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Don't take this so lightly. I've seen a lot of brilliant engineers, especially new CS grads, get stuck in this hole. They have the intelligence and knowledge to
by apike 15y ago
Don't take this so lightly. I've seen a lot of brilliant engineers, especially new CS grads, get stuck in this hole. They have the intelligence and knowledge to "correctly" solve problems, and are driven to always to get them right the first time.
These grads can have a hard time "just fucking doing it", especially when it comes to getting started on very hard problems. It can take a few years of real world experience for them to get comfortable with doing something that's known to be wrong and moving from there.
- geuis 15y agoExcellent point. The comment wasn't a slight against the author. Far from it, I wish I had a mind even 25% as analytical as his.
- palish 15y agoI don't understand. They know how to do things, yet they can't do things?
- tuukkah 15y agoWhen theory meets practice, it's expected that the application doesn't come immediately.
- bh42222 15y agoThink about a brilliant poet and essayist who has written absolutely brilliant poems and essays, but is scared by the thought of writing a book. How could he ever write something so long! This is what we're talking about, a problem of practice.
- amirmc 15y agoI appreciate the tl;dr though since I've got the gist of the post and decided it's not one I want to read right now.