cool having so many opportunities available for personal projects.
- _blu 7y agothe article is not really about "randomly copying stack overflow". It's about the joy of exploration and learning, and once you have attained mastery - the details of applying it over and over again is not interesting (which is usually the case in real jobs)
- tlear 7y agoThe thing with mastery in software is that it is a fleeting thing. There is always more and more and more.. Number of “masters” I have met in my career who were really barely intermediate in a narrow area. I been doing it since my early teens and I am in my 40s now, I am really really good. But master no.