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Not sure I can pinpoint it to a specific time or anything, but as of recent nothing feels like "magic anymore". Many years ago there were all sorts of classes o
by non-entity 6y ago
Not sure I can pinpoint it to a specific time or anything, but as of recent nothing feels like "magic anymore". Many years ago there were all sorts of classes of software, patterns, etc. that looked and sounded arcane and complex and I'd never understand how it worked. Now nothing really feels like that. I can typically get an "aha" moment by doing a bit of reading and understand from a very high level how something works. Not to say that I'm a good programmer and can't write and implement anything, because that's far from the truth, but I can typically understand stuff and lose the intrigue. Kinda sucks though because its killed the motivators that got me into the craft.
- daxfohl 6y agoI agree with this. Lots of aha's come from "hey why isn't this working", digging into library implementations or system internals, and figuring it out. It's stuff that's annoying at the time because you're working on something else, but each time it happens you learn more about what's going on under the hood. And eventually you realize these things you picture as dark arts are actually pretty straightforward, and roughly how you'd have guessed they were implemented if you'd thought about it hard enough.