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> Anybody can expend a lot of time and effort and successfully write a profiler, if they wanted to. Few people make a career in math. Anybody can expend a lot
by throwaway_sun 6y ago
> Anybody can expend a lot of time and effort and successfully write a profiler, if they wanted to. Few people make a career in math.
Anybody can expend a lot of time and effort to write a profiler... but few people make a career of it. Anybody can expend a lot of time and effort on math... but few people make a career of it.
> If you're not a native English speaker, you might want to get checked for ADHD, since your post wasn't very coherent.
That's a strange suggestion to make after reading a single HN comment, especially when you're basing it off of your own subjective interpretation of said comment.
I thought the parent made a coherent point that people may avoid hard problems because of the assumption that 1) they need expertise that they don't have and 2) someone else is already working on it. The question raised was: how, in general, do we verify those assumptions?
- melvinroest 6y ago> I thought the parent made a coherent point that people may avoid hard problems because of the assumption that 1) they need expertise that they don't have and 2) someone else is already working on it. The question raised was: how, in general, do we verify those assumptions? This is what I meant. Though, I do remember I was a bit fuzzy on how to phrase things and opted for a conversational style instead.
- redis_mlc 6y ago> Anybody can expend a lot of time and effort to write a profiler... but few people make a career of it. Correct, you generally don't get paid for writing Open Source on your own time. What was the silly point your were trying to make, badly?