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>A more detailed write-up would not make you feel that dumb. Errr, no. Just because you would have more details and everything would seem easier to understand
by ChuckNorris89 5y ago
>A more detailed write-up would not make you feel that dumb.
Errr, no. Just because you would have more details and everything would seem easier to understand and it's simple to sit on the couch and be like "yeah that looks simple, I could have done that", because that still glosses over the huge amount of research and the number of trails and errors the author put in not just during this project but throughout his career to get to this point where everything Just Works™ for him so he can make it look simple for everyone else.
Just like with Edison and the light bulb, even if the end result seems very simple in hindsight, the process of getting there is definitely not.
- vadfa 5y agoThis is like studying a technical subject in university... As you said, you wouldn't know how they reached that knowledge, but at least you would understand how the matter itself works.
- sumtechguy 5y agoI still fall into that same trap. Oh wow these guys amazing (they probably are). But when you watch a presentation it has this weird effect of compressing what took them weeks/months/years to do into a 45 min presentation, making you feel really bad. I try to remind jr devs the same thing. I am showing you this thing I have been working on. They had no idea I was working on it. But suddenly I have hundreds of lines of code and it all 'just works'. It makes me look like a wizard to them. But I remind them I spent the past 4 months working on that thing, do not feel bad or stupid. It just takes time and failing thousands of times over and over.